PD4 Pad · Space
Space
Pad · Lesson 4 of 4 · PD4
Exercise Add reverb to set depth.
Result A lush, wide pad over the bed.
The 4th step of the pad track in PatchPond's subtractive synthesis curriculum. Width, motion, space — and this lesson is where you meet reverb (size/mix) for the first time.
▸What you'll learn
Teaches Reverb (size/mix)
Playing the same note in a phone booth, a living room, and a cathedral.
Reverb simulates the sound of a space — the thousands of small reflections that follow any sound made in a room, hall, or cave. Size sets how big the imagined space is, which controls how long the tail lasts and how dense the reflections feel. Read more →
Build this lesson live in the PatchPond studio. Web MIDI in, on-screen keyboard otherwise. The patch you make here loads back into iOS later on — same patch format.
Open in studio →▸In this track
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