Groove3 Cubase: Ambient Texture Sound Design TUTORiAL-HiDERA

HiDERA | 9 May 2025 | 462 MB
Looking for some new pad sounds for your ambient-style productions in Cubase? We've got you covered! In this Cubase video tutorial series, sound design guru Gary Hiebner shows you how to design your own lush, ambient pads using what you already have in Cubase, including VIs like Retrologue and Padshop, along with sampling/resampling techniques and other tips. By the end of this Cubase sound design course, not only will you know enough to start designing your own unique pads and ambient textures for your very next track, you'll also be much more familiar with these instruments in general, making sound design quicker and easier overall. These Cubase production videos are designed for Cubase users familiar with Cubase and looking to learn how to create new pad sounds.

To kick things off, Gary briefly discusses pads in general, explaining what they are and how they're typically used in most productions. He then familiarizes you with the virtual instruments in Cubase that he'll be using throughout the course. Then he concentrates on using pads for a song's intro, demonstrating how to layer various synth pads together to create a complex, evolving sound.

Next, you'll learn how to create sustained pads to serve as background texture in a song or as a sound design element treated with plenty of effects. A look at Retrologue follows, and Gary will show how to choose appropriate oscillators, edit the filter cutoff and resonance, adjust the envelopes, and add some modulation to build a lush pad with this virtual analog synth. Other topics include Padshop (using granular and spectral synthesis) and samples (importing into Padshop to build a pad), and resampling (multiple stages of sampling and rendering to audio).

If you've got a track that needs some unique pads or you need some ambient textures for a soundtrack or other production, this is the video course for you. What's more unique than custom-made? By learning how to design these sounds yourself, you'll not only be ahead of the game when it comes to originality, but you'll also gain valuable knowledge in sound design and synthesis in general, which will serve you in myriad ways throughout your career. See the individual Cubase video tutorial descriptions for more information on everything that's covered in the course and how you can make use of these ideas in your own recordings. Don't settle for presets ... Watch "Cubase: Ambient Texture Sound Design" today.

What You Will Learn:

-What constitutes a pad and how they're typically applied.

-How to construct various types of pads to serve different purposes, such as an intro, as a background texture, etc.

-Dialing in a lush pad sound in Retrologue by tweaking the oscillators, filter, amp envelopes, and modulation.

-Creating pads by resampling sounds, adding processing each time and adjusting parameters in the sampler.

-And more!