Let's build an... Ambient Set

Making ambient involves rethinking music, which helps us see our DAW and mixer in new ways. In this video, we'll make rhythms that are free, note sequences that are happily jumbled with clip blocks, random granular textures, drones that are moved by sound, and minutes-long automation that can touch the whole project. Let's walk thru a music-making process and see Bitwig's secret powers in action. 🌊🦸‍♀️

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
00:40 Trying a rhythmic synth that feels a little free
03:12 Ambient = Reverb, and Flanger+ with Convolution is better than another $450 guitar pedal
04:22 Sampler goes granular to find atmosphere from any audio file
06:56 Voice Stacking means randomized layers
14:44 Recording a linear musical line, then breaking it into smaller pieces
16:44 With next actions and clip blocks, arrangement logic comes to the clip launcher #indeterminism
21:51 One track can even hand out notes to other tracks, keeping only one playing at a time
24:52 Using modulators to change the sound of a track whenever another track is active
27:28 Getting rid of notes completely with a droning, always-active Polymer…
31:30 …and putting it on an FX track, so mixer sends are now doing phase modulation and PWM (duh)
36:32 Modulators and controls from the project-level can touch all tracks and elements

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