Better Ambient Pads - VCV Rack Tutorial

Here's another VCV sound design tutorial, looking at how to make huge sounding ambient pads. Concepts include stacking oscillators, introducing subtle analogue-style detuning, pitch drift/unison, polyphonic modulation and some more unsual effects.
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The Unison Module in Surge XT for Rack 2.2:
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[@Inhibitd]

relearned some things id forgotten, ta very much.

[@VirtualModular]

@@Inhibitd that's great to hear, cheers!

[@matthewpainemusic4322]

Great work! when I find the time I'll check the whole thing.

[@VirtualModular]

@@matthewpainemusic4322 cheers, ended up being far too long so not surprised if people don't watch all of it! You're welcome to nick the patches and see what you can do with them though. They're quite CPU intensive, it's basically a whole patch to make one sound. If you have the Pro VST, I would use that and then freeze the audio to add more stuff, or just sample it.

[@GeorgCarlson]

very cool tutorial

[@VirtualModular]

Cheers, turned out a lot longer than I planned 😉

[@ascensionsound]

wow love your channel - ambient drone learning is great

[@VirtualModular]

Thanks! There's some overlap with the ambient drone video, a few of the techniques are the same but used in a different way. Plenty more ideas coming soon, it's just finding the time to make tutorials.👍

[@s-u-m-a-i-r]

do u have video of how to transition from one module to other.. like a pad starts first then transitions and fades into other module like sequencer or arp..and so till the end?

[@VirtualModular]

@@s-u-m-a-i-r hey, good question. I haven't done a video on this yet but was thinking about it. Check out a module from the Stoermelder collection called map, you can assign it to control any parameter even if it doesn't have a CV input. There's another module in that collection called Transit, which allows you to store sets of parameters so you can create kind of 'scenes' then fade between them. You can totally use that to fade between different sounds, and it also works with effects. For example you could go from a dry bright sound, then make it darker by transitioning to a preset where you've lowered the filter cutoff, and increased the reverb/delay level. Or use it to control a stereo crossfader and set up a fade between two completely different sounds, like you suggested with a pad and arp. Almost infinite possibilities 😉