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The mother of all ambient music???
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MadScientist
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Posted : Feb 13, 2008 10:55
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I do my drums usually with battery and a few (mangled) loops added for a more acoustic feel...afrolatin, reggea stuff is really good for that, but it depends on what you re after!
I usually use esm for bass, its kinda good for a dubby bass...but I want to try the bass-guitar of the cakewalk studion instruments collection soon 
about the exact mangling of drums (and especially voices imo!) I cant tell much, cause it depends just on what you want to archieve...a good trick is the one mtz mtzz posted from ajjas post, also pitchshift, timestretch, and big delays & strange reverbs are your friends.....for the drums , maybe bounce whole sections of it (like 1/4-4/4 ) and reverse them and mix with the original using a techinque similar to ajjas 
etc etc etc...soon more, need to go to the university now 
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Rex Trueform
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Posted : Feb 13, 2008 11:29
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Stylus rmx has some amasing perscussion and drum elements.
Not to mention a wealth of ambient/ down tempo expansions.
Trilogy has an awesome phat bass sound that just ooooozes ambient.
Stylus and Trilogy are 2 of my most important tools for ambient.
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Upavas
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Posted : Feb 13, 2008 22:27
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Ambient music imo has a totally different way of being written, alone because I try to make it a bit more melodic than full on...I would love to hear what everybody has to say from a composition point... like how do you compose an ambient track?
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Suloo
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Posted : Feb 13, 2008 23:18
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On 2008-02-13 22:27, Upavas wrote:
Ambient music imo has a totally different way of being written, alone because I try to make it a bit more melodic than full on...I would love to hear what everybody has to say from a composition point... like how do you compose an ambient track?
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Create a full overloaded fullon track and all midi based..and slow the tempo down to something inbetween 30 and 50 bpm..then rearrange/change and put more stuff in it..there you already got a kind of set where you can work on..
sometimes it works nice this way for me.. -------......-------...-..-..-..-.-.-.-.- |
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MadScientist
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Posted : Feb 13, 2008 23:52
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my way of writing a chill track (I do mostly dub):
first I start off with a bass progression and a drumloop, then I add a main melody to it and maybe 1-2 fx sounds...then maybe another melody on top of it, in the same or a different, corresponding progression to the bass...add some more natural/tribal perc and maybe a few mangled, delayed voices...and so on
there you go
in view of writing melodies, corresponding progressions work very nice for ambient and also try different scales and different tunings, maybe eastern or south american ones...
EDIT: I forgot to add...for me there works almost each tempo, its just about how you write your track...I did already dub tracks from 70-160bpm https://soundcloud.com/hazak
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