Pad World
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Steinberg’s Padshop can be used to create excellent rhythmic effects.
The Padshop interface, with probably the most boring pad sound ever programmed to serve as a starting point for experimentation.
If you’re a Cubase user and a fan of pad sounds, look no further than Steinberg’s Padshop granular synth, a version of which has been bundled with Cubase since v6.5. It’s available as a third-party plug-in for other DAWs, and there’s also a ‘Pro’ version available for a modest upgrade fee and including additional features such as the ability to import samples. (The screenshots you see here are from Padshop Pro, but the two interfaces are almost identical, and all the exercises described here can be achieved with either version.)
Don’t let the ‘Pad’ in this instrument’s name fool you, though, because if you scratch below the surface of the pad-tastic presets, this synth can do much more. In fact, you could do a lot worse than Padshop for creating wonderful rhythmic effects.
Unless you’re blessed with mathematical super-powers, basic tone creation using Padshop’s granular engine is most likely to be a process of trial and error, using the synth’s upper two panels. However, once you have a decent tonal starting point, you can start to add rhythmic effects using the more familiar controls that are found in the third panel of the interface, which hosts the modulation and FX sections (plus the additional Reverb in the Pro version of Padshop).
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Sun 19 May 2013
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