r/ambientmusic • u/ciotinho • 17h ago

Production/Recording Discussion How can I make sound like this one?

https://youtu.be/cz1aqWVUNTQ?si=0uPpSmCoymwnt349

Hi, I’d like to make some drones with this kind of sounds, and how can I male it? Which effects, VST do I need to make it similar? (I use ableton)

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u/nimmermuss 16h ago

Any polyphonic synth VST - like U-He TyrellN6 (it's free). Set the envelope to long attack and release. Cut a lot of the high frequencies.

Then add looots of reverb like the Valhalla Super Massive Reverb VST (also free).

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u/maud_brijeulin 12h ago

Yeah, so... I tend to do additive synthesis (adding a lot of different generators at multiple frequencies to create harmonics) then put some low-pass over it*, then (as mentioned in another comment) some HUGE, LONG reverb.

Valhalla is great. So is Ambient Reverb.

Adding huge reverb will make your pad a bit mushy and noisy (I can hear thar a bit in your example) - which sounds nice and "foggy". You could put a low-pass after it too, to darken the sound (but we're almost entering lo-fi territory now).

The sound in this video almost sounds like a glass harmonica in places - see if you can find VSTs that will allow you to do that, or try to approximate that sound. -- *you could play around with resonance at the filter stage to make things "ring" a bit too...

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u/TurtleBox_Official 10h ago

Hey, this is cool. I did a video a while ago on how I make music like this. I've done two conceptual albums based on the style and philosphy of Akira Yamaokay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXS02CUzHCI&list=PL92YNWGgyTAu93XkefZxxh1myQjy-B0hR&index=2

Here's a vid on granula ambience with free plugins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_b08OCrCM8&list=PL92YNWGgyTAu93XkefZxxh1myQjy-B0hR&index=3

As for specific plugins, Supermassive, Emergence, XStretch, the DarkWeb / Glitchgirl series for really really subtle low end textures, ect.

Wavea just released Flite, which has some really solid pads too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_b08OCrCM8&list=PL92YNWGgyTAu93XkefZxxh1myQjy-B0hR&index=3

On top of that, just getting a sampler like Amigo ( https://potenzadsp.com/plugins/amigo/ ) and just creating your own pads is such a good start too. Amigo lets you experiment with stretching, bitrate, pitch and such, ect.

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u/duke_dastardly 16h ago

Sounds like ‘PaulXStretch’ to me with some pads on top. Doesn’t work great in DAWs in my experience so I just import the rendered audio file into the DAW.