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Apps that can do soft, ethereal pads (mostly for church worship)?
Are there any apps that can do unobtrusive soft pads that provide a calm, meditative atmosphere for a church setting? I normally use my ipad mini 2 for sounds when playing live in church, but what I'm struggling with is having good quality pad sounds. I'm not too technical and don't have much experience tweaking sounds, but I am willing to learn. However, are there any apps that don't complicate the process too much? Any recommendations for apps that have presets or are easy for beginners to craft sounds like these?
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Well the classic church pad is a Hammond organ. Galileo by Yonac as many presets for all flavours.
I will be interested in seeing what synth suggestion others have.
Korg iM1
Korg iWAVESTATION
PPG Infinite
Here are a few other pad related threads...
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/20394/your-best-app-universal-for-atmospheric-pad-sounds
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/13855/favorite-ipad-substitute-for-omnisphere-ish-worship-ambient-pad-creation
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/16278/app-recommendations-for-worship-ambient-pads
And here's a thread you started years ago.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/10902/warm-pad-sounds-for-worship-on-ipad
I'm also going to recommend you check out the FREE FM Player: Classic DX Synths, if you haven't already.
http://audiob.us/get/1374/FM-Player-Classic-DX-Synths
I was needed a quick light pad sound in a track and was amazed at how good the little $2 SyndtSphere sounded. It’s just presets (they sell the full deal too) but there ya go!
Simple solution:
AutoPad — Ambient Pad Loops by Ryan Robinson
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autopad-ambient-pad-loops/id1270890718?mt=8
Easy presets. Just tap the chord you want. Done. I think that’s the “churchy” sound you’re looking for.
Haven’t used it, but I expect Moodscaper would be right up your alley. Also, Animoog. I’ve many many pad presets for that one
Sunrizer and the cfa vintage or ambient packs. Very nice soft and moody pads there
Woohoo! That’s cool!
I was going to suggest the Moodscaper apps, but this one seems more suited to the purpose, especially if you are playing live with this as accompaniment.
I would second the Korg iM1 suggestion. It has a ton of presets, as well as an efficient preset browser which makes it easy to find the kind of sounds you’re looking for. For meditative, unobtrusive sounds, iM1 gets my vote.
yeah this is cool. Its also Inter App Audio compatible (IAA) and you can put some Reverb or Delay on top of it.
beside that you can download and purchase MP3 pad sounds and play them in AUM (which is btw. the coolest app for iOS musicians).
I have some cool patches for Thor in that direction too, if you like.
What I also like is a patch in iSEM called "KS Trance energy ARP" - I bump up the ARP speed really really high and add reverb to it (EOS2 by audio damage). This is cool stuff.
I love to play the bass notes of the key I am playing in MOOD (preset: warmer pad by redskylullaby) with some shimmer (Crystalline). gives some warm bass in addition to the pad.
Today came Discord4 by Audiodamage and this video might be cool to watch for you too...
==> https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/24797/discord4-demo
happy padding
Sunrizer
Dream Foot has some amazing worship pads.
love this patch of infinite. Thanks for pointing it out... wow!!!
Cyclop
That would be the day. A bit of Cyclop rumble during a worship and it would be like the second coming or something?!
(Sorry could not resist).
Definitely would be, and god should decide the preset by selecting something in random. And it would be a sacralige to listen to the app before the ceremony
Yeah nice patch, if a little harsh to start with, so I’ve mellowed it with the settings shown. Moving the tonal knob helps get it in line with the mood and the Envelope Reverb helps too
Also try changing Octave 1 knob and the Cutoff to taste
PPG Wavemapper
Wavestation, Thor
Poison 202
The Oscillator by Kymatica
Magellan
Just got that on sale about a week ago. It is pretty mind-blowing. Not sure how I overlooked it for so long.
Straight Away I will mention a couple, which work like magic
Bonus entries
2. Soundprism Link - Has a preset called "the Beauty and the Organ" .... made for Church...(need stereo to feel the magic)
3. Korg Module also some great ready made string/Piano sounds
4. Perfect recipe Korg Gadget + Soundprism
Korg gadget you need to have both module and Darwin.
module to channel 2 and Darwin to 3
so anytime you have a second finger touch on Soundprism you get great pads layered over module
P.s I have tried other great apps like Layr, Magellan,Thor (some patches need lot of CPU resource.. so dont work on older IPad's), Moodscaper, isymphonic.. ease of use kept me going back to above
Beathawk has some great key sound packs (B3,Electric organ/Piano), but simply refuses to work reliably with IOS based midi controllers, too many clicks and pops for my liking
Honestly any synth with asdr envelopes and some reverb can be made to sound angelic. Long attack and release, very simple. IMO however when you take a pad sample, downloadable anywhere or make your own and you put it in a sampler like Vancouver I'm Gadget or BM3 or whatever else you've got you can get much more interesting sounds, slowed down, reversed, looped, effected etc.
Since we're dropping names still, Cubasis Minilogue, Caustic's Super Saw or Pad Synth. Gadgets Lisbon and Helsinki.
Korg Imi
has a preset called palamine
@Grobles87 I’ve bought loads for the same use, and keep coming back to the cinematic presets in LayR. Perfect for me (tweaked jupiter pad)
Sunrizer
Korg module:
no fiddling around onstage - just plug that bad boy to your midi keys and let er rip. The ‘set list’ feature is so simple but oh-so-useful in a live setting and the sounds it puts out are the real deal.