Following the last episode, in which I showed you how to bring layers of sophistication to duplicated Pad layers, this week we’re going to add a new White Noise Oscillator to the Pads to bring some much needed dust and fizz.
The devil to the pads’ angelic quality, if you will. It’s often said that music made digitally is too clean and cold and White Noise provides one way to rough things up a little bit and bring a little bit of edge. Here, we’ll see how we can either add the White Noise directly to the Pads, or to slightly de-couple them, so that there’s a more subtle relationship between parts.
00:00 Intro and Track playback
01:14 Why is Noise so great?
02:23 Adding a Noise Generator via the ES P
03:12 Configuring the White Noise layer
05:00 Creating a long note
06:00 Adding the White Noise to the Pad Stack
07:49 Adding Cutoff Automation to the White Noise
09:08 Independently Gating the White Noise
12:01 Playback with the Pads
12:53 Sending to spatial FX and using Side-Chain Compression
14:11 Varying Gate Release
15:27 Full Track playback
16:20 Summary