How to design a pad on the SH-4d
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- I share how to design a subtly evolving pad on the Roland SH-4d desktop synthesizer that can sit well in all kind of genres including ambient, lofi, synthwave, Berlin school, other electronic music genres, and even pop. I talk about basic pad synthesis design, and then explore incorporating the shimmer reverb, discuss modifying its settings, and which settings might be preferable depending on your intended harmonic complexity. This includes some limited discussion of applicable music theory and the harmonic overtone series.
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Good stuff. A preview/teaser of the result, played at the beginning, is always appreciated.
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This is very helpful as a new sh-4d owner. Thanks for doing it!
Glad it was helpful!
This was an excellent explanation on how to build a pad on the SH-4d. Thanks for putting this together. You packed a lot of info in a short video so I'm sure I'll be returning to watch it a few times and try some of your techniques used here. Thanks.
Thank you for watching. I hope they prove useful for you.
thank you, now I know I must not abandon my mix of historic analog semi-modulars, 80 and 90s drummachines and the corny Roland RA-90, which I have the impression was like a model for this here. The track does not speak for the SH-4d, but you make good explaining, thank you for your time.
Thank you for watching.
Nice video - I hadn’t tried the shimmer reverb on the SH-4D and didn’t know it gave you so much control. I nice implementation by Roland.
You’ve earned yourself a happy new subscriber. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Nice video, thx. For moving pads, if you don't use all the 4 oscillators, you can use the SH-3D model in order to have a 2nd LFO for more modulations... :) But I really love your final sound !
Good call!
Thanks for the video! This was really helpful! Just bought the sh4d so it still a bit of a discovery. Saving is really a b!t€h!
Glad it helped! Yes, the save workflow is tedious, and there's no editor/librarian, or even external save and recall for individual presets and patterns. It's something I'm hoping Roland can address in a future firmware update.
Awesome videos!!! I’m really enjoying the content you make about the SH-4D. There is problem that I’ve encountered, I want a different reverb for my other parts. Any ideas?
It might've been nice if Roland had included reverbs under the available tone mfx, but for whatever reason (processor overhead, unanticipated use case), they didn't. At this point, it seems your best bet may be to use the individual tone outs via usb c to your DAW. Although, I've heard some have had issues with the signal over usb-c (I haven't experimented much with it myself, yet).
Thank you.
You're welcome!
great stuff
Thank you.
Do you realize you are using a stereo synth, panning of each individual oscillator can create extremely complex textures from left to center to right with three oscillators. This is where the power of the Roland synths come into play, and do what all analog synths cannot do. Easy to plop a stereo chorus in but that has been done to death. Play with different envelop times for right/left panning and weave a stereo tapestry.
Thank you for the suggestion. It’s a great thing to do for a stereo mix.
Can you have different envelopes for each oscillator on the sh4d?
I don't know, that was one of the original Gaia1 strengths, Sh4d is more of a conventional subtractive synth. @@vertigev
@@vertigevnot that I know of
Very neat tutorial. I liked it a lot.
Just curious - are you recording direct your voice and the unit into your video capture? It sounds rather like you are recording the room (like your voice and some monitors) instead? Which is cool. But it seems harder to hear what the unit is outputting, exactly, if so.
Thank you for the feedback. I record direct. I haven’t figured a way to implement ducking in FCPX.
I just got my unit the other day, looking forward to using it more. I was wondering if you have noticed any limitations/issues with the fact that the sequencer only records quantized? Especially since you are doing long drone ambient
Probably the biggest issue for me is that the unit will never be truly arrhythmic. I can always drive it from external arrhythmic sequencer or generator via MIDi.