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What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:22 am
by TiEREX
just curious :corndance:

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:37 am
by joshisrad
Massive

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:44 am
by dubesteppe
joshisrad wrote:Massive

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:01 am
by ehbes
Thor... If you consider it a vst....

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:36 am
by jrisreal
Sytrus/3xosc

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:42 am
by Gurnumsbug
Been using Massive for a lot of my pads.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:07 am
by leeany
Zeta and ableton operator. Sometimes fm8

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:08 am
by jetpack
Sytrus, for the win...

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:11 am
by wub
3xOsc, Padawan

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:38 am
by drokkr
Largo or Absynth. Both pretty similar in sound tbf tho'

Got Z3ta this week and that looks very interesting so far after a quick buzz around the presets. Looking forward to getting under the hood of that one and work stuff up from scratch.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:05 am
by Bournio
Thor or Reasynth for me!

Or a tone wheel organ thing.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:11 am
by djbmc
i don't think i've ever managed to successfully incorporate a pad into my tunes

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:07 pm
by DubMikey
Massive is pretty damn good for making pads I'd say.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:40 pm
by futures_untold
Any wavetable synth is good as you can slowly modulate the index position as well as all the other usual suspects (filter, panning, pitch, detune, unison etc)

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:41 pm
by Towany
alchemy

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:57 pm
by samurai
my main two tools for pads are thor (from reason) and amber (from synth squad).

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:03 pm
by e-motion
Absynth and Atmosphere are the top notch, but I don't use either.

Mostly use z3ta, sometimes Albino.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:59 pm
by hudson
Albino 3. I love the mod matrix.

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:09 pm
by 3rdeye
ES2, Blue, ElectraX these days 8)

Re: What Vst do you prefer for pads?

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:11 pm
by horsefeather
i use massive atm but i'm going to try some free ones now