How To Make Ambient Future Garage Music | Pads and Atmosphere (Part 2)

[@adk_studios]

TimeStamp 00:00 Morning Coffee with Cameron 02:10 Subtractive Pads 06:28 FM Pads 12:40 Resynthesis Pads 15:42 Granular Pads 24:59 Epic Vocoder Tip 28:39 Making an Atmosphere 28:55 Final Results

[@intrstellr3792]

Man... what can I say 🥵🥵... I’ve waited for a tutorial like this since I started producing!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha glad to hear it! That's a big part of the channel - I try and make the tutorials I wish I had!

[@squattermelon.]

Binging old Venus videos is my favorite pastime

[@stevegriffiths9223]

Dude you could easily design a undergrad level course for a university with the detail you go into. Love your material.

[@joseeriveraa]

This guy got a bass boost on his voice, great vid as well!

[@VenusTheory]

PSP Mixbass built right in.

[@hvrmonic1337]

34:34 That camera stand reflection on your glasses looks like alien lol

[@VenusTheory]

Harold the alien!

[@outdatedmind9871]

Bro! You are the mentor i have been looking for 3 years. I really love your teaching.

[@Sharpend]

That granular pad gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it 🤧 Thanks for the vocoder tip, definitely going to try it!

[@VenusTheory]

Granular is life. And definitely do the vocoder thing, it's a great way to add a bit more movement to pads without a lot of effort!

[@Melanholix]

Manbearpig of wavetables!

[@NigelMerrick]

What a great in-depth start to this cool series. Playing around with pads and atmospheres are something I love to do, and find I can lose many hours in that absorbing world. I especially liked the vocoder approach, too. I use Reason, Dune 3, Pigments 2, Straylight, so will definitely look into these techniques. Thanks, great job, and looking forward to the next part.

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@HALCYONphoto]

absolutely epic. what's the status on the dune pack?

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it! Dune pack is a bit on hold at the moment as things are super crazy for me right now, but it is in the works! Once I finish up my next sample pack and a few commissioned sound banks I think it's project #1 on my 'do this next' list!

[@8BarLoops]

Thank you so much that UVI patch is amazing I was able to create a fantastic drone with your help. really appreciate it.

[@Onetworec]

对我的帮助真的很大，很喜欢这种真正艺术的音乐

[@ratul440]

Wow!! Will you show us how you did that bass there 34:24 ?? That's super lush!!

[@VenusTheory]

Stay tuned for next week! Bass design party time!

[@DDRMR]

My bro.. all I have to do is go to your releases prior to me subscribing to you and I find tutorials on things I've always wanted explained the way you do. It makes me so happy knowing we don't need to spend HUNDREDS on samples and can simply design these on our own. I'm very much moving away from sampling anything I can create myself with ease and you're looking out for so many producers like this! I only wish someone with your knowledge can one day do a tutorial on designing cinematics scream / alarm / trailer sounds as all I'm finding is Kontakt libraries but feel like these can be done with synthesis. You've got a massive future on KZbin brother, thanks for the 100th time for your work.

[@cyberprojectmusic]

Thanks for the tutorial. Nice to see how you make those ambient pads 👍

[@Jimmy5934-e1y]

Excellent series. Well done! I'm trying to decide which one synth would cover my needs for these sounds the best. Since only one synth is in my budget, I'm leaning towards Rapid.

[@PatrickSchouten]

Hello Cameron. Thank You for sharing your knowledge with the world. Your videos intrigued me so that I am starting tomorrow my first song for a Future Garage album.

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! No worries at all, always happy to help folks out wherever I can! Good luck with the album too! Once you have it done, feel free to share it in my Discord or something and I'd be happy to check it out!

[@lorien6678]

I am very interested in this type of music - all the way you created sounds like this is huge content for me !

[@corey4448]

Morning coffee oh, time zones)

[@VenusTheory]

It's always coffee time somewhere

[@LibriumMusic]

@@VenusTheory McCree reference?

[@EVEROUS]

Hello dad, glad to see another tutorial popping up

[@LibriumMusic]

Would have loved to see you recreate the sounds from scratch so we can really see just how exactly each step of the process affects the sound. Still an awesome video though :) Also, you made me buy an arturia Keylab 49 MKII haha (didn't get 61 because I don't like the modwheel position)

[@VenusTheory]

I was originally going to do that but then this video would have been like an hour long haha

[@firefueled]

Brilliant sound design. Been looking for how to make this type of sound. How did you do that bass? Sounds great

[@VenusTheory]

Actually covered in another part of this series all about bass design for this genre!

[@gerasimos-dimitriostheotok7071]

Cameron. You are pure GOLD!

[@VenusTheory]

Haha thanks, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@axvic]

Trying to follow along with this after 10 years on and off of music production and it made me realize how trash I am 😅Using Serum I couldn't follow along at all lol.

[@millerman7799]

Nice... Sounds very Martin Stig Andersen 'ish, a bit like something from the game: Limbo :)

[@thibautcama4224]

maaaan, so nice.. Those facecam shoots make me feel like i'm sitting right next to you, awesome way to learn and keep the attention! keep it up

[@VenusTheory]

Glad you enjoyed it! And yeah I changed the format a bit just to kinda make things a bit more personal haha. I always prefer the 'hanging with a friend' vibe/morning coffee vibe rather than the lecture from random person feel.

[@szeredaiakos]

Sure the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit approve of your mastery of the dune.

[@TheSoulSynthesis]

Wow, the series starts deep Cam! I might need to check out rapid, I really liked the first example you did there. And as far as my limited knowledge of FM suggests I have no way to get something like that with FM8 or Operator since there's no way to morph the oscillators around (if it's doable please enlighten me). I'll try to get some inspiration from this tutorial and play around with the Granulator II device for Ableton and plop the vocoder on top of that. Thanks for this, can't wait for the next parts! Cheers (with evening coffee)!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it was helpful! And for sure - while you can get something similar in FM8 or Operator, they aren't also wavetable synths so you're sort of restricted to adding movement with other things like detuning/chorus/whatever. That said, maybe mess with a patch in FM8/Operator, bounce it, then toss that in Granulator!

[@mattiabruni5463]

You can't do the same thing but if you modulate the modulators themselves you should be able to put an LFO on that

[@TheSoulSynthesis]

@@mattiabruni5463 I might try it this weekend. Fm8 sure has enough loopable envelopes do do something like that. Thanks for the heads up :)

[@TwoThreadsAhead]

Holy shit man, Super taken back by the patch done in Rapid! Wasn't familiar with that synth before this video and clearly it's a gem so thank you for sharing

[@VenusTheory]

It's a great synth for sure, reminds me a lot of my Novation Peak which I adore!

[@princeqmusic]

thank you , this is amazing, i was trying to understand how dose PENSSES make there music and this helped a lot, can you show is how is that type of music is made ,,if you have some time ,, love and respect from Dubai

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it was helpful! And this whole series is focused on that Pensees/future garage style! So, hopefully by the end of the series you should have a good understanding of how to make this style!

[@djkymaera]

This is a fantastic tutorial, been experimenting with these granular pads. I notice that when I make them, the resulting atmos seems to transpose to a different key. Any tips on how you deal with this, or is it just what happens when slowing down the audio so much. I am using cecilia 5 to stretch at about 300-400, but ive also been experimenting with the reason granular synth a bit.

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Well, it's really hard to say without watching the step by step. However, if you're playing several notes do keep in mind that stretching them does stretch out the entire melody so the key never changes, but some notes may not play nicely with others as the track goes on above the pad layers. Stretching shouldn't result in any change in pitch as long as you're not applying any detuning or pitch modulation.

[@djkymaera]

@@VenusTheory Cheers. I Shall try and make some more sounds to figure it out.

[@djkymaera]

@@VenusTheory getting better results with falcon now using your method :)

[@beane8172]

What are your thoughts on the Eventide Blackhole reverb? They brought it to iPad, and that’s where I make my music.

[@VenusTheory]

Haven't had the chance to try it out yet but heard very good things!

[@djpersonalspace2406]

Great tutorial, how would you tie these pads in to chord progressions? Do you usually play whole chords with the pads? Obviously with the granular one, the chord is already kind of in the pad

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Well, one good way to do it is create the pad using just a single note with the granular version (or use the same note across a few octaves as the source) that way you can use it as a sampled pad to create chords or changes with. Otherwise, I find just letting them 'do their thing' so long as they have enough modulation is good too as these are more often than not droning elements further back in the overall scope/focus of the track.

[@djpersonalspace2406]

@@VenusTheory Awesome thanks! You the real MVP with this stuff !

[@Bladerbotvary]

i cant wait to land a job so then i can save up for these goodies

[@VenusTheory]

It's a never ending cycle haha

[@НиколайСоколов-с6ч]

Thank you!!!!

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dantei.9661]

Let's goooo! :D

[@BlueFrog531]

Awesome series. Noob question, what is Drive?

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Great question - drive in this case refers to the amount of input volume increase into a distortion/saturation. So, in simple terms, you're 'driving' the signal harder to get some saturation.

[@BlueFrog531]

Venus Theory Makes sense. Thanks so much for putting this together!

[@ZappaBlues]

(there is a robot reflected in your glasses 😏)

[@peterkoval]

You digging Bitwig over Cubase? I've been using both, and like Bitwig, but miss some things in Cubase....

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Yeah I really like the workflow in Bitwig over Cubase by a mile, but I do miss some of the Cubase functions like more advanced MIDI control and normalize functions, but I'm sure Bitwig will only get better with time!

[@peterkoval]

@@VenusTheory I still find it much easier to make a track and be creative in Cubase. Having to learn unintuitively how to do something disrupts my creative flow. I was just in Cubase today after a week of trying to create in Bitwig, and it felt sort of cathartic.

[@LibriumMusic]

By the end of this series your camera is gonna be so zoomed in, we'll only be able to see a nose and a lil bit of stache

[@philipedesouzasantos1201]

what cubase version are you using? |= it's a lot different

[@VenusTheory]

Yo! Here I'm using Bitwig actually haha. I hop between DAWs fairly often, depends on what I'm doing exactly as each DAW has their pros and cons. Bitwig is my main DAW at the moment though for most tasks.

[@ruffgirl1776]

Sir, what software are you using

[@VenusTheory]

Bitwig Studio!

[@HITPOINTgrime]

Drink every time he says "character"

[@jasonaspy6322]

I don’t wanna die

[@HITPOINTgrime]

@@jasonaspy6322 lucky

[@F4xP4s]

Moody

[@hatesounds702]

[@graphenemusic5922]

still waiting on that Novation Peak tutorial from you!

[@VenusTheory]

Coming someday haha. I haven't really sat down and figured out how I want to do the video and especially the audio for it as I don't have a good way to route all that within OBS. But, maybe I'll just do a cool video showing some patches or something.

[@graphenemusic5922]

@@VenusTheory that will be great, or maybe you can put together a patchbank for the peak, I will deff. buy it. thx, have a great one!