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Nothing at all stopping you now tbh. My current keyboard skills probably sit at grade 3-5, so nothing spectacular at all. If you put a bit of practice in every day, that's achievable in a relatively short space of time.
Your Soundcloud avatar looks far better than the KVR one!wagtunes wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:08 pm An interesting read for anybody who really wants to dive into ambient music. Tons of sub genres. Honestly, IMO, defining ambient music, today, is meaningless, as it has expanded to the point where almost anything goes. I'm sure a number of my pieces could be considered a sub genre of traditional ambient, though I never personally looked at them that way.
Here are a few.
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/libra
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/sagittarius
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/aquarius
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/pisces
These are all from my CD The Zodiac Crimes. Now we could argue all day about whether or not these are "classic" ambient pieces (they are not, trust me) but they certainly have many elements of the genre and are difficult in their own right to pigeon hole them anywhere. But a lot of my music is like that.
You'd be hard pressed to guess what synths/instruments I was using for these pieces. You might be surprised to discover that many of them aren't associated with traditional ambient. And that's kind of the point. Asking what synth is good for ambient is kind of like asking what kind of food is good for staying healthy. It would be easier to list the foods that AREN'T healthy.
Someone made that one for me as a joke so I kept it to show I have a sense of humor.martinjuenke wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 7:16 pmYour Soundcloud avatar looks far better than the KVR one!wagtunes wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:08 pm An interesting read for anybody who really wants to dive into ambient music. Tons of sub genres. Honestly, IMO, defining ambient music, today, is meaningless, as it has expanded to the point where almost anything goes. I'm sure a number of my pieces could be considered a sub genre of traditional ambient, though I never personally looked at them that way.
Here are a few.
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/libra
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/sagittarius
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/aquarius
https://soundcloud.com/steven-wagenheim/pisces
These are all from my CD The Zodiac Crimes. Now we could argue all day about whether or not these are "classic" ambient pieces (they are not, trust me) but they certainly have many elements of the genre and are difficult in their own right to pigeon hole them anywhere. But a lot of my music is like that.
You'd be hard pressed to guess what synths/instruments I was using for these pieces. You might be surprised to discover that many of them aren't associated with traditional ambient. And that's kind of the point. Asking what synth is good for ambient is kind of like asking what kind of food is good for staying healthy. It would be easier to list the foods that AREN'T healthy.
Exactly. I know that it sounds like I was joking about the rock, but not really.SantaClaus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:59 pm You'd be surprised how little synths are used in today's ambient music.
It's often things like field recordings, noise generators, some VSTs like Cycles, Landforms or orchestral stuff, lots of granular and tape saturation, and then freeze your tracks plus EchoBoy on it.
People talk about reverb in ambient, but there is way less than what people imagine. It's just they're stuck 40 years ago where ambient meant pad + reverb and delay. Andrew Tasselmyer is the perfect example of how today's ambient/soundscape music can sound like.
I use field recordings, synths to make various inharmonic tones and noises, not so big on granular myself. I use my voice, manipulated recordings of some acoustic instruments. I don't use a ton of reverb and only on some sounds and not others.SantaClaus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:59 pm You'd be surprised how little synths are used in today's ambient music.
It's often things like field recordings, noise generators, some VSTs like Cycles, Landforms or orchestral stuff, lots of granular and tape saturation, and then freeze your tracks plus EchoBoy on it.
People talk about reverb in ambient, but there is way less than what people imagine. It's just they're stuck 40 years ago where ambient meant pad + reverb and delay. Andrew Tasselmyer is the perfect example of how today's ambient/soundscape music can sound like.
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