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DesMc8
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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Washington, D.C.

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)

Mar-20-2008 20:41 United States

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cryophonik
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Elk Grove, CA USA

Spectrasonics Atmosphere - it's a pad machine.

reFX Nexus with the Stratosphere expansion is another good choice.

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Lunar Phase 7
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Registered: Dec 2004
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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

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

Mar-20-2008 21:34 United Kingdom

DesMc8
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Registered: Oct 2006
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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

Mar-20-2008 21:45 United States

Lunar Phase 7
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It's got choirs in there too dude, listen to the depth it's unreal.

Mar-21-2008 12:54 United Kingdom

a98
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kotka, Finland

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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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djshik
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: milwaukee

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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

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MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: U.S.

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.

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MrJiveBoJingles
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Registered: Jun 2004
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Oh, and you can make nice-sounding, complex pads with just about any VST, as long as you're willing to do some layering.

Mar-21-2008 15:45 United States

Icone
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Leuven, Belgium

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.

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Waza
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Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

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.

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