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Posted by chris marsh on Dec-06-2012 23:44:

Ambient/psy type soundscapes

hi

ive been really enjoying artists such as cosmithex the last few days

its made me realize that although my traditional type synth sounds are coming along (leads/bass/typical pads,etc) an area were im very much lacking is creating these rich and interesting atmospheres such as this:

http://youtu.be/AxMpVK62HjE

if amyone has any thoughts, other than use long reverbs and delays and get omnisphere id be interested to hear

cheers

Chris

Posted by tehlord on Dec-07-2012 14:04:

There's nothing unusual there tbh.

It's a mixture of pads, analogue style basses and leads combined with more raw/distorted acids with delay and verb over them.

It's just a case of building up the textures.

Posted by Deillon on Dec-07-2012 15:15:

I can't listen to the track here at work,

but try out Omnisphere, it has some interesting textures to get cool background stuff going on.

Posted by tomrogers on Dec-18-2012 04:38:

http://nextstepaudio.com/pads/trifo...s-via-pyramind/

^ Trifonic's tutorial on pad design. Has some really great suggestions -- basically he uses the ES2 on default samples and Space Designer to make them mostly wet, and processes several versions through varying effects. Then you do your sub-mix and come up with more interesting sounds.

I'm looking into making these too, and I think using completely/mostly wet signals for pieces of metal, chimes, and other instruments can contribute. The reason Omnisphere works well is it has 40 oscillators, so each "sound" is already very layered.

Posted by meriter on Dec-18-2012 05:39:

haven't messed around with omnisphere yet but absynth is great for pads

It's nice to hear some psytrance at a listenable bpm, like under 140.

Posted by PlasticSoul on Dec-19-2012 20:14:

absynth is very good for deep atmospheric pads too...

Posted by cjart on Dec-25-2012 02:22:

I mostly use various vsts (absynth is really good for pads and stuff), granular synthesis and the trick which is shown in Trifonic's tutorial posted above

Posted by chris marsh on Jan-03-2013 07:51:

cheers for replies

watching tutorial now