The secrets to making a track from only ONE note
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- Howdy! Today we're going to talk about drones and how you can turn an idea from a single note into a finished cinematic cue.
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0:00 Howdy
0:25 End Result Preview
0:44 Meet Quantum
1:37 Starting Off
3:06 Enhancing Drones
5:03 Complimentary Layering
7:16 Duplicating Sounds
10:41 Arranging Drones
13:44 Creating A Final Cue
17:34 The Final Result
19:34 Closing Thoughts
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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!
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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.
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.
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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.
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!
Dude that end result sounds super dope! (Just like all of your tracks)
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 🙏 ✨
Sounds amazing. Love the percussion in this too👏👏
Your videos are so informative and inspiring! Thank you so much!
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!!
I love your channel, honesty and inspiration
I absolutely love this video - thank you so much. Great advice.
Loved this and yes, inspiring. Very grateful for all your content and the more varied the better - gives me more to think about!
Very inspiring to watch. Thanks for sharing your artistry.
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.
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!
I enjoyed seeing the process from concept to track - thanks for the good video!
This was a very nice tutorial on making a nice Cinematic Cue. It's nice to have in the box tutorials too. Sounded great!
Man I love your channel. I understand just Enough to follow along, but it’s just highly entertaining… thanks for the content.
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.
Loved it. Really useful stuff. 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.
Great master class! Thank you. Cheers Dave
Thank you for your help! My music is growing and you are one of the reasons 🙏
Glad to be of service!
I smiled, which I never thought I would do after watching 10 minutes of a drone video. Very very well done!
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.
This is such a great workflow breakdown!
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!😎
Thank you, that was indeed very helpful and inspiring ! Loved this video. :)
JUST AMAZING !! THANKS FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE 🙂
Amazing... Like it so much!
This was excellent! Love to see more like this
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.
Brilliant stuff mate!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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Please keep making stuff like this!
Refreshing. Great 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.
I love this! Thank you!
Insanely valuable content, as usual!
Your sarcastic undertone and especially the intro's are hilarious man. Some humor + good lessons + good coffee, what's not to like
Really liked this !
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!
Brilliant, Thankyou
Love this so much!
Superb Content thank you!
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!
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!
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 😂.
Learned a lot on this one. Thank you Venus
the finished track is brilliant!
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!
Great vid, man. A long time Drone ambient artist, and can say you did things that expanded my angels of approach.
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!
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
That was great! Learned a lot!
I do, in fact, understand now why my drones suck 😂 So many good things to try and none of them overly complicated. Thanks!
That was nearly as fun to watch as it is to play with sound myself. Thanks Man.
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.
I learned something today. Very very cool.
Outstanding!
Really appreciate your help keep it coming cheers 👌😎☮
I like drones, making drone tracks, and your vid and drone work!
Thanks! For the great vids & inspiring tips.
Glad it was helpful!
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!
Thank you much. Very helpful.
This is really awesome, and I actually watched it while having my morning coffee.
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. 🙏
Like all your videos, this was chock full of both useful concepts and practical advice on how to put them to work. Your videos keep inspiring me to make things, so thanks Cameron! Also, in the best way, the intro to this short track reminds me of Cliff Martinez's Solaris soundtrack. You rock, man -- keep up the dope work.✌️💜
I'm starting to understand drones more now. They're so powerful when applied well
Lost it at the "alternating flood" part. Thanks for the great educational and entertaining content dude :)
Muchas gracias!!!
This is really valuable material for me
first of all great video. It was very entertaining and enjoyable. But I also wanna say thank you because you just gave me an idea and im about to start a new track with that single note concept.
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
Awesome content. And you cited another awesome youtuber's channel. Community win! That's a sub, right there.
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! 🤠
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.
That is so inspiring!
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 enjoy these types of videos. Off to play with drones now.
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 !!!
that is a sick piece!
Glad to discover the channel recently. Subbed. What are you using to get THAT voice over sound?
I love the sound of your one-note-drone.
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.
Pure talent !!!
Hey that was pretty cool. I picked up y guitar and jammed to it soloing some lead guitar. Sounded dark and gloomy LOVED IT!
Good stuff man. Cheers :)
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.
great ideas and awesome track
Thank you !
Love your content 😍😍😍😍
This is the kind of content I love
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.
Seeing content like this really inspires me to make music