Hey guys,

So I've been working on a new track and the last component I wanted to create to finish the intro was an outer space/atmosphere pad similar to those used by Blasterjaxx (eg: Mystica, Legend Comes to Life, Vision, Titan)

I checked YouTube, found a few tutorials, and began making the pads there to get an understanding of how they work. Currently I have one that is not so terrible, created through Massive.

I've been tweaking a lot of components, including the "Noise" between metallic, paper and bright noise to give it an "airy" feel and a few other things.

Unfortunately I haven't really been able to find something that I really feel fits with my track.

Any suggestions on creating pads like this?

study presets and see how they work and maybe you can work on from there

I can never seem to make decent pads that sound organic, they always end up sounding too "synthy" if that makes sense?

Fair enough, I guess if you picture an orchestra's string section, you can't sustain a note for a long time without any change of pitch or volume.

Maybe adding a tiny bit of LFO vibrato might help, along with subtle volume changes?