I often use Absynth for this kind of stuff (have no idea why the OP hates it). In fact, Absynth is the softsynth which I use the most alongside with Virus. But basically whenever I need a deep evolving pad and don't feel like building the sound from scratch, I'm searching for "pads" in the Virus Rom library (I also have various free stuff from the Access site) and usually find a preset that does the job as a starting point - just tweak the envelopes, add some mod assignments and a hefty amount of reverb and you can get a nice soundscape from basically anything.
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