I'm super late to the party here but i just put this on while having a bath after a very long day at work. It really hit the spot, wonderful stuff 💆♂️
These are remarkably good and a really nice insight into the kinds of things possible with this machine. Very intrigued, might need to be in next year's shopping list.
This is great! I received mine about 3 weeks ago and have not had time to start using it, but I have been watching tutorials, it is good to see it in action on these songs, this complements the tutorial and closes the circle, we learn a lot and enjoy this as well!!! Thanks!🙏
Thank you! I'm going to have to re-watch/listen to Blade Runner sometime, because people talk about it when describing synth sounds/vibes a lot and I haven't listened to or seen it in like 20 years! (Never saw the new one either, so I should get around to that as well!)
i just bought mine and im super surprised how well the synth engines work for non ambient music!!! running it through a over drive pedal and a bass amp has given me some amazing tones this will def be a live set main stay
i got one from preorder and just messed with it for an hour and loved it. now its waiting in a box after moving to different city, but your tracks and others i heard from Ø makes me sure i gonna love it:) its beautiful that you can get so dirty and experimental sounds from it while it can easily sound so heavenly. i dont find it so usual without using external effects and i love versatile boxes but still not being all over the place
@@SonicCartographyafter i wrote here i started playing with it and gosh, it can be instant autechre and yoshimura machine. i am wondering which quantization mode u used most here, because i am struggling sometimes with choosing right one.
@@bonwowo It varies from song to song, but I'd say generally 1/1 for the drone and noise layers, 1/1, 1/4 or 1/8 for chord progressions in the pad layer, and 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 for more melodic patterns in the atmos layer.
Love the functionality and sound. I don't know what it is about leaving USB out as a cost savings. I bet most people would pay a little more for it. As it is, you have to unplug your keyboard in every time you want to record to your DAW or have to get a splitter.
I'm not sure what you're referring to here-plugging in a MIDI keyboard to the Ambient and then wanting to connect the keyboard to a DAW simultaneously? In any case, USB would certainly be nice for other things as well, like transferring samples, presets, etc.!
Love your instructions and seeing them come to use here. I have learned the power of this machine quickly thanks to you! Would be nice to hear your thoughts on using it together with other gear. Eg something that generate drum sounds
@@DavidRinnan Thank you! Glad to hear that! To answer your quesiton, I've used it in a very non-ambient way with my SmplTrek, just using the latter as a simple drum machine (any sampler or drum synth could serve the same purpose-the SmplTrek was just what I had around), and I've played my guitar with it a bit, but that's about it so far. To be honest, my favorite thing about it is being able to use it as a standalone device. I like the simplicity and portability of it by itself, and although there are limitations to it, I think there's a lot you can do within those limitations (not to mention limitations are usually a good thing to have for spurring creativity).
These were all amazing man, really enjoyed this! I just got my Ambient-0 too and I am loving it. Your sound design tutorial that just came out the other day on the Sonicware YT channel blew me away! Seriously one of the best synth tutorials I've seen on the Tube man! And I've watched A LOT lol Awesome work with this dude, mad love love and mad respect from the rats!! 🙌🐀
You’re welcome and thanks for watching them! This answer always feels like a cop-out, but it feels unavoidable in this case: it depends… Specifically, it depends on how much and how often and in how many layers you’re wanting to switch things up manually (I mean through live playing of the keys). The more you do, the harder it becomes to accomplish, because the more you have to switch back and forth between layers to do it. Conversely, the less you do, the more doable it becomes, thanks to the hold function and arpeggiator (which can be combined with the hold function). I may cover some aspects of this in one of the upcoming videos I’m planning for my channel.
I noticed the table top- is it solid wood or veneer? Do you find the color of the background important? I noticed you centered the unit well- everything in its' proper place'- right? Is that important to you? Back to the table- is it actually a wall? It looks like the unit may be mounted vertically on a wall- not horizontally on a table. I have many more questions. 🙃 JK. Very nice vid.
That is an artisanal, hand-crafted, heirloom desk made of 100% genuine laminated particle-board, procured from a boutique local furniture store called Amazon.
Looking up other videos they dont eeem to match this the incredibly complex sounds is what im looking for especially with the time and the white noise flutters. Reminds me of max cooper/lapalux type stuff. Is this all achived on the synth alone or do you use other equiptment with it
Thank you! The sound is all from the Ambient by itself, directly recorded from the synth to an audio recorder. I don't know if there's anything that special about most of the individual sounds I'm making in and of themselves. Rather, I think a lot of the magic of the synth (and most of what is unique, if anything, about what I'm doing with it) comes down to the ability to layer sound and arrange music with four separate layers, each with its own sequencer track, and each of the three synth layers (layer four is a sample-based noise layer) able to have its own synth engine structure, wave table, parameter values, LFOs, etc. That creates a lot of possibilities for layering and juxtaposition of complementary or contrasting notes and sounds, where the outcome can be more than the sum of its parts.
They're hard to compare because other than lending themselves to ambient being Livens, they're very different-the Texture Lab being a monotimbral granular sampler/synth with one sequencer track that you'd usually want to use in conjunction with other gear and the other being a multitimbral synth with four sequencer tracks that you can use as a standalone groove box.
I feel like the Texture lab is aimed to be more of an Effects unit as well. But I'm sure the ambient 0 does great at that too, especially if you can add the shimmer reverb to external sources
Yes, I just recorded it directly to an audio recorder and didn’t do anything in post. Almost all of the songs make use of both the internal reverb and master FX (mostly delay). The underlying samples on the noise layer are all factory presets.
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This is amazing work. You can just put it on in the background and let the whole thing play out. Thank you for taking the time to make this.
Thank you for taking the time to listen!
I'm super late to the party here but i just put this on while having a bath after a very long day at work. It really hit the spot, wonderful stuff 💆♂️
Thank you kindly, sir! Always nice to have you stop by, late or otherwise!
These are remarkably good and a really nice insight into the kinds of things possible with this machine. Very intrigued, might need to be in next year's shopping list.
Thank you-that’s nice to hear!
Awwww heck this is a brilliant set of tunes- the Ambient looks like such a versatile machine, particularly in your hands 😊😊😊
Thanks for the nice words! 😊
This is great! I received mine about 3 weeks ago and have not had time to start using it, but I have been watching tutorials, it is good to see it in action on these songs, this complements the tutorial and closes the circle, we learn a lot and enjoy this as well!!! Thanks!🙏
Thank you-that’s nice to hear! I hope you’re able to use it soon!
Same here. Got mine a couple days ago, watching the tutorials. The pieces on this video, very inspirational! Thank you!
Beautiful! 😊 I hear lot of "Blade Runner" and "Tron" vibes ❤
Thank you! I'm going to have to re-watch/listen to Blade Runner sometime, because people talk about it when describing synth sounds/vibes a lot and I haven't listened to or seen it in like 20 years! (Never saw the new one either, so I should get around to that as well!)
That is why I got this one. Vangellis.
I just wanted to say thank you again for the tutorial series. It really helps a lot. 😊
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!
well done, awesome! i played guitar along the way, just beatifull
Thank you so much! And nice, I have to try doing that more (playing guitar alongside the Ambient)
Great stuff!
Thank you!
Beatiful!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
i just bought mine and im super surprised how well the synth engines work for non ambient music!!! running it through a over drive pedal and a bass amp has given me some amazing tones this will def be a live set main stay
Nice!
i got one from preorder and just messed with it for an hour and loved it. now its waiting in a box after moving to different city, but your tracks and others i heard from Ø makes me sure i gonna love it:)
its beautiful that you can get so dirty and experimental sounds from it while it can easily sound so heavenly. i dont find it so usual without using external effects and i love versatile boxes but still not being all over the place
Hope you’re able to use it soon!
@@SonicCartographyafter i wrote here i started playing with it and gosh, it can be instant autechre and yoshimura machine. i am wondering which quantization mode u used most here, because i am struggling sometimes with choosing right one.
@@bonwowo It varies from song to song, but I'd say generally 1/1 for the drone and noise layers, 1/1, 1/4 or 1/8 for chord progressions in the pad layer, and 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 for more melodic patterns in the atmos layer.
I can't wait for this comes out
Oh, I thought it was out already!
@SonicCartography not around my area it's not
@@Matthew-pq3us Hmm, I have one, I've had it for a few months. I ordered it from them directly.
Gut gemacht.❤❤❤
Awesome!! ❤❤❤
Thank you! 😊
Nice work
Thank you!
Dreamy ❤
Thank you! 🙂
These are great. You should really make a patch pack we could purchase or something. I would love it.
Thank you! Maybe I’ll do that one of these days!
@@SonicCartography pleaseeee
I agree! I would purchase it too!
very cool
Brilliant, , sonicware should hire you to create patches or demo videos
Thank you! I have done a few videos for their channel on a freelance basis: youtube.com/@SONICWARE/search?query=Daniel%20rose
Love the functionality and sound. I don't know what it is about leaving USB out as a cost savings. I bet most people would pay a little more for it. As it is, you have to unplug your keyboard in every time you want to record to your DAW or have to get a splitter.
I'm not sure what you're referring to here-plugging in a MIDI keyboard to the Ambient and then wanting to connect the keyboard to a DAW simultaneously? In any case, USB would certainly be nice for other things as well, like transferring samples, presets, etc.!
Love your instructions and seeing them come to use here. I have learned the power of this machine quickly thanks to you! Would be nice to hear your thoughts on using it together with other gear. Eg something that generate drum sounds
@@DavidRinnan Thank you! Glad to hear that! To answer your quesiton, I've used it in a very non-ambient way with my SmplTrek, just using the latter as a simple drum machine (any sampler or drum synth could serve the same purpose-the SmplTrek was just what I had around), and I've played my guitar with it a bit, but that's about it so far.
To be honest, my favorite thing about it is being able to use it as a standalone device. I like the simplicity and portability of it by itself, and although there are limitations to it, I think there's a lot you can do within those limitations (not to mention limitations are usually a good thing to have for spurring creativity).
@ yeah I agree with the stand alone thing. It’s easy to get lost for a couple of hours ;) without drums
Arriving today
Hope you enjoy it!
These were all amazing man, really enjoyed this! I just got my Ambient-0 too and I am loving it. Your sound design tutorial that just came out the other day on the Sonicware YT channel blew me away! Seriously one of the best synth tutorials I've seen on the Tube man! And I've watched A LOT lol Awesome work with this dude, mad love love and mad respect from the rats!! 🙌🐀
Thank you, rats! I really appreciate you saying that!
Hi ! Thanks so much for your demos, tutorials & songs
You’re welcome and thanks for watching them! This answer always feels like a cop-out, but it feels unavoidable in this case: it depends… Specifically, it depends on how much and how often and in how many layers you’re wanting to switch things up manually (I mean through live playing of the keys). The more you do, the harder it becomes to accomplish, because the more you have to switch back and forth between layers to do it. Conversely, the less you do, the more doable it becomes, thanks to the hold function and arpeggiator (which can be combined with the hold function). I may cover some aspects of this in one of the upcoming videos I’m planning for my channel.
@@SonicCartography Thank you so much for your reply and your work in general
Gr8
I noticed the table top- is it solid wood or veneer? Do you find the color of the background important? I noticed you centered the unit well- everything in its' proper place'- right? Is that important to you? Back to the table- is it actually a wall? It looks like the unit may be mounted vertically on a wall- not horizontally on a table. I have many more questions. 🙃 JK. Very nice vid.
That is an artisanal, hand-crafted, heirloom desk made of 100% genuine laminated particle-board, procured from a boutique local furniture store called Amazon.
@@SonicCartography Hahaha well that explains it.
i will cop one of these in 2025 for sure
Hope you enjoy it!
Wow
Please Sonicware make the Lofi 12 XT or SmplTrk in this form factor and deal a fatal blow to TE. Such a no-brainer.
I do like having the screen and the velocity sensitive pads on the SmplTrk, though!
Looking up other videos they dont eeem to match this the incredibly complex sounds is what im looking for especially with the time and the white noise flutters. Reminds me of max cooper/lapalux type stuff. Is this all achived on the synth alone or do you use other equiptment with it
Thank you! The sound is all from the Ambient by itself, directly recorded from the synth to an audio recorder. I don't know if there's anything that special about most of the individual sounds I'm making in and of themselves. Rather, I think a lot of the magic of the synth (and most of what is unique, if anything, about what I'm doing with it) comes down to the ability to layer sound and arrange music with four separate layers, each with its own sequencer track, and each of the three synth layers (layer four is a sample-based noise layer) able to have its own synth engine structure, wave table, parameter values, LFOs, etc. That creates a lot of possibilities for layering and juxtaposition of complementary or contrasting notes and sounds, where the outcome can be more than the sum of its parts.
So how do ya feel compared to the texture lab ? And I’m sure they make a good pairing
They're hard to compare because other than lending themselves to ambient being Livens, they're very different-the Texture Lab being a monotimbral granular sampler/synth with one sequencer track that you'd usually want to use in conjunction with other gear and the other being a multitimbral synth with four sequencer tracks that you can use as a standalone groove box.
@ yeah I have most the other ones but these 2 based off this response I’d probably go for the ambient 0 myself ty
It's probably the safer and more broadly useful pick-the Texture Lab is more niche!
I feel like the Texture lab is aimed to be more of an Effects unit as well. But I'm sure the ambient 0 does great at that too, especially if you can add the shimmer reverb to external sources
@ I love a shimmer is on this one ☝️
Do these Sounds all come from the Liven Ambient?
Yes, I just recorded it directly to an audio recorder and didn’t do anything in post. Almost all of the songs make use of both the internal reverb and master FX (mostly delay). The underlying samples on the noise layer are all factory presets.
Thank you and great work!
@@spielor0815 Thank you!