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Glad it doesn't go unappreciated! Definitely a lot of work behind the scenes to say the least haha - really happy I have such a supportive community with the channel that makes it possible!
@@VenusTheory Yes keep doing what you do! You are doing a great job...PS i am the same person...supporting quality content from multiple accounts is fun ig😝😂
This channel helps you to stop overthinking the sh!t that is holding you back and start thinking about the tweaks that can be made to propel your music forward. Great work as always.
14:44 Came for the content, stayed for the extremely fresh dance moves. Thanks for this breakdown, the use of the trance gate on the complimentary layers has already unlocked some ideas! I'd love to see more stuff like this from you.
@@Phosphor_Sco He probably means it's costing him plug-in money. I'm in the same boat. Oh gotta have that one (the one that's not FREE), and there I go. That's why I am drinking Folger's coffee and not the fancy stuff our friend above is drinking. 🤣🤣 Lord help us.
@@toddjbradshaw awwww hahaha I thought there was a subscription tier or something. 😂😂 very true man, I really grudge spending money on plug ins but sometimes we just have to🤷🏼♂️
Cameron I worked in the Fac. Ed. (non-student full time) about a quarter of a century ago. Your considerable efforts are paying off. This video is a fully-packed lesson that requires study and re-viewing to unpack. It’s a zip file of knowledge bomb. Well done, and much appreciated.
Howdy doodie @VenusTheory Hope things are going well, been missing your updates but in the meantime happily watching older videos and this is pure gold.
One of my favorite things to do is use a loop pedal and jam on the guitar. I do something similar to this where I will just pick one note and drone on that and build it up. I will also play a single chord and see how many different ways I can jam on top of it to get different sounds. One of my favorite chords is a 6 like a GMaj6 (G-B-D-E). This lets you play to the G major or to the relative minor, E, because the chord actually has all the notes to behave like an E minor 7 (E-G-B-D). You can switch between the moods over the same chord to really get the most out of it.
I love it, it feels like it would be the perfect tune for a menu screen in a modern warfare style fps game... I got inspiration from this... I'm going to use these ideas for my intros in the techy progressive trance tracks that I make.... I would normally be slack by looking for drone samples but you have shown how easy it is to actually make and with that I can have more control to make the drones sounds fit rather than searching for the right drone sample... Thank you!!
Excellent work. Vibes of score from BBC “The Planets”. Side note: I originally stumbled upon you a while ago as one of few sources for Bitwig content. But man, you’ve entered into the upper class of overall music content. Sincere high five.
Great vid! Got Quantum a while back and love how the presets are instantly usable. I have Luftrum Lunaris as well but for my music it usually needs more tweaking to fit. Got inspired to do more stuff with Quantum now! Just been so busy with bigger epic fantasy stuff.
I found that Portal (by Output) really helps to make my creative workflow quicker and easier in terms of adding variations and layering sounds with themselves through effects, instead of having to manually automate various effect plugins and such. It's not a cheap plugin, though. Thanks for the inspiration. 🙏
I was playing with a long dronish setting in Pigments just last night. Trying to find the right balance of change and ear fudge. The idea of creating a sequence to mess with this layered type of sound is such a great idea. You did a demo with Stochas that seems like a perfect way to add some variation into the mix. You do such a great job of seeding us with ideas that can go so many places. I have done some short video pieces a while back and have a basic appreciation for what it takes to produce content like this. I also love the touches of things you do visually (the old Pentax lens cap for instance). I’m 65 and find it all quite stimulating mustache squarepants 😂.
Recently watched your statement on the tough side of producing your material. Let join everyone who has commended you and your work. You display a strong commitment to music that we truly appreciate.
Cameron, thank you so much for what you do with this channel! Your passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge come through in every video. You're really helping to shape me as a producer and sound designer, and I'm sure that's true for many others! Keep it up bro!
This is pure gold! Thank you for making these videos. For someone that knows nothing about Sound Design and would love to try and learn, you’ve made this much less daunting. Thanks again!
This really does inspire me to get out there and make something awesome. This was a brilliant lesson with an incredibly satisfying end result. You could have told me that was a Reznor/Ross track and I would have believed you. I also appreciate the tasteful sponsorship. It highlights the product well without being a sales pitch. Please keep making stuff like this!
As a dry, sarcastic, and self deprecating individual, this channel is amazing. Perhaps one day I'll go from Terribleguitarist to TolerableMusician with this wealth of info. Sidenote, @8:00 my brain instantly went, "bahn bahn baun on da Autobahn....". 😅
I never thought I'd type the following sentence: I heard an ambient track I really enjoyed. Kudos to VT for that and for his usual very insightful tips on general sound design
great video! one of my favorite techniques for drones and the like, is resampling my layers in full, then pitching that down an octave... adds a nice earthy bed underneath.
The tonal bends repeating every so often provide all the drama needed to move forward, great idea. Would love to hear a big, heavy thick sound every 12 or 16 bars, like the garish feeling watching Bob Ross draw a huge brown tree in the foreground of the most stunning background ever, and then quickly realizing it's perfect. Anyways, great video. Thanks.
Thank you for this, I’m getting more & more into cinematic scores & wanting to create it. This will definitely giving an idea of more an approach on it.
Really helpful. Sometimes I get stuck thinking I need to "find" the right drone, when what I need to do is "create" the right drone. Like your process of slowly building in the missing pieces. Hearing what's missing is a tad tricky, but I'll work on it.
Thanks for insight into your soundtrack world! I've been following you just recently and you have been introducing me to so much good stuff! I really enjoy making this kind of stuff and this is an excellent tutorial of new ideas! Thank you for continued inspiration 🙏 ✨
At 10:15 my mind hears the low end go down, but when you bring it back up, my mind wants it to go lower. It's so frustrating to still know so little about music that I can't just sit down and chase this inspiration. Really great, and obviously inspiring (for me) video. thank you!
Thank you for this very detailed look into something that I know very little about. I mostly use hardware keyboards and other physical equipment. I have only recently delved into software-based music production -- not to say that I've never used digital wav files and other kinds of samples, but they were used to add layers and special effects NOT the actual music. I know about textures, tones, delays, envelopes, modulation, and reverbs but drones were always a mystery to me. It's also why I very rarely have used them in my music. And if I did they were always premade wav files or loops. I just realized that I have been missing a very important element in making better soundscapes and other kinds of music. A very big thumbs up! Cheers and Peace! I am eternally grateful and I hope my music henceforth will show improvement!
Always enjoy listening to your channel. This episode brought to mind one of my favorite bits from MST3K: "Okay... got it? Cool. Now, hold that note. Now, hold it for an hour. Now, hold it until you get a recording contract with Windham Hill!"
I'm a huge fan of the concept of drones in music. When I started out back in the day, (before I knew what I was doing), I used VAZ Modular to create some amazing evolving drones. I really miss VAZ! I really miss those days of my noob self discovering happy accidents too. This vid has given me knowledge and inspiration to explore creating some mind-bending soundscapes. I thank you for that.
The less notes there are, the less weird overtones get in the way, in more ways than one. GOD I hate it when I just get this super warm 808, and I realize the reason it sounds so nice is cause of a ~tritone like 2 octaves up. That can be cool, but ultimately it's limiting, especially if you're playing more notes, the likelyhood you'll want tritones on all of those is even slimmer. This is also one of those weird gray areas btw., sometimes I hear people involve ''bad'' harmonics, but it works. Your big fat bass can have harmonics so strong that it's dissonant with anything but basic major chords, and the same goes for atonal parts like FX/texture etc. sometimes fitting and sometimes not, what's up with that? Cool extra tip for people who like drone bass btw., some techno producers use noise as bass, which is just a wild concept outside of cinema or a select few parts where an impact sound makes up the lower end etc., feels much like a drone. Hard not to make your mix sound crazy if it's got a lot of content, but worth trying. If it's a really even distribution of noise any notes go on top, and our ear kinda interprets the noise as part of it, it's weird. If it's instead much more particular noise, it can get either really dissonant and even warbly, or really stylish. I'd generally say, don't just make it a wall, treat it like a percussive part, join the kicks into the groove, can even mix in tonal bass or merely use these as accents in a tonal bassline, kinda like guitar ghost notes. Another way to ease into this is to only use them in fills, or maybe you've got a part where you wanna have the harmony kinda float and be ambiguous without the bass, you can still fill out the low end with these. And regarding warbling, be very careful. I didn't think about it at first and suddenly noticed it, it makes sense when you consider noise = super tight clusters of sines, make multiple next to each other resonant and they warble like a semitone would, smooth or even flat works best in my experience. The low interval limit comes into play greatly here, a harmonic equivalent to the 5th will go the deepest without becoming warbly mud, besides octaves of course. The warble can be super cool though, especially if used as a fill etc., resample if there's some randomness going on or if you wanna align it differently. Sometimes I feel I should just make my own damn channel with how long these comments can get.
Really enjoyed this, definitely has me inspired to spend some time playing with drones :) I discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have been deep diving. Such great content Cameron, thank you for sharing your experience!
Really appreciate your talent and willingness to share your tricks and techniques for others to glean from. You've definitely been an inspiration on many levels. Keep up the fantastic work!😎
This was indeed useful and interesting. While I don't think of them as drones, I do this kind of atmospheric music quite a bit and I learned a lot from you. Thank you! My tendency is have a series of partially overlapping sounds on different tracks a lot like this, with occasional riffs coming in and out. I find it pairs well with occasional acoustic/organic samples - not unlike mixing in feedback, but maybe using wind or a woodwind instrument. I like what you did here.
Thank you for showing this. This sounds really neat. There are a few things I would do differently to make it my own, but until I get a new PC, I'll just have to dream. 🙃
One thing for layers of fully sustained drones is you can create life and variety by automating their respective levels - the character of the "single" note of sustained drones will change significantly as different layers become prominent or fade comparatively to others. If you have each layer shifting its levels in different cycles, this will lead to a very organically morphing single layer. You can do this by drawing in automation or with LFO's set at slow rates.
i admit, i didn´t yet watch the video, but reading the titile, i had to think of my fave one-note track immediately: "ain´t it funky now" by james brown, in which the rhythm guitar plays literally one chord through the whole song, only interrupted by the break in the middle - i always found this very impressive and cool... :-)
I totally apprericate you as this was definitely SUPER useful and interesting. It actually got me excited opening my DAW again which I haven't done in months! Thank you!
Reminds me of the soundtrack from the original Fallout video game. Just toss in some field recordings of a busy farmer's market or wind and you're there. Nice work!
Excellent work. I always learn something new with you, and you always inspire me to improve and create new and fresh ideas in my Music. Thank you so much.
Beautiful piece of work, and very inspiring. Your videos are so polished that it's sometimes hard to remember how many hours of noodling and experimentation and straight up knob twiddling go into something like this, and that's before you sit down and film it and edit the video. Looking forward to trying out some new techniques!
Cool to see the process you used and how you made the sounds evolve. I could see the drones and added bits working well with even less drums in sort of a Johann Johannsson (RIP) Sicario soundtrack style.
Fantastic! Thanks for another very inspiring video. Very similar to how I put together some pieces. I constantly have to fight an inner 'demon' that wants to add too much 'melody' or musical variation... Particularly when I've been designing the drone elements for some time. I constantly have to tell myself to keep it simple. I'd love to see a video where you take a few compatible drone elements and use chance/random to trigger when they play, and what octave.
A big thankyou to you for posting. Insightful, I understand and learn so much from you. I wish I had started this aural journey when I was much younger but the technology was in its infancy and obtuse then and I would not have gotten far. Time is running out for me, due to my late start, to get to the creative level that I long for. I have found an Arturia Microfreak, Korg Volca Drum and Zoom CDR70 are getting me closer there. Thankyou again.
really enjoyed this one. festinating to see how you put stuff together. I try to write cinematic type music and will defiantly be stealing/borrowing these ideas. thankyou for these videos
Very excited for some of the next videos here, but they're quite a bit of effort. Hope you don't mind the plugin videos lately! Just busy with NAMM prep 😅
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Really appreciate you pushing out so much quality content so regularly
Glad it doesn't go unappreciated! Definitely a lot of work behind the scenes to say the least haha - really happy I have such a supportive community with the channel that makes it possible!
@@VenusTheory Yes keep doing what you do! You are doing a great job...PS i am the same person...supporting quality content from multiple accounts is fun ig😝😂
What he said ;)
This channel helps you to stop overthinking the sh!t that is holding you back and start thinking about the tweaks that can be made to propel your music forward. Great work as always.
14:44 Came for the content, stayed for the extremely fresh dance moves. Thanks for this breakdown, the use of the trance gate on the complimentary layers has already unlocked some ideas! I'd love to see more stuff like this from you.
This channel is costing more and more, totally worth it!
Costing in what sense? Confused
@@Phosphor_Sco He probably means it's costing him plug-in money. I'm in the same boat. Oh gotta have that one (the one that's not FREE), and there I go. That's why I am drinking Folger's coffee and not the fancy stuff our friend above is drinking. 🤣🤣 Lord help us.
@@toddjbradshaw awwww hahaha I thought there was a subscription tier or something. 😂😂 very true man, I really grudge spending money on plug ins but sometimes we just have to🤷🏼♂️
@@Phosphor_Sco Indeed Sir. At the very least, we'll be playing a good tune when the bank comes to take us away.
@@toddjbradshaw 😂😂😂
Cameron I worked in the Fac. Ed. (non-student full time) about a quarter of a century ago. Your considerable efforts are paying off. This video is a fully-packed lesson that requires study and re-viewing to unpack. It’s a zip file of knowledge bomb. Well done, and much appreciated.
Some neat ideas to stick in the arsenal and a very cool finished cue
Believe it or not, I felt like I was in a COD MW2 mission listening to the piece you created!
No, I don't believe you.
I believe you.
still not sure if I should believe u
Should i believe it guys, or should i not
Highly believable.
Howdy doodie @VenusTheory Hope things are going well, been missing your updates but in the meantime happily watching older videos and this is pure gold.
One of my favorite things to do is use a loop pedal and jam on the guitar. I do something similar to this where I will just pick one note and drone on that and build it up. I will also play a single chord and see how many different ways I can jam on top of it to get different sounds. One of my favorite chords is a 6 like a GMaj6 (G-B-D-E). This lets you play to the G major or to the relative minor, E, because the chord actually has all the notes to behave like an E minor 7 (E-G-B-D). You can switch between the moods over the same chord to really get the most out of it.
Thank you for your help! My music is growing and you are one of the reasons 🙏
Glad to be of service!
I love it, it feels like it would be the perfect tune for a menu screen in a modern warfare style fps game...
I got inspiration from this... I'm going to use these ideas for my intros in the techy progressive trance tracks that I make.... I would normally be slack by looking for drone samples but you have shown how easy it is to actually make and with that I can have more control to make the drones sounds fit rather than searching for the right drone sample... Thank you!!
Excellent work. Vibes of score from BBC “The Planets”.
Side note: I originally stumbled upon you a while ago as one of few sources for Bitwig content. But man, you’ve entered into the upper class of overall music content. Sincere high five.
Great vid! Got Quantum a while back and love how the presets are instantly usable. I have Luftrum Lunaris as well but for my music it usually needs more tweaking to fit. Got inspired to do more stuff with Quantum now! Just been so busy with bigger epic fantasy stuff.
I do, in fact, understand now why my drones suck 😂 So many good things to try and none of them overly complicated. Thanks!
Dude that end result sounds super dope! (Just like all of your tracks)
Amazing video, what a work honestly. I never thought the drones I heard in cinematic action/suspense/scifi were crafted like this. Lots of efforts!
I found that Portal (by Output) really helps to make my creative workflow quicker and easier in terms of adding variations and layering sounds with themselves through effects, instead of having to manually automate various effect plugins and such. It's not a cheap plugin, though. Thanks for the inspiration. 🙏
I was playing with a long dronish setting in Pigments just last night. Trying to find the right balance of change and ear fudge. The idea of creating a sequence to mess with this layered type of sound is such a great idea. You did a demo with Stochas that seems like a perfect way to add some variation into the mix. You do such a great job of seeding us with ideas that can go so many places. I have done some short video pieces a while back and have a basic appreciation for what it takes to produce content like this. I also love the touches of things you do visually (the old Pentax lens cap for instance). I’m 65 and find it all quite stimulating mustache squarepants 😂.
I smiled, which I never thought I would do after watching 10 minutes of a drone video. Very very well done!
Recently watched your statement on the tough side of producing your material. Let join everyone who has commended you and your work. You display a strong commitment to music that we truly appreciate.
Great master class! Thank you. Cheers Dave
Cameron, thank you so much for what you do with this channel! Your passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge come through in every video. You're really helping to shape me as a producer and sound designer, and I'm sure that's true for many others! Keep it up bro!
Sounds amazing. Love the percussion in this too👏👏
I'm starting to understand drones more now. They're so powerful when applied well
Really transparent and super inspiring. I found myself thinking about live looping and mixing with drum machine, live percussion and sample player.😅
This is pure gold! Thank you for making these videos. For someone that knows nothing about Sound Design and would love to try and learn, you’ve made this much less daunting. Thanks again!
JUST AMAZING !! THANKS FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE 🙂
soundhack ++spiralstretch is really great for drones in phase vocoder mode. stick literally anything in and get a pad out
also colourcopy is great for nice sounding delays
the finished track is brilliant!
This really does inspire me to get out there and make something awesome. This was a brilliant lesson with an incredibly satisfying end result. You could have told me that was a Reznor/Ross track and I would have believed you.
I also appreciate the tasteful sponsorship. It highlights the product well without being a sales pitch.
Please keep making stuff like this!
This was a very nice tutorial on making a nice Cinematic Cue. It's nice to have in the box tutorials too. Sounded great!
As a dry, sarcastic, and self deprecating individual, this channel is amazing. Perhaps one day I'll go from Terribleguitarist to TolerableMusician with this wealth of info.
Sidenote, @8:00 my brain instantly went, "bahn bahn baun on da Autobahn....". 😅
Your sarcastic undertone and especially the intro's are hilarious man. Some humor + good lessons + good coffee, what's not to like
I never thought I'd type the following sentence: I heard an ambient track I really enjoyed. Kudos to VT for that and for his usual very insightful tips on general sound design
Man I love your channel. I understand just Enough to follow along, but it’s just highly entertaining… thanks for the content.
Good googly moogly! I think what I've learned here is never hold back when layering. Just go ahead and do all the things. Love it!
Hey man ! Just a short quick shoutout to you ! I love your intros and your content is fanstic ! Have a great day and never stop !!!
great video! one of my favorite techniques for drones and the like, is resampling my layers in full, then pitching that down an octave... adds a nice earthy bed underneath.
The tonal bends repeating every so often provide all the drama needed to move forward, great idea. Would love to hear a big, heavy thick sound every 12 or 16 bars, like the garish feeling watching Bob Ross draw a huge brown tree in the foreground of the most stunning background ever, and then quickly realizing it's perfect. Anyways, great video. Thanks.
Thank you for this, I’m getting more & more into cinematic scores & wanting to create it. This will definitely giving an idea of more an approach on it.
Cameron, you are the only channel where I stop a video, try out something new, be happy about the idea and come back to watch on. Thank you!
Ayyyy that's exactly what I want to hear. Glad to be of service! 🤠
I like drones, making drone tracks, and your vid and drone work!
Just starting to write a production music album composed of drone music, so this video was super useful to me. Thank you for all your great content!
Fading out the DAW window over your own recording was a nice touch. It's so simple but keeps things very clear without it looking cluttered.
Really helpful. Sometimes I get stuck thinking I need to "find" the right drone, when what I need to do is "create" the right drone. Like your process of slowly building in the missing pieces. Hearing what's missing is a tad tricky, but I'll work on it.
Thanks for insight into your soundtrack world! I've been following you just recently and you have been introducing me to so much good stuff! I really enjoy making this kind of stuff and this is an excellent tutorial of new ideas! Thank you for continued inspiration 🙏 ✨
At 10:15 my mind hears the low end go down, but when you bring it back up, my mind wants it to go lower. It's so frustrating to still know so little about music that I can't just sit down and chase this inspiration. Really great, and obviously inspiring (for me) video. thank you!
Thank you for this very detailed look into something that I know very little about. I mostly use hardware keyboards and other physical equipment.
I have only recently delved into software-based music production -- not to say that I've never used digital wav files and other kinds of samples, but they were used to add layers and special effects NOT the actual music.
I know about textures, tones, delays, envelopes, modulation, and reverbs but drones were always a mystery to me. It's also why I very rarely have used them in my music. And if I did they were always premade wav files or loops.
I just realized that I have been missing a very important element in making better soundscapes and other kinds of music.
A very big thumbs up! Cheers and Peace! I am eternally grateful and I hope my music henceforth will show improvement!
I learned something today. Very very cool.
I absolutely love this video - thank you so much. Great advice.
I enjoyed seeing the process from concept to track - thanks for the good video!
Always enjoy listening to your channel. This episode brought to mind one of my favorite bits from MST3K:
"Okay... got it? Cool. Now, hold that note. Now, hold it for an hour. Now, hold it until you get a recording contract with Windham Hill!"
I'm a huge fan of the concept of drones in music. When I started out back in the day, (before I knew what I was doing), I used VAZ Modular to create some amazing evolving drones. I really miss VAZ! I really miss those days of my noob self discovering happy accidents too. This vid has given me knowledge and inspiration to explore creating some mind-bending soundscapes. I thank you for that.
I love that you conduct with your eyebrows.
This reminds me of the soundtrack "Horizon" from Dying Light. Awesome content, thanks a lot!!
Very inspiring to watch. Thanks for sharing your artistry.
The less notes there are, the less weird overtones get in the way, in more ways than one.
GOD I hate it when I just get this super warm 808, and I realize the reason it sounds so nice is cause of a ~tritone like 2 octaves up. That can be cool, but ultimately it's limiting, especially if you're playing more notes, the likelyhood you'll want tritones on all of those is even slimmer.
This is also one of those weird gray areas btw., sometimes I hear people involve ''bad'' harmonics, but it works.
Your big fat bass can have harmonics so strong that it's dissonant with anything but basic major chords, and the same goes for atonal parts like FX/texture etc. sometimes fitting and sometimes not, what's up with that?
Cool extra tip for people who like drone bass btw., some techno producers use noise as bass, which is just a wild concept outside of cinema or a select few parts where an impact sound makes up the lower end etc., feels much like a drone. Hard not to make your mix sound crazy if it's got a lot of content, but worth trying.
If it's a really even distribution of noise any notes go on top, and our ear kinda interprets the noise as part of it, it's weird.
If it's instead much more particular noise, it can get either really dissonant and even warbly, or really stylish. I'd generally say, don't just make it a wall, treat it like a percussive part, join the kicks into the groove, can even mix in tonal bass or merely use these as accents in a tonal bassline, kinda like guitar ghost notes. Another way to ease into this is to only use them in fills, or maybe you've got a part where you wanna have the harmony kinda float and be ambiguous without the bass, you can still fill out the low end with these.
And regarding warbling, be very careful. I didn't think about it at first and suddenly noticed it, it makes sense when you consider noise = super tight clusters of sines, make multiple next to each other resonant and they warble like a semitone would, smooth or even flat works best in my experience. The low interval limit comes into play greatly here, a harmonic equivalent to the 5th will go the deepest without becoming warbly mud, besides octaves of course.
The warble can be super cool though, especially if used as a fill etc., resample if there's some randomness going on or if you wanna align it differently. Sometimes I feel I should just make my own damn channel with how long these comments can get.
Really enjoyed this, definitely has me inspired to spend some time playing with drones :) I discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have been deep diving. Such great content Cameron, thank you for sharing your experience!
Lost it at the "alternating flood" part. Thanks for the great educational and entertaining content dude :)
Brilliant,
I love the sound of your one-note-drone.
Your videos are so informative and inspiring! Thank you so much!
Insanely valuable content, as usual!
Really appreciate your talent and willingness to share your tricks and techniques for others to glean from. You've definitely been an inspiration on many levels. Keep up the fantastic work!😎
This is really awesome, and I actually watched it while having my morning coffee.
This is really valuable material for me
This was indeed useful and interesting. While I don't think of them as drones, I do this kind of atmospheric music quite a bit and I learned a lot from you. Thank you!
My tendency is have a series of partially overlapping sounds on different tracks a lot like this, with occasional riffs coming in and out. I find it pairs well with occasional acoustic/organic samples - not unlike mixing in feedback, but maybe using wind or a woodwind instrument. I like what you did here.
Thank you for showing this. This sounds really neat. There are a few things I would do differently to make it my own, but until I get a new PC, I'll just have to dream. 🙃
One thing for layers of fully sustained drones is you can create life and variety by automating their respective levels - the character of the "single" note of sustained drones will change significantly as different layers become prominent or fade comparatively to others. If you have each layer shifting its levels in different cycles, this will lead to a very organically morphing single layer. You can do this by drawing in automation or with LFO's set at slow rates.
Amazing... Like it so much!
Brilliant stuff mate!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
i admit, i didn´t yet watch the video, but reading the titile, i had to think of my fave one-note track immediately: "ain´t it funky now" by james brown, in which the rhythm guitar plays literally one chord through the whole song, only interrupted by the break in the middle - i always found this very impressive and cool... :-)
Brilliant, Thankyou
Hey that was pretty cool. I picked up y guitar and jammed to it soloing some lead guitar. Sounded dark and gloomy LOVED IT!
I love your channel, honesty and inspiration
Great vid, man. A long time Drone ambient artist, and can say you did things that expanded my angels of approach.
Thanks! For the great vids & inspiring tips.
Glad it was helpful!
I totally apprericate you as this was definitely SUPER useful and interesting. It actually got me excited opening my DAW again which I haven't done in months! Thank you!
Outstanding!
This is so cool! Id call this how to make millitary movie and call of duty music :D
That was nearly as fun to watch as it is to play with sound myself. Thanks Man.
I enjoy these types of videos. Off to play with drones now.
Loved this and yes, inspiring. Very grateful for all your content and the more varied the better - gives me more to think about!
I finally get it Cameron thank you
Reminds me of the soundtrack from the original Fallout video game. Just toss in some field recordings of a busy farmer's market or wind and you're there. Nice work!
Excellent work. I always learn something new with you, and you always inspire me to improve and create new and fresh ideas in my Music. Thank you so much.
Beautiful piece of work, and very inspiring. Your videos are so polished that it's sometimes hard to remember how many hours of noodling and experimentation and straight up knob twiddling go into something like this, and that's before you sit down and film it and edit the video. Looking forward to trying out some new techniques!
Great little video. Can I have some more, please. 👐🏻
Sounds like a call of duty menu screen or mission song. Rlly good
More of this would be appreciated!
"yes sir, can me we have s'more please" :)
Like so much this approach, it's like databroth, but with your own spices :D
Cool to see the process you used and how you made the sounds evolve. I could see the drones and added bits working well with even less drums in sort of a Johann Johannsson (RIP) Sicario soundtrack style.
Thank you so much for your work and your all around high quality videos! Your uploads regularly inspire me to get out there and create music myself.
That was awesome! Still don't know what a "drone" is in an electronic music context, but the quality of that track was great. 👍
This is such a great workflow breakdown!
Fantastic! Thanks for another very inspiring video. Very similar to how I put together some pieces. I constantly have to fight an inner 'demon' that wants to add too much 'melody' or musical variation... Particularly when I've been designing the drone elements for some time. I constantly have to tell myself to keep it simple.
I'd love to see a video where you take a few compatible drone elements and use chance/random to trigger when they play, and what octave.
Thank you !
A big thankyou to you for posting. Insightful, I understand and learn so much from you. I wish I had started this aural journey when I was much younger but the technology was in its infancy and obtuse then and I would not have gotten far. Time is running out for me, due to my late start, to get to the creative level that I long for. I have found an Arturia Microfreak, Korg Volca Drum and Zoom CDR70 are getting me closer there. Thankyou again.
really enjoyed this one. festinating to see how you put stuff together. I try to write cinematic type music and will defiantly be stealing/borrowing these ideas. thankyou for these videos