EDIT: PADinator has been replaced and upgraded with 8INATOR.
PADinator takes our most-loved, best-layering pads from stock MainStage, and makes them instantly available for blending, moving up an octave, mono-izing, and dialing in shimmer, then lets you save those settings as a user preset. It is built on just 8 instrument instances and has an unlimited number of presets efficiently configured using aliases. Owners of the nanoKONTROL2 will notice that PADinator controls map one-to-one to the faders, three buttons and one knob for each of the 8 channels. The eight instruments lifted directly from our Legacy and Light products are:
- Purify, a simple clear calm analog pad
- Vintage, a thicker more animated warm old school pad
- Deep Blue, a modern energetic analog synth pad
- Warm Blast, a bright modern pad
- Highlander, a soaring pad that adds sheen
- Wonder, a pad infused with orchestral overtones
- Nitrogen, adds modern cloudy harmonics
- Look East, a slow, complex and evolving pad
PADinator comes preconfigured with 20 presets, and, and an example Song Starter Set so PADinator can be applied to any song right out of the box. As your confidence grows, this set can be duplicated and tuned to other songs, and you can substitute other pad sounds from the included presets or the Users Set as you develop your own voice.
If you’re typically using just one pad sound, download PADinator today and quickly and easily learn the components of what makes a great pad, and then find out how dynamic and responsive your MainStage sound pad arsenal can be! It’s fun, powerful, and completely intuitive. Furthermore, all eight instruments respond to the mod-wheel and aftertouch, just like the original IK concept, and XY-Pad location can be saved as part of the preset sound as well.