How would you make this Solar Fields pad?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0wB8mVRb8s

Hey there, I've been trying (and failing) to make the opening pad sound in this song.It's the one that starts around 0:20 and plays throughout most of the song. Not the high pad but the low, oscillating one. I know he did a Future Music series on this song and he showed his effects chain but I cannot figure out how he made the actual sound that's being effected. This is that tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pz1jXpdZgY. He talks about the pad in the beginning but doesn't really go into detail on how he made the actual sound and I've been trying to no avail. Also, maybe I just don't how to use it, but I tried to copy his Reaktor delay effect in my attempts at recreating the sound and I get so much white noise whereas his has almost no audible white noise even though I copied the settings exactly.

So yeah, just hoping some of you could give me some pointers as to how to recreate that low pad sound that comes in at 0:20. I'm just trying to learn how to design drones and pads right now and I really love the sound of this one so I'd really appreciate the help...thanks!

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He plays the pad and says "this is basically a piano that I put a huge amount of reverb on"

so you could play a chord filter it to get the "tone" you like, then drown it in reverb and sample it (and manipulate further to taste)
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