Ambient Tutorial Using Only FREE Plugins!

Let's produce an ambient track from scratch using only FREE plugins so we can level the playing field and just focus in on the music and the production techniques.
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0:00 Only Free Plugins Introduction
3:10 Tutorial Start
3:57 Making a Pad in TAL NoiseMaker
10:11 Chords for Ambient Music
13:43 Supermassive Ambient Settings
15:32 Vital Ambient Bass Pad Tutorial
21:50 Stochas Sequence Tutorial
24:40 Surge XT Pluck Tutorial
31:04 Soundscape Pad in Vital
40:15 Final Result
41:20 Audiomodern Panflow
42:34 Final Thoughts
46:02 Ending
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[@s1gns0fl1fe]

What your your favorite FREE plugins? 🤔

[@fenexj]

Vital is vital.

[@mondostrat]

Super Massive, TyrellN6, & Zebralette

[@AUTOSAD777]

The Analog Obsession stuff is great. Also, Melda production and Spitfire Audio.

[@iamelohym]

Giant Verb, TAL-Reverb-4, Overheat, Surge XT.

[@moondustweb]

Omnisphere,Granulator

[@ryan.noakes]

"Bob Ross of Ambient" I like it.

[@MikeRenouf]

Great vid as always Chris. Just a minor correction though in case any beginners get confused - when you increase the voices of TAL from one to six, its changing it from monophonic to polyphonic, rather than mono to stereo. Probably a misspoken point in the midst of flow 👍

[@addictedtocraic]

"The Bob Ross of Ambience' is so damn true. Thank you mate. After years of Psytrance production you've actually connected a lot of dots for me. You da man. I LOVE this channel.

[@romanq8927]

Yes, to create music, beautiful music, you do not need to have super magical plugins or a professional studio. After all, everything beautiful is already in us. You just need to be able to pull it out of yourself and tell it with the words of music, and You successfully did it and proved it! All ingenious is simple! But we often don't notice it. Thank you for your hard work and for sharing your experience and knowledge with us. All the best to you and new inspirations!!!

[@TheBurdenOfHope]

Well said. I see too much cork sniffing in the ambient community ❤

[@johncaccioppo1142]

Beautiful work, Chris, as always! This one was a treasure chest

[@billydenkmusic]

Wonderful instruction, Chris! Always inspiring, too!

[@symeondimakis366]

Thank you so much Chris! I have been eagerly waiting for this video for some time now and just opened up ableton to tag along. I'm sure this will make a lot of people's introduction to ambient music production even smoother than you have already made it for many of us. You are the GOAT!

[@rosew1ther]

Just stumbled across your channel, really happy to say you're uploading some real nuggets of tutorials and content. A lot of tutorials on here can be somewhat disingenuous and clickbait-y but you completely delivered and kept me interested and I can't wait to consume more of your content!

[@fenexj]

Thanks for supporting the broke men , amazing shit

[@dominikhaering]

I like your euphoric way of ambient presentation although ambient is more about coming down ;)

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

Just a small suggestion - maybe your camera overlay could sit in the bottom right corner where not much clicking happens? The first Vital part was a bit obscured.

[@gylp2]

i really resonete with this free plugins rocks🔥👍

[@JimCim]

Great tutorial. I work only with free plug-ins, so this was valuable to me. Thanks.

[@ralph_s]

I love the idea you had with this video! It does show that you do not need to spend much money to make something great!

[@AmbientSpirit-nh7ir]

You remind me of a mad scientist playing with a bunch of crazy chemicals. It's AWESOME!

[@denyats294]

Thank you master. Sure, it's not easy, but next level is to make ambient track with some free daw. Anyway, 10/10 video as always.

[@RobertLiveMusic]

Just inspiring as always. It is a great help for those of us who are just starting out, being able to follow your tutorials with free tools. I really like Vital for its way of creating graphics. Thank you very much as always.

[@VitorGuerreiroVideos]

This was a great watch (again!) :D! I've been out of sound stuff for a while, but it's nice to see that Valhalla still does their free classics, Vital keeps improving, TAL still releasing their free "experiments" and the other ones I had never heard about before! Thanks for sharing! Really neat that you made a thing showing your general workflow. Love the vibes as usual! :)

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Thanks so much!

[@bobdevore24]

These are the plugins I use. So many powerful free tools!

[@MrAlottof]

Now you cooking. I pick up things when you do this tutarial that i never (i think) gonna dream up my self. Hats of to you and all you out there, pls be a patreon....

[@jjbing3]

You’re the 🐐

[@owenfrozen]

Thanks for the video! Please make more with free plugins!

[@Bhodisatvas]

I love your perpetual excitement about what you do, inspiring 🙃

[@SebastianBeyer]

good job man

[@abhishekc1458]

Great Job , i can't belive using free plugins can make this

[@synkrotron]

a really worthwhile video, Chris 👍 all I need now is the S1gns Factor 😉

[@davidmcgirr]

Outstanding as always. I must use that wavetable randomize in Vital. Don't think I'll ever hit the skill ceiling with Vital.

[@arcade_mntra]

Hey Chris another banger. The ease with which you made the TAL Noisemaker patch was amazing. When you make a part 2, I have some free plugin suggestions that are worth a try. - Odin II synth by TheWaveWarden. 11 oscillator types to select from, 3 filters, effects rack, huge mod matrix and an arpeggiator. It's my go to synth after Vital these days. HY-Plugins has free versions of their Pro plugins - HY-Poly free (synth) - HY-SEQ32 free (sequencer, generates midi file) - HY-ESG Euclidean sequencer (free collab plugin with Bedroom Producers Blog) MidiMonitor is a free plugin useful for recording the notes/pattern generated by Stochas. My free DAW doesn't provide midi note extraction from plugins.

[@jayholm3285]

HY-ESG Euclidean sequencer thank you !!

[@gylp2]

thumb one, surge xt, Giant Verb and vital is my fovorite free vsts for ambient

[@tomwawer5714]

Instant sub. Im on Linux Ardour and open source plugins. Lots of fun!

[@alexringess]

You made an amazing video once again ^^ Thanks so much. You know, I love free tools. I'm a big fan of Vital. I have TAL NoiseMaker and SurgeXT installed and ready to be used but, and that's really unfortunate, I don't use them as often as I should. It's hard for me to figure out what will be the final result with NoiseMaker for example. And these Audiomodern tools. I didn't know that they exist. I downloaded them when I saw what we can do with them (there is not only Panflow but also Gatelab and Filterstep) so many thanks to put these tools to the light.

[@ElbowEddie]

Loving your channel - new here to software, so free is important. Would love to see you rocking Pendulate if you havn't already.

[@tamalitogirl]

Thank you so much :´) Congrats for entusiasm and good teaching :D Greetings!

[@robmlisanti]

Yeah Im still using Garageband, but one of these days I'll upgrade just dont have enough hard drive space right now plus I find it very easy to use for me

[@MikeRenouf]

The best piece of gear is whatever you enjoy using!

[@robmlisanti]

Oh Vital and Supermassive are my fave free plugins

[@federicovalmassoni3827]

At the moment my favourite one is VITAL, sooo intuitive 👍🏻

[@Revament]

Valhalla supermassive is so much for 0 cost.

[@ElbowEddie]

Pendulate!

[@Emily_M81]

lol! I was looking at Stochas while this was going and you pulled it out XD Now do this with a free DAW :D :P Vital is such a treasure to us all, I bought the Pro version and then subbed after that. It's so amazing that it's free in the first place, I just wanted to support it ongoing. Thanks for sharing! Bitwig's Arpeggiator is one of my favorite "free" plugins - it's a GREAT step sequencer that you can easily modulate all the things. And then Bitwig has a step-sequencer modulator lol. Xzibit approved. "Yo dawg, I heard you liked step sequencers. So I got you a step sequencer for your step sequencer so you can step sequence while you step sequence."

[@kostanowhere7121]

your videos are so inspiring ! Thank you! What about Odin2 synth?

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

That's a great idea! I should do a video about it.

[@fenexj]

Just finished the tutorial and WOW what an incredible sound you have shown us how to make. Thank you dude, incredible work. (noob Q) Can anyone shed some light on how to capture/record the Stochas output to a midi track? Thanks again. Edit: Figured it out, I was trying to record the Stochas channel, recording the Surge XT track gave my the notes. weeeeeeeee!

[@UpKickZ]

It makes it look so easy, but at the same time it's so difficult.

[@happytreeborders9530]

Thx tot this video Is discovered Vital and suddenly a whole new world opened...

[@danzil8057]

Hi Chris! In your example in TAL Noisemaker sounds only one sub osc because with crush knob you turned off both osc 1 and 2

[@johnhazlett3711]

Although it's a bit of a steep learning curve, the DAW, LMMS is free.

[@lorien6678]

14:00 - oh my.....

[@kamilkowalczyk9369]

Audacity - best free software for me :)

[@intolucidity7220]

I was using free plugins on a linux machine for a while some are underrated.. I mean have you ever heared of Transition Plugin by CodeFN42? Its free on KVR :) i reckon you'd make some interesting music with it

[@cihankenar1]

What is a good free spectrum analyzer ?

[@TheValueOfN]

19:22 I'm loving this so far... would it not make more sense to make your circular window substantially smaller?

[@TheValueOfN]

26:51 Again, I'd rather see how you're routing in Live than your face, (no offense). :)

[@TheValueOfN]

This was extremely inspiring!

[@PEBeaudoin]

I envy your Drone Zone t-shirt.

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

BOOM! store.somafm.com/collections/frontpage/products/drone-zone-tshirt

[@TheValueOfN]

Me too.

[@TheValueOfN]

@@s1gns0fl1fe $60 though... fuck that.

[@TheCubeMusic]

Is Vital infinite lol 😂🎉

[@wellnesswithjon]

When I added Stochas, the plugin didn't have the flashing indicators moving across the top and didn't provide output to the Surge channel that I pointed to it. Can't find how to activate Stochas. Help!

[@addictedtocraic]

Was that really 45 mins? I was lost in that.

[@nihiqallam5616]

How to wided the sound cus it always sound thin compare to serum

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Use unison, chorus, panning…these are all ways to “widen” the sound. Serum has a good sound though. Hard to duplicate that!

[@_DRMR_]

Too bad not all of these run on free operating systems.

[@igorbeuk4068]

But they will soon after Windows goes Subscription 😉 it's already making so much problems to Pioneer Companies that made this possible and it doesn't mean nothing to MS and Windows is...2025. January will be turning point and shock for many .

[@MrSkunky2009]

Stunning yet simplistic .... The Only way... !!! Valhalla !!!

[@ElbowEddie]

Loving your channel - new here to software, so free is important. Would love to see you rocking Pendulate if you havn't already.