That's not true, there are TONS of great quality pads for Kontakt. Usually they don't come seperately but rather in some library with other sounds. Also Omnisphere isn't for Kontakt but they have some amazing pads of very high quality in that plug-in too.

 

Anyway, it does not exist an instrument that really sound original of pads, as well as the one who have asked.

 

And I insist that i completely disagree with you since it depends on the library and many are very good such as the aforementioned Heavyocity libraries.

 

It listens this pads: https://soundcloud.com/ample-sound/the-leaf-boat it is soft and does not go in increase, the majority of the pads that have found for Kontakt, the mayoria go up of sound, and are not constant. It listens the mp3 that am placing. Still I follow without finding a sound like this for kontakt.

 

You know you can tweak that stuff with an ADSR envelope or a transient designer right? Honestly if you learn synthesis you can make some pretty tight pads without even the need of a library.

 

You know you can tweak that stuff with an ADSR envelope or a transient designer right? No, You have an video tutorial?

 

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musictyros5
Not specifically on ADSR envelopes but I'd read the Kontakt manual which will no doubt cover this question. You're also likely to find information by simply searching the forums.

 

Pal, Catalyst gave you the best help/advice you can get. Learn freaking synthesis = problem solved.
I don't get why are you so stuck on Kontakt and libs or samples?! You are limited by them.
Synthesizers produce pads, make them move, last, envelope the way YOU want.
It took me whole 34 seconds to find an interesting short tutorial on pads w/ the Massive.

 

Absolutely 8-bit is right you have to use search whether it be on AudioSex or Google. For example I thought to myself that it can't be that I don't have a video up about ADSR envelopes and so I went to AudioSex Academy portion of our site and it wasn't a few seconds until I found it. I'm not posting it here because I want you to go to that section of our forums as I have no doubt that you will find many questions answered in the many excellent videos and references I have included there. Once the page loads which you should give a little time for because there are a lot of videos look for the post number on the right and you're looking for #6 which will have 6 videos on sounds and frequencies. It is the bottom video on the left and it says ADSR explained in the video title.

 

Yeah, that's right! Make them blokes go to school and do their homework. *yes*
I'd like to ad a few things - give you some hints to get a pad sound. The ADSR, as Catalyst mentioned, is very important to get your head around, since it's the part of all synthesizers. In your case it'll have an important role, but it's just a fraction in process of making the pads.

- The decay and sustain. There should be sufficient decay time and plenty of sustain so the notes hold on throughout the time the keys are pressed.

- Then the envelopes. For all pad sounds the attack needs to be smooth and not percussive. How fast or slow this is depends on the part you will play though for straight chord playing the attack should be soft and slow but not too slow. Again this depends on the character of the part being played. For just held chords that don't need to be struck right on a particular beat you have more leeway with the attack.

- Important factor is the filter. You want to reduce the amount of low frequency information so filter out lower frequencies - considering you want to achieve the pad sound from your link, which is quite airy. This also relates to the oscillator or oscillators and its/their settings.

- The wave form is less important. Pulse and Square are very useful, PWM also very useful, Triangle and Saw less so and if your synth has Sine waves, it's also useful..

- As for modulation (also quite important), experiment with filters subtly opening and closing with a slow moving of lower frequency (LFO). Maybe do this with resonance or maybe sample and hold on high frequency giving a twinkling effect and so forth and so on.

- The FXs (I don't like internal FXs that come with a synth, myself). Delay, Chorus, Phaser and Reverb are your best friends.

Hope that my input will help you out on your journey.

 

Here's a good image to visualize what happens from note on and will go along well with 8-bit's tutorial:



Your ADSR envelope is how the amplitude of your sound changes through time from the initial keypress. Envelopes can also control other parameters such as the filter's action over time. You hit a note and the attack portion is triggered which will reach the maximum amplitude and then decay to the sustain portion of the sound until you release the note and the release portion is triggered. If you wanted a sound to start at maximum volume then you would put the attack at 0 which would make it a straight line and on keypress the volume would start at max and then decay to the sustain portion. If for example you wanted to have a sound keep playing for as long as you held down the key you would increase the sustain which is used on pads. Or if you also wanted the sound to continue for a little once you release the key and subsequently trigger the release portion you would set the release control higher which is also often done for pads so notes slur together. By adjusting these four controls you can shape the amplitude of your sound over time and customize it to the way you envision in your mind.

 

Spot on, Sir!

 

Still I have not attained a sound resembled this Pad Atmosphere, that plugin is the best to realise this?

 

The sound is very bad, really seems midi.. It is not the one who I look for.
Still I have not attained a sound resembled this Pad Atmosphere, that plugin is the best to realise this?

 

I would suggested you to check

Hideaway studio

or

Synth Magic


or


Oldies but goldies:

SyntAX

Altereted States

cheers

 

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