Ambient Track Start to Finish
I made an ambient track from start to (almost) finish and documented the process. You can download most of the sounds for free from the link in the description.
I start in session view to get the sound palette, move to arrangement view, then discard it and start again in arrangement view.
There are a few cuts because you don't really want the boring bit of me staring at a screen and thinking about what to do next, that's really not fun. Plus I didn't do this in one session, I wasn't in the mood day 1, day 2 I just didn't feel what I'd made. Then I slept on it and day 3 I made the arrangement into something I'm happy with.
I could've done it in one go but that would have been planned out first. I preferred that it was spontaneous, a reflection of how it actually came together.
The sounds mainly come from my previous content, links below:
Shifter Chord Effect - • Creative Pitch Shifting Effects, Ableton L...
Bad Tape Effect - • Boards of Canada Style Tape Destruction Ef...
Resonator Rain Pad - • Ambient Pad with Ableton Resonator, Make a...
Arpeggio Pad - • Easy Ambient Drone Pads
Operator Randomiser - • Ableton Operator Idea Generator, Creative ...
Vintage Effect - • Vintage Effect with Ableton Stock Devices
Grit Effect and Bass - • How to Make Ambient Music Inspired by Losc...
You can download the devices from this link - https://musicprodstuff.com/?page_id=1531
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