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Posted by kopi_luwak on Nov-09-2004 16:03:

The best Trance Pads?

Hey I am having a lot of problems trying to get a decent pad for to do my Trance tracks,any one could give me a preset for Pro-53 or suggest me a vsti with nice pads just for Trance?thanx in advance .
Kopi =o.

Posted by tylerc on Nov-09-2004 18:20:

the dreampad vst is a good one. its a one trick pony, but it sounds nice.

im pretty sure its free, you should be able to find it somewhere.

Posted by Scottaculous on Nov-09-2004 18:45:

Spectrasonics Atmosphere or Absynth 2 both have nice pads you can work with.

Posted by kopi_luwak on Nov-09-2004 19:14:

Thanks peep I will check them both out,I am not sure about absynth eats to much resources and I want to get a song with about 20 tracks ,thanx anyway broda .
Kopi =o.

Posted by DJ-Igloo on Nov-09-2004 23:11:

one word
Atmosphere

Posted by Derivative on Nov-09-2004 23:31:

but pro-53 can make awesome pads! dont use the presets, modify a patch you like or build a patch from scratch. its the only way to make your pads truly fit in with the rest of your mix (course you might get lucky, load up a preset and it might just have a timbre which fits in your track with no extra work necessary. but dont count on it happening often). layer a couple of pro 53s and widen it in stereo and you can crank out some monster pads. same with vanguard. if you have vanguard use a combo of the 2 and you can get lush sounds.

Posted by Subtle on Nov-10-2004 00:41:

ehm... the preset on Pro 53... "Fat Bright Pad" is really supersaw pads sounding..

Posted by State of Matter on Nov-10-2004 00:48:

The most supersaw sounding pad on the pro 53 is Intermodulate Pad. Just increase the cutoff a bit, I use them a lot slightly modified. I still complement them with a thicker, unison'd actual supersaw pad made from scratch but if you're just looking for a subtle jp8080 sound this pad is good.

Posted by kopi_luwak on Nov-10-2004 15:06:

Hey good idea gonna try that with the pro-63,I saw a tutorial here of a guy telling how to make a cool pro-53 pad for trance but when I did set up the pro 53 like he did the sound was diferent than the pad in his track .
Kopi =o.

Posted by Oblique Motion on Nov-10-2004 18:34:

i CANNOT believe no one has mentioned zeta absolutley essential for trance pads nothing comes close

Posted by Derivative on Nov-10-2004 20:46:

you gotta learn a new instrument though. and zeta is not exactly the easiest instrument to learn :\ i find it quite confusing cuz half of its features are hidden in tabs and buttons and menus. blargh. sounds great though i agree.

Posted by Pegan on Nov-11-2004 08:11:

Morning

Agreed 100% Atmosphere - Just playing with the basic sound library of over a 1000 patches is inspirational in itself.

Spectrasonics

With almost 4Gb of base sound data, I'm yet to even scratch the surface of this beast after more than a year.

Beautiful stuff. Wouldn't be without it.

Peegs.

Posted by Apyr0us on Nov-11-2004 11:21:

quote:
Originally posted by Oblique Motion
i CANNOT believe no one has mentioned zeta absolutley essential for trance pads nothing comes close

Z3ta is indeed a very nice vst. as mentioned before it's pretty complicated, but it has so much stuff build in, it's really worth to learn it. (also very good for nice (jp 80x0)lead sounds.
And if you want to keep things simple, don't enter the effects section or mess with lfo (offcourse its not possible to tweak presets a lot than)

Posted by Derivative on Nov-11-2004 18:02:

ive made a few tracks entirely with the z3ta+ demo. which goes to show how versatile it is. + im not even close to scratching the surface of this synth so in capable hands i imagine you can do wonders. however, its a cpu WHORE, the lfo section and effects section as mentioned above are confusing as hell. i found zeta had a characteristically hard kind of sound. bass reproduction was solid and quite clean, treble and mid were cutting. when i made pads out of it they tended to sound a bit cold but clean. whereas vanguard (which is my pad machine, no doubt about it) has this blurry, fuzzy, everywhere at once kind of feel which i think lends itself to some lush pads. also the filter on vanguard is smoother imo so you can do filter sweeps on it and its kind of seamless. whereas the zeta filter has this really obvious filter sweep kind of sound. its hard to describe but i dont like automating zeta's filter. most of my tunes have vanguard doing the pad duty. twiddling with the pro 53 demo from the NI website i find that is also an amazing pad machine but i havent spent enough time with it. not quite as hard as zeta but definitely tighter and more solid than vanguard. although having to restart my host every 10 minutes or so got so annoying i rarely use the demo at all.

Posted by Timothy on Nov-12-2004 15:52:

I believe at www.trance.nu is a tutorial for creating a trance pad on the pro-53

Posted by kopi_luwak on Nov-12-2004 16:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Timothy
I believe at www.trance.nu is a tutorial for creating a trance pad on the pro-53

Hey thanx I checked it out rlly nice .
Kopi =o.

Posted by DeZmA on Nov-12-2004 19:20:

vanguard can make some warm pads too