Which synthesizer is most suitable for ambient music?

[mdstudio]

Also future garage can often have no vocals or just some simple vocal chops/phrases

[vurt]

it goes to 11?

pan pipes moods 11 was the cool one, radiohead - creep/portishead - glory box/blur - song2/iron maiden - the phantom of the opera/throbbing gristle - very friendly.

(im probably making this up, no point looking)

[aMUSEd]

The best ambient is created by using every synthesiser, everywhere, all at once, to create a singularity of perfect quantum ambience

[ghettosynth]

The best ambient is created by using every synthesiser, everywhere, all at once, to create a singularity of perfect quantum ambience

Well, that's one school of thought. Another is that the best ambient is created by using no synthesizers at all. In fact, no sound, it's just, wait for it, the ambience.

[Shabdahbriah]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

[vurt]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

everything and nothing.

[ghettosynth]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

everything and nothing.

This is the answer.

[Shabdahbriah]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

everything and nothing.

This is the answer.

Sounds legit. I'll pass this along.

[vurt]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

everything and nothing.

This is the answer.

Sounds legit. I'll pass this along.

it helps if there's a pause

everything ...



and nothing.

then give a knowing look and stroke the chin (your own, stroking theirs is weird)

[vurt]

songbirds/paulstretch x reverb = ambient

[Shabdahbriah]

Have we definitively concluded what 'ambient' music is, yet?


{asking for a friend}

everything and nothing.

This is the answer.

Sounds legit. I'll pass this along.

it helps if there's a pause

everything ...



and nothing.

then give a knowing look and stroke the chin (your own, stroking theirs is weird)

Indeed. I'm inclined to only disclose such profundities with a deliberate chin stroking 'dramatic pause'. Which can be difficult to convey through text, so I make sure to indicate that I am doing so. ergo: {strokes chin}

[vurt]

(does finger gun as if to say "awesome")

[Dirtgrain]

It's like art vs. pornography--in most cases, you just know the difference between ambient and not ambient. Also, ambient rarely has cowbell. Yep.

[zzz00m]

Also, ambient rarely has cowbell. Yep.

Needs more cowbell..

[BBFG#]

It's like art vs. pornography--in most cases, you just know the difference between ambient and not ambient. Also, ambient rarely has cowbell. Yep.

Unless it's been sampled, spindled and stretched to a duration usually created by a black hole....

But in our studio we have a hard rule that anyone requesting more of one is immediately thrown out and never allowed to come back!