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Music Makers: Best Ambient Tool?
 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2003-05-03 06:00 [#00682356]
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What have you guys found to be the best peice of equipment
for making ambient/floaty type sounds?


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2003-05-03 06:02 [#00682357]
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Hardware or software?

 

offline promo from United Kingdom on 2003-05-03 06:05 [#00682360]
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Nothing in particular, again with any music the best answer
is to use what you've got. Good reverb helps with that sort
of music though.


 

offline purlieu from Leeds (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-03 06:10 [#00682362]
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Reeeeeeeeeeeverb.
And...slowing down synth lines. If you have a synth track,
get it as a .wav and then slow it down. As long as it's not
*too* slow, it gets lovely and droney and dark.

And of course, different synths, soft and hard.

 

offline Donutman from Perth (Australia) on 2003-05-03 10:46 [#00682511]
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I've played NI's Absynth, and you can make really good
ambient songs just using one sound alone. (Although adding a
few more sounds would help it sound more professional.)

Pads are awesome.

 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2003-05-03 18:59 [#00683039]
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Thanks. Right now I only use Fruity Loops 3.. I can get it
to do a lot but making a continious free floaty sound is
nearly impossible for me. Any other suggestions?


 

offline Kill Switch from Belgium on 2003-05-03 23:00 [#00683163]
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Spectrasonics Atmosphere is a must have if you're into
ambient. It's build from scratch around a 3.7 gig soundcore
and you can layer pads. Also their Trilogy, the total bass
module, is faboulous. Toghether with the range of NI, this
is imo the best sofsynths around.
(with a bonus for z3ta+ and Steinbergs Dcota).

 

offline N-gon from Vero Beach (United States) on 2003-05-04 20:32 [#00684250]
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many different ways, and yes absynth makes me bust a nut
when it comes to ambient music making.


 

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