Synth Pads

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Synth Pads

Post by Eyebeamssuper » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:41 am

What are some the better synths for pad sounds?
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Re: Synth Pads

Post by Darren » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:57 am

I've had good luck with my Juno-106 and JP-8080. What I do for pads is just take the frequency slider pretty low, make the resonance a bit higher than that, and finally play with the envelope slider to dull it out some.

Reverb and delay effects can help too.
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Re: Synth Pads

Post by Z » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:21 am

The JD-800 is my "go to" synth for pads. Just about any synth will make great pads, it just takes a little bit of programming. And as Darren suggested, reverb & delay.

Check out this thread for great pad examples from our fellow VSErs.
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Post by crystalmsc » Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:27 am

If I should only pick one, it's going to be the uWaveXT. It cover wavetable, analog/rompler style pad, it can make a big layer in the performance, just my pick for an all around pad machine.
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Re: Synth Pads

Post by JMP » Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:20 pm

Price range?

In my experience:

Access Virus (B & Ti from personnel experience)
Elka Synthex
Roland V-Synth
Roland XP Range.
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