For anyone else who might try to recreate this patch, here are some insights I've gleaned from my own attempts. Caveat: My Neutron does not always work... correctly. It is beset with many issues that upon googling trying to troubleshoot seem common. I might also be wrong. Results may vary. Patching: S&H to LFO SHAPE LFO to ATT1 IN ATT1 to OSC2 Both oscillators are sawtooth waves slightly out of tune with one another. My Neutron likes to have all 3 range lights illuminated to get the best sound but I can almost guarantee that's because mine is fucked up. OSC SYNC is on as seen in the video and the widths are offset from each other as well. VCF frequency is happiest around... 1130. I keep resonance at about 8 or 9, same with mod depth. LFO rate is all the way down, and remember to keep LFO shape at noon. I don't think the envelope settings make a huge difference. S&H rate fully CCW, Glide fully CW. Slew ~9, Porta Time ~1030. Attenuator 1 works best for me at 8 or 9. I like a little Drive, no Tone, and Level at max. The Delay does offer a little bit more character, I'd say it's user preference. The biggest things that shape the sound of this patch besides oscillator tuning are the filter frequency, resonance, and slew. I got mine pretty dang close like this. Pick your favorite reverb and if you're wondering "How much reverb should I use?" the answer is "Yes." Have fun!
@@OsmtwcIt took a lot of fanagling. Like I said, I know mine has some specific issues. My friend who taught me told me as much, I think it has some weird bleed with the mod depth that I don't fully understand. I also think the oscillator range is messed up as well. I have two UA-cam accounts - if you read one of my other comments I left on here asking for more patch info (under @LEdHeadW) you should get some more info if you hadn't read those yet. Make sure you absolutely crank the reverb, it won't sound right without heaps of it. The settings I laid out should get you close. But you'll definitely have to play around with it. It's really fun to mess with the delay time on this, you can get it absolutely screaming. I think patching the S&H (sampling noise with a lot of slew) into delay time is a crucial piece. It's mostly detuned oscillators, and modulation of LFO shape, filter freq, and delay time.
Great track! Makes me feel like im in a space ship or in a hive mind, maybe even a military submarine. Definitely gives me a feeling that is a good feeling but is pretty hard to put into words. Keep up the good work!
Dude that’s such a good idea. Just make your own ambient writing focus music, let knob twiddling be an occasional distraction from writing to modulate your vibe - perfect.
Sounds very similar to the first track off of that Coil side project Time Machines. Absolutely massive and monolithic in scope. I seriously can’t get enough of these drones!! 🔊
ISS Commander Miguel Tavares draws in a relaxed sigh as he shoots a photograph of the sun setting behind Earth's horizon. He slowly pulls the camera away from his face as he takes in one final view from the space station's cupola. Accompanying him is a young and enthusiastic engineer, Svetlana Kurylenko, now on the 4th day of her first ever mission to the ISS. She moves in as Tavares vacates the cupola's main viewing station. "Got some nice picture?" she asks him. "Oh you bet! Now, it's your turn Kurylenko. See if you can best my photography skills!" he says as he gently pushes to the side, making way for Svetlana. As she floats to the cupola, Commander Tavares hears someone calling out to him. "Sounds like Takeshi is looking for you commander" she says as she grabs the camera and pulls it in. There, not far on the dark side of Earth's horizon, are some beautiful green and red auroras, dancing over the northern half of Scandinavia. She pulls the camera to her right eye, and begins to work the telephoto zoom lens, framing what she knows will be a beautiful photo. "Commander, are you seeing this?" she says. No answer. Before she could ask again, there's a bright light that starts filtering in through the right side of the viewfinder, and not just any light. It's something that is bright enough that it's creating a strong lens flare, drowning out the background. "That's strange" she thought to herself. She pulls the camera away from her right eye, and suddenly realizes where the light is coming from. She freezes in place, almost too afraid to stare at the light source since she doesn't need to see it to know what it is. This is also when she starts to notice its warmth hitting the right side of her body. "Commander, the sun... didn't it just set?" she asks, confused, and with fear setting in her voice. "I... that's... that's not the sun..." he replies. She turns around to look at the commander, only to then yell in horror.
Found this channel after looking for a deep suspense synth track to write to and BOY did I hit the jackpot. Are you going to continue to upload? Big fan now. If you're on a hiatus, it's all good! You've got PLENTY of content on this channel. Cheers!
@@FXRJoeable Not fully, no 🥲 I did an episode a few months back, but I’m currently composing the score to a videogame and until that’s done I won’t have time to return properly. But thank you so much for your interest! Hopefully it won’t be too much longer!
Just listened to this while reading the bulk of the 4th act of "Gideon The Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. This patch really provided an excellent backdrop for the events in the book. Thank you so much for making this available.
Do you remember what the s&h is sampling and what's clocking it? Noise, maybe? I always struggled to get my brain around the internal signal path of the neutron so I just use mine as its individual parts with the rest of my rack. I could just modulate the lfo wave with any number of other things of course, but I'd love to try to recreate this one using only my neutron. Love your channel, fall asleep to it all the time. Thank you!
Hi there! Thanks for your comment, if memory serves, the S&H is self clocking at its slowest rate and is sampling noise. This then modulates the delay time. I love the Neutron dearly, but I know what you mean about the signal path, it’d be great if some of the routing was on the panel. I constantly mix up the envelopes - TDZ
I have the same problem! There are a couple overlays and replacement front panels that have much better labeling for all the routing, I might get one or two of those soon. @@thedronezone2128
Are you using any sequencers or external controllers? Or is this purely the Neutron droning to us? Disregard! I found the answer to my question down below. Awesome work!
Listening to your patches while watching the La Palma volcano erupt - a marriage made in heaven (or hades perhaps). Nice work. I should have gone for the Neutron instead of the MiniBrute 2S :(
The Neutron could have been made as an expander module for the MiniBrute, same form factor with knobs to the left and patchbay to the right, the same width, with complimentary features, i.e. the neutron has only 1 LFO but the MiniBrute has 4. The 2 together make a monster synth I dubbed the Brutron.
Wow. I am new to this type of music. Other generative ambient music sort of sounds like bleeps and bells, what makes this so different? Is the equipmemt different (eurorack comes to mind) or how its patched?
Reminds me of Forbidden Planet sounds, which is pretty Awsome! Did you create this patch, or was it an alteration of an existing one? Either way, Fantastic EFX, for a movie soundtrack..Great presentation my friend!!!
I’m afraid not. I never write anything down. You’re hearing what you’re seeing though, so if you can make out the knob positions and patch points you may glean some insight.
Can you give more insights on the patch - it seems rather simple for an generative drone - and sounds amazing btw? I was just wondering how such a complex sound can be achieved with such little patching. Are midi notes involved? Cheers and keep up the great work!
Hi, thanks for the comment. I recorded this one a little while ago now, so bear with me whilst I try to remember. No MIDI or sequencing was involved. The oscillators are both using sawtooth waves and are synced, the pitch of OSC 2 is being slowly modulated by the LFO. The waveform of the LFO is being changed randomly by the sample & hold. The whole patch is then recorded into Logic and drenched in reverb.
@@paulczerner3286 You can get most of the way there, for sure! There's no other external effects, only the reverb. You can probably do a lot with the built-in delay, but in this patch it was already in use.
I've played this music and went to bed. I saw pictures, I heard voices, someone was talking to me and I responded and it responded back to me. I think I was in Hell, and it was different than I anticipated. wtf. Is something wrong with me?
best drone synth i've heard so far this guy made his own synth ua-cam.com/video/a0BbVK3LdTk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Gechologic Siluria drone synthesizer, tuning into Radio Arrakis
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I've been searching for something like this for a long while, please, keep making these. The drawn out drone ambience is so wicked and intoxicating.
For anyone else who might try to recreate this patch, here are some insights I've gleaned from my own attempts. Caveat: My Neutron does not always work... correctly. It is beset with many issues that upon googling trying to troubleshoot seem common. I might also be wrong. Results may vary.
Patching:
S&H to LFO SHAPE
LFO to ATT1 IN
ATT1 to OSC2
Both oscillators are sawtooth waves slightly out of tune with one another. My Neutron likes to have all 3 range lights illuminated to get the best sound but I can almost guarantee that's because mine is fucked up. OSC SYNC is on as seen in the video and the widths are offset from each other as well. VCF frequency is happiest around... 1130. I keep resonance at about 8 or 9, same with mod depth. LFO rate is all the way down, and remember to keep LFO shape at noon. I don't think the envelope settings make a huge difference. S&H rate fully CCW, Glide fully CW. Slew ~9, Porta Time ~1030. Attenuator 1 works best for me at 8 or 9. I like a little Drive, no Tone, and Level at max. The Delay does offer a little bit more character, I'd say it's user preference. The biggest things that shape the sound of this patch besides oscillator tuning are the filter frequency, resonance, and slew. I got mine pretty dang close like this. Pick your favorite reverb and if you're wondering "How much reverb should I use?" the answer is "Yes."
Have fun!
i have 0 idea what any of this means but still read it cause it sounds interesting.
Thanks . 😊
I am not sure what's different about my neutron, but I am getting something very different
@@OsmtwcIt took a lot of fanagling. Like I said, I know mine has some specific issues. My friend who taught me told me as much, I think it has some weird bleed with the mod depth that I don't fully understand. I also think the oscillator range is messed up as well. I have two UA-cam accounts - if you read one of my other comments I left on here asking for more patch info (under @LEdHeadW) you should get some more info if you hadn't read those yet.
Make sure you absolutely crank the reverb, it won't sound right without heaps of it. The settings I laid out should get you close. But you'll definitely have to play around with it. It's really fun to mess with the delay time on this, you can get it absolutely screaming. I think patching the S&H (sampling noise with a lot of slew) into delay time is a crucial piece.
It's mostly detuned oscillators, and modulation of LFO shape, filter freq, and delay time.
listening to this as I'm writing a short story about a small town sinking into madness, caused by an ominous monolith appearing closeby. thank you !
OMG how perfect, such a perfect sound for this story.How did the story turn out?
uzumaki
Uzumaki meets 2001 A Space Odyssey... sounds awesome!
I was listening to this as I was reading 1984. Greatly enhanced the book so thx
Perfect music for pondering the meaning of life while baked.
Great track! Makes me feel like im in a space ship or in a hive mind, maybe even a military submarine. Definitely gives me a feeling that is a good feeling but is pretty hard to put into words. Keep up the good work!
NGL, Neutron is a drone BEAST. I'm modulating mine with Ochd now, too much fun!
i listen to his channel alot to sleep works good ty
This sounds like it holds up against maneco grone drone. Pretty damn good
Im so inspired!
When i listening this ambient i feel myself like im in grimm dark retro future universe or universe like Warhammer 40k
Reminded me of a space hulk or the Warp
Very interesting soundtrack, suitable for a video series of a difficult mountain climb.
use this a lot when i'm writing stuff it's really great for establishing atmosphere, thanks!
Glad you like it!
Dude that’s such a good idea. Just make your own ambient writing focus music, let knob twiddling be an occasional distraction from writing to modulate your vibe - perfect.
Same actually :3
It helps a lot especially since i dont like silence either
I listen to a lot of modular drone, agree that this one is something special and I keep coming back to it.
My kind of sound 🤘🏼. I love my Neutron as well, its definitely a sleeper cell synth. Good work
Did I just discover a new Dark Ambient UA-cam channel by accident?
I just saw there are 21 other videos!
That patch just hits the spot!
I love my neutron so much. It's weird and different and so versatile.
This is my asmr.
I’m interested. Ambient rules and thanks for the soundscape
My PS1 startup intro and BIOS is corrupted!!!
Fearful Harmony and Personified Fear are good friends with this sound!!!
Sounds very similar to the first track off of that Coil side project Time Machines. Absolutely massive and monolithic in scope. I seriously can’t get enough of these drones!! 🔊
Thank you!
I am absulotely loving it
The correct sound for my spaceship
🚀
The endless journey into eternity
I listen to this allmost every day
Hahahaha
I think you made me buy a behringer neutron
One can never have enough
Dude, this is awesome. Definitely dark 😃
Glad you think so!
This is my intellectual mind when I venture to the void of existentialism
Or is it your existential mind when you venture into the void of intellectualism?😊
Smart brain on silly boosters
mind what is a mind ?
LMFAO
So a nonsensical drone without form or meaning 😂
“Who *really* died that day? And who came back?”
Love it!
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great for writing
I can’t get enough of this one! Great freaking work man!
Beautiful, It reminds me of cello in drop c but with multiplied/detune and a bit low-pitched.
ISS Commander Miguel Tavares draws in a relaxed sigh as he shoots a photograph of the sun setting behind Earth's horizon. He slowly pulls the camera away from his face as he takes in one final view from the space station's cupola. Accompanying him is a young and enthusiastic engineer, Svetlana Kurylenko, now on the 4th day of her first ever mission to the ISS. She moves in as Tavares vacates the cupola's main viewing station. "Got some nice picture?" she asks him. "Oh you bet! Now, it's your turn Kurylenko. See if you can best my photography skills!" he says as he gently pushes to the side, making way for Svetlana. As she floats to the cupola, Commander Tavares hears someone calling out to him. "Sounds like Takeshi is looking for you commander" she says as she grabs the camera and pulls it in. There, not far on the dark side of Earth's horizon, are some beautiful green and red auroras, dancing over the northern half of Scandinavia. She pulls the camera to her right eye, and begins to work the telephoto zoom lens, framing what she knows will be a beautiful photo. "Commander, are you seeing this?" she says. No answer. Before she could ask again, there's a bright light that starts filtering in through the right side of the viewfinder, and not just any light. It's something that is bright enough that it's creating a strong lens flare, drowning out the background. "That's strange" she thought to herself. She pulls the camera away from her right eye, and suddenly realizes where the light is coming from. She freezes in place, almost too afraid to stare at the light source since she doesn't need to see it to know what it is. This is also when she starts to notice its warmth hitting the right side of her body. "Commander, the sun... didn't it just set?" she asks, confused, and with fear setting in her voice.
"I... that's... that's not the sun..." he replies. She turns around to look at the commander, only to then yell in horror.
Love it. Those are great sounds. Raw power. Great title too. You can hear the plasma arching and falling back.
This is truly beautiful music
Wow, that's dark! I love it.
This is brilliant! Great work.
Thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!
I really enjoyed that. Simple, powerful and focused. Thanks!
Saved to dnd music
Rutger Hauer in ultra slowmotion…
4:50 is fire, gave me some late night last alive vibes
Very cool track
beautiful
Nice and dark
gran controllo timbrico anche in aree difficili, bella spazialità di suono 🎧 DdM
Found this channel after looking for a deep suspense synth track to write to and BOY did I hit the jackpot. Are you going to continue to upload? Big fan now. If you're on a hiatus, it's all good! You've got PLENTY of content on this channel. Cheers!
Hey thanks!
I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus whilst working on a movie and my new album. But I have every intention of returning :)
@@thedronezone2128 Have you retuned? I love your music so much!!
@@FXRJoeable Not fully, no 🥲
I did an episode a few months back, but I’m currently composing the score to a videogame and until that’s done I won’t have time to return properly.
But thank you so much for your interest! Hopefully it won’t be too much longer!
This great ! Thank you
I use This for work
Hey Man, i absolutely love your work :)
Im workin on a short film, and wanted to ask if your work was free to use, with credit of course?
Hi there,
For business inquiries please email scott@scottampleford.com
Trip to the unknown - masterpiece.!!!
💙
thank you for the doom, sincerely appreciated
Hnmmm. Yessss. Daddy likes this one.
Just listened to this while reading the bulk of the 4th act of "Gideon The Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. This patch really provided an excellent backdrop for the events in the book. Thank you so much for making this available.
ah neat, a book recommendation, did you enjoy it?
@@Jin-Hu yes, very much so!
Are we there yet?
Beautiful. Great channel!
Do you remember what the s&h is sampling and what's clocking it? Noise, maybe? I always struggled to get my brain around the internal signal path of the neutron so I just use mine as its individual parts with the rest of my rack. I could just modulate the lfo wave with any number of other things of course, but I'd love to try to recreate this one using only my neutron.
Love your channel, fall asleep to it all the time. Thank you!
Hi there! Thanks for your comment, if memory serves, the S&H is self clocking at its slowest rate and is sampling noise. This then modulates the delay time.
I love the Neutron dearly, but I know what you mean about the signal path, it’d be great if some of the routing was on the panel. I constantly mix up the envelopes - TDZ
I have the same problem! There are a couple overlays and replacement front panels that have much better labeling for all the routing, I might get one or two of those soon. @@thedronezone2128
Instantly makes me think of classic post-apocalyptic games like the first two Fallout and Wasteland.
love the sound! i bought my neutron today, any tips for a beginner in the neutron universe guys?
The Pandys are coming ✊🔥🤘
Are you using any sequencers or external controllers? Or is this purely the Neutron droning to us? Disregard! I found the answer to my question down below. Awesome work!
Listening to your patches while watching the La Palma volcano erupt - a marriage made in heaven (or hades perhaps). Nice work. I should have gone for the Neutron instead of the MiniBrute 2S :(
Thanks for the comment!
I didn't really connect with the MiniBrute 2, but I love my original one.
The Neutron could have been made as an expander module for the MiniBrute, same form factor with knobs to the left and patchbay to the right, the same width, with complimentary features, i.e. the neutron has only 1 LFO but the MiniBrute has 4. The 2 together make a monster synth I dubbed the Brutron.
Wow. I am new to this type of music. Other generative ambient music sort of sounds like bleeps and bells, what makes this so different? Is the equipmemt different (eurorack comes to mind) or how its patched?
I don’t really know. I just tend to prefer longer washes of sounds over sporadic randomness 🤷♂️
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I like to hear that while I'm pooping
Beautiful. How do I go about obtaining your permission to use this in VHS Horror genre film?
Shoot me an email at scott@scottampleford.com let’s talk!
Reminds me of Forbidden Planet sounds, which is pretty Awsome! Did you create this patch, or was it an alteration of an existing one? Either way, Fantastic EFX, for a movie soundtrack..Great presentation my friend!!!
I create all my patches!
any hints on the patch on this beast? sounds beautiful.
I’m afraid not. I never write anything down.
You’re hearing what you’re seeing though, so if you can make out the knob positions and patch points you may glean some insight.
lovely deep and dark drone, nice work 👍 🙂
Can you give more insights on the patch - it seems rather simple for an generative drone - and sounds amazing btw? I was just wondering how such a complex sound can be achieved with such little patching. Are midi notes involved?
Cheers and keep up the great work!
Hi, thanks for the comment.
I recorded this one a little while ago now, so bear with me whilst I try to remember.
No MIDI or sequencing was involved.
The oscillators are both using sawtooth waves and are synced, the pitch of OSC 2 is being slowly modulated by the LFO. The waveform of the LFO is being changed randomly by the sample & hold.
The whole patch is then recorded into Logic and drenched in reverb.
@@thedronezone2128 thanks for the response, always something to learn. Astonishing what a modulated LFO can achieve.
@@thedronezone2128 drenched in reverb *sigh* so you can't get this sound out of the box from the Neutron.
@@paulczerner3286 You can get most of the way there, for sure! There's no other external effects, only the reverb. You can probably do a lot with the built-in delay, but in this patch it was already in use.
Can this be used in youtube videos if I credit you in the description?
Absolutely, go for it!
@@thedronezone2128 I love you so much
yo yo, i’m loving this one a lot i was wondering if can i use your sounds copyright free?
Few Variety
Would it be possible for you to share this patch?
Can I make the same sound/similar sound with a different modular synthesized?
I’m sure you could!
@@thedronezone2128 managed to do it with the Dune plugin 😁 however, it doesnt sound as rich as yours. I want to get my hands on the Neutron
@@damiancassar8664 it’s a great little synth!
❤❤❤❤❤
Wich delay/reverb u used? Lovely jam!!!
Neutrons internal delay and SilverVerb in Logic.
I've played this music and went to bed. I saw pictures, I heard voices, someone was talking to me and I responded and it responded back to me. I think I was in Hell, and it was different than I anticipated.
wtf. Is something wrong with me?
Nice
this is fire as fuck. Will you upload to Spotify or streaming?
Unsure at the moment.
But there’s a downloadable version on Patreon for now
How are you liking the Neutron
Amazing! What effects did you use?
This was quite a while ago so I can’t say with 100% certainty, but I think it was just Logics Silver Verb
i am a fetus floating in amniotic fluid ... thank you
only the neutron? or effects in ableton?
or any daw?
Only reverb added in Logic. Otherwise all Neutron
@@thedronezone2128 can you share the patch cause rlly amazing!
blade runner vibes
Try Eno's "Just another day on earth" on top
best drone synth i've heard so far this guy made his own synth ua-cam.com/video/a0BbVK3LdTk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Gechologic Siluria drone synthesizer, tuning into Radio Arrakis
This is not a test...
Not my trip, that's ok.
Super nasty
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