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jsrobinson
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Posted : Jan 11, 2012 22:39:28
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jsrobinson
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 19:19
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I suppose the technical term for what I'm looking for might be a drone, and not a pad?
Anyone have any input to possibly steer me in the right direction? Thanks |
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Ricciardo
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 20:34
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a pad it works diferently than a drone usualy
a drone is an ambience usualy full of reverbation wich have low harmonical tone and plays normaly as a single note
a pad, is like a melody with a slow atack sintesis wich also have a high sustain and high decay or release pattern...
if you have a complex harmonical scale for a song... usualy the pad is the part that gives emotion and delivers feeling into the music and the pad should be fit into that same scale... the pad note code should guide you to create leads
for my experience as producer pad´s can be a way of starting to compose, you can written a pad that you enjoy, doesnt matter if it simple with a few notes, or if it have chourds (several notes playing togheter)
but definitly it can be a way of starting a music, its also pleasing when pads have a misc of drone turning also the sound organical, like a string sweel...
a good way of setting up pads, its to beggin to work with buss sends, you can create 3 or 4 buss chanells/send chanels with stereo delay setup, tipical chorus sound, and 2 types of reverb, a hall reverb... and bright reverb
then, you chose an instrument you enjoy... and try to play some notes, it will sound dry, but if you start sending sound into the buss chanels it will start imidiatly do grow... sounding bigger, more phat and with more deepneess
its essencial you also modelate the instrument, try to play with filters, LFO or even decay or release...
there are instruments/synths that with a single oscilator work well, but pads can become more rich if you archieve original textures, or sounds that are pleasant but not comon to ear...
there are many ways of doing it... there is not streight rules to create a pad
but you can always go search more information about it on
http://audio.tutsplus.com/
good luck
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jsrobinson
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 21:22
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Thanks! That's really great info.
Any thoughts on doing some basic drones as well? |
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Equilizyme
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 21:35
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PsyGalaXy
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 22:24
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Equilizyme
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 23:07
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another thing you can do to improve your pads is to use an effects rack (if you are in ableton) and have three chains in it, each with an auto pan set to a different frequency. Then you get you pad panning around all crazy like, it makes it sound pretty neat imo.
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jekvan
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 23:09
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Also use your stereo field to widen up the pads,it works like magic.
Put something in one speaker and something slightly different in other,instant bliss.
From all the things I lost,that sandwitch cost me most :)
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jsrobinson
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 23:38
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Thanks for the software link; Mac only it looks like though, am on PC. |
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Equilizyme
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Posted : Jan 14, 2012 23:45
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jsrobinson
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Posted : Jan 15, 2012 00:15
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Sure thing.
Found 'Dronos' - looks like a nice toy. |
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kylistar
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Posted : Jan 18, 2012 05:48
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You mean the bass pad? When I do one of those I use a saw wave on low octave and then harmonia or unison on it. Lfo on cutoff on a LP filter, then maybe add some distortion to taste, chorus, reverb and it should sound something like that |
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sorry man, not sure what to say then. Try all kinds of lfos with really slow oscillation