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For me, its the environmental music of Hiroshi Yoshimura and similar japanese artists. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQNHYNv9IpSzzaQMuH7ji2bEy6o8T8Wwn It's very literal, most of this sort of ambient was made as background music for hotel lobbies, art galleries and stores. Generally just a dx and some sort of sequencer.
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field balm posted:For me, its the environmental music of Hiroshi Yoshimura and similar japanese artists. Same, I love Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-k9Xu5O7AY
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field balm posted:For me, its the environmental music of Hiroshi Yoshimura and similar japanese artists. Hiroshi Yoshimura is so loving excellent I love going down the YouTube rabbit hole of Japanese ambient, or even smooth jazz lol
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A MIRACLE posted:
What was the name of the unit? I might also try and copy this.
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bought this ikea closet organizer thing what y’all think?? Cheaper than a jaspers lol
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If I put on selected ambient works the zoomers at work call it yoga music >:I
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Mr. Sharps posted:If I put on selected ambient works the zoomers at work call it yoga music >:I lmao
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I find myself getting super distracted every time I go near my volca FM. Oops, where did the hour go? Just noodling around, making little ditties and what would have sounded like outer space sounds to child me in the 80's. It's just so easy to open the case, turn it on and play with.
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Mr. Sharps posted:If I put on selected ambient works the zoomers at work call it yoga music >:I That's not even really ambient by today's standards. Mr Aphex used melody, rhythm, and patterns. It's just mellow. Back in the day I used to run short wave radio through a reverb, which we just called noise.
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Mar 15, 2021 15:58
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Cheese Thief posted:That's not even really ambient by today's standards. Mr Aphex used melody, rhythm, and patterns. It's just mellow. I really prefer Eno's original description of Ambient "Music which is as ignorable as it is interesting".
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1/1 of Music for Airports is literally tape loops of melodies and pads. It's structurally musical, but it's repetitions spaced in time, not meter. (My spouse did a theory paper on it in college and now I know more than I ever wanted to about Music for Airports 1/1.)
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toadee posted:I really prefer Eno's original description of Ambient "Music which is as ignorable as it is interesting".  oscillator sink had a good quote in his ambient/drone tutorial that's like "move slowly, but never stop moving" and as soon as he said that i was like  that is so loving good
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Johnny Truant posted:
I've lost count of how many times I've watched that drat video.
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Tayter Swift posted:I've lost count of how many times I've watched that drat video. Jesus fuuuuuuck does he just know the Digitone inside and out! I'm maybe 2/3 through while taking detailed notes and I honestly think he knows the most out of any YouTuber making Digitone tutorials. Plus his voice is so soothing and his jokes are so wholesome 
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I like ambient as much as I like classical and jazz. I can read with any of them playing while both appreciating them all and also not being so invested that it distracts me from my books. Love listening live as well. It’s all just so relaxing and sometimes even zen. I can understand why some people wouldn’t like it, as I can’t get into new wave country music either. Just different tastes and emotions don’t click. Goes true for any genre. Metal, pop, etc.
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OK I'm officially "over" menu diving on the Reface DX. Is there a better workflow for patch editing? Not sure if there are knobs or things I can turn on an iPad app and just upload to the keyboard. The keyboard and sounds are great, but I just can't get into any kind of groove editing one aspect, four buttons at a time. Jealous of a synth that has all the guts in pushable/pullable/turnable/twistable interface right out front. e: 1:1 knobs aren't a necessity, the DX just feels really dive-y. I'm not even sure what a happy medium would look like. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Mar 15, 2021 19:48
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Martytoof posted:OK I'm officially "over" menu diving on the Reface DX. Is there a better workflow for patch editing? Not sure if there are knobs or things I can turn on an iPad app and just upload to the keyboard. http://www.dtronics.nl/pages/dtrdx.html Do it!!!
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Man I knew someone would say that and --- ugh so tempting. If only it wasn't the same price as the actual keyboard itself  Not gonna lie, there's a good chance I end up with one of those if my tax refund is good.
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Cheese Thief posted:That's not even really ambient by today's standards. Mr Aphex used melody, rhythm, and patterns. It's just mellow. lmao what are you talking about
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Yeah, writing off one of the defining works of the genre is an interesting choice.
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I don't quite I agree with Cheese Thief, but I definitely see the point. When people refer to ambient, they're usually referring to music that is more spacious and mellow, meaning long minimal phrases and little recognizable meter, Selected Ambient is mostly not that. I do think it fits the definition and spirit of ambient though. It's interesting how certain artists play within a genre and capture the essence, but don't necessarily sound like other artists in that genre. I feel like The Clash is a good example, they were one of the bands that defined punk, but an album like London Calling is not what people usually think of when they think of something sounding punk.
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ricecult posted:I don't quite I agree with Cheese Thief, but I definitely see the point. When people refer to ambient, they're usually referring to music that is more spacious and mellow, meaning long minimal phrases and little recognizable meter, Selected Ambient is mostly not that. I do think it fits the definition and spirit of ambient though. if London Calling is your example for “not really stereotypically ‘punk” then what are Sandinista and Combat Rock? :P Also, Hainbach’s last album is arguably ambient, but it’s anything but “mellow”. A lot of theatrical, soundtrack, and score music is ambient but it’s meant to set a tone of dread or drama. Video game music is a particular example where you might also be forced to think with the limitation of having a track or sequence of tracks that can go on for, say, 25+ minutes without a player losing their mind. Anyway, sorry to bring him up again- but his recent video output has been super instructional in terms of making noise/tone-based music, and thinking about noise/tone-based music. His video from today is all about
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Martytoof posted:OK I'm officially "over" menu diving on the Reface DX. Is there a better workflow for patch editing? Not sure if there are knobs or things I can turn on an iPad app and just upload to the keyboard. Do it on the PC. Sadly, I'm not even joking, that synth is considered to have one of the better FM interfaces. Just go look up how it works on DX7 or Volca FM and cry. For a quick and dirty solution you might try hooking the Reface to soundmondo so you can first enter the numerical values by hand to what is essentially a nice little spreadsheet and then with the broad picture set, go back to fiddling with knobs (well, touch ribbons) to tweak particular things, like a given operator or envelope or operator balance.
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There's a reason why one of the first things you do when you get a Modx/Montage is buy John Melas' utilities that lets you do all the FM-X/AWE32 editing on the PC if you want.
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Ok Comboomer posted:if London Calling is your example for “not really stereotypically ‘punk” then what are Sandinista and Combat Rock? :P Well yeah, that's my point! Ambient doesn't have to have a specific sound to be ambient because the genre is tied into serving particular purposes (I think the same could be argued for punk). There does exist though a generalized/stereotyped ambient sound, I think especially now with synths more accessible and the existence of the internet. As a side note, Hainbach is a joy.
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I need to do a Ok Comboomer posted:(snip)Hainbach’s last album is arguably ambient, but it’s anything but “mellow”. (snip) The video you mention was what inspired me to bring the gear into the kitchen and mess around while I cooked! Also, just listening to his latest album while I read the forum. Strange coincedences! Schwebungssummer makes me want to headbang.
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ricecult posted:I feel like The Clash is a good example, they were one of the bands that defined punk, but an album like London Calling is not what people usually think of when they think of something sounding punk. Lol, I heard the whole album first time last year. Was expecting more like the title track and it was really jarring when it went straight to old timey rock n roll bullshit about a loving cadillac on track 2.
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Ok Comboomer posted:if London Calling is your example for “not really stereotypically ‘punk” then what are Sandinista and Combat Rock? :P Hainbach's music rips I don't know what I'd categorize it but even my wife digs it.
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ricecult posted:As a side note, Hainbach is a joy. He really is. I always feel like he's genuinely happy that we came back.
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field balm posted:Yeah, writing off one of the defining works of the genre is an interesting choice. What? I love Selected Ambient Works album. It's like a go to when I'm at work. Didn't mean to come across like it wasn't good. It's way way way better than anything else that calls itself ambient besides Eno maybe, but better than Eno imo.
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JamesKPolk posted:lmao what are you talking about sorry, I was trying to say 'ambient' music sucks because it's very boring and not musical, but Aphex Twin is fantastic because it is not boring. Anyway. note: if you are having fun with sound, synths, or whatever that is ALL that matters, I should say Cheese Thief fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Ambient is when u take ur modular to the woods and make a youtube
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I remember when ambient was called new age. I think there was something before that back in the tower record days, but hosed if I can remember back to the 70s.
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hambient is when you make an entire album using nothing but samples of sounds made with ham
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The Voice of Labor posted:hambient is when you make an entire album using nothing but samples of sounds made with ham I hope my model:samples arrives before I forget about this.
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The Voice of Labor posted:hambient is when you make an entire album using nothing but samples of sounds made with ham Does bacon count?
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The Voice of Labor posted:hambient is when you make an entire album using nothing but samples of sounds made with ham Speaking of ham and samples (hamples) I was teaching a 7 year old guitar student "Light 'em up" by Fallout Boy (at his request...), and he asks "how do I play the ham part?" So I say "Ham part?" And he says "yeah, the part at the beginning of the song, ham ham think of ham ham think of think of ham ham."
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Mad Dragon posted:Does bacon count? Some good bacon sizzle hi-hats would be good.
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You guys know about Matthew Herbert’s famous project where he sampled pigs, mostly, right https://www.soundonsound.com/people/matthew-herbert-sampling-pig-noises
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