Ambient Collective is back
BlueJozz finally manage to get through his hosting problems, and the Ambient Collective website is now completly back !
To welcome that, there is a “Winter/Xmas” collaboration project going on, fire up your synths !
Archive for December, 2005
The ultimate Ambient Synth ?
Zero-G just released Outer Limits, a new virtual instrument powered by Native Instruments Kompakt, that will be one of the most waited present for Christmas to all the Ambient musicians !
Or maybe you will not wait and order right now this 5 Gigs and 500 sounds library patiently hand crafted by Ian Boddy, one of the finest synthesists, from an incredible and very impressive gear list.
What they say :
OUTER LIMITS is Ian Boddy’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed MORPHOLOGY Kompakt instrument but this time he has delved deeper and darker than ever before. Every patch in this fantastic collection will stimulate your creativity. The range of sounds this instrument is capable of is truly amazing, from shimmering pads, to mysterious drones, crystalline digital manipulations to dark distorted atmospheres, menacing mechanisms, evocative resonances, surreal sound effects, complex cascades, formant sheens, dark disturbing horror, analogue waves, amazing space textures, strange vocal synthesis and of course, sounds from the Outer Limits of space and time. Patches this complex put many other synths to shame! And you can layer EIGHT of these at a time to create incredibly complex soundscapes.
Categories include: Ambient Loops, Analogue Waves, Chamber of Horrors, Click & Glitch, Deep Space, Dense Soundscapes, Digital Drones, Digital Manipulations, Distorted Views, Heavy Drones, Machine Dreams, Minimalism, One Shot Synth FX, Outer Limits, Surreal to Real, Transcendental, Twisted Pads, Vintage Synth Atmos, Vocal Transformations and White Noise Atmospheres.
The demos sound amazing. So, you’ll wait or not ?
Technorati Tags: synth, vst, soundscapes
Ambient Hood
There is a new kid on the block (blog ?) in the just launched Ambient Hood blog, as announced yesterday by Bill “Wind and Wire” on the Ambient Way mailing list. You’ll find (as here) the usual categories like reviews, events, shows … and also an online forum.
Just like here it’s the begining and pretty empty, just like here, it’s gonna grow !
The more we are, the more fun we’ll have ! Welcome !
The Space collaboration Project
This is the first release of the Ambient Collective group and the complete 16 tracks are freely available to download.
“Take a journey with us from the birth of the Solar System to the edges of our realm.”
This Space collaboration is feature some of the best Ambient Artists out there, not in the order :
Austere, DRT, Bluejooz, Altus, Jujigen, Not Your Average Hippy, Chris Melchior, Silvercord.
The complete record is two hours of excellent music, and your can get it at Archive.org: Space Collaboration.
A New Keyboard for Christmas
Houra ! We’re in December now, and all this month I’ll recommend a few exceptional gears to the Ambient musician that is sleeping in you !
To begin with, nothing more natural than a keyboard ! But not an average one, I’m talking here about an incredible USB/MIDI Master Keyboard done by CME, that is called the UF.
Those incredible keys are far different from the regular ones that we know, here no plastic, no cheap knobs, here we are talking aluminum case, quality sliders, sequencer remote control … the list is too long !
So why don’t you do like my friend Patrice and get one for yourself ?
Technorati Tags: keyboard