I just bought/installed Xpand 2. I figured it was a small footprint with lots of options, if needed.
I’ve got it up and running. (It only seems to allow you to use midi channel 1-4, but that is okay).
They sent me a registration number. But, I have not figured out where i would need to paste that.
I saw some mention of ilock. I have that, but I only used it with one (free) plugin. So, I am not that familiar with it.
Any direction is appreciated.
Jeff
Did you ask them?
I think I figured it out. I think I added the registration number to ilok (after fumbling around resetting the password and user name for a while).
I think I am just about done adding new plugins to GP. Its always a time consuming hassle (2 laptops) and a concern of causing some issue.
But the good news is there is one (pretty generic) fat synth pad in XPand2 that comes very close to what I have been looking for. It is very similar to one on my hardware synth that I use a lot. It looks like I can control the envelope/resonance/cutoff to pretty much get what I have been looking for to cover 3 or 4 workhorse patches I use regularly in my hardware synth. So, that alone might make it worth it.
(Surprisingly, I spent a lot of time searching for that in V Collection, Massive, Pigments, but none of them had the “fatness” I needed (and they often had too much movement/evolution in the pad or tone different than I was looking for). Maybe just a chorus/reverb effect, but what do I know…)
Jeff
I use the Legend Hz these days for things like that
I think the fattest synth VST I own is OP-X Pro 3. At least that’s the one I often use when I need a fat analog synth.
I guess it was not only lack of “fatness”. I wanted a pretty generic pad without much movement.
Actually I was pretty much looking for the “Jump” sound, but with the option to increase the attack and release, and maybe a bit of tweaking to the resonance.
Maybe I just didn’t find the right present/settings, but the Arturia OP-Xa presets I checked out did not seem to cut it for my ears.
Maybe a simple tweak would have done it. (For example Paul’s suggestion to change the microphone setting on Pianoteq was spot on. After making that change, I am totally happy with Pianoteq pianos. With the default microphone setting, it just did not sound “right” to my ears).
Oh sorry I was talking about Sonic Projects OP-X Pro 3
Here are a few famous pads/stabs sounds:
And the presets collection is huge. Among them a lot of famous song presets:
I watched those videos. This seems perfect for me. Thx!