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S1lent
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Ambient VST?

Post by S1lent » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:59 pm

What's a good ambient/spacey sound FX VST, that's legit and is used for sub-bass synth, and atmospheric sounds?
Thanks.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Artie_Fufkin » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:17 pm

FM8! ;-)

For sub-bass, all you need is a sine oscillator. Most vsti's have that. For ambient, just experiment with whatever you got.
Here's a great free vsti: http://www.kvraudio.com/db/superwave_p8_by_superwave

Really, for ambient I like to just experiment and do my own thing, but this also has some great presets for classic sounds you may be familiar with but aren't sure how to make.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Ricky_Spanish » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:21 pm

the sound quality of suprawave is pretty sh!te. I tried it a while back.

Spacesyn is a good (non-ubiquitous) ambient synth and it is fx also.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Heartless » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:34 pm

Massive.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by deadly_habit » Sat Sep 03, 2011 11:48 pm

paulstretch can take pretty much anything and make it ambient

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Gurnumsbug » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:24 am

Ambience vst http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/AmbienceWin/
Great strong reverb :)

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by lightshapers » Sun Sep 04, 2011 12:44 am

NI absynth.

or alternatively get reaktor, find a pad sound/sample (or make one) stick it through the grainstates or travelizer ensembles = instant granular ambience. thinking about it you can stick pretty much anything through them and with a bit of reverb + delay and some re sampling youve got some cool soundscapes :lol:

also grab a freebie sampler, but something that does extreme pitching or/and time stretching (*edit - what deadly said ^^^), drop a sample down huge amounts in pitch, do it again with a few different sounds but pitch them to the first sound/layer etc etc, and then route them to a send with delay, reverb and filters and play with the automation to give it movement

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by wormcode » Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:48 am

WOK Dronos does only this

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by S1lent » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:03 am

Thanks guys.
I have Massive, FM8.
I need to tweak with it more.

Im downloading Ambience, and Absynth right now.
Thanks all for all your inputs :3

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Heartless » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:15 am

S1lent wrote:Thanks guys.
I have Massive, FM8.
I need to tweak with it more.

Im downloading Ambience, and Absynth right now.
Thanks all for all your inputs :3
Take a break from pirating every synth known to man and learn to use one.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by S1lent » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:19 am

Heartless wrote:
S1lent wrote:Thanks guys.
I have Massive, FM8.
I need to tweak with it more.

Im downloading Ambience, and Absynth right now.
Thanks all for all your inputs :3
Take a break from pirating every synth known to man and learn to use one.
:D Nice to know someone who can be a douche.

Just for the record, i need a AMBIENT vst because I want a AMBIENT native VST
I USE MASSIVE FOR BASS,LEAD SYNTH, and etc
I USE FM8 FOR APPREGIATOR EFFECTS AND OTHERS.
So before you assume something you don't know.
Know another dubber before you pressume your interrogation towards anyone. especially for something he doesn't do :D
P.S. I received Massive and FM 8 as a present :P

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by grooki » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:29 am

Heartless wrote:
S1lent wrote:Thanks guys.
I have Massive, FM8.
I need to tweak with it more.

Im downloading Ambience, and Absynth right now.
Thanks all for all your inputs :3
Take a break from pirating every synth known to man and learn to use one.
I agree. No synth has the "ambience" knob that you can turn to 110%. Principles are more important, you can then make the sound on any synth

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by wormcode » Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:59 am

Hey, know another dubber.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by 3za » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:11 am

Know another dubber, wobble like flubber.
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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Artie_Fufkin » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:16 am

Bringer wrote:the sound quality of suprawave is pretty sh!te. I tried it a while back.
Really?

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by S1lent » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:36 am

3za wrote:Know another dubber, wobble like flubber.
hahahaha, thanks mate hahahaa

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by legend4ry » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:40 am

Soulstep wrote: My point is i just wanna hear more vibes
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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Artie_Fufkin » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:58 am

grooki wrote:No synth has the "ambience" knob that you can turn to 110%. Principles are more important, you can then make the sound on any synth
Agreed. You're not just limited to just xBASSx with massive. ....even if you were you could probably like, I don't know, filter a dr. p screech and slap on a reverb plugin with no dry signal in the mix.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Heartless » Sun Sep 04, 2011 3:59 am

S1lent wrote:
Heartless wrote:
S1lent wrote:Thanks guys.
I have Massive, FM8.
I need to tweak with it more.

Im downloading Ambience, and Absynth right now.
Thanks all for all your inputs :3
Take a break from pirating every synth known to man and learn to use one.
:D Nice to know someone who can be a douche.

Just for the record, i need a AMBIENT vst because I want a AMBIENT native VST
I USE MASSIVE FOR BASS,LEAD SYNTH, and etc
I USE FM8 FOR APPREGIATOR EFFECTS AND OTHERS.
So before you assume something you don't know.
Know another dubber before you pressume your interrogation towards anyone. especially for something he doesn't do :D
P.S. I received Massive and FM 8 as a present :P
All you're doing is proving my point by being so hell bent on wanting an "AMBIENT native VST".

Massive has 8 separate envelopes/LFO's that you can use on pretty much any parameter. That alone should make it extremely obvious that it's a beast for ambiance. Oh and it has a sine wave (Those are used for sub bass).

So, like I said. Learn to use it.

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Re: Ambient VST?

Post by Manic Harmonic » Sun Sep 04, 2011 4:10 am

I've created tons of really cool pads with massive. It's my go-to synth when I don't know what kind of sound I want and I need to just get a patch done quickly. If you just downloaded Absynth, I think that's pretty much all you'll ever need unless you want to shell out 1000 million hundred thousand dollars for Omnisphere.
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