My first request from you guys!

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Hi Phil/Bry,



I have listened to a track that has some amazing retro pads, but the mixing on them and the finished sound it amazing, do you know what processing and techniques could be use to get them sounding so wide and phat??? I hope you can answer this for me as I’ve been a follower for yonks now and a gold member :slight_smile:




http://soundcloud.com/housse-de-racket/housse-de-racket-roman-oliver

Getting that sound I have tried using your Dusty keys patch on sylenth... but I want to know more about the processing involved too!

Thanks

-=D
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There are a few different things going on … at the start sounds like a choir pad with a looped vocal on top.



in the middle sounds like real strings with a synth layer underneath.



Spectrasonics Omnisphere has lots of similar sounds… bit pricey tho. IMO worth every penny if you like pads I use it a ton on chillout stuff.



Heres a couple of chillout tracks im working on using a lot of Omnisphere (only a rough ableton jam)




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Dude that song is pretty cool. Loving the chill daftpunky kinda sound.



I’ve been drooling over Omnisphere since I first saw it. Definitely out of my price range though. One day I hope I can get my hands on it.



Really liked your Live Long and Prosper track too Phil. Could see it in a film or something of the like.

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I must be missing something with omnisphere, for me its probably the most disappointing vst in my arsenal. I like to try to incorporate ambient stuff into my prog tracks too.



The two main things that bothered me were


  1. a surprising amount of patches are done with the saw-sqr digital wave, my other synths sound better in this domain imo


  2. a lack of generic really usable patches in place of more experimental ones. Preferably I’d like a bit of both. For instance for pianos, there are hundreds and hundreds of piano samples to choose from, I’ve flipped through them all many times and never found anything usable for anything out side of an experimental track. There was like 100 samples (not patches… samples!) of a burning piano being played at different stages of its demise but not one patch I could use in a house / trance / prog track.



    Anyway, just saying it might not be the magic bullet its made out to be for the $$$.
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Its really not a bread and butter synth. It’s very much gear towards filmic music and sound track work… For standard VA stuff I use ANA now and sylenth before. For real sounds kontact is hard to beat.

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Yeah I can definately see the soundtrack angle in it.