Looking for ambient soundscapes, lush pads

tomlange1

I received a $99 voucher from NI when I bought Kontakt 8, and have been searching the site for days, looking for something that's not pop/rock/drums or cinematic scoring.

I'm looking for ambient/lush pads because what I'm creating is on the meditative side of things - but the vast majority of what comes up in the NI site seems to be oriented towards rock/pop/drums/guitar or else cinematic sounds and massive libraries, and these are not what I'm after.

Outside of Kontakt, I've been building up a nice library, but I want to make the most of this voucher without going much over a hundred. Seems most of what I'm finding that has the sounds I like are ~199.

Any recommendations for lush pads, meditative sounds and ambient soundscapes?

Vocalpoint

My go-to for any pad work - if Kontakt is a requirement - is Lunaris 2 from Luftrum.

Worth every penny

VP

tomlange1

I found out how limited their vouchers are after further digging…. nothing from NI partners drastically reduced my options. No Luftrum, no Soniccouture…

But I'm curious based on your comment - if Kontakt is not a requirement, what would you recommend?

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/219795#Comment_219795

Vocalpoint

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/219811#Comment_219811

If you want to stay close to the NI yard - Massive, Massive X and Absynth could easily cover pads.

To step outside the NI yard - it’s Omnisphere at the top of the list with Pigments (Arturia) and then my essentials from u-He (Diva, Hive and Zebra) covering every potential pad sound you could ever dream up.

VP