Ambient/PAD Synth Library?

[Flow Of Time]

Does something like that exist? A Synth specialized on Ambient/PAD stuff, preferably with a lot of presets to choose from?

At the moment I make my own sounds, by using a piano with tonnes of reverb or sonething like that, but that's a little unhandy^^

 

[Potshot]

Omnisphere.

 

[Josh Burgess]

Of course, it exists. There are entire genres of music dedicated to those sounds.

My favorite ambient synths: Camel Audio Alchemy & Native Instruments Absynth. Massive is also great (although known more for bass than ambient sounds).

More presets than you would ever need: http://www.camelaudio.com/Sound-Sample-Libraries.php

 

[Flow Of Time]

Awesome, thanks! The Camel Audio looks interesting, I'll look into it when I get home

 

[Flow Of Time]

Just looked it up on my cellphone. The free Alchemy Player looks perfect to me I suck at tweaking my own Synth Patches anyway^^

 

[LeSedna]

Omnisphere is specialist of pad and ambiant sounds. Can't go wrong with it for what you describe.

Sylenth1 has awesome presets of any kind, pads included.

Analogue style : Arturia V Collection 3.0
Last interesting option is Native Komplete 10 with several major synths, all together with dozens or hundreds of other instruments.

 

[LeSedna]

I haven't been attracted to the Alchemy price politics and how it is designed, but indeed it is not a bad idea for this kind of use. As you said, you don't always need to tweak the sounds anyway. I find it more critical when designing lead sounds or things like that

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Steinberg's padshop pro.

 

[Terminus]

Literally any synth with ADSR and waveform (sine, saw, square, pulse, triangle) controls and some effects will get you pretty much there.

 

[Vice//Versa]

Synth Master Player is like 9 bucks right now. Awesome synth, tons of presets.

 

[Flow Of Time]

Ok now padshop pro looks friggin awesome! I could even see myself tweaking my own presets with that type of synth The price seems fair aswell