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Old 17.01.2007, 07:59 AM
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To go from that to a nice pad...

Soften the envelopes - both of them (reduce the attack, add a bit of release). In the filter env, slow the decay.

Maybe re-couple the filters, use the second one to tonall shape the output of teh first - ie like tracking tone control. Crank or the env amounts a little. Drop the high boost on the EQ, instead add a tiny bit of body with eq (slight boost at around 200-600, cut the presence band a bit and maybe take up the extrme high end if you need it). If you cranked up the ring mod, take it back down.

Crank up the reverb so that it starts to take the attack off - ie just over half way. Set reverb colour quite high - +20 or so. If you add in a little phaser - then the high color of the reverb should carry the phaser effect around the sides of the sound. Too much phaser will kill it though.

Now add in a little bit of phaser and/or chorus, also mabe reduce unison to 2 instead of 3 or 4 or whatever you have it set to, and open up the unison detune spread. Try some different waveforms too instead of saw - some of them are quite glassy sounding. Try using the spare LFO to slowly modulate the wave shape or PWM on one osc. Maybe switch the subosc to saw to soften it a little.

Expriment with using delay instead of reverb too - with delay - try a bit of modulation - 10-20 on depth, 10-20 on rate, and try different colour settings and crank up the feedback a bit. Adding modulation wity give it a bit of smear. To much modulation and it sounds just broke, but get it right and it should smear nicely.

Also extreme settings of chorus can give quite good comb filter type sounds.

Last edited by Khazul : 17.01.2007 at 11:44 AM.
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