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What's a good Pad plugin or VST?

I've been on this hunt for about a year for a VST that offers fantastic sounding pads. I really like the ones FL Studio offers but its sequencing and pitch SUCKS! What are some good VSTs or Plugins that offer excellent warm sounding Pads. (if it helps, all the pads on an Anjunabeats song are my favorites)

Spectrasonics Atmosphere - it's a pad machine.

reFX Nexus with the Stratosphere expansion is another good choice.

Also samples can be worked into tracks really well. Since pads are often really complex a good sample can sound fucking sick. Pretty sure Icone used samples in his remix of "Tears of Blue" and they are some of the most gorgeous pads I've EVER heard.

Sample:

http://www.audiojelly.com/track.cfm?id=24661

Seriously guys. Everyone check those fucking pads out now. They are mind blowing. It's unreal the depth they have. Sicness.

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 Seriously guys. Everyone check those fucking pads out now. They are mind blowing. It's unreal the depth they have. Sicness.

Yeah but they make air chorus pads like that...in fact there's a standard one just like in FL Studio...
but that is an excellent pad

It's got choirs in there too dude, listen to the depth it's unreal.

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 Pretty sure Icone used samples in his remix of "Tears of Blue" and they are some of the most gorgeous pads I've EVER heard.

i'm pretty sure that's just a couple of atmosphere or nexus presets layered together.

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Originally posted by a98 i'm pretty sure that's just a couple of atmosphere or nexus presets layered together.

I think youre right, with enough EQing and reverb depth positioning, its def possible

I kind of like synthesizing my own pads, even if they're less silky-smooth than the ones you can get out of those fancy romplers.

Oh, and you can make nice-sounding, complex pads with just about any VST, as long as you're willing to do some layering.

Hey guys, cheers for mentioning my remix there

In fact, you can make good sounding pads with a lot of instruments other than Atmosphere; Pro53, FM7, Albino3, Hypersonic 2 (I use it a lot to layer choir samples), z3ta...

I hardly use NeXus for that purposes as it leaves less freedom to create your own sounds/effects on them.

Let me know if you want some examples/presets.

icone if you can find the time that would be cool,

I mainly use my Old Sy85 for pad's etc it's pretty good for that kind of stuff.

if you want such choir pads check the korg m1 out. it has one which is almost exactly the same. try to layer it with some suppersaws from any synth and you're there.

I really like using the Arturia Minimoog for pads.

I agree with Icone on this one. Although Nexus has great sounds, you're stuck with doing slight modifications to those unless you want to use FX to drown out the original sound and somehow create your own.

You're better off grabbing a copy of Atmosphere, Z3ta+, Albino, Cameleon 5000, etc....to get the sounds that you'd like....and then you always have the option of modifying the sounds you like in order to create your own.

Which shapes you guys like to use. I suck at pads

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Originally posted by JustinMead Which shapes you guys like to use. I suck at pads

Honestly, depending on what you want the end product to sound like, you will most likely be using any and all shapes. If you're going for wooshes(wind), you'll be using noise shapes often....then again, you could use something else and throw effects on it to get the desired sound. Try looking at your favorite presets to get an example of what they've done, then experiment with the settings to see what happens to the original sound and then you'll get more of an idea on how they work.

I love the sound of a few sine waveforms slightly detune and panned hard against each other, the way they morph sounds fucking mint. Some nice filter sweeps/resonance and then some verb and delay with some flangers or phasers. Fucking sickkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

For an example listen to "Orchid's - Almost Grey" at the intro...

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 I love the sound of a few sine waveforms slightly detune and panned hard against each other, the way they morph sounds fucking mint. Some nice filter sweeps/resonance and then some verb and delay with some flangers or phasers. Fucking sickkkkkkkkkkkkkk. For an example listen to "Orchid's - Almost Grey" at the intro...

What are you talking about? Applying filters to sines is just the same as lowering their volume..

Not if you add resonance

Surprised no one mentioned PSP Vapor yet. A lot of depth in the sounds.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I kind of like synthesizing my own pads, even if they're less silky-smooth than the ones you can get out of those fancy romplers.

+1 I've used strings from atmosphere a few times, but that's it. I would never use a pad from nexus for example. That would make me feel cheap somehow.

I've used pro53 for pads in the past, but now I tend to use zebra or my andromeda for pads - or even a combo of the two.

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Originally posted by Aldanor What are you talking about? Applying filters to sines is just the same as lowering their volume..

Are you sure?

Never knew that...

Depends what you define as a "good" pad sound.

Personally I would say Absynth.

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Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7 Are you sure? Never knew that...

Sine wave contains just one base harmonic (itself), and there's nothing beyond that to cut with a filter, so filtering only reduces volume; any changes in sonic shape, if there are any, are results of digital imperfection.

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