software instrument for glassy pad sounds

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Posted by evo8 on Feb-11-2017 19:51:

software instrument for glassy pad sounds

any suggestions peeps?

Posted by tehlord on Feb-11-2017 21:13:

Gotta be Omnisphere or Zebra, depending on the exact flava of glassy. Even FM8 could do it as it's often FM'y

Posted by evo8 on Feb-11-2017 22:25:

cool, i was hoping there might be a JD800 vst at this stage but google says no
not sure i feel like shelling out on the 2 you mentioned

Posted by tehlord on Feb-11-2017 22:56:

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Originally posted by evo8
cool, i was hoping there might be a JD800 vst at this stage but google says no
not sure i feel like shelling out on the 2 you mentioned

Sadly not, all the old Roland digital stuff is PCM based and therefore liable to copyright. Roland are now recreating some of it in the Roland Cloud, but that's a really shitty subscription service.

If you want something similar, the Korg M1 plugin might work. It's fiddy bucks.

Posted by cryophonik on Feb-12-2017 05:43:

Omnisphere gets my vote, along with Air Instruments Loom, Rob Papen Blue, and Alchemy (now for Logic only, though).

Posted by SystematicX1 on Feb-12-2017 09:34:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
Omnisphere gets my vote, along with Air Instruments Loom, Rob Papen Blue, and Alchemy (now for Logic only, though).

Damn, when did Alchemy go all Logic? I have Alch but an older version.
Love that plugin

Posted by evo8 on Feb-12-2017 14:41:

quote:
Originally posted by cryophonik
Omnisphere gets my vote, along with Air Instruments Loom, Rob Papen Blue, and Alchemy (now for Logic only, though).

oh yeah Alchemy! forgot i have that, must dig it out again

Posted by Dj Dizzy on Feb-25-2017 05:19:

Glassy pads... definitely another vote for Omnisphere here

Posted by evo8 on Feb-25-2017 19:19:

I shoulda sampled that JD800 before i sold it

Posted by Richard Butler on Mar-01-2017 10:33:

I don't know if it's 'glassy' enough, lulz, but I recently got round to exploring Cubase's Padshop rompler thingy and it's remarkably decent.

Here is a link to a newer version called Padshop Pro which can import samples. �64

The Audio Demo button over on the right hand side of this link is worth checking (the second one down) - a few glassy's in there

https://www.steinberg.net/en/produc...adshop_pro.html

Posted by tehlord on Mar-01-2017 10:38:

Shame on you for calling that splendid granular synth a 'rompler'.

SHAME!

Posted by Richard Butler on Mar-01-2017 10:51:

quote:
Originally posted by tehlord
Shame on you for calling that splendid granular synth a 'rompler'.

SHAME!

I have the non Pro version and though I love it's sound I don't find it has much in the way of editing facility - I guessed it would be classed a Rompler, no?

I love a mental shortcut, lol

Posted by tehlord on Mar-01-2017 11:22:

It has envelopes, filters, mod matrix, FX, LFO's and multiple grain parameters in the main information window. It's definitely not a rompler!

Nexus, now there's a rompler.