Ambient Tools - Three New Ambient Music Presets To Create Unique Soundscapes

Tutorial | Thu Aug 19 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

In this video, I have created three new presets for my patrons, which can be found on my Patreon page for the five dollar tier. I call these presets "Ambient Tools" and they are designed to help create interesting rhythms, percussion and glitch effects quickly and easily. I have demonstrated how to use each of the presets, as well as some of the customization options available. I hope you enjoy using these presets and thank you for supporting me!

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Questions & Answers #

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What presets did you create for your patrons? #

I created three new presets for my patrons called Ambient Tools. The presets are Percussionist, Glitches, and Lix. Percussionist creates rhythmic elements and needs a gate or note signal as an input. Glitches generates glitch sounds that change in speed and loudness. Lastly, Lix is a modification of my random melody generator that generates a random melody in key and scale.

How can someone get the presets? #

These presets can be found on my Patreon page for the five bucks tier.

What do the presets do? #

The Percussionist preset generates a sequence with clicks, tombs, and ramblers. It also has a dynamic knob to modify the patch and a reverb time knob to control the amount of wetness. The Glitches preset generates glitch sounds that change in speed and loudness, and it has knobs to control the high-pass and low-pass filters, and the modulation amount. The Lix preset generates a random melody in key and scale, and it has knobs to control the input white noise or pink noise, and the rate of the

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[00:00.000] Welcome back to another video. In today's video it's about three new presets I created for my
[00:05.760] patrons. We can get these presets on my Patreon page for the five bucks tier. It's not super
[00:11.760] expensive but just as a disclaimer. This is not free content. So on my recent stream last Friday
[00:20.480] I thought maybe it would be nice to create some presets for some situations where I want to
[00:25.840] create something in a live environment or I need to improvise and I need some some sequences
[00:32.400] pretty fast without searching through all my samples. So you created three new presets here which
[00:38.720] I call ambient tools and this is just a collection of presets. I want to extend in the future but for
[00:47.040] now it's only three presets and you can see in the background here I'm running as a pet wave file
[00:54.480] which is just pitched down by 21 semi tones here and you can also get this wave sound or wave
[01:01.360] file from my last sample drop on my Patreon page so it's also available there if you want to
[01:08.800] want to recreate this patch here and then I have these three presets here on three tracks.
[01:14.960] So the first one is called percussionist or ambient percussionist and as the name says it tries
[01:20.640] to create some rhythmic elements, some percussion elements and all it needs as an input is a gate
[01:28.640] or a note signal so we can create here yeah a note clip and in this note clip we just paint a
[01:35.600] random note and it doesn't need to be or you don't need to be specific with the pitch you can just
[01:41.680] you see here. It doesn't matter really how we need is the gate input on not the pitch information.
[01:47.280] So now we have this down here we can hear now the sequence running
[01:54.960] and we can generate a new sequence by hitting the generate button here
[02:10.400] so the generate button generates a new sequence it also generates new sounds
[02:29.200] I trick out by these sequences and also the audio effects here on the on the preset are also
[02:36.560] randomly altered a little bit you can also have your some tweak knobs you can use for instance reverb
[02:44.880] time can bring in the repeater completely wet or just mix it in 50% here then we have your volume
[02:55.040] sliders on knobs for the clicks, tombs and the ramblers and we can also change the modulation
[03:00.480] amount so some of these sequences modulate filters and loudness levels and so on and you can change
[03:07.280] here this by turning this down for instance if you just want to have slightly slight clicks and pops
[03:17.200] here and there so it's kind of a dynamic knob or dynamic slider or expression however you want
[03:32.560] to call it so you can use this to modify this patch can also slow down the whole sequence here by
[03:41.200] maybe going to two bars the phase length of two bars so it's the same sequence it's just
[03:46.960] stretched out the two bars or four bars
[04:17.120] by the way the generation here is also synchronized to the grid so you can press this anytime but it
[04:26.240] waits for the next bar to happen to implement these changes so now that we have this we can move
[04:40.320] on to the second preset here which is called Glitches or ambient Glitches and it also needs a
[04:46.560] gate input here and I choose to use these gate inputs because maybe you want to sequence these
[04:53.440] effects or these presets and you want to have some parts without these presets and some parts
[05:02.080] with these presets so you can choose here with a note clip where you want to put these so it's
[05:06.880] nice for arranging these sounds or these sequences so the second one here is a bit subtle effects
[05:14.240] so we just solo this here and press generate and this one generates some
[05:21.360] yeah some glitch sounds that are also changing in speed and loudness
[05:26.240] so if you like this and also so when you generate it basically generates a sequence when these
[05:49.040] effects occur in the loop and also how they modify over time and how they sound
[06:00.080] and you have your some knobs where you can you know high high pass low pass you can modify the sound
[06:07.120] then here on the FX FX box pretty easily we can also change the modulation amount so we can
[06:14.720] you know have the filter not working too much if you don't like it
[06:26.400] you can also change the input white noise or pink noise
[06:30.240] and if you think these clicks and pops are too fast you can change the rate of the clock speed
[06:47.360] so you have some you know some modifications you can implement here on
[06:50.960] some certain parts
[07:11.840] and the last one the last preset is called Lix and it's a modification of my random melody generator
[07:18.240] it generates a random melody in key and scale and it also needs an
[07:25.680] yeah a gate or note information as an input but you can also hit play here and then it plays
[07:30.480] all the time so you don't need and don't need to lay down a gate signal if you don't want to
[07:37.680] and then you generate basically a new melody and did you also generate a new sequence when
[07:43.840] this melody fades in and fades out so you also have why you have to you have some kind of
[07:50.800] melody cuts at certain points in your loop not all the time it's not a melody that plays over
[07:56.640] and over and over it's just it just fades in at certain points and this is randomly generated
[08:03.840] so let's bring this one down
[08:06.080] and also yeah it only generates notes so you can choose which kind of synthesizer you want to use
[08:17.440] you can also send this out to hardware if you want to
[08:21.760] this can here it's just playing a note but it plays this exactly the same note at the same
[08:29.040] position every time if you don't like it just hit generate and you get the new sequence
[09:29.040] you can create a nice little random atmosphere you have a pad you have a nice little rhythm
[09:36.640] that sounds interesting you have these glitches here maybe a bit too annoying over time
[09:45.920] but yeah you have something that runs in the background and then you can go to your synthesizer
[09:50.160] maybe improvise something with your synthesizer or play something on top and if you get bored of
[09:55.040] the sequences then you generate new sequences or add something to it with another set of tools
[10:01.200] so you have like something you can play around with and alternate between and keep the listener
[10:07.360] interested in what you know what what's playing at the moment so like I said these are basically the
[10:16.720] first three presets and I want to add more to this because I need some some of these some of these
[10:23.600] tools for myself because I plan to do more of these live streams on my youtube channel and yeah
[10:30.320] it's nice to have something like this at hand to come up with some sequences pretty fast
[11:00.640] you can also maybe use it as just in the background have some main drums and then
[11:13.120] latest on top here to get you know make the drums more interesting so yeah a lot of options
[11:20.080] so like I said you can can get these three presets on my Patreon page if you subscribe with the
[11:26.080] five bucks here and you can also then download all my old presets in all my old goodies on Patreon
[11:33.520] when you're subscribed so I think it's a it's a nice way of supporting me also so also a big
[11:42.000] thanks to all my current Patreon supporters which is super nice to have all these people supporting
[11:47.360] me and it's a great fun to produce all these presets every day and yeah make some content for
[11:54.480] for the community so yeah if you liked the video if you think this is helpful then please
[12:00.720] leave me a thumbs up subscribe to the channel and I think that's it for this video see you in the
[12:06.320] next one thanks for watching and bye