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Date: 30-Mar-01 @ 04:53 AM -
Use of Overtones in Pad's
Guys:
I noticed the use of overtones really makes
Synth Pad's sound lush.
E.g. a common one is adding an overtone of a 5'th -
this is done by detuning an accompanying wave
up 7 semitones, make sure the accompanying wave
is not too loud, add some LFO's on the Cuttoff or something,
+ Reverb.
Then play a chord, nice background chord.
On this thought, I tried spliting my keyboard...etc
so I could play the overtone with my other hand, and
welp, it just didn't work, I don't know why.
What's the secret there, do overtones Have to have
exactly the same envelop and Attack time, or otherwise
your ear pick it up as a seperate chord?
'Cause that is what was happenning.
The only useable overtones I've found are IV V (Dominant
and Subdominant, interestingly).
V is used especially, IV has a discordant sound.
I see in some song's they use the same chord progression
but with different overtones to give the different
parts a different feel.
More theory would be great.
Cheers,
- BJT.