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Which synthesizer is most suitable for ambient music?
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- addled muppet weed
- 105769 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
- KVRAF
- 2373 posts since 9 Jan, 2014 from Worldwide
Yes I would agree with this.
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- KVRist
- 90 posts since 18 Sep, 2018
Wait, what?
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- KVRAF
- 14985 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
To be fair, the OP is asking if they should buy another synth, so it makes sense to suggest synths that have features that are a step up from what Omnisphere can do on a specific feature. For instance, Dune 3 lets you import and make your own wavetables, has oscillators as mod sources, etc. Do you need those things to make ambient music? I do, but that question is up to the artist.
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- KVRAF
- 35405 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Well, I think we can agree that some synths lend themselves as versatile and good sounding (for the genre) more than others. E.g. I really wouldn't recommend a Moog Mother-32 for a general recommendation for a synth for Ambient music.
Again, the OP doesn't specify precisely what he/she wants to do, so we have to do guessing games, more or less.
I'd second Dune 3 or Pigments suggestions. Omnisphere, I can't judge, and, to be honest, I'm not super excited about synths with big sample libraries anyway. That's not the way I personally want to make music. I want to synthesize sounds.
And, again, we're facing the issue of not specifiying what you want to do. Running around in circles.
Again, the OP doesn't specify precisely what he/she wants to do, so we have to do guessing games, more or less.
I'd second Dune 3 or Pigments suggestions. Omnisphere, I can't judge, and, to be honest, I'm not super excited about synths with big sample libraries anyway. That's not the way I personally want to make music. I want to synthesize sounds.
And, again, we're facing the issue of not specifiying what you want to do. Running around in circles.
- KVRAF
- 2233 posts since 21 Nov, 2015
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
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- KVRAF
- 35405 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
Probably because you misundestood what I wrote.
I wouldn't recommend a Mother-32 generally as a synth to create Ambient music. Which means it will definitely give you a hard time creating some of the sounds generally associated with Ambient music.
Well, you can sample a lavatory flush as well, alienate it to unrecognizability in a sampler. But, that's definitely not something I would generally recommend someone asking for a "synthesizer suitable for Ambient music".
Did someone recommend OnePingOnly yet?
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- addled muppet weed
- 105769 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
there's a very famous hippy bloke, won't name him, don't want to get the guy that told me this in any issues...chk071 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:34 pmProbably because you misundestood what I wrote.
I wouldn't recommend a Mother-32 generally as a synth to create Ambient music. Which means it will definitely give you a hard time creating some of the sounds generally associated with Ambient music.
Well, you can sample a lavatory flush as well, alienate it to unrecognizability in a sampler. But, that's definitely not something I would generally recommend someone asking for a "synthesizer suitable for Ambient music".
Did someone recommend OnePingOnly yet?
he wanted a recording of a very specific waterfall, so they trudged up some mountain with the gear, and recorded some sound.
on returning to the studio, sound guy listens back, and it's just noise, didn't sound like a waterfall at all.
so they shoved a mic over the toilet, flushed, and this is now the sound, on an album, that the hippy thinks is some sacred waterfall in the usa mountains.
- KVRAF
- 2233 posts since 21 Nov, 2015
Since nobody wanted to google what the Big Moog actually is...
...a pretty good and capable VST for Ambient would be the Polymode.
...a pretty good and capable VST for Ambient would be the Polymode.
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- KVRian
- 1104 posts since 21 Jul, 2012
I get what you are saying.. It's up the the individual .. he's also asking for the "best" synth to make ambient specifically.. and has Omnisphere already. My personal advice would be: stop that search and make ambient with Omnisphere first!zerocrossing wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:44 pmTo be fair, the OP is asking if they should buy another synth, so it makes sense to suggest synths that have features that are a step up from what Omnisphere can do on a specific feature. For instance, Dune 3 lets you import and make your own wavetables, has oscillators as mod sources, etc. Do you need those things to make ambient music? I do, but that question is up to the artist.
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- KVRist
- 266 posts since 15 Aug, 2018
Do this: load up Largo, then Papen's Blue, Predator, Albino, Go2, Quad, Vecto. Pick something from either the Pads or Ambient banks, slap some Supermassive on all of them (the HydraHarp preset), write song, and taa-daa.
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- KVRian
- 566 posts since 28 Jul, 2016
i really want to know what album/song this isvurt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:40 pm
there's a very famous hippy bloke, won't name him, don't want to get the guy that told me this in any issues...
he wanted a recording of a very specific waterfall, so they trudged up some mountain with the gear, and recorded some sound.
on returning to the studio, sound guy listens back, and it's just noise, didn't sound like a waterfall at all.
so they shoved a mic over the toilet, flushed, and this is now the sound, on an album, that the hippy thinks is some sacred waterfall in the usa mountains.
- KVRAF
- 2916 posts since 27 Aug, 2004
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