Dear Anyone.br
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For starters - why aren’t there any tutorials on making New Age music on this site? You’d think such a popular style of music would be catered for here but nope - all dance AGAIN!! Anyway.br
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There’s a massive genre of New Age that’s basically lead instrument, rhythm section and beautiful, phat pad as jam in the middle of the sandwich - if any of you have heard the kinda Peruvian bands you get busking in shopping malls/precincts you’ll know what I mean. I’ve got the lead instruments/percussion, I have no idea where they get their pads from. I THINK they’re presets on something because I keep hearing the same, or hugely similar, sounds turning up over and over again used by different bands. br
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Big name composers use the idea too. Checkout these links, please! br
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- YouTube That’s Karunesh - you’ll hear virtually the same pad sound in almost every one of his tracks (and there’s a variant with strings mixed in he uses in his piano tracks). br
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8 Hour Deep Sleep Music: Delta Waves, Relaxing Music Sleep, Sleeping Music, Sleep Meditation, ☯159 - YouTube Yellow Brick Cinema, all 8 hours of it (but just the first 40 seconds should do you!) This is ALL beautiful, majestic, give-body-parts for pads and I don’t know where ANY of them come from! I expect they’re tweaked but I also do feel they’re presets on SOMETHING - I’d just love to get in the same town as these sounds, not necessarily exactly the same ones. And last link br
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Mike Rowland - YouTube Mike Rowland, piano and again gorgeous pads instead of strings. br
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I know it’s prob. possible to create all of them from a basic sinewave on a synth but, not through laziness (much!) but lack of ability - if anyone knows any synths/soundfonts/ROMplers that come close to any of the above, free or reasonably priced, please say. br
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Yours hopefully - and Sonic Academy, not everyone wants to dance, some of us just want to relax, where’s the New Age Music tutorials - br
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Chris.