Making ambient music using only the Moog Grandmother synth

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Making ambient music using only the Moog Grandmother synth

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Making an ambient song from scratch using only one synth (Moog Grandmother). I try to keep things very minimal and sparse and resist my urge to add melodies and chords 😂. The music is composed to some mountain pixel art I made the other day. #onesynthchallenge
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Brian Eno coined the term "ambient music" and I'd definitely recommend listening to his "Music for Airports" album for a good example of ambient music.
I'm using Ableton Live with some ValhallaDSP reverb plugins (Shimmer, Room and VintageVerb).
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@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

Hey synth heads! You can hear the full song at 8:36. But I suggest you watch from the start to see how it was made :). ✌️🏔

@Tyetheberious 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, are you still around? Really like your videos.

@wajobu 5 жыл бұрын

That looks like a Bob Ross painting.

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

lol I'll take that as a compliment.

@MarioTorre 5 жыл бұрын

Those happy little ambient patches !

@seanspartan2023 5 жыл бұрын

This guy is Bob Ross on a synth

@anodyneinstitute 5 жыл бұрын

This video footage is particularly stunning and cozy with that snow back there. You've crafted your own little universe and I'm glad you share with us. Also, I get the vague impression that you're already aware, but I imagine you'd really appreciate the music of Disasterpeace.

@barrnycharlton8951 4 жыл бұрын

i prefer disasterpiece

@brianreilly6545 5 жыл бұрын

Another excellent vid👍🏼 Clear and concise, a great teacher. Careful with ambient, you may never want to touch a step sequencer, quantize button, or care for a time signature again.

@evergreenroots 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you from somebody who makes and enjoys ambient music. I enjoyed how you were clear about how it's not really your style of music but you didn't trash the genre as a whole. This song is beautiful, as well as the pixel art!

@FishnMilk1 5 жыл бұрын

5:14 gave me GTA San Andreas flashbacks

@petestreet7606 5 жыл бұрын

You made something really beautiful! I'm passionate about ambient music so I was excited to watch this one. Those lower humming/warbling sounds are incredible!

@DheerajSukumaran 5 жыл бұрын

Grandmother Demo is what brought me to you channel :) loving it ever since

@pat2rome 5 жыл бұрын

Same!

@seanspartan2023 5 жыл бұрын

Same

@stormchildful 5 жыл бұрын

What a simple but also great idea to use a picture of a landscape to inspire himself. Thanks for your other videos, too.

@valdiskrebs566 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty good for your first shot at ambient! Amazing what one can do with the GM.

@cosmicreciever 5 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic, by far my favourite thing you've written. It has those chilly lonely vibes that remind me of Celeste, Stardew Valley and Hyper Light Drifter. You should do video game music!

@filmowe4289 5 жыл бұрын

I Love watching artists during their job 🤗

@seanchristophersynthesizer6999 5 жыл бұрын

I, like you, absolutely LOVE making full tracks with just one synth. Great job with the Grandma! :)

@edherbst706 4 жыл бұрын

its pouring outside there, mate. really nice to sit down with a cup tea and be productive

@metaspherz 5 жыл бұрын

I've always loved ambient music because it's not all that distracting and wonderful in the background while I write.

@defectivenull 4 жыл бұрын

the definition you gave to ambient music is actually accurate, the problem is that youtube channels don't think like that and have these playlists videos that have supposedly ambient songs but they have beats and melodies and shit

@markmower6507 6 ай бұрын

When I was a teenager I really got into Bands that made their Synthesizers sound as Noisy and Strange as They Possibly Could. As I have gotten Older, I am 52 now, I enjoy More Ambient Synthesizer Music.

@Momiyama808 5 жыл бұрын

There is a giant cloud monster walking behind the peak on the right.

@saturatedneowax 3 жыл бұрын

I see an eevee for some reason

@FUNKINETIK Жыл бұрын

Good info, I may make some Ambi music - it’s relaxing for people to listen to and also therapeutic to make. There’s another couple of reasons too - friends I’ve known for over 20 years have referred to me as Mike Ambi (not because of the genre of music, I’m seriously into minimal techno) because I’ve owned an ex-ambulance since 1999. The other reason, and that’s what brought me here, is that I’ve just got a Moog G.Mother 2 days ago. So thanks for this video and the other vids where you have shared your knowledge of this incredible synth. P E A C E : )

@mcblahflooper94 5 жыл бұрын

Ambient music always reminds me of sailing. Nice.

@erichyllemose7869 5 жыл бұрын

Video quality and consistency, great man! Love your stuff

@amusicalafro5819 5 жыл бұрын

13:00 Take me wherever this is when I die.

@matienazemy1382 3 жыл бұрын

This dude literally made music by looking at a painting. But seriously, thank you because that’s pretty inspiring.

@paradox7743 2 жыл бұрын

Ambient vally's n snowdrifts-Well done...

@diegofouche Жыл бұрын

It reminds me like the sounds in horizon zero dawn. It’s amazing!

@maxtox3 5 жыл бұрын

To make an ambient it's such a hardest challenge at the music production in my opinion. U done it well!

@MujjOMusic 4 жыл бұрын

Love it bro i totalyy agree my self a ambient producer i have ep called atmospheric vibes 😉

@FeLix-qi7ci 5 жыл бұрын

We need so much more of that!

@konopeska 5 жыл бұрын

Back to the cough sirups days... thank you))

@blood4snakebiteb253 5 жыл бұрын

Some beautiful animated visuals I found, great for inspiring ambient tracks. In the top left you can select the visual you'd like to see: www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

@johnborchardt9416 5 жыл бұрын

That's great! Really has a pastoral-Japanese-feel to it. Nice.

@aquietgarden 10 ай бұрын

Wonderful! More please!

@davidkcarpenter 5 жыл бұрын

Incredibly soothing track. Way to go!

@donaldpriola1807 3 жыл бұрын

Well done. The track reminds me a bit of the soundtrack to a wonderful movie called The Ice Storm.

@MarcWeertsMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Great video and wonderful music! Really like the introduction, it's cool to see other people’s approach to creating music. Love those reverbs, btw! 😮

@davidpiedade4136 5 жыл бұрын

Aww that was so nice of you to let us know about the different reverb configurations after my last question!

@mynameisjack0618 5 жыл бұрын

I could fall asleep to this.

@bhaveshshah2604 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers for another great video mate!! Learning a lot from this series!

@wickeddubz 5 жыл бұрын

The only dangerous thing in ambient is it can overrelax you, so you will not be able to wake up and turn it off.

@marcito9928 5 жыл бұрын

Pls make more ambient tutorials love your videos ❤

@josephwright5921 5 жыл бұрын

I think the Grandmother needs to meet your DEEPMIND “Nicicles!”

@josephwright5921 5 жыл бұрын

Bummer! I read below that you sold the DeepMind!

@freeelectron8261 4 жыл бұрын

Very peaceful. You should do more like this!

@evillano 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I just composed my first ambient piece thanks to you. God bless you, brother. Subscribed!

@countkennady4808 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting looking at philosophy in the music. Nice to see artists process.

@sunilsolanki 5 жыл бұрын

Lovely evocative sound landscapes created. Bravo!

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@SlowDescentToWild 5 жыл бұрын

Great track - really enjoyed your thought process behind it

@Natemasterflex 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, as usual. Fantastic first effort at the ambient genre.

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

thanks! yeah it's a surprisingly tough genre, cause it requires restriction.

@Rolly.Polly. 5 жыл бұрын

My first ambient project turned into an album, my mate liked it so he added drums and a few songs had lyrics. I was influenced by the dark ambient band deepression

@juncorcino 5 жыл бұрын

Definitely a fan of your work 👍🏼😎

@SufyMusic 5 жыл бұрын

great track i love it, thanks for teaching how to do also peace

@seansoblixe9711 5 жыл бұрын

nicely done....interesting mental imagery from beyond the quantum field.

@LouisSerieusement 5 жыл бұрын

Brian Eno !! :o Great quote ! I love Eno's ambient music like music for airport or the appolo album..I took so many nap with those :p Could you consider making a bandcamp so we could download your music ? If you need any help with this I would be happy to do it, but creating the design of a bandcamp page is fun imho :) Your ambient track is really really good, (like everything you did but do not think I just say that to please you :p I really mean it ::D ) Cheers and love to you !! Making this channel and your music a full time activity, as well as sharing those with us, was a blessing idea

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

thanks man! I do have a bandcamp, but I don't upload everything to it. Most of this stuff I just upload as singles using distrokid, so it goes to spotify, itunes, etc. But bandcamp has my older stuff (which is also on spotify, etc). Bandcamp page is: citizenpark.bandcamp.com/ (but yeah, it only contains older stuff).

@DavidNormanMusic 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for another great video!

@vtxpony 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

@MediaMusik777 5 жыл бұрын

you could actually even make drums too ...sine for 808 noise for snare and hi hats

@utpalkalita7391 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother! For making the ambient video..

@christopherquine 5 жыл бұрын

awesome. your newest vids are brilliant.

@etele1256 3 жыл бұрын

amazing good!

@GrantCarvalho 5 жыл бұрын

Very inspiring!

@yuqiwang8459 3 жыл бұрын

🐂🍺，love the work you did, I learned lots of things from this channel recently.

@on_certainty 5 жыл бұрын

v fun

@jensschettler1732 3 жыл бұрын

You are a geniis like tomita or wendy carlos.

@CaalamusTube 5 жыл бұрын

...seems as if this week's Tune at the end was significantly longer. I like that✓

@bowaswell7735 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome Track！！！

@chatolars 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice

@GiorgiAkhalaia 3 жыл бұрын

why you neglect rainy sounds from your window?

@KNHSynths 5 жыл бұрын

This is a real challenge! Each time I try something ambient with nothing special catching the attention, no real melody nor chord progression, each time I come to a certain point when I ask myself "ok, this is a cool intro but when will I start the real piece ? !" For me it's like modern art, it is hard to stay just on the fragile line between cheating and intellectual fraud :-) Far from Bach or beautiful sequences of TD, I feel unsecured. My bad certainly! But I am grateful for the effort you have made!

@Ekebis 5 жыл бұрын

tomorow is my birhday, make happy please, I love your channel and you make me think even more to buy the grandmother synth, but it's to expensive to deliver to brazil ;-;

@wannahavesomeberries 3 жыл бұрын

Me: Granular synth Moog: Grandmother synth

@FeLix-qi7ci 5 жыл бұрын

I really want to See You making Ambient music with a free Plugin. DRC for example

@senhorlampada 5 жыл бұрын

DRC is great for that! Or for anything, in fact :D

@FeLix-qi7ci 5 жыл бұрын

@@senhorlampada yeah i think so too. DRC could be annoying because of the noise in the free PC Version. But helm oder Tal would be great too!

@dep1001 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice! I'm thinking about selling my DSI Mopho Keyboard which I also use as a MIDI controller and getting the Grandmother instead. Only thing is I don't know how capable it is as a MIDI controller compared to the Mopho Keys. But I definitely love the sound of it! :)

@Whiskel 5 жыл бұрын

See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.

@demmaikseingropp 5 жыл бұрын

thats my new favourite series! :) maybe you can make something with the new neutron by behringer that way?

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

I would if I had one :)

@stevebuchan6642 5 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross does pixel art

@leethium6982 5 жыл бұрын

Noise osc sound better that monologue's one mayne with the highpass filter

@bikesridei5939 5 жыл бұрын

Do a clams casino type beat. Would basically be this style beat with simple drum pattern and delayed vocal chops

@whitenoisefromelectronicto1728 5 жыл бұрын

you are great

@HotStrange 5 жыл бұрын

If you have the resources try this with the Toraiz AS-1 is Roland SE02

@laputauk 5 жыл бұрын

Get to 100k subscribers!!!! Great job

@andreasvarousiadis9464 5 жыл бұрын

amazing video. could you give us the pixels art? it looks fantastic

@SunnyBear 5 жыл бұрын

Hang on, so you just learned pixel art and you're already on that level? I'm hella impressed! What software are you using?

@kuba200703 5 жыл бұрын

Guess its ableton

@SunnyBear 5 жыл бұрын

@@kuba200703 You can make pixelart on Ableton??

@kuba200703 5 жыл бұрын

Oh I thought u meant DAW. Yeah sorry my bad. I whink u dont really need special software to pixelart

@SunnyBear 5 жыл бұрын

@@kuba200703 No prob, man! My guess is that he is using one of the Adobe programs, but it would be nice to get an insight. :)

@MaxPerley 5 жыл бұрын

i have a problem my grandmother makes background noise when i plug it into my sound card ... ane help please ??? thx

@vincentdoorman3151 3 жыл бұрын

The main motif reminds me of the Free Willy theme song

@joelcarrillo294 Жыл бұрын

Can you share the Boards of Canada patch, please?

@Alexurquiaga12345678 5 жыл бұрын

This makes me think C418 used that style of synth to male the alpha soundtracks for minecraft

@coopercook5839 4 жыл бұрын

Moog city is one of his songs

@nickyevglevski1856 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice ambient bro. Why when i use my gm with any external plugins there is always delay.cant get it compensated.whats the key?((

@markmower6507 6 ай бұрын

Wait I 🤔 thought that the Grandmother was Polyphonic?! Maybe I am thinking of the Matriarch?! I like Polyphony. I had a Micro Moog once, Many Moons and Decades Ago. It was stolen a month after I bought it. I am looking into buying some some Synthesizers now that I have saved up some money. Which of the newer Moogs are Polyphonic?

@DanielStepp 4 ай бұрын

Moog One and the all-but-confirmed, soon to be announced Moog Mirror

@markmower6507 4 ай бұрын

@@DanielStepp Thanks!

@sadcold 5 жыл бұрын

its rainy time

@aseomg 5 жыл бұрын

I was on the phone a minute ago with the GF, and while your video was playing 'quietly' in the background she said: What are you listing to? Is that spa music? I've never been to a spa, so i guess she thought your ambient music was relaxing or that's just what they play..lol

@timmeeeeey 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent! But instead of watching the gif you only need to look out your window, isn't that snowy view really inspiring as well? :))

@matthewtopen6235 5 жыл бұрын

Did you decide to make an ambient track because it was raining? The weather tends to affect my compositions too!

@NutritionalZero 5 жыл бұрын

belle maison à laval, toé

@DivKid 5 жыл бұрын

I thought this was just a great MIDI controller ;)

@fossphur 5 жыл бұрын

👏😻

@DG-xb8xx 5 жыл бұрын

What do you use to draw your animations?

@BougieButler 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, do you have a newer macbook? Does your audio interface require a usb connection or are you able to use converters? I'm about to buy a new laptop but I'm worried the connections will be weird with my focusrite interface. Any response from anyone would be appreciated :)

@onceuponasynth 5 жыл бұрын

I have a 2014 MBP (pre-usb-c) and my interface uses the old usb. Hopefully someone else can chime in with the new ones, but I'm pretty sure that a usb converter cable should work with older interfaces.

@MichaelMorrisseyNYC 5 жыл бұрын

I have one. You need a USB-B to USB-C cable. It's simple and it works fine.