Ableton Wavetable – Heavenly Pad

Hi, Welcome back!

I have thought to myself: I’m mostly making some mean and heavy sounding basses and pads, and that’s great! And that’s it. That’s what I thought 😀
But to be honest one of my viewers (PaPawGOT) suggested that maybe I could try to make an airy sound. So Angel’s Choir seem good enough I guess.

Of course I didn’t sample anything and all sound are coming straight from the Wavetable and a Reverb. Just some simple settings and playing in a bit higher octaves, cutting down some low frequencies usually does the thing.

If you haven’t seen the video, it’s here: https://youtu.be/Lq-cct9H_kk

And in this video I’m mentioning I will create some cool macros, and I think I have delivered on the promise:

I have created 8 macros that shape the sound quite delicately so you can whack them around if you can and you won’t break anything. I have set some limits during mapping so it won’t go to the extremes. But as you can tell from the snapshot names, even though I was able to land in some darker places 😀

And here’s a little look under the hood of the Mysterious Macros I’ve made 😀

And that can give you an idea of how can you control macros. For example using one macro to control two parameters, like in the case of “Forest”, which controls both filter’s resonances. And then you can predefine a range of how far the parameter will be controlled, regardless of if it’s in percent or decibel or kilohertz.

But apart of choosing the proper wave table, setting up the filters and so on, I think the biggest difference in achieving this sound is done by the unison being in the noise mode. As you can see by the snapshots I’ve done, you can pretty much crank it all the way up and it doesn’t destroy the sound. It just adds little hiss noise in the background if it was sung by many people. And I came up with this name of Angel Choir because you can definitely hear in the background some voices that would also be possibly sung by a choir. Now of course it depends on your imagination as mine is probably quite wild. And I’ve achieved this effect by choosing the oscillator’s 2 wave table which in this case serves as a formant carrier. That’s why the “Formants” macro controls the oscillator 2 wave position and it slightly changes the character of the vowels you can probably hear in the background.

and of course the reverb makes the sound all dreamy and nice. There’s not much I can talk about it just add a little bit more of the Decay and play with the Dry/Wet knob and that’s it. I think I’ve pretty much explained everything during the video so if you need to let recap just watch the video again I’ll link it just below here.

Here’s the link to the patch i have made during the tutorial:

Angel Choir – Ableton 11

Angel Choir – Ableton 12

If you want to rewatch the video, it’s here: https://youtu.be/Lq-cct9H_kk

These above are exactly the same but just for some reason I couldn’t open the patch that I’ve made in Ableton 12 inside Ableton 11. So I had to redo it all manually. But there you go, pick whichever option works for you and they should all sound exactly the same.

And if this tutorial helps you in anyway, feel free to buy me a virtual coffee ☕️. I’d really appreciate this.

Thanks ❤️

A Guide on how to install the patch is here!