 So today we're going to make a synth pad using the Perform VE. I just wanted to be super simple ambient synth pads are a staple of Synthesizer sounds in general. So the goal here is just to make something Super simple a bread and butter synth sound So the first thing that I'm gonna do is get a sample and I think the most important thing with a sample in a pad Is that it has a long sustain? The VE will only play back a sample as long as you record it when it's in one-shot mode Otherwise, it'll loop, but if you loop then it gets kind of percussive and I want this to be just a long Sustained sample when I hold the chord. So I'm gonna do I think an ah, but really long and what's nice about VE is that it flattens my pitch So my aw can be pitchy my aw can not necessarily sound great as I record it, but anyway So really I'd like max the sample link there, but what's great about that is I can hold the chord for a really long time So the first thing we're gonna do is adjust the release of this because right now if I release a note It kind of stops right away And I'd rather that it kind of smoothly decays after I release the note So the way we do this is we go to the morph button when you press the mode corner on the top right and As you just adjust the dial if it's green then you're adjusting release. So So that's a good release to my ear and I think I'm just gonna keep the style neutral so it's just playing back the notes kind of naturally For now at least There's no gender shifting Next up if we want an ambient pad we have to add ambience So I'm gonna add some reverb here and I'm just gonna add reverb. I'm not gonna add any delay right now So let's just hear that I'm gonna use the hall reverb type and I'm gonna add a lot of it So already we've got a very almost mellotron like Choir sound and it's nice and ambient But I'd like to make it sound more like a synthesizer The way I'm gonna do that is by using the vocoder style in the morph button so if we just press the style here and Increase this until the light is not blue So now we're in the vocoder waveforms here, and I'm just gonna use a pretty basic saw wave And let's see how that sounds just with the reverb And just to make it sound a little bit less like a human voice I'm going to change the gender to I'm gonna shift the gender down See how that sounds That sounds nice, but it's a little bit harsh So I'm also going to add the low-pass filter that we have here in the filter It's just the first style and I'm gonna filter it down a little bit. Let's listen to that So I think that's really awesome It doesn't necessarily sound like an analog synth, but if you want us to analog synth by an analog synth, right? This is something that's very unique and What's great about this especially when you're using the filter is that it's versatile You can go from a very soft sound which could just sit in the background in a mix up to a really bright Kind of wide ambient sound Let's try some different vocoder waveforms while we're here. Just see what they sound like So this type of sound could be really useful if you're playing with a band And you just need to fill out the mix a little bit if you're their keyboard player This could be useful if you're in a church setting and you need to add a little bit of ambience In a studio setting if you're like working on a track and you want an interesting pad It doesn't necessarily sound like your basic analog synth pad This is a great machine for creating simple pads and background ambiences as well as all the other crazy stuff that it can do Thanks for watching