Pads & Chords · Session 04

Beautiful Pads

8 min · Polyphonic mode · Patch cable required

 

Lush, expressive pads — built around aftertouch instead of static settings.

The core move here is patching aftertouch into the modulation source, which lets the pressure of your fingers open the filter while you hold a chord. From there it mixes with a slow LFO for drifting movement, or a square wave for choppy, delay-like chords. Ends with the fake keyboard split — dropping one oscillator to a lower range so you can play a bass note underneath your chords.

In this session

Auto damp offFilter envelopeEmphasis for sweepsAftertouch patchingMixing aftertouch with LFOFake keyboard split

Tip: Only enable one chorus mode. Both at once stacks far too much depth — mode two on its own does the job.

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