Sci-fi Ambience

My first shot at ambient, minimalistic music. I usually prefer making music with a lot of things going on at once. But a change is sometimes good, and hopefully this one is too. Two versions... version A is the original, then I just stripped it down to make it more "pure ambient" to make version B. Nevertheless, I prefer version A myself. Features a slew of brand new synth patches made by yours truly.

Ambience 01a

Ambience 01b

Enjoy...

Kaiyoti

This is a very inspiring piece of music. :thumbsup:

Having followed your music for some time (I swear I'm not a stalker :ninja:), I can say that this is out of your usual element, and yes, you do like to have a lot of action in your music... which I like. That said, you did a wonderful job on creating a soothing, uplifting atmosphere in this song. This is the music that would be playing if I were underwater in the ocean.

On the more technical side, I'd say this is great. The variation in this piece is slight, but you've still managed to keep my attention throughout the whole thing. It's unobtrusive, which is what I believe you were going for. The percussion adds a nice touch, which I think a lot of people tend to forget when writing ambient music. Excellent execution on your part! :)

If you want my opinion, I definitely prefer the first one too. The second version is a little on the dull side for me. :sleeping: (Though it's still really good.)

This is a very inspiring piece of music. :thumbsup:

Having followed your music for some time (I swear I'm not a stalker :ninja:), I can say that this is out of your usual element, and yes, you do like to have a lot of action in your music... which I like. That said, you did a wonderful job on creating a soothing, uplifting atmosphere in this song. This is the music that would be playing if I were underwater in the ocean.

On the more technical side, I'd say this is great. The variation in this piece is slight, but you've still managed to keep my attention throughout the whole thing. It's unobtrusive, which is what I believe you were going for. The percussion adds a nice touch, which I think a lot of people tend to forget when writing ambient music. Excellent execution on your part! :)

If you want my opinion, I definitely prefer the first one too. The second version is a little on the dull side for me. :sleeping: (Though it's still really good.)

Thanks for the critique, I figured it couldn't hurt to use both in the project. The second one doesn't grab too much of your attention, which is why it'd fit more as a background music. The first one had been suggested for more populated areas in the game.

Wow, I am continually impressed by your synth programming and production ability. Were these patches made with the Synth1 program you were talking about a while back?

I definitely like the first one as a standalone piece of music. I get a Vangelis meets James Newton Howard vibe. The subtle percussion, the harp? ostinato, and the use of the strings does the J.N.H. thing for me.

The second one is definitely more underscore, but it's still not something I wouldn't listen to on its own. I guess I'm just a sucker for those percussion elements, because I kept waiting for at least a subtle beat to come in.

Very nice job, these were two, well I guess one and a half since the second one was just stripped down, well put together pieces of music. I'm curious, how much of this was samples and how much of this was your own synth patches?

Thanks, it's not just Synth1, although mostly synth1 since I have the most patches built for it. I also used Oatmeal, FM4, Oxe, Minimogue... mostly the "good" free bread and butter synths. I've muted the Gigastudio sampler channels leaving only the synths...

Ambience 01c

Some of the percussion (and it's reversed samples) are technically synthed which can't be heard in this version, but I sampled it because they're composed of 4~5 patches and I didn't want to have to load all that just to use them.

The only samples I used for this track are the strings, glass harmonica, bass kicks, and piano.

This track is derived from a track I did over a year ago. So is this track, all part of the same project.