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ARPs & Patterns

Pads

Reason vs. VST

There is often a lot of debate about which is better. Listen to the same piece using instruments from elektro 3-57 and the SynthStudio Packs and decide for yourself.

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ARPs & Patterns

8thwalk – 8 note descending pattern, no repeat

Alternate 1 – ARP + Pad alternating by LFO
Alternate 2 – ARP + ARP alternating by LFO
Atari Pong – just like the old computer game

Cantor – 8 note pendulum with Envelope

Fantastic FM – FM synthesis ARP
Fill ARP – Classic 8th note ARP
Flock Motif – They had great hair and sounded like this

Insta House – Just Press Run Pattern Devices or Play and twist the knobs

Logic System – semi-random 8 note pattern

Mute Fill ARP – Classic 8th note ARP with muted sound

Pappa V Bell ArPad – Vangelis style sound with pad and ARP
Pik Pok Pow – like it reads
Power Drive ARP – Classic 16th note ARP with driven sound
Pretty ARP – 16th note Moog Style ARP
Punch Drone – Beefy ARP plus Pad

Rise Up – 16 step rising pattern, no repeat

TISS – the inevitable silver synth
Triplet Trace - 4th triplet with delay, nice filler rhythm

Vo Chop Pad – Vocoder pad pattern, raise Mod Wheel

Wendy ARP – Classic Wendy Carlos Moog sound
Wilde ARP – 80's style ARP sound. Press one bass key for the namesake.

Bass

80's Funk – Hard electro slap sound. Raise Mod Wheel for more body.
2600 Drama – like the semi-modular beast, raise the Mod Wheel

Bassliner – Velocity to Filter Cutoff. Pile on the Resonance and Slide
Bela – undead, undead... Simple but useful sound
Big n Lo – try the drive settings
Brutal Bass – ok so it's “Rock Star” quote
Bull – like the Taurus pedal

Classic CZ – Casio CZ bass sound
DX Fretless – Yamaha style FM sound
DX Rump Shaker – Sub-bass sound

Electric Bass – high sustain and slight drive
Electric Pig Bass – oinky snout and raise Mod Wheel for the wiggly tail
Expresso – go at midnight

Fat Steak – Round and shiny
FM Bass – raise the Mod Wheel for that hard FM sound

Get Expressed – Huge phat sound

In-Squired Bass – high sustain smooth sound based on a live Chris Squire (Yes) sound

LA Bass I – Roland D-50 style sound
LA Bass II – Roland D-50 style sound
Les Bass – Octaves pattern. Lose the Delay to go a bit Frankie

Matrix 1 – Short Oberheim style sound
Matrix 2 – Longer Oberheim style sound
Meat Square – meaty square bass. Mod Wheel to pulsate
M-Jack – rather Beat It in style

PM Bass Tail – hold for the rising tail
PM Pulse – CZ style pulse wave bass
PM Reso – CZ style resonant wave bass
PM Saw – CZ style saw wave bass
PM Square – CZ style square wave bass

Quad Bass – Thump and Hold

Rubber – long elastic sound

Slab Bass – short slab sided sound
Slow Slide – Stylized analog fretless
Soft Slap – soft analog 80's style slap bass
Squidge – Classic synth bass
Stereo Classic – stereo analog bass

Thumper – Thumpy Bass. Mod Wheel for Filter Mod
TISS – the inevitable silver synth
Tri Bass 1 – Triangle wave bass
Tri Bass 2 - Triangle wave bass
Tri Bass 3 - Triangle wave bass

Vasiq – smooth DCO sound
Velo Elextro – Velocity to Filter Cutoff

Drums & Percussion

1 Finger Beat – press for instant Simple Techno beat and bass

Analog Kit – Old style drums from one patch
AutoClaves – ARP for automatic analog percussion fill

Bomm Drumm – Moog style timpani

Drum Kit 1 – Real time synthesis sounds in Octave 1
Drum Kit 2 – Rea time synthesis sounds
Kik - octave 1
Toms & Taps - octave 2
Snares – octave 3
High Hats & Metal – octave 4
Drum Kit 3 – Synth sounds Sampled
Kik - octave 1
Toms & Taps - octave 2
Snares – octave 3
High Hats & Metal – octave 4

Spice Mines – Analog Percussive timpani/clang

Effects (Combinator effects units for processing external sounds)

Lesley – Overdrive and Modulation for pushing a sound. Mod Wheel controls Filter
Master – General soft and clear master
Mod Delay BPM (send) – Tempo synced modulated delay, send effect only
Mod Delay Free (send) – Time based modulated delay, send effect only
Multi FX 1 – EQ > Big Chorus > Delay > Reverb
Multi FX 2 – Delay > Reverb > Phaser > Chorus
Quad Chorus Parallel – 4 chorus units: 1+2+3+4
Quad Chorus Serial – 4 chorus units: 1>2>3>4
Reverb FX – Chorus > Delay > Reverb
Soft Shape Master – Instrument shaping or alternate Master effect. NOT Phase linear
Stereo Delay Plus – Separate L + R Delay > Phaser Chorus > Drive > EQ
Vocoder – Vocoder Effect + inbuilt synth sound. Input voice and send notes from sequencer (will work wonderfully with Propellerheads Record)

Leads

70's Solo Synth – Big Lead sound

Add 7th – Raise Mod Wheel to add 7 semitones up (5th)

Darnce Marster – Gater pattern
Darnce Tarnce – Supersaw with long glide & gater
Eerie – Moog solo
Eye Poke – Hard, thin lead sound

Fast Moog – Moog sound in the style of Larry Fast
FM Bell Flute – unusual FM sound, raise Mod Wheel for brightness

Glass Flute – Flute sound with a glassy timbre as mod Wheel is raised

Insta Trance – Sound for Trance style leads

Moog Filleter – Slight swell with glide
Motif Lead – Driven string pair. Osc 1 is set to C and Osc 2 follows keyboard

Old New Age Flute – Simple sine wave flute sound
Old Pulse Lead – Cutting pulse lead, Mod Wheel for brightness
Old Speaker – Lead with a cardboardy sound like a slightly ripped speaker cone

Rise or Fall – PPG type sound. Twist knob one to change direction

Soloer – Classic lead
Storman – Techno style pluck
Super S – Old Super Saw

Thera – Theramin style lead
Thin – Thin lead
Tomita Voice – strange vocal sound similar to Isao Tomita
Trine – Pulsed 5th lead, Mod Wheel to remove modulation

Vox Lead – Analog lead with a vocal quality

Waspoid – Spitty waspish sound, raise Mod Wheel
Wendy's Melody – Wendy Carlos style sound
Whistler – Analog human whistle

Organs & Polyphonic

2 Bar – 2 Drawbar sound
3 Bar – 3 Drawbar sound
4 Bar – 4 Drawbar sound
70's Moog Singer – Stylized Moog style voice
2600 Drama - like the semi-modular beast, raise the Mod Wheel

Analog Floater – Simple sound. Add Multi FX 1 for a great sound
Automobilize – Simple poly pad, raise the Mod Wheel for that “Cars” sound

Baptismyl – Bright, full Hammond church organ

Cardboard Organ – Very transistor sound, Mod Wheel affects timbre

Digi Organ – ROMpler style organ
Expresso – go at midnight

Fantasia – Odd organ/piano sound

Gary on 4 – Percussive String poly
Glass Flute – Flute sound with a glassy timbre as mod Wheel is raised
Holden Days – Resonant poly

Instinkt – High, thin downward sweep

Light Side – Slightly brassy analog poly
Lute – Harp style sound

Mekanoid 2000 – High clav organ with Mod possibilities
Mid Organ – Mid heavy organ

Old Polly – Slightly unstable with a nasal sound, Mod Wheel for tone
Organ 1 – Rock organ with adjustable partials
Organ 2 – Rock organ with adjustable partials and strong click

Padded Pian – Soft, smooth piano/organ sound
Pete's Invention – Rough emulation of the “won't Get Fooled Again” effect
Proud Poly – Shiny Prophet sound

Rick Piano – Piano/organ in the Rick Wakeman style
Ring Organ – Organ with slow Phase

Shoraweep – Short sweep
Slayer – Synthesized distorted electric guitar
Square 1 – Simple Square wave organ
Square 2 – Simple Square wave organ]
Syn 6 String – Almost realistic acoustic guitar
Syn Gytar – Semi-realistic acoustic guitar, strong sustain

Technique – Nasal poly pad
Tight Steel – Steel plucked instrument

Pads

1 Bar Liquid – Swirly pad, Mod Wheel for timbre
70's pad Synth – Big phased pad sound

Additive 1 – Additive synthesis style sound, use Multi FX 1 for a great sound
Analog Orchestra – Very synthesized string and brass combo with opposing LFOs
AnaVox 1 – Analog choir
AnaVox 2 – Analog choir
Atremisesian – Tuned noise and string

Beat Drone – Dark drone with a beat
Beautiful Phase Pad – String pad with comb filter phaser
Blood Sweep – Dark sweep with a repeating scrape

Caves of Gold – Layered ROMpler sound
Cold Air – Slightly brittle edgy sound
Crashing Swirl – FM pad with rising ramp modulation
CZ Phase Pad – Phase modulation pad with comb filter phaser

Dark Ascension – Digital pad with rising Osc 2
Dark Lavender – Thick dark pad
Dark String + ARP – Dark string giving way to simple ARP
Dellove – Slow sweep swimming in delay repeats
Digital Ping String – Early digital string with long release
Drive Monks – Reminiscent of chanting monks (although rather digital)

Ensemble IV – Classic ensemble sound
Europa – Thin, slightly metallic string
Fairlight Vox 1 – Sample sound similar to a Fairlight patch
Fairlight Vox 2 – Sample pad similar to a Fairlight patch
Fairlight Vox 3 – Sample resonant pad similar to a Fairlight patch
Fine Films – ROMpler style synthesized string
Flat Bell – Bell sound turned into a pad, Mod Wheel for Filter
Flock Sweep – Nice glossy sweep with an early 80's feel
FM Pad – Simple FM pad, great for solid low hold
FM Squared – FM Square wave sweep
FM Swept Pad – Full but glassy FM sweep pad

Ghost Drone – Drone with slight noise and tingles

High Fill – DCO string pad
Hypagloria – Mid-80's style melodic mix filler

In the Augmented – ROMpler style with augmented 3rd and inverted augmented 5th
In the Minors – ROMpler style with diminished 3rd and inverted diminished 5th

Klausian – Lightly phased Klays Schulze style pad/lead

Late Dreamer – Heavily Phased digital analog pad
Light Flow – Additive pulse with LFO filter sweep
Light Lavender – Slow pad with no sustain
Light Rays – Wavetable swept pad with adjustable character
Light Tunnel – Pulsing organ style pad with FM
Liquid World – Grainshifting swirls
London Fog – Scrape pad, drench in FX for best effect
Lonesome Cowboy – Lonesome square wave lead/pad
Lovely Analog Pad – DCO flavoured pad
Lumpen – Lots of layered samples for a very full and slightly lumpy sound

Marine Dark – Watery bell and pad combo
Mellotron Man – Tape organ style string or choir sound with realistic 8 second tape stop
Melody Drone – Dark digital choir for static drone or melodic work
Mercury – Spooky PPG organ on repeat
Mocha Cream – Warm ROMpler sound
Mocha Whip - Warm ROMpler sound with a slight modulation
Mute and Tingles – Muted pad and tingles

OrVox – Digital choir synthesis
OSCar – PWM similar to the classic woodsided digital

Pad of Pads – Nice thick ROMpler “analog” sound
Perc World – Gong leading to swirly digital organ
Phase Vocal Tinkle – Phased synth choir with tinkles. Press Play or Run Pattern Devices for tinkles to be active
Planet Chords – Single finger chords with filter mod similar to Yamaha SY-85 patch
PM Sweep – Simple CZ style sweep
PM Swept Pad – Smooth, layered PM sweeps
Polite Suspense – Stringy ROMpler layers
Pulse Choir Sweep I – PWM choir with Mod Wheel swell
Pulse Choir Sweep II – Softer PWM choir with Mod Wheel swell. Press Play for sequencer modulation effect

Rare Metals – layered digital synths
Raw Silk – Thin string with noise, Mod Wheel for filter
Ringer Stringer – Korg Wavestation style string + tempo sync tinkle
Ripples – DCO style rippled sweep
Rubbed Steel – Brushed steel in sound

Simple Pad – Simple pad with performance options
Slippery Like Wax – Swirly digital organ pad with Mod Wheel gater
Slow Pad – Classic slow dark pad
Space Choir – Deep space choir
Spectre – DIY tension, Mod Wheel for tone
Spice Highway – Old analog string
Sprinkle of Stars – Early ROMpler layers, Mod Wheel for more stars
Stardust Return – Muted pad with ARP following
String with Tinkles – Like the name says
Sunrise – Thin and gentle string swell
Sunshine – Complex digital pad. See the film.
Surreal Pad – Mod Wheel causes the sound to melt
Swept Glass – Simple but nice digital pad
Swirl Progress – Korg Wavetation style stepped sweep
Swirling Waters – Multiple oscillators moving around each other

Thick Bread – Simple but very thick synth string
Thin Fill – Thin, lightly phased string pad

Vangelis Layers – Piano + Brass + String + Tinkles
Vo Chop Pad – Vocoder pad pattern, raise Mod Wheel

War Man – Muted and slightly menacing analog brass pad
Wave Seq Drone 1 – Korg Wavestation style smooth wave sequence with big sound
Wave Seq Drone 2 – Korg Wavestation style sharp transition rhythm pad
Weeping Willow – Slightly asian Moog style string
Wide Screen – ROMpler style film string
Wings – Sting with interesting analog style performance options

Zombie Attack – Dark digital pad. Mod Wheel to scare yourself

Piano and Clav (all synthesis no 'real' instrument samples)

All Night Piano – Piano and String with a slight Lionel feel

Bakelite Piano – Electromechanical style sound with performance options

Earth E-Piano – Bright digital style sound similar to a Pete Bardens sound
Electrotine – Clean tine piano

FM Body Piano – Brittle FM piano with tone adjustments
Glass Grinder – Glassy digital piano with a slightly coarse edge
Glassy ePiano – Beautifully clean and glassy classic

Harpsichord 1 – Synthetic harpsichord – general all rounder
Harpsichord 2 – Synthetic harpsichord – electro clavichord style w. jack return
Harpsichord 3 – Synthetic harpsichord – French style

Jazzman – Dark and full with tone adjustments

Kurli Wurli – Werlitzer style tremolo sound with performance options

Leather Harpsi – Softer attack and slightly warmer sound, short sustain

Pick Piano – Toy piano with sustain
Progressive FM Piano – Full sound with pan and vibrato
P-String Hold – Highly synthetic sound with long release sustain

Real Piano – Uses synthesis and vocoder and reverb for a nearly real piano sound. Will fool the average listener they hear a real piano in a room
Renaissance – Mod Wheel converts from a synthetic harpsichord sound to a viola
Rick Piano – Piano/organ in the Rick Wakeman style
Roaders – Classic 80's style Rhodes sound
Rokzy – Overdriven Rocksichord sound

Simple E-Piano – Nice sine wave piano
Smooth e-Piano – Smooth and mellow
Stage High – High stage piano sound
Staged Piano – Rough CP type sound

Timely Tine – dual digital tines with tone adjustments
Uncomfortable Piano – Unusual woody sound

Vangelis Layers – Piano + Brass + String + Tinkles

Warm Clavinet – Clav style synth piano

SFX & Bells (no samples of real sounds)

_Welcome – Vocal for “_Welcome” starter piece (not included in patch count)

Alien Insects – Sample based bubbly sound
Alien Mine – Scrape with RND LFO melody, Mod Wheel to remove modulation

Basement Pipes – Pipes tapped in a basement
Bells – Nice digital bells, Mod Wheel for brightness
Bin Bells – Digital trash can lids
Bowl Bells – Struck metal bowls
Bright Bell – Chime style bell
Broad Noise – Rough sample based noise, Mod Wheel for RND LFO

Chop Bell – Moog style bell with modulation
Church Bells – Full church style bells
Clang Surprise – metallic melodic sound, raise Mod Wheel for brightness
Classic LFO Twin – Jarre style LFO speed effect
Coyote – Analog howl

Deep Water – Deep dark bubbling
Dogfighters – Dual OSC analog swoops
Doomed – Dark machine pulse
Dry Gong – Asian style gong with a woody sound

Fake Water – Analog bubbling stream effect
FM Fun – Start with a bell and get nasty with performance controls

Ghost Melody – Random LFO melody for ghostly graveyard effect
Glass Grinder – Coarse bell like electric piano
Gongforce – Chime gongs with performance options

Heartbeat – Analog heartbeat for those Darkside moments
Heavy Thunder – I am Thor
Insector – Tropical insects go analog

Japan – Richard Barbieri style sound

Marsh Birds – Birds in the misty swamps
Morse un-Coded – One-finger Morse code effect

Nice Bells – ROMpler clean synth bells
Noise – Set up for real time performance or sequencing
Passages – Descending filter modulations
PM Interrupt – CZ style descending modulation

Ripley Scan – Sci Fi scanner with Mod Wheel control of LFO speed
Rise or Fall – PPG type sound. Twist knob one to change direction
Rise Up – Ascending sequence
Robot Speak – Random LFO robot chatter

Slow Mecha – Liquid robot sound with slow modulation
Sonic Drill – Digital dentist, Mod Wheel for brightness
Space Organ – Early Sci Fi style Moog sound
Spice Mines – Analog Percussive timpani/clang
Square Repeater – Square wave pad with repeating spikes
Square Siren – “They only wish to be your friends”
Sweep Ducker – Sweep with lots of delay repeats to create a wash. Side chain
compression keeps things clean

Sweep Fall – Classic drop
Swimmers – Pulsing pattern with portamento
Synth Party – Layered synth tones with differing LFO modulations, Mod Wheel for depth

Tek 5 – Classic Sample & Hold over tone
Temple Bells – Slightly cracked, large bowl bells
Tension – Noise howl giving way to modulation pattern
Thunder – Make your own weather analog style

Vibey – vibraphone style bell chimes

Waves – Simple analog waves
Wind Chime – metal chime pipes
Wind Chimes 1 – Arpeggiated for a semi-realistic wind chime effect

Strings & Brass

2 Violins Octave – 2 Sweet violins playing at octave gap
2 Violins – 2 Sweet violins playing together
80's Section – Bright stringy brass combo

Analog Brass – Simple analog trumpet, Mod Wheel for brightness
Artemis String – Nice bowed sound, Mow Wheel adds lumpy tuned noise

Big Lips I – Analog brass: bright and squidgy
Big Lips II – Analog brass: darker and loose
Brassy Brass – Bright, clean 80's synth brass with a Keith Emerson feel

Caramel String – DCO style brassy string
Chambered I – Raw chamber music sound
Chambered II – Processed chamber music sound
Clari String – String and woodwind sound
Duck Brass – Quacking brass sound, Mod Wheel for brightness
Ensemble I – String and brass machine with part mixing: short attack and delay
Ensemble II – String and brass machine with part mixing: longer attack and decay
Ensemble III – String and brass machine with part mixing: simple piano attack

Fanfare – Spitting Keith Emerson style sound
Frog Brass – Controlled DCO brass
Full String – Sweet full string synth
Furious Ending – Layered DCO sound for filling big endings

Hiolin – high, thin violin

Lead & Backing – Violin with backing string section
Lovely Analog Brass – Nice DCO darker brass (flugelhorn)
Lovliest Strings – Bright film style sound, Mod Wheel removes OSC 2

Max String – Short, spitting string
Misty Mountains – Lonely brass with a rough edge

Paper Brass – Thin, old, papery sound
Paraphonic Brass – Brass pad sound
PPG String – Digital sting machine
Proud Strings – Dominant DCO strings

Renaissance – Mod Wheel convers from a synthetic harpsichord sound to a viola
Ringer Stringer – Korg Wavestation style sample string leading to a 1/4 note modulation

Shine On – Organ string similar to Rick Wright's sound
Simple Brass – Analog brass machine sound
Simple String – Analog string machine sound
Slow Starter – Layered string synth
Solid Flow – Dark ROMpler string pad
Spice Highway – Simple string with a slight Kitaro feel
Strident Horn – Bright metallic brass
String Synth – Classic string machine sound with performance options
Super S – Old Super Saw
Syn Violin – DCO style violin emulation

Telekonesis – Analog brassy string
Triple Bow – ROMpler type string pattern with three strikes

Vari Horn – Interesting synth horn

Wow Brass – Classic brass sound that goes “wow”