In this tutorial the Guru shows you how to make lush pads from just about any monophonic melody using Edison and Newtone (or just Edison if you don't have Newtone) ...
Download the project created above here
The steps are:
1. Load a monophonic melody (vocal/instrumental whatever you have, tonal/timbre variation is good) into Newtone. If you don't have Newtone you can get it here. You can also skip this step and use Edison edit out a string of notes of the same pitch.
2. Use Newtone to flatten the pitch to a single note (close to the average of the melody).
3. Load the flattened melody into Edison and remove any gaps between notes and other non-melodic noises. 'S,T,C,CH & F' sounds can become unwanted noise 'hiss' after blurring.
4. Add at least 4 seconds silence before and after the flattened melody.
5. NOTE: If your sample is mono, convert it to stereo before blurring it.
6. Apply the Blur tool function with ~4000 ms 'Amount' setting
7. Load the Blurred sample into your favourite sampler. Don't forget to set the root-note to the correct pitch of the sound.
Enjoy!
