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Posted by Microlab on Sep-06-2011 06:00:

Pads in Oceanlab-If I Could Fly

What synth did Above&Beyond use for pad in this song? It is most audible on 0:35.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fii2...player_embedded

Posted by Zeus Alvarado on Sep-07-2011 18:06:

Here is a good read about their setup, pretty recent also

http://www.soundware.co.uk/news/201...the-omnisphere/

They mentioned the use of omnisphere, and from personal experience you can achieve similiar sounding pads with that. Omnisphere has become my go to synth when it comes to pads and trancy FX, all of them are high quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uhhUpWTBN8

Not me, but shows similiar pads that you want.Alchemy from Camel Audio is also another popular synth that I would recommend.

Of course you could always create the pads yourself with any decent plugin, but can be alot more tedious. Use a combo of detuned saws, triangle, and sine. The key is lots of layering, modulation, and subtle detail to achieve dreamy pads like this. Layering with a vocal/choir sample can give great results as well. Mess with the semitones of the oscs(+7 usually gives good results), LFO to the cutoff and/or volume to make it wobble ( you can even sidechain), light to moderate chorus effect.

btw thinks for putting up the song, puts me in a good mood

Cheers

- Zeus

Posted by Kysora on Sep-08-2011 14:53:

Could even be Nexus, they mentioned it in that article and there's a preset that sounds damn near identical to that pad. I think it's one of the single-layer ambient pads, dunno which one though.

Posted by Kysora on Sep-08-2011 18:06:

quote:
Originally posted by CalvP
I love how they apologise for complaining about copycat trance producers, then talk about presets being bad then admit they use nexus

So? They said presets are bad because relying on them for everything makes it harder to be innovative with your music, but you can't expect to break new ground with every single element in your tracks. Sometimes you just need something simple that sounds good, Nexus is full of patches like that.

Posted by Kysora on Sep-08-2011 21:07:

I'm not sure that's ironic, but alright

Posted by Zeus Alvarado on Sep-09-2011 14:59:

Agree with Kysora, its not just about what sounds/presets you use, but how you use it that makes it original. Good use of effects can really turn a typical sound upside down and around Then there's layering, arrangement, and so on.