I know I know, real creative name, right? Hey, I was only in a creative mood as far as music is concerned. "It sounded good when it was in my head", right?
Anyway, I was able to make my first pad, and (as with firsts) I gave it a basic name. This is the first preset I created with the Prophet-5 after my deep learning dive into its presets...
Pad Features & Dev.
To make this sound, I first started with the default osc1 saw wave template and adjusted things until I found what I liked. I would still like to get a little faster at making sounds, but this one went quicker than the last ones and my dive into some of the presets pointed me in the right direction of what I wanted to do because I noticed that many of the brass sounds usually have layered saw waves and invoke a good amount of filter. I added some resonance as well and tweaked the LFO and modwheel along with the delay until I got a good tail on the sound.
After that, I added some narrow pulse waves to give the sound a bit more bite and adjusted the attack on the sound to ramp up at a pleasing level. I added some pulse modulation to give it that off, vintage characteristic. I experimented with the slide for a little bit, but I ultimately found that having it off was the best option.
The end result is a pad with a very brassy, gritty, filter feeling. It ramps up similar to most brass sounds but then the filter decay kicks in and gives it some good movement toward and during the sustain phase. Finally, releasing the keys lets the sound trail off with the movement applied.
This pad is useful for relatively fast runs and long held sustains. Controls of interest are the mod wheel and the release for the amp as well as the LFO rate. Adjusting these will change the character of the movement of the sound and adjusting the oscillator mix will adjust the tone and character of the sound from either more raspy to a clearer sound. Lastly, it's worth meddling with the delay to bring it either forward or backward in a mix!
As always, you can click on the picture above to check out the sound I made in the sound design section of this website.
Keep on
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