#06 From Vintage Brass to Euro
Pads are a staple of the electronic music diet, but they’ve been around for many years in various forms. Back in the 70s, polyphonic synth technology was relatively non-existent, relying on basic organ-like textures to provide padded interest. This frequently took the guise of some form of string sound, often generated by synths known as string machines.
It was only when synths such as the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 appeared that keyboard players realised that they could go huge with synthetic brass-pad patches. The natural evolution of this was the big-haired poly-sounds of
