In electronic music, a sound (timbre), which can be used to produce soft, imperceptible harmonic background. The most common (almost standard) types of pads or synth pads are: choir pad, string instruments, warm pad, etc.
The PAD control character in the C1 control code set.
A part of the ethernetframe that fills in the data field (if necessary) to ensure that it meets the minimum length (46 bytes). For this reason, the data field is often called the "Data/Pad" field.
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A precursor to the standard D-pad was used by the Intellivision console, which was released by Mattel Electronics in 1980.
The first "connected" (pad) style D-pad appeared appropriately enough in 1981 on a handheld game system- "Cosmic Hunter" on Milton Bradley's Microvision.
The pad was operated the same way today's dpads do, using the thumb to manipulate the onscreen "hero" character in any of four directions.