Sometimes you can give insane amounts of depth to a pad by adding something like an arp'ed pluck or a texture type sound behind it with some delay and panning. If you have some synths (soft or hardware) that have good factory multi patches, load them up just so you can pick them apart and analyze what makes them good, then use that as a starting point idea to create a new one from two single patches that's your own without completely reinventing the wheel. After a while you'll start to notice a pattern in what types of harmonic combinations really work well.
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