Steinberg Padshop - loving it!
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:20 am
Some notes about it and this piece that I sent to a questioner on KVR...
http://soundcloud.com/cruciform/continuum
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The opening pad is a preset, "Aurora". It's only had some EQ and compression added and then a touch of reverb. It's there to just give some extra depth through the first minute.
At around 5 secs the next pad starts, a preset called "Analog Emotion". I used a lot of automation on it, mostly the envelope amount, resonance, filter cutoff and volume to really produce the swells and pullbacks. Those are all parameters on the preset. I added a little eq and a touch of stereo widening to it but it's mostly just the sound itself, a really inspiring lush pad. It creates and carries the depth of the whole song with the chord progression.
At about 5secs the bass saw also starts but it's a Reaktor sound.
Coming to 10secs, the bells playing the melody are a Padshop preset - "Airy Bells". I used a touch of delay to them plus a Camelspace effect that adds some slight movement in the resonance but it's so subtle it wouldn't be overly missed if I removed it. Also a little eq to shape it into the overall track.
Also around 12-13secs you'll hear a high gated saw come in. That's a Padshop preset, and it runs through the whole song. For the first section it duplicates what "Airy Bells" are playing. Then from 1:14 onwards it's duplicating the Reaktor saw.
Padshop is a beautiful, inspiring instrument straight up-front. Lots of great presets to start from. Main consideration is if your DAW can run VST3. The lack of ability to load your own samples into it seems to be another consideration. Apart from that, I can recommend it highly.
http://soundcloud.com/cruciform/continuum
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The opening pad is a preset, "Aurora". It's only had some EQ and compression added and then a touch of reverb. It's there to just give some extra depth through the first minute.
At around 5 secs the next pad starts, a preset called "Analog Emotion". I used a lot of automation on it, mostly the envelope amount, resonance, filter cutoff and volume to really produce the swells and pullbacks. Those are all parameters on the preset. I added a little eq and a touch of stereo widening to it but it's mostly just the sound itself, a really inspiring lush pad. It creates and carries the depth of the whole song with the chord progression.
At about 5secs the bass saw also starts but it's a Reaktor sound.
Coming to 10secs, the bells playing the melody are a Padshop preset - "Airy Bells". I used a touch of delay to them plus a Camelspace effect that adds some slight movement in the resonance but it's so subtle it wouldn't be overly missed if I removed it. Also a little eq to shape it into the overall track.
Also around 12-13secs you'll hear a high gated saw come in. That's a Padshop preset, and it runs through the whole song. For the first section it duplicates what "Airy Bells" are playing. Then from 1:14 onwards it's duplicating the Reaktor saw.
Padshop is a beautiful, inspiring instrument straight up-front. Lots of great presets to start from. Main consideration is if your DAW can run VST3. The lack of ability to load your own samples into it seems to be another consideration. Apart from that, I can recommend it highly.
