Hi!
Let's say I have a synthpop song lasting 4 minutes which has harmonic content from the beginning to the end.
I find that I tend to use the same pads or the same keyboard sound which plays the harmonic content throughout the whole song (the synth pad/keys patch plays for 4 minutes, which can be boring). A solution seems to be creating a few different pad sounds so that they exchange the duty of playing the chords.
HOWEVER, I often have trouble to make the song sound cohesive when I change synth sounds throughout the song...

What are your tips and tricks for switching between different sounds during a song? (I mean, these sounds are gonna play the same or similar chords)
How do you achieve cohesion and a feel that the switch of the sounds/patches feels smooth and natural?


Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and thoughts
Cheers!

 

Any thoughts?

 

hi my friend,sound morhing,stack mode,Spectrasonics Omnisphere comes to mind,but that is if you have the library/synth
have a look at this vid from 6.24 in :

also have a look at Apple MainStage 3 :

https://www.apple.com/mainstage/

if you have Ableton have a look at the instrument racks,
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/instrument-drum-and-effect-racks/

Making Preset Banks Using Chain Select

If you have Reason have a look at the combinator device

Hope this info helps you

 

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Most people use transition effects?

 

This lady is very talented imo, Watch how she builds this track.

 

Eisenberg Einklang
Zynaptiq Morph

 

Transition one into the other with Lowpass Filtering, one closing the other opening
Volume Automation
Use Noise or Cymbal transitions to mask the changing of sounds
Introduce it in a dropdown section as a new sound
Send them to the same compressor so that they stay at a similar dynamic range

Lot's of stuff you can do