THE BEST INSTRUMENT TO HAVE IN AMBIENT MUSIC?????

carterholsten97 · 22-04-2016, 06:33 AM

What is your guys favorite instrument to use when recording ambient music?

professurreal · 22-04-2016, 06:51 AM

Field recorder and my DAW and I guess any synth that can make nice pads

lolirl · 22-04-2016, 07:38 AM

I don't have a guy.

oly · 22-04-2016, 08:54 AM

a shaken egg

ablaut · 22-04-2016, 10:58 AM

Right now it's Zebra2. Closely followed by samples of field recordings.

Automageddon · 22-04-2016, 11:14 AM

AS-606 Ambient Sequencer.

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jbvdb493 · 22-04-2016, 01:09 PM

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AS-606 Ambient Sequencer.

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That's good!

oly · 22-04-2016, 11:45 PM

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AS-606 Ambient Sequencer.

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A classic.

relic · 23-04-2016, 02:13 AM

Absynth. Alchemy.

carterholsten97 · 23-04-2016, 02:50 AM

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A classic.

That's sweet

RFJ · 23-04-2016, 04:13 AM

I recently picked up Exhale from Output, the vocal synthesizer. Amongst everything else mentioned in this thread it's pretty ripe for ambient type things.

That said, so is anything else really.

liquid_air · 23-04-2016, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by carterholsten97

What is your guys favorite instrument to use when recording ambient music?

Omnisphere, but then what does that say... as in: what genre would it not work for?

Then, again, even I can cobble together some nice ambient drone sounds using Bazille, Blue2, Serum, Diva, Predator, Thor, and probably Massive. I read a quote recently on photographic cameras: the best camera is the one you have with you. Analog waveforms, chords, LFO, and resonant filter seems like most of what you need (depending on sub-genre, people can get so finicky these days). And a sampler. Kontakt is the way to go there, which technically includes Exhale, as well as Heavyocity as they run within that platform.

candlesayshi · 23-04-2016, 07:32 AM

Sound, I suppose.

Evelon · 23-04-2016, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by carterholsten97

What is your guys favorite instrument to use when recording ambient music?

My guys favorite instruments are a field recorder and a synth.
xoxos Steam, NI Absynth, Omnisphere, Kontakt (with any suiting library), HG Fortune synths (R.I.P) or any other synth really.
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