Making Dreamy & Organic Pads 🌌 | Vital Sound Design Tutorial

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In this Vital sound design tutorial, Ill show you how I approach designing expressive ambient synth pads with depth and dynamic movement, to give your sounds a bit more life to them. Check out our website if you're interested in downloading any of our presets anima.audio.
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0:00 - Intro
0:09 - Sound Demo
0:33 - Shape & Timbre
1:37 - Distortion
3:43 - Texture & Character
5:15 - Pad Layer
6:05 - Velocity Expression
6:34 - Effects
7:59 - Final Sound Demo
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[@ANAAMALY]

Great walkthrough guys... looking forward to more of these. Picked up Aurora and Memoria today.

[@user-bc2wq5lv7c]

im a beginner to sound design, and this tutorial was insanely helpful

[@rotkynn9742]

I never thought of automating the chorus spread for a cleaner sound, thats a great idea. Good video as always.

[@ZacheryPutnam]

When I clicked on the video I thought you said "enema" audio which I thought was a funny name for a channel, but then I remembered how to read.

[@Anima-audio]

That was a close contender when we were deciding

[@michaelkennedy1136]

I need more videos, pls.

[@SilentShiba]

This guy's brain, huge

[@FireJojoBoy]

So glad I found this chhannel! All of these tutorials are gold!

[@RK-bb6vo]

really neat sound design tips :)

[@OvercookedSteak]

this is so awesome, i feel like i can maybe finally learn synths!
if you listen to "melody from a dream" by flawed mangoes, could you ever do a rundown on how to make the super airy-hollow but HUGE sounding ambient synth at the start of the song/instrumental?
i keep hearing so many awesome sound designs and never know how to go about making my own...

[@Anima-audio]

Hey, late reply but i listened to the song. It sounds more like its a reverb based pad in the intro so it shouldnt be hard, theres a TON of ways to go about that.
Simple way would just be to put a massive reverb on it (valhalla supermassive is free and works great for those types of lush reverb tails, you can also try looking for other paid alternatives or anything else tbh)
Convolution, similar to reverb you could load up a convolution and feed it a long noise sample or sweep/impact to create really lush and vibrant reverbs
Paulstretch, not what they used in my opinion but paul stretch is probably one of the more iconic lush pad generating plugins, it was actually turned into a vst recently so it should run in your daw if you look it up.
Another idea is if you use fl you can load a melodic loop into edison (the stock effect plugin) and in the editor toolbar theres a blur function that sort of smears the sound into a pad that you can drag back into the timeline.
I’ll probably be doing videos or shorts on this in the future too i know i want to do a few more broad videos on pad techniques once i find enough unique methods

[@dimitriducasse2187]

Bro very nice tuto ! specially the dynamic chorus
and where did you get thiis skin?!

[@Anima-audio]

All the skins are custom ones we include in our preset packs, this one should be coming with our next ambient pack

[@klementus]

Please tell me where to get it and how to install the same skin on Vital?

[@al_eggs]

iirc it’s included in one of their premium packs

[@klementus]

@@al_eggs Thank you

[@Anima-audio]

@@klementusyes, all our skins should be included in our preset packs, this one just happens to be for an upcoming pack.