How To Make A Gated Pad Like Plaid ‘Clock’ Using Hive 2

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In this Synth Secrets, we’re remaking Clock by Plaid using Hive 2. The key is in the LFO rates, using one LFO to control another. Enjoy!

Plaid has been bending our minds since 1991 with their genre-hopping sound tapestries that so often leaving us asking “How did they make that?”

Today we’re going to build a gated pad that seems to flicker in and out of existence like the one in Plaid’s “clock” using u-he’s lovely Hive 2 softsynth.

Here’s the sound…