Dear Anyone.

I know this will sound dead elementary to you lot, that's because you can do it! I can't and it's killing me as a composer.

What am I talking about? Creating backings like HERE....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkj8dJHoYVA

or HERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFM0s88RWIo

The whole piece is composed of lovely pads in the second example, in the first I chose a chunk where the pads stand out, not that I want them that loud, but just so you hear what I mean.

I've been trying to get the hang of finding/layering/using sounds like these for what feels like a lifetime and had absolutely zero luck. Please, as far as buying VSTs goes, as it's just those kind of paddy sounds, I've got Kontakt Player on Windows 10, Sampletank, Reaktor, ZynAddSubFX, the Korg Legacy Collection, Synth1, The General, P8, some of the HG Fortune ones. I used to use Proteus VX but it doesn't work properly on Windows 10, it says it can't load its sounds. No idea why.

If I need to buy anything else, I will do, but if it's cheaper I'll buy it quicker! If you know soundfonts that would be good enough, I've got good soundfont players (the RGC SFZ+ and Plogue Sforzando) I just need to be taught how to find the sounds, how to tweak/layer them properly. I've tried a ton of YouTube videos but you can't ask them questions if you get stuck!

All help gratefully acknowledged and will be used - I'll prob. post stuff for critique, I just want to get the hang of doing it/using synths properly!

Yours hopefully (or hopelessly!)

Chris.