Archive for the Ambient category
Grant
January 13, 2016
Day 140: Weds 13 Jan 2016
Winter Landscape’s Subtle Light:
An Ambient Jamscape 🙂
Today’s track is a departure; it involves me playing both my guitar and my MicroBrute into the iPad before arranging them into a track.
First I jammed the MicroBrute into AudioShare with AUFX:Dub and AUFX:Space in the effects chain.
Next I did the same with my Strat but with ToneStack in the effect chain.
Then I loaded both into Auria; I had done a freeform jam in C blues scale on both instruments and thought that they would combine well.
A little judicious cutting and arranging followed before I loaded up two drum tracks from recent days: one from iMPC Pro and one from BeatMaker 2. I cut out one sound from both and arranged them.
Grant
January 11, 2016
Day 138: Monday 11 Jan 2016
I’m Dry:
An Ambient Soundscape with electric piano and spoken word.
The soundscape was made with Grain Science (what a cool app that is), I had great fun playing with it today.
The electric piano part was played in using my MicroBrute as a midi controller for Lyra, the sampler in Auria. I then copied it to two more tracks and used: another electric piano and an acoustic piano, which I mixed to get the sound I wanted.
Finally I added the words which I had recorded in AudioShare with AltiSpace,
Grant
January 10, 2016
Day 137: Sunday 10 Jan 2016
Where Does The Sun Hide From The Snow:
An Ambient Soundscape.
I started with a drum file that I made three days ago of very random sounding drums, I afraid I can’t remember how I made it. I added it to Auria where I cut it up and made an arrangement.
Next I turned to Addictive Synth for two drones and for the occasional high synth part.
Grant
January 4, 2016
Day 131: Monday 4 Jan 2016
As Snow Falls:
An Ambient Soundscape today.
This was made by recording a collection of my Poseidon abstract and bass drone patches into Auria.
I simply jammed them one at a time into different tracks before selecting and arranging.
Simple but fun and effective.
Grant
January 1, 2016
Day 128: Friday 1 Jan 2016
The Worm Turns:
I’m ringing in the New Year with an Ambient Soundscape; there are abstract and beat elements, but that is I think the overall flavour.
iFretless Bass recorded into AudioShare with AUFX:Dub and AUFX:Space provided the starting point for todays journey. I ran it through TwistedWave several times for slowing and lowering and trimming and reversing. Then I added it to Auria along with a beat I made using iMaschine and FLUX:FX.
iPulseret and iDensity also added some textures.
Happy New Year Trackers!
Grant
December 24, 2015
Day 120: Thursday 24 Dec 2015
Silhouette:
Genre Unknown. Ambient perhaps…Sounds like a movie soundtrack though, perhaps a scene that pans across a dusk landscape, hills or sand dunes in silhouette.
Nothing but Alchemy, and only three of the four voices at that. It’s an app that is so easy to play with. Love it.
Grant
December 15, 2015
Day 111: Tuesday 15 Dec
Oldowan Dreaming:
An Ambient Beatscape.
I began this by making a new beat in Patterning using my own drum kit. Once I had it set up I jammed it into AudioShare with Dedalus; for this jam I concentrated on one of the sparser elements of the beat.
Then I loaded that into Auria with a small part of an old unfinished track that I did in Rebirth. I arranged these elements and then added: some jangling bells (kindly provided by Jason Donnelly from the iPad Musicians Group), some PhaseRings, and another old piece that I did on guitar so many years ago that I don’t remember the apps used (but I slowed it using TwistedWave).
Grant
December 15, 2015
Day 110: Mon 14 Dec 2015
Hunter & Hunted:
An Ambient Drone Beatscape piece with Spoken Word. How’s that for a mix.
Wow, this one took all day!
Bear with me while I go through my thinking and process.
I began with FM1 (I love FM synthesis and for some reason haven’t used it much of late). I played around trying out patches and fiddling and jamming until I found a bass drone that I loved and a melody that went with it. I jammed this into Auria along with a simple drum beat that I cooked up in DM1 for the occasion.
(It took 4 or 5 goes until I got it right but let’s never speak of that again).
Next I cut these up and arranged them in a pleasing way…
It was okay, but it wasn’t yet a ‘thing’.
I decided to duplicate the drum beat to effect it but I accidentally misplaced it on the timeline…AWESOME sound…(ok let’s pretend I meant to do that and move on)…
Duplicate the beat again re original intention 🙂
SO… now I’ve got a slow bass drone and three mixed and panned tracks of drums that sound good…but not great…not yet a ‘thing’…
How about I load the bass drone into TwistedWave and raise it by an octave…and by another octave…and by another fifth…
…yeah I’m liking it.
But I’m not Loving it.
Where is the ‘thing’?
I went back to DM1 and added a bass drum only version of the drum beat for emphasis…
Nearer…
My wonderful wife suggested I try PhaseRings…what a great idea!
I jammed two tracks and panned them hard left and right…
Nearly there…
Finally I reached into my folder of poems and lyrics, which I have read into AudioShare with AltiSpace, and chose one that I thought would fit. I put it into TwistedWave and slowed it by 86%, and then spent AGES fitting it into the track.
Oh, and there was some other drum arranging too…
It became one of my most complicated tracks to make so far, but I’m really happy with it.
Enjoy.
Grant
December 12, 2015
Day 108: Saturday 12 Dec 2015
A Space Between:
An Ambient Dronescape.
A simple piece today, that began with a bass drone patch I made in Poseidon. When you record within the app Poseidon has both an audio and a midi file which you can access in iTunes.
First I took the audio file and reversed it in TwistedWave, then I mixed both versions in Auria. So far so usual, but I have upgraded to Auria Pro this week so I was keen to become acquainted with it’s midi capabilities. Therefore I added the midi file to the project and repeated it in several tracks. So here we have two FabFilter 2 tracks, and one from Addictive Synth, and one from iSem. Not very sophisticated use of midi I know, but it’s a start 🙂
Grant
November 24, 2015
Day 90: Tues 24 Nov 2015
Slowly Melting My Metal Heart:
Ambient.
ThumbJam was my main app today. It’s not one I use a lot, though I should, it’s way cool. I messed around with it loaded in AudioShare and recorded a few jams with different instruments in the same scale. Then I loaded them all into Auria and did my assemblage/disassemblage/collage thing 🙂