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HOTF · Post by **HOTF** » Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:44 pm

anything vst with a grannular engine. any synth with good time based effects.

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:02 am

The DX7 didnt have any Effects nor Granularity.

mek42 · Post by **mek42** » Thu Nov 09, 2023 5:49 am

I just bought UVI Falcon and I'm inspired to make an ambient(-ish) album with it.

Jazman2k · Post by **Jazman2k** » Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:11 pm

Steinberg Padshop 2 and Loom 2

sickpie98 · Post by **sickpie98** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:57 pm

Layer a few synths on pad presets, hold down a button, instant ambient

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:09 pm

Layer a few words, press enter button, instant newbie post.

rj0 · Post by **rj0** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:11 pm

liquidsound wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:59 pm
jamcat wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:40 pm Ambient music? Is that music for the cats while you're away, or is it like regular music, but without a point?
Ambient IIRK. No cats.

What? No cats?

liquidsound · Post by **liquidsound** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:47 pm

rj0 wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 10:11 pm
liquidsound wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:59 pm
jamcat wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:40 pm Ambient music? Is that music for the cats while you're away, or is it like regular music, but without a point?
Ambient IIRK. No cats.
What? No cats?

Perhaps just one...

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:54 pm

Ambient music, isn't that the noise made when they're extracting the intestinal lining from the cat to make violin strings?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:37 pm

kritikon wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:54 pm Ambient music, isn't that the noise made when they're extracting the intestinal lining from the cat to make violin strings?

no, thats asmr.

Dirtgrain · Post by **Dirtgrain** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:18 pm

kritikon wrote: Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:54 pm Ambient music, isn't that the noise made when they're extracting the intestinal lining from the cat to make violin strings?

No, it's the sound your soul makes after the cat has been saved, the culprits imprisoned, and a warm, peaceful quiet overtakes you, and it lasts for so long that it starts nagging at your nerves, harshing with good intentions, "magical" chakras, and slow, wavy phasers that won't STFU--to the point where you'd rather be a disemboweled cat.

swilow11 · Post by **swilow11** » Wed May 01, 2024 3:18 am

Really loving Dawesome Abyss for droning textured pads with interesting movement although it's almost too easy

Beyond that, stuff like Baby Audio Atoms is great for creating deep drones, great to resample and throw in a granular.

Also, Vital- I like to use a few oscillators as a base pad and then use LFO pitch modulation with pitch locking to a scale, modulating the phase of the LFO with a random to get some unpredictable melodic touch floating around.

SynthieSara · Post by **SynthieSara** » Fri Jun 21, 2024 1:14 am

I like ROMplay 2 by Electronik Sound Lab. It's free, and it's older but unfortunately a tiny-bit buggy (the LFO Depth and Cutoff knobs sometimes change when I don't want them to). It has some keys, pads and synths that might be a good start for ambient music. ROMplay 2 is my go-to for trying out ambient at the moment, despite the 2 knobs occasionally misbehaving.

Another synth I like for ambient music is Cosmic by Audiolatry. This one isn't free (I got it during a sale), but it has 61 presets, all pads, that are useful for sci-fi or outer-space oriented ambient music.

ROMplay 2 link at KVR Audio

Cosmic link at KVR Audio

Sub LX · Post by **Sub LX** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 7:57 pm

I really like NI Absynth 5, too bad it's discontinued

momsdeadmac · Post by **momsdeadmac** » Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:12 am

Alchemy in Logic

What's your favorite synth for ambient music?