Saturn Pads - GX-80

Saturn Pads contains 85 pads for Cherry Audio GX-80. All of the presets are designed to emphasize the distinct sonic aspects of the emulated synth. So, I believe that this soundbank is like a preset collection of sci-fi movies music composition sounds of the 80's.

Many of them have a fast attack – at least at one of the two oscillators that add a nice soft mostly pluck sound while in the background the other oscillator plays the role of the pad. Most of the synth patches included shine best at mid and high regions of the frequency map. Also, in some of them we have a nice tremolo like effect other times constant other times evolving. Beside them, we have some nice classic rhythmic pads or some presets that sound like they are played to a 1982 cassette player with almost dead battery.

The last six presets are very experimental and I could easily say that they are mainly could be used for a kind of sound effect. Also please check the Saturn Pad 77 preset – its sound is exhaling 101% sonic dimensions from the eighties decade and it could also be used as a classic poly synth in terms of performance.

The sci-fi film music sound of the 80s is the main if not the only inspiration fountain of this GX-80 soundset. And of course, who else, Vangelis. You know my love for this great composer.

For most of them Reverb is pretty much obvious – so if you need a drier version of the sound, please disable it or reduce the dry/mix slider of the reverb device. The same goes for delay – please note that with a very few exceptions I didn't use the sync button on delay – so this maybe is something to consider if you need to set the sound tails of delay to a steady speed according to your track's tempo.

Presets were designed with GX-80 1.0.13 (Build 153) and run best with this or newer edition.

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