One important technique you are skipping over for this sort of music, and general 90-00s era electronic music is that producers would regularly sample themselves. They would work around polyphony limits, and limited effects processors by creating sounds, sometimes whole motifs, as they wanted to with their gear, recording them into the sampler, then using the sampler and their effects again to further process the sound, and continuing until they created what they were imagining. Many of those super washy pads and drones are the result of multiple resampling passes

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

Cheers Craig! 100% on the resampling process - I have another video on a similar technique for the washed out pads via sampling. Nothing like the sound of transposed pads coming out of an old sampler

this plus a nicely chopped amen .. i could trip to this till november

@jyudo1334

16 күн бұрын

❤ i like gentler breaks like think, hotpantz and apache.

Best tuts man

@prod.mbsavage9572

13 күн бұрын

Yo Cxdy , nice to see you here bro.

@Thought-Forms

9 күн бұрын

much love Cxdy!

I just learned my slash chords a few days ago, applying them when using my Triton plugin, now everyday can be Dreamcast day 😀👍♥️🌱

11:05 that transition is super smooth 👌 My "trick" for that gritty sound is to send the dry source sound to a parallel mixer track with a bitcrusher / sample rate reducer and then a subtle reverb on it. So you can freely choose how much grittyness you want

@Thought-Forms

15 күн бұрын

Love the tip mate! What are you typically using for a bitcrusher/sample rate reducer? A Tal-DAC or something?

@aquanodemusic

15 күн бұрын

@@Thought-Forms nothing fancy, I use the free kiloHearts bitcrusher for that (which also has a knob for changing sample rates) but for me it does the trick! For reverbs I like to use Impulse responses from all kinds of hardware units, it takes some digging but you can find nice ones on the web. For modern reverbs, Native Instruments Raum is now free and that sounds really nice on almost anything.

@aquanodemusic

15 күн бұрын

Nothing fancy, I use the free kiloHearts bitcrusher for that (which also has a slider for changing the sample rate), but it does the trick! For reverb I like to use Impulse responses from all kinds of hardware units, it takes some digging but you can find many good ones on the web. For modern reverbs, Native Instruments Raum is now free and that sounds nice on basically everything.

@aquanodemusic

15 күн бұрын

(Had some trouble with posting this comment, hope it doesn't show up multiple times) Nothing fancy, I use the free kiloHearts bitcrusher for that (which also has a slider for changing the sample rate), but it does the trick! For reverb I like to use Impulse responses from all kinds of hardware units, it takes some digging but you can find many good ones on the web. For modern reverbs, Native Instruments Raum is now free and that sounds nice on basically everything.

@coldbumby

15 күн бұрын

Thanks 👍

I had a great collection of 90s ambient hardware - a Proteus module, a Vintage Keys module and a Wavestation AD which was the hardware God of Ambience. Sample some bird sounds to mix in and out and instant 90s flashback 😂.

I was studying to Thom Brennan before watching this and had to go check that I had stopped my music, nice job

I've probably said this before, but I have an Alesis Quadraverb GT. I got it because I wanted a hardware multi-effect, has that "sound" you get from old hardware effects, could do some simple sampling, and because it was the cheapest QV I could find. Also, for "authentic" samples of the era, the Internet Archive has a collection of sounds of old sample CDs that no longer exist.

@Ulukitkan

16 күн бұрын

Like Zero-G

@djshire1984

16 күн бұрын

@@Ulukitkan Oddly enough, Zero-G does still sell some of it's old content on it's website, and I encourage people to still support the companies that made those samples by buying said samples if they are available.

@Ulukitkan

16 күн бұрын

@@djshire1984 some of them were removed because of copyright, but yes - you are right. could you name any other old sample cds? I'll try to find them, I love digging through old samples

@djshire1984

16 күн бұрын

@@Ulukitkan not off the top of my head, but if you watch enough of Thought-Forms, you'll find some great suggestions.

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

The GT is solid, I think it's essentially the exact same as the "non GT" - but with a pre-amp slotted in as the first FX on all the configs (which I imagine you could turn off if desired)

Relaxing and Calming musics 🎵🕊 h

@Thought-Forms

15 күн бұрын

💪

you always release a video when i need it, thank you for making all this great content. I love watching it, and it always gets me inspired to start making stuff.

@Thought-Forms

15 күн бұрын

love to hear it mate - that's the ultimate goal! take that spark of inspiration and go get after it 💪

That's a very good video! The limitations of the equipment of the 90's expands my creativity endlessly.

The best drops, every time 🎉❤

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

my dude!

Fantastic, thanks. Subscribed as I want to go back through your content and see more in 90s. Autechre, Boards of Canada?

Love this channel, I was wondering if you'd ever thought about doing a video on the music from Shenmue? Some of the best tracks (imo) are the ambient ones that aren't even on the OST release, especially 'Free 1'. I've never been able to track down the exact patches, but apparently it was mostly done on a JV-2080, Tr-Rack + Ensoniq MR.

@Thought-Forms

2 күн бұрын

Mate I love Shenmue! Great OST indeed. Will never forget playing the OG on Dreamcast, and renting Shenmue 2 on the OG Xbox....playing all weekend. Never looked into how it was all composed, but will look for sure. Cheers!

Am I only one that wishes we could have drumless versions of ambient jungle classics?? 😮

@Thought-Forms

9 күн бұрын

that would actually be slick! im sure one of the 500 AI services out there could make this happen....I may test this out for fun on a few classic tracks LOL

my favorite genre, thank you for this

@Thought-Forms

14 күн бұрын

lets goooo!

Cool video man, new subscriber! FSOL lifeforms is one of my favourite old albums. Still sounds wicked now, i remember being completely fascinated when i found that album. All the way back in the day on tape cassette. Nice tips too dude thanks 🎉

@Thought-Forms

14 күн бұрын

Thanks friend! Totally, still blown away when I listen to Lifeforms to this day. Top 5 ambient album hands down

@paddingtonsnare987

14 күн бұрын

@@Thought-Forms definitely bro it's amazing. I have a few of their tracks on random playlists. To listen to the whole thing at once is quite the trip! I'm just getting back into working with music, set up a studio and getting used to Ableton when I have time off. Great tips man, keep em coming, and thanks 👍

ur channel rocks

@Thought-Forms

14 күн бұрын

thank you mate!

beautiful

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

thanks chris!

@ChristopherGun

16 күн бұрын

@@Thought-Forms thank YOU for your content 🙏🏻

magick

Just wondering, have you tried out the DSP56300 EMU ? Basically loads the real Virus Ti Cards. Sounds mega for certain genres. Would love to see that make an appearance on your channel someday. Also really enjoying your channel, I used to make music all the time, but as of now I pretty much stick to strickly 90's sample CD's and ilegal samples, so I can't exactly "release" them now :( Whole genres were formed from ilegal samples, such a shame how things have become. :(

@Thought-Forms

9 күн бұрын

Yea! It's pretty much spot on, great emulation. Heard a few others may be coming down the pipe from those dudes too. Would love to see a Supernova emulation. Sample based production is tuff. You can always throw them up on KZread or Soundcloud!

Love

@Thought-Forms

15 күн бұрын

🙏

bro are you the one who used to be called dj bobby light? I'm searching for this song "glimmer" which was credited to you if so. Do you have it uploaded anywhere? its possibly one fo the best drum and bass songs I ever heard

@Thought-Forms

2 күн бұрын

that track is long gone mate, sorry :(

@JL-vk1rs

22 сағат бұрын

@@Thought-Forms it survives on this playlist my friend: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lHhrrcGRf9LdoZc.html great work anyways :)

what daw is that??

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

bitwig studio

what plugin do you think comes the closer ? I heard Valhalla Vintageverb was great but I didn't click with it

@user-op2ik9dh3j

16 күн бұрын

digital systemic giant verb

@landonh3535

16 күн бұрын

Goodhertz Megaverb. I can match it to my Midiverb II, which it was based on.

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

was not a big fan of valhalla either - but have heard great things about Goodhertz Megaverb mentioned by landonh

@leethium6982

16 күн бұрын

@@Thought-Forms thanks you all !

@matrixxman187

15 күн бұрын

Goodhertz Megaverb all day. It nails that Alesis vibe

how to make ambient - play someone elses preset at low notes. SNORE

@Thought-Forms

16 күн бұрын

oh yikes

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol

14 күн бұрын

@@Thought-Forms but also true