sharke
 
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MIDI notes involved, sorry 

That's GROSSLY unfair to the early synthesizer folks, including Tangerine Dream, in the days that MIDI was not even being used or understood. You are too integrated into the chemistry and science of it all to appreciate the art of it, is my thought ... 
 
Trust me ... you will understand what I'm saying one day, and I am not just putting ideas into your head ... music is music for a reason ... and you have it defined to the notes you can see on a DAW ... not its life. 
 
How would you like to be one of those notes and be ... ignored, because no one is interested in knowing you/your notes? All, because the ideas and visions of music are now so computerized and dictated by a machine, that we can not even close our eyes to listen to it ... we simply think that if we let go of the "internal dialogue" that we die ... 
 
Ohhh well ... whatever ... how sad to feel so empty inside. AND, not even have any idea what ticks another person's dream and vision without it sounding like something you already know and hate!

Thanks Sharke. Note Track 5 has got a Vietnamese zither and didgeridoo in it as well and all sorts of weird percussion type sounds but I tried to blend all those sounds into a backdrop. The other two tracks have that more ambient sound to them though. There are 10 tracks to that CD which was done for a production music library.  I have another track as well which I might put in there that features a very fast sequence but I set the sequence right back and put a fair bit of reverb on it too and it just sort of comes out ambient sounding. Fast sequencing can be used but it has to be treated a certain way  though. (Track 4 has just been uploaded)
 
Reverbs are important as you can imagine and fairly long times too. Analog synths are you friend here as well doing some of the deep bass drones. They just naturally have the depth to pull it off. (Roland JD800 for example) 
 

Moshkito

sharke
 
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MIDI notes involved, sorry 

That's GROSSLY unfair to the early synthesizer folks, including Tangerine Dream, in the days that MIDI was not even being used or understood. You are too integrated into the chemistry and science of it all to appreciate the art of it, is my thought ... 
 
Trust me ... you will understand what I'm saying one day, and I am not just putting ideas into your head ... music is music for a reason ... and you have it defined to the notes you can see on a DAW ... not its life. 
 
How would you like to be one of those notes and be ... ignored, because no one is interested in knowing you/your notes? All, because the ideas and visions of music are now so computerized and dictated by a machine, that we can not even close our eyes to listen to it ... we simply think that if we let go of the "internal dialogue" that we die ... 
 
Ohhh well ... whatever ... how sad to feel so empty inside. AND, not even have any idea what ticks another person's dream and vision without it sounding like something you already know and hate!

 

sharke
Last night my loser neighbor felt like playing video games loudly at 2am, so to offset the sound of tanks and explosions coming through the wall I put on a Spotify playlist called "Ambient Sleeping Pill" and actually had a fantastic night's sleep. It's the kind of New Age crap that seems to be one long wishy washy chord, sustained for the full duration of the track, probably soaked in reverb, with a few notes changing imperceptibly here and there and the odd barely noticeable change in texture. I mean as music there's nothing whatsoever to sink your teeth into, but as a soothing background noise it's quite relaxing. 
 
Just wondering how one goes about making music like this. Is there any method to it at all short of drawing out some 10 minute long notes in the piano roll? I keep trying to picture the person working on the track. Were they stopping and listening to it over and over to map out its progress, or do they literally just draw some MIDI notes, listen to it all the way through to check for anything obviously out of place, export it and call it a day? Seems like you could bang a few of these out a day, put them in a playlist on Spotify and rake in a few dollars from people like me playing them on repeat for 7 hours at a time. 

The answer is in sentence 2 of paragraph 1. Just saying'.....

sharke
 



Trouble is if it's too interesting or thoughtful then your mind latches onto it and you can't get to sleep. I really think the whole point of this "Ambient sleeping pill" music is to make something that's as innocuous and boring as possible. 

 
I'll send you a CD I made a few years ago. One review I had said it was 'like aural rohypnol'

jamesg1213

sharke
 



Trouble is if it's too interesting or thoughtful then your mind latches onto it and you can't get to sleep. I really think the whole point of this "Ambient sleeping pill" music is to make something that's as innocuous and boring as possible. 

 
I'll send you a CD I made a few years ago. One review I had said it was 'like aural rohypnol'

Have I heard that one?  I forget...  
 

Oh go away spammer.

He's gone. Thanks Scook.

sharke
It's the kind of New Age crap that seems to be one long wishy washy chord, sustained for the full duration of the track, probably soaked in reverb, with a few notes changing imperceptibly here and there and the odd barely noticeable change in texture. 

Try doing that with your tuba.