What's your favorite synth for ambient music?
- KVRAF
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- KVRAF
- 2726 posts since 21 Nov, 2015
Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away all sense of doubt and uncertainty (and thus all genuine interest) from the music, Ambient Music retains these qualities. And whereas their intention is to 'brighten' the environment by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and leveling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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- KVRAF
- 5253 posts since 30 May, 2006 from Hollow Earth
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- KVRAF
- 5253 posts since 30 May, 2006 from Hollow Earth
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- KVRAF
- 8167 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
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- KVRAF
- 5253 posts since 30 May, 2006 from Hollow Earth
There 2 banks for Dune that were offered around Christmas time.
They are outstanding for Ambient.
They are outstanding for Ambient.
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- KVRAF
- 15553 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
It’s not really the synth, it’s how you use it. Any synth can be great for ambient music.
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- KVRAF
- 8167 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
Sure. But not really what the OP asked for though...zerocrossing wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:08 am It’s not really the synth, it’s how you use it. Any synth can be great for ambient music.
But it also begs the question of what ambiance one is capturing.
Because when you get down to it, what isn't ambient?
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- KVRAF
- 1803 posts since 9 Jul, 2014 from UK
It’s totally what the OP asked for. Q - what synth? A - any synthBBFG# wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:25 amSure. But not really what the OP asked for though...zerocrossing wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:08 am It’s not really the synth, it’s how you use it. Any synth can be great for ambient music.
I wonder what happens if I press this button...
- KVRAF
- 15553 posts since 26 Jun, 2006 from San Francisco Bay Area
Well, a lot. Most music is designed to be paid attention to. Ambient music is not. It’s supposed to blend into the background, and create an aural environment. No one goes to see actual ambient music shows in arenas.
When I first heard ambient music (Eno’s Music for Airports) I remember thinking, “cool… when does the song start?” It sounded like an introduction for a Pink Floyd song that just kept going. It took me a while to realize that I was listening to it incorrectly. It’s like wallpaper, as opposed to a figurative painting.
In this way, any instrument can (and often is) be used to make ambient music. A bigger issue is that a lot of music that calls itself ambient is not really ambient music at all.
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