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review by Mike G @ Ambient Music Guide' Best Albums of 2016:
The Synphaera sound is deeply Berlin school-influenced but with an ambient dance sensibility; a smooth, panoramic style of cosmic psychedelic bleep music that French label Ultimae Records originally championed. The Meridian album by Ascendant (label founders Chris Bryant and Don Tyler) is quintessential ambient trance: lush and mysterious music with spinning arpeggios above gliding pads and discreet rhythmic pulses. “Arcology†is a dark-edged stunner with its haunting chorales, odd delay effects and sound design that has an uncommonly deep depth of field.
Thanks for posting this!
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Thanks for posting this Andorra!
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Hi and Namaste all, My name is Manny officially but pronounce Manni and Im from Delhi, India . I think im only one from India who listen to Psybient/Psychill music. Haven't met anyone from India who listen to such music genre. It all started after my first Albert hoffman trip in 2012 . I have started listening from Cell, CBL and many many more..After trip i started to listen Psychill/Psybient music. This music give me Dreamy and altered state, Which i love . I used to listen free music before, never thought of buying their album, it just didn't come to my mind. Recently i got to know about Bandcamp and now i'm able to Support my Artists, Atleast somehow i can thank to them for their tremendous effort for creating music. Peace and Love!
Manny! - Good to see you here. It's Don - from Ascendant Welcome.
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Beatport - bankrupt and will be sold soon ....according to wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeatportEstablished in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. X. Sillerman's company SFX Entertainment for a reported price of slightly over $50 million.[2] SFX Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1, 2016, and Beatport was put subsequently put up for sale, with an auction scheduled for May.[3]Yes, the writing has been on the wall for Beatport for some time now...
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Excellent work! Had this playing in the background and it grabbed my attention
Great - thanks for the kind words. It was really great to be able to team-up with SOMA.FM to do that special release.
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Cheers guys - thanks for the comments!
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Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Edgar Froese's passing. We did a version of Tangerine Dream's "Love on a Real Train" in his honor. It debuted yesterday AM on SOMA.FM.
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I have not tried those Korg legacy packs, but have owned the hardware back in the day. I really liked the Wavestation once you got away from the factory presets - lovely sounding pads. I miss that one. I spent last summer slowly starting to get back into hardware - both synths and fx - and one thing I found is that if you take a soft-synth and use a hardware reverb and/or delay on it, it goes a long way toward improving the quality of the voice - regardless of where it comes from.
Having said all that, the best advice ever comes from Sebastian Mullaert (Minilogue): "Use the drum machine you have." It's a fantastic metaphor for using the tools at your disposal to get rolling, learn them inside and out, and see where they can take you.
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Voxengo develops top-quality plug-ins and it just so happens they offer a few freebies to get your feet wet, one of which happens to be a stereo-width plug-in: http://www.voxengo.com/product/stereotouch/
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That is a massive tune with some massive sounds. Awesome.
Thanks. Hopefully people here can look to it as far as arranging and layering, but if you like it too - win/win!
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Headroom (IMO) varies depending on the arrangement or density of a track. Starting with a kick @ -10 or -12, depending on your workflow seems a good start though.
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If you're worried about the occasional "over" I don't think there's anything wrong with having a limiter on the master fader and having it at zero to stop them. It's also a good way to whack on some level if you're bouncing out a pre-mastered ref and you just want to hear it with some gain applied. Just remember to back it down when you are creating your final pre-master bounces.
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I've just picked up an Eventide Space. I'm sorry NI Reverbs... huge difference in quality, depth, and transparency. Wow. Highly recommended.
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Hello all
I've been trying (feebly) for a while to create a psychill-type ambience and bass track, but whenever I try to synthesise nice warm, spacious pads, sustained bass and atmospheres, they come out metallic and too spatially focused. I've tried increasing polyphony and detuning, widening the stereo field, EQing out the mid frequencies, using chorus, delay, reverb... etc etc. I just can't seem to get it right!
Does anyone have any tips?
If you check the first track here (Remains) https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/releases- it's pretty much what you describe: sustained bass, warm pads, atmosphere and sequences.
The main thing is to, in your arrangement, make sure you aren't doing too much in any given frequency range. Make sure you spread the material out over the full range. You especially don't want too much overlap in the low-mid (mud) or the high-mids (harsh). Also, make sure to concentrate on your source sounds before you apply FX or else you're just taking a not so great sound and making more of the same.
The other thing is, some sounds, you'll want to use your FX inline, other times on a send, to get different depths in your sound field. Delays work great in both places, but an analog delay (say Minifooger) or any "colored" delay (VST) on send can be a great way to glue sounds together - so you can have a wide variety of sources, but they'll all sound like they're in the same "space" if you do little tricks like that.
Best advice though, use your ears and follow where they lead.
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I'm interested to hear how you guys start a new track. Where do you start and what's the process to build the track to complete?
Usually I start with a concept or an idea of an arrangement, and then get some sounds together. If it's an Ascendant track, we almost always have a conceptual idea down first, and then try to realize that through passing a Live session back and forth and then I'll start to create an arrangement based on the parts we've got and then we fine-tune.
The main thing I find is that if I have an idea or concept, it's getting to the emotional core - that feeling you want to have when you're listening to the track - and then don't let go once you have it until it's done.
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Thank you guys for the kind words and insight.
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It's somewhat different from previous Ascendant works, a bit more uptempo, maybe? I like what I hear but I need more time with it for it to click a bit more. First impressions are expectedly positive though.
This seems to be one of the slightly divergent albums I'll be able to "get" and enjoy.
How are you getting on with it?
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Martin Nonstatic - Back on Earth.
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I forgot to wish you luck with your label venture. Is it going to be a platform for your own (Chris and Don's) work only or are you thinking of working with other artists too?
We are treating Synphaera as a real business and a real label. Open to other artists, absolutely.
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We get all kinds of comments with Ascendant, but with this track in particular, we've had comments of people having all sorts of reactions to it, spontaneous and otherwise: https://ambientascendant.bandcamp.com/track/glass-desert-4
(I don't know why this track specifically. There was no different intent or anything.)
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Thank you Andorra!
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With Source Transmission we found ourselves exploring the birth of the cosmos, and the origin of all things.
With Æthereal Code, we wanted to explore what comes next, so as remnants of the initial Source Transmission emerge from the cosmological drift, a new epoch begins with the assemblage of the Æthereal Code, which are the repeating frequencies, patterns and resonance - the very code - that is the fabric of space, time and matter.
And there is another album coming to complete this trilogy. But we'll save that for now.
If anybody has any questions or comments, we'd love to hear them. As always, we couldn't do this without you. Here's a great review if you'd like to read more.
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Thanks for the heads up Phaze47. Will definitely give this a listen. His last EP was sublime.
Let me know what you think!
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That's a great read, and very interesting for anybody interested more in the business-side of things. I love Bandcamp and everything they do and stand for.