The ambience in games like Silent Hill and Half Life was unmatched. Producers dug deep into old 90s ambient sample CD’s to put together their compositions. Let’s look at how to create ambient samples like you’d hear in Silent Hill / Half Life and other 90s sample CD’s such as Zero-G ambient #musicproduction #bitwigstudio
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0:00 Intro
0:25 A bit of history & creative mindset
1:48 How to make 90s ambient samples
2:30 Sample a sound
3:01 Change the pitch
3:52 Resample
4:40 Enable Polyphony
5:35 Drones: Sampling effect tails
7:01 Pitch Modulation (Envelopes)
8:16 Perception Modulation (Panning)
9:07 Continuous Modulation (LFO)
10:42 Randomness
11:20 Let it run & resample
13:05 Finding a drone
14:33 Closing Thoughts
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Feedback loops were also a large contributor to the spooky sounds of packs like Distorted Reality, which was used in games like Silent Hill and other places
Good stuff. I really do need to spend the time learning Bitwig. I'm going to start work on an album and be using Bitwig for it (normally I use Logic).
Is all of this transferrable to the Sampler or Simpler within Ableton?
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I love these old sample CDs, back in the day you used to have a hard copy!. I actually have quite a few of them incl. Jungle Warfare 1-3 they're awesome.
Would be neat seeing you reverse engineer stuff from Spectrasonics' Distorted Reality.
Eric Persing has some pretty cool info about what gear was used to make that sample cd.
Why do you use cube base
Dudes throwing out sampling techniques like there's no tomorrow!!
Errrrr, there is a tomorrow, right?
Another banger of a tutorial! Crazy how we always want new this, new that, when our simple stock sampler and a few tweaks can lead to this level of creativity, originality, and, FUN!
Goddamn Bitwig sure is pretty. Ableton is bland by comparison. I admit, I am teetering on the brink of giving Bitwig a go. I am sure a whore, few flashy graphics and I'm ready to jump ship!!! 🙄
The best thing about being middle-aged is I lived through the 80s and 90s music scenes….Not saying some modern music isn't great, it is, but nothing like those decades. It also amazing that many young people are discovering music from decades ago…
Nice video <3
the clicks from the random lfo are not good
this is what I need
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I watch your channel like Discovery channel when I was kid. Really interesting stuff for sound geeks
you always release a video when i need it, love it as always.
I need ambient 2 so bad. I have 2 copies of ambient 1.
Outstanding, always inspiring to spend time making building blocks
I didn't think reliving the 90's was so achievable until I discovered your work. The sounds you create in this one gives me some good ol' perfect dark vibes. Those type of sounds are their own thing and it's such a fun to create those. Thanks to your tutorials I have a much better understanding of how these were created and the different techniques behind it. This is awesome, keep it up please. (Oh and; I love my tr rack, and I bought it because of your videos. And suddenly I now have a rack next to my desk that is filling up with vintage gear. And it's so much fun) Thank you.
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Easily one of my favorite production channels. Incredibly easy to follow even though I'm not a Bitwig user.
still have all my sample CDs from the 90s inc Ambient
Top video! I'm always saying sampling is underrated as a creative technique. I constantly sample and resample sounds. One of my favourite workflows is to create weird modular textures in VCV, dump out some audio then edit and load bits into Arturia Pigments. Endless retro ambient pads 😂
check my attempts and let me know if u fall sleep, it would be great 💤
You're making great content. Thank you.
where is this accent from?
Ha ha this is great. I own most of those and even did some sound design for some of those products. And use them it was very incestuous lol. Good times good times. fuck this is making me feel even older.
My favorite single note synth that created a lot of those effects was the Prophet VS. It was a an atmosphere making machine creating Sample goodness.
fuckin love you for this bro, this is exactly what i was lookin for!
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this channel is national treasure.
FYI Foley. ( pho _lee).
Paulstretch was a great tool for turning something a few seconds long into an ambient texture that we used bitd.. Great vid btw 😉
the random modulation really reminds me of 'angel's egg'
CUCKooland is wild lol smh
The Octatrack is phenomenal at this, as is the Amiga. Also the Waldorf iridum when using the granular engine can take it to another place.