Favorite Synth Pads

which tracks have the best pad sounds (or use them the best)? maybe excluding the featured artists unless its something everyone might not have heard.

a few to start:

basically just supersaws but really great filtering:

This one is rather long, but excellent fm sounding pads:

1:52

1st minute:

I will be keeping an eye on this thread, keep 'em coming

^Old jam from like 2007-ish. The power of Zeta+ starts at 0.48

A YouTube comment relates a story by Mad Mike:

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The workers frequently gave names to their machines, so my grandfather was working with Ginny. They were making their money, going back and forth like this: the machine would come down and stamp the part out of metal, and he would take it out and put it in a pile. But one day he made a mistake, and put his hand in when he should have taken it out. And that one time, the machine refused to come down. That's what it means to be in tune with the machine, to feel it's spirit.

this is sick, thanks. I've been listening to a lot of Robert Hood lately but never checked out the UR stuff, gotta peep. 

can't believe I forgot this

  On 11/8/2019 at 1:14 AM, Enthusiast said:

 

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love the pitch bending at the end of this version

Not technically a pad, I guess, but this deserves its place. One of the best recordings ever made. Apologies for the exaggerations, I just really love this recording. 

Not actually synths but I think it counts:

Accordion's a sort of mechanical additive synth anyhow.

Likewise, this is early digital convolution not synths but still: