How to design acoustic synth pad?

[Radium]

How do synth pads work?

How are their sounds generated?

I would like to design acoustic synth pads. Where do I start?

I would like to design them so that they have a frequency response
approximately from 800 Hz to 90,000 Hz and a dynamic range of about
210 dB.

I would like to make 8 pads:

1. New Age
2. Warm
3. Polysynth
4. Choir
5. Bowed
6. Metallic
7. Halo
8. Sweep

These instruments are already on keyboards. I would like to make their
acoustic equivalents.

 

[Rik]

90,000 Hz?? 90 kHz??!! You do know that humans can only hear upto 20 kHz
at the best of times.

 

[dt king]

How do synth pads work?

How are their sounds generated?

I would like to design acoustic synth pads. Where do I start?

I would like to design them so that they have a frequency response
approximately from 800 Hz to 90,000 Hz and a dynamic range of about
210 dB.

I would like to make 8 pads:

1. New Age
2. Warm
3. Polysynth
4. Choir
5. Bowed
6. Metallic
7. Halo
8. Sweep

You're half way there if you can get an orchestra to play in a parking
garage. Add a couple dozen harp players in a canyon with the Vienna Boys
Choir singing in a meadow and you're all set.

Micing it all might be tough.

Pads really need a lot of reverb, delay and layering to fill up and spread
out.

dtk