evolving pads & ambient textures

[j_s]

like the ones you hear twisting & floating around in the back of brum style tracks. how do you get such textural detail into the? layering? twisting lots of nobs & hoping for the best? any hints would be appreciated, cos i'm proper stuck on the matter...

[Basil Rush]

Try Atmosphere if you want to cheat :)

[loopdon]

man, i wish i had atmosphere :!:

i'd advise you to pm messanger, coz he's feckin ace at stuff like that
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he once told me he uses stuff he records from scifi internet radio or something.

other than that i have posted at least two plugins aimed at that purpose in my Free VST Thread (one is called Texture, the other SUN RA).

yould have a look at reaktor and crystal vsti as well, i suppose.

this plug is rather different as well:

audiobulb SOPHIA: version 1.1

http://www.audiobulb.com/temporary/SOPHIA_1.1.jpg

http://www.audiobulb.com/

http://www.audiobulb.co.uk/create/sophia/Sophia1_1.zip

[Spark]

Try the trick with vocals or singing people..

Stretch it etc..

[Komplex]

layering, modulation efx are the key.

And if you want to get nice and adventurous, try layering pad sounds with field recordings or looped ambiences and messing with those :twisted:

[j_s]

cheers for the tips.

that sophia vst sounds mental (bit tricky to keep under control tho). like the idea of timestretching vocals too. will have to start bouncing some of my tracks down now to free up some cpu & try this all out properly.

thanks again....

[RDR]

play records backwards slowly and sample with delays...

hehe!

[Greg Dee]

take a long string sample, use a shitload of effects and a vocoder, then apply various volume envelopes. gets some tasty results.