any tips for creaing ambient drones?

a1studmuffin · Post by **a1studmuffin** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:55 am

If you're after a synthetic sound, try playing around with granular synthesis - you can generate some huge long textures from reasonably short unsuspecting samples.

forge · Post by **forge** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:55 am

m:o wrote: --->a good tool for making drones with the technique of extreme timestretching (besides: it sound a lot better than Live when it comes to extremes) is Paul Stretch. It's free and gold worth. Paul Stretch

thanks heaps for this! finally had a chance to check it out - awesome!

forge · Post by **forge** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:09 am

I just remembered - and with the above post on granular synthesis - www.crusher-x.de/

crusher is good for that

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:33 am

from the live how to the other week

3/5delay with little feedback, short not so wet reverb, 5/3 delay with little delay, wet and long wet reverb

kraze · Post by **kraze** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:32 pm

Basically, automate every plugin/technique people on here provided you with and record whole you're also manipulating everything live for 5-10 minutes. Then start a new project with the rendered output, take out the good bits and make it your own by processing/transposing/reversing/mixing it. It'll take time but it'd be yur own, not just a randomized mess.

Also, try sending delay sends into themselves with other plugins on, the sounds get processed until inifinty and can be very esoteric.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:07 pm

I recorded this [in free .ogg format] at about 5 in the AM in Tehran a few weeks ago. It's mono and the quality is a bit crap. It's just cars but the sound in my hotel room completely was out of this world for some reason... Anyone wants to play with it, well, there it is...

Pi · Post by Pi » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:49 pm

Wow, thanks for the Paul Stretch tip, fantastic tool!