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:
^ 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.
Dec-18-2012 04:38
meriter
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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.
Dec-18-2012 05:39
PlasticSoul
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absynth is very good for deep atmospheric pads too...
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