Pads & Chords · Session 01
Dark Broken Pads
9 min · Polyphonic mode · No patch cable needed
Turning three words into an actual patch.
This session builds a dark, slow, broken pad — starting at the waveform instead of the filter cutoff, and using noise as a modulation source instead of reaching for the distortion. You’ll also see how the mod wheel turns the “broken” part into something you can play expressively, rather than a setting you dial in once and forget.
In this session
Waveform selectionLoudness contourFilter envelopeNoise → filter modulationMod wheel expressionDistortion last
Tip: Hold a full chord while dialing in the distortion, not a single note — it reacts very differently once several voices hit it at once.
Want the systematic path?
These sessions are deep dives. The full course is the structured route from unboxing to confident sound design — including the preset app with 50 patches.
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