The secrets to making a track from only ONE note

Howdy! Today we're going to talk about drones and how you can turn an idea from a single note into a finished cinematic cue.
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1:37 Starting Off
3:06 Enhancing Drones
5:03 Complimentary Layering
7:16 Duplicating Sounds
10:41 Arranging Drones
13:44 Creating A Final Cue
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@@Phosphor_Sco He probably means it's costing him plug-in money. I'm in the same boat. Oh gotta have that one (the one that's not FREE), and there I go. That's why I am drinking Folger's coffee and not the fancy stuff our friend above is drinking. 🤣🤣 Lord help us.

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[@falaghsepehr5504]

Believe it or not, I felt like I was in a COD MW2 mission listening to the piece you created!

[@uw0tm838]

No, I don't believe you.

[@HealyHQ]

I believe you.

[@NickBatinaComposer]

still not sure if I should believe u

[@vjmcgovern]

Should i believe it guys, or should i not

[@aspekt7631]

Highly believable.

[@jeffsipe_]

14:44 Came for the content, stayed for the extremely fresh dance moves. Thanks for this breakdown, the use of the trance gate on the complimentary layers has already unlocked some ideas! I'd love to see more stuff like this from you.

[@shannonia81]

I do, in fact, understand now why my drones suck 😂 So many good things to try and none of them overly complicated. Thanks!

[@RealityStudiosInc]

Some neat ideas to stick in the arsenal and a very cool finished cue

[@electropunkzero]

One of my favorite things to do is use a loop pedal and jam on the guitar. I do something similar to this where I will just pick one note and drone on that and build it up. I will also play a single chord and see how many different ways I can jam on top of it to get different sounds. One of my favorite chords is a 6 like a GMaj6 (G-B-D-E). This lets you play to the G major or to the relative minor, E, because the chord actually has all the notes to behave like an E minor 7 (E-G-B-D). You can switch between the moods over the same chord to really get the most out of it.

[@actualkevin]

Cameron I worked in the Fac. Ed. (non-student full time) about a quarter of a century ago. Your considerable efforts are paying off. This video is a fully-packed lesson that requires study and re-viewing to unpack. It’s a zip file of knowledge bomb. Well done, and much appreciated.

[@nenoff]

Thank you for your help! My music is growing and you are one of the reasons 🙏

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to be of service!

[@morgan0]

soundhack ++spiralstretch is really great for drones in phase vocoder mode. stick literally anything in and get a pad out

[@morgan0]

also colourcopy is great for nice sounding delays

[@JP_Idols_of_Torment]

Excellent work. Vibes of score from BBC “The Planets”. Side note: I originally stumbled upon you a while ago as one of few sources for Bitwig content. But man, you’ve entered into the upper class of overall music content. Sincere high five.

[@TOEC]

At 10:15 my mind hears the low end go down, but when you bring it back up, my mind wants it to go lower. It's so frustrating to still know so little about music that I can't just sit down and chase this inspiration. Really great, and obviously inspiring (for me) video. thank you!

[@martingoldmannmusic]

Cameron, you are the only channel where I stop a video, try out something new, be happy about the idea and come back to watch on. Thank you!

[@VenusTheory]

Ayyyy that's exactly what I want to hear. Glad to be of service! 🤠

[@BrofUJu]

Just bought VPS Avenger and can't wait to try to do a similar thing all within one instance of a plugin, lol

[@VenusTheory]

Ha enjoy! I've heard Avenger is nuts!

[@BrofUJu]

@@VenusTheory some of the built in waveforms and stuff are amazing, and you can route anything anywhere, looking forward to tinkering

[@markanderson1313]

That was interesting but how do you get several instances of Quantum to play simultaneously in Kontakt ? I can only seem to get one sound at a time 🤔

[@daevkeli4543]

Recently watched your statement on the tough side of producing your material. Let join everyone who has commended you and your work. You display a strong commitment to music that we truly appreciate.

[@EximiusDux]

Fading out the DAW window over your own recording was a nice touch. It's so simple but keeps things very clear without it looking cluttered.

[@brandtreppond2167]

I'm starting to understand drones more now. They're so powerful when applied well

[@rafsandomierz5313]

This track reminds me heavily the soundtracks from the "Aurora Watching" German third person stealth shooter, very old video game title at least feels influenced in some way.

[@auryle]

Dude that end result sounds super dope! (Just like all of your tracks)

[@novakjovanovic7313]

I love it, it feels like it would be the perfect tune for a menu screen in a modern warfare style fps game... I got inspiration from this... I'm going to use these ideas for my intros in the techy progressive trance tracks that I make.... I would normally be slack by looking for drone samples but you have shown how easy it is to actually make and with that I can have more control to make the drones sounds fit rather than searching for the right drone sample... Thank you!!

[@FerdBerphle]

I was playing with a long dronish setting in Pigments just last night. Trying to find the right balance of change and ear fudge. The idea of creating a sequence to mess with this layered type of sound is such a great idea. You did a demo with Stochas that seems like a perfect way to add some variation into the mix. You do such a great job of seeding us with ideas that can go so many places. I have done some short video pieces a while back and have a basic appreciation for what it takes to produce content like this. I also love the touches of things you do visually (the old Pentax lens cap for instance). I’m 65 and find it all quite stimulating mustache squarepants 😂.

[@Nineven]

I found that Portal (by Output) really helps to make my creative workflow quicker and easier in terms of adding variations and layering sounds with themselves through effects, instead of having to manually automate various effect plugins and such. It's not a cheap plugin, though. Thanks for the inspiration. 🙏

[@toddjbradshaw]

@Venus Theory Thanks for the video sir. A question for you if you can remember off the top of your head. The pulse synth that used in the DUNE3 lib right around 16:00. Which one, or library is that? I have several libraries and cannot seem to get my hands on it. Thanks again for the great content, and teaching. I've learned a lot.

[@midsoulmusic]

I love every nickname you use, Moustache Squarepants

[@jessejburton]

Really enjoyed this, definitely has me inspired to spend some time playing with drones :) I discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have been deep diving. Such great content Cameron, thank you for sharing your experience!

[@exitthelemming145]

I never thought I'd type the following sentence: I heard an ambient track I really enjoyed. Kudos to VT for that and for his usual very insightful tips on general sound design

[@stickster]

Like all your videos, this was chock full of both useful concepts and practical advice on how to put them to work. Your videos keep inspiring me to make things, so thanks Cameron! Also, in the best way, the intro to this short track reminds me of Cliff Martinez's Solaris soundtrack. You rock, man -- keep up the dope work.✌️💜

[@Terribleguitarist89]

As a dry, sarcastic, and self deprecating individual, this channel is amazing. Perhaps one day I'll go from Terribleguitarist to TolerableMusician with this wealth of info. Sidenote, @8:00 my brain instantly went, "bahn bahn baun on da Autobahn....". 😅

[@friesiamans1966]

i admit, i didn´t yet watch the video, but reading the titile, i had to think of my fave one-note track immediately: "ain´t it funky now" by james brown, in which the rhythm guitar plays literally one chord through the whole song, only interrupted by the break in the middle - i always found this very impressive and cool... :-)

[@polyskies7487]

really enjoy the content hope u do some modular synths tutorials in the future

[@VenusTheory]

No spoilers but I've got something on the way soon-ish

[@brandonallen5566]

Cameron, thank you so much for what you do with this channel! Your passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge come through in every video. You're really helping to shape me as a producer and sound designer, and I'm sure that's true for many others! Keep it up bro!

[@chrisrussell1318]

Thanks for insight into your soundtrack world! I've been following you just recently and you have been introducing me to so much good stuff! I really enjoy making this kind of stuff and this is an excellent tutorial of new ideas! Thank you for continued inspiration 🙏 ✨

[@nobrains6107]

I'm a bit late to this one, but I've found that Cableguys' Halftime is a fun tool for this sort of thing, particularly adding some unpredictable but not random movement to the low end.

[@EarleMonroe]

3:01 Could’ve sworn he said “bland-scape” and my first thought was, “Hey, it wasn’t that bad. And that’s the point of this video, right? Learning to spice up drones.”

[@Deathwhisperer13]

Hey my favourite moustache on the internet, i have a question. I happen to have the same midi that u are using. Do you have a problem with the infinite knobs being jumpy and not registering the movement properly. If yes, did you fix it somehow? Are there any know solutions except from opening it up and rubing the knob contact with industrial alcohol . Thanks in advance.

[@amansingh-lj3tg]

where can we listen to the final track. Its so amazing and makes me think stuff :)

[@NigelMerrick]

Dang it, Cameron, you let my best-kept secret drone-making instrument thingy out of the bag LoL Seriously, I love everything that Emergence Audio have put out so far, and am eagerly waiting for them to relieve me of my money when Cello Textures comes out in June. So glad to see them getting some well-earned publicity, especially from one of the best out there, such as yourself :-)

[@VenusTheory]

Haha well hey, now the playing field is leveled out for everyone I suppose. Was really impressed with Quantum and may have to check out their other libraries when time allows - glad you enjoyed the demo!

[@NigelMerrick]

@@VenusTheory Yes, the demo was great, and it gave me a lot of ideas for projects that I'm currently working on, so thx for that. All the EA libraries are great, with some awesome surprises in there, such as the bird whistle and steel tongue drum sampled instruments that sound like nothing you'd expect, given what they are. Violin Textures offers some very crunchy sounding but useful sounds, and Soprano Textures adds some more ethereal elements that can be layered in too. All in all, they're my favorite Kontakt libraries right now, and highly affordable.

[@mrkd4del]

This was a very nice tutorial on making a nice Cinematic Cue. It's nice to have in the box tutorials too. Sounded great!

[@kevincourcey813]

Really helpful. Sometimes I get stuck thinking I need to "find" the right drone, when what I need to do is "create" the right drone. Like your process of slowly building in the missing pieces. Hearing what's missing is a tad tricky, but I'll work on it.

[@LonnonFoster]

Beautiful piece of work, and very inspiring. Your videos are so polished that it's sometimes hard to remember how many hours of noodling and experimentation and straight up knob twiddling go into something like this, and that's before you sit down and film it and edit the video. Looking forward to trying out some new techniques!

[@jordan5250]

This really does inspire me to get out there and make something awesome. This was a brilliant lesson with an incredibly satisfying end result. You could have told me that was a Reznor/Ross track and I would have believed you. I also appreciate the tasteful sponsorship. It highlights the product well without being a sales pitch. Please keep making stuff like this!

[@bricelory9534]

One thing for layers of fully sustained drones is you can create life and variety by automating their respective levels - the character of the "single" note of sustained drones will change significantly as different layers become prominent or fade comparatively to others. If you have each layer shifting its levels in different cycles, this will lead to a very organically morphing single layer. You can do this by drawing in automation or with LFO's set at slow rates.

[@thevalueofn6994]

I'm a huge fan of the concept of drones in music. When I started out back in the day, (before I knew what I was doing), I used VAZ Modular to create some amazing evolving drones. I really miss VAZ! I really miss those days of my noob self discovering happy accidents too. This vid has given me knowledge and inspiration to explore creating some mind-bending soundscapes. I thank you for that.

[@jfroines]

I'd like to work on some drone stuff, trying to get good textures that evolve but stay "droney" specifically for the purpose of playing live ambient guitar stuff over. Drone creation ideas abound!

[@olawfhjorth9985]

Great vid! Got Quantum a while back and love how the presets are instantly usable. I have Luftrum Lunaris as well but for my music it usually needs more tweaking to fit. Got inspired to do more stuff with Quantum now! Just been so busy with bigger epic fantasy stuff.

[@afrohawk]

The tonal bends repeating every so often provide all the drama needed to move forward, great idea. Would love to hear a big, heavy thick sound every 12 or 16 bars, like the garish feeling watching Bob Ross draw a huge brown tree in the foreground of the most stunning background ever, and then quickly realizing it's perfect. Anyways, great video. Thanks.

[@cassetteo]

I am actually in the midst of starting a drone project but I leave a chord playing the whole time and add some nice harmonies

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

The less notes there are, the less weird overtones get in the way, in more ways than one. GOD I hate it when I just get this super warm 808, and I realize the reason it sounds so nice is cause of a ~tritone like 2 octaves up. That can be cool, but ultimately it's limiting, especially if you're playing more notes, the likelyhood you'll want tritones on all of those is even slimmer. This is also one of those weird gray areas btw., sometimes I hear people involve ''bad'' harmonics, but it works. Your big fat bass can have harmonics so strong that it's dissonant with anything but basic major chords, and the same goes for atonal parts like FX/texture etc. sometimes fitting and sometimes not, what's up with that? Cool extra tip for people who like drone bass btw., some techno producers use noise as bass, which is just a wild concept outside of cinema or a select few parts where an impact sound makes up the lower end etc., feels much like a drone. Hard not to make your mix sound crazy if it's got a lot of content, but worth trying. If it's a really even distribution of noise any notes go on top, and our ear kinda interprets the noise as part of it, it's weird. If it's instead much more particular noise, it can get either really dissonant and even warbly, or really stylish. I'd generally say, don't just make it a wall, treat it like a percussive part, join the kicks into the groove, can even mix in tonal bass or merely use these as accents in a tonal bassline, kinda like guitar ghost notes. Another way to ease into this is to only use them in fills, or maybe you've got a part where you wanna have the harmony kinda float and be ambiguous without the bass, you can still fill out the low end with these. And regarding warbling, be very careful. I didn't think about it at first and suddenly noticed it, it makes sense when you consider noise = super tight clusters of sines, make multiple next to each other resonant and they warble like a semitone would, smooth or even flat works best in my experience. The low interval limit comes into play greatly here, a harmonic equivalent to the 5th will go the deepest without becoming warbly mud, besides octaves of course. The warble can be super cool though, especially if used as a fill etc., resample if there's some randomness going on or if you wanna align it differently. Sometimes I feel I should just make my own damn channel with how long these comments can get.

[@rickhickman2730]

I smiled, which I never thought I would do after watching 10 minutes of a drone video. Very very well done!

[@wishcloudstudios]

Thank you for showing this. This sounds really neat. There are a few things I would do differently to make it my own, but until I get a new PC, I'll just have to dream. 🙃

[@smokedsalmon665]

I totally apprericate you as this was definitely SUPER useful and interesting. It actually got me excited opening my DAW again which I haven't done in months! Thank you!

[@rhodium2971]

Thank you so much for your work and your all around high quality videos! Your uploads regularly inspire me to get out there and create music myself.

[@BF-up5xw]

This was indeed useful and interesting. While I don't think of them as drones, I do this kind of atmospheric music quite a bit and I learned a lot from you. Thank you! My tendency is have a series of partially overlapping sounds on different tracks a lot like this, with occasional riffs coming in and out. I find it pairs well with occasional acoustic/organic samples - not unlike mixing in feedback, but maybe using wind or a woodwind instrument. I like what you did here.

[@larrybwoy2970]

Lost it at the "alternating flood" part. Thanks for the great educational and entertaining content dude :)

[@debeshyouveheard1987]

I love that you conduct with your eyebrows.

[@spheriax]

Your sarcastic undertone and especially the intro's are hilarious man. Some humor + good lessons + good coffee, what's not to like

[@novonmusic]

How does one control the phasing issues / correlation meter of such wide, spacial sounds?

[@namagenshu]

Cool to see the process you used and how you made the sounds evolve. I could see the drones and added bits working well with even less drums in sort of a Johann Johannsson (RIP) Sicario soundtrack style.

[@spacemanbenman]

We out here making TOWERS 2: Electric Boogaloo

[@brucegammon5844]

Really appreciate your talent and willingness to share your tricks and techniques for others to glean from. You've definitely been an inspiration on many levels. Keep up the fantastic work!😎

[@metaspherz]

Thank you for this very detailed look into something that I know very little about. I mostly use hardware keyboards and other physical equipment. I have only recently delved into software-based music production -- not to say that I've never used digital wav files and other kinds of samples, but they were used to add layers and special effects NOT the actual music. I know about textures, tones, delays, envelopes, modulation, and reverbs but drones were always a mystery to me. It's also why I very rarely have used them in my music. And if I did they were always premade wav files or loops. I just realized that I have been missing a very important element in making better soundscapes and other kinds of music. A very big thumbs up! Cheers and Peace! I am eternally grateful and I hope my music henceforth will show improvement!

[@craiggilroy2216]

This is pure gold! Thank you for making these videos. For someone that knows nothing about Sound Design and would love to try and learn, you’ve made this much less daunting. Thanks again!

[@peterlepahin]

Just starting to write a production music album composed of drone music, so this video was super useful to me. Thank you for all your great content!

[@lordweevil]

Fantastic! Thanks for another very inspiring video. Very similar to how I put together some pieces. I constantly have to fight an inner 'demon' that wants to add too much 'melody' or musical variation... Particularly when I've been designing the drone elements for some time. I constantly have to tell myself to keep it simple. I'd love to see a video where you take a few compatible drone elements and use chance/random to trigger when they play, and what octave.

[@ckjjclan]

Man I love your channel. I understand just Enough to follow along, but it’s just highly entertaining… thanks for the content.

[@powder_1998]

More of this would be appreciated!

[@twitch451]

"yes sir, can me we have s'more please" :)

[@davenichollsmusiclife]

Yo! Mustache Squarepants! Thanks for this, fabulous! One particular sound is exactly what I need for an upcoming song wot I rote! but the overall tutorial is also fab! Keep up the good work! x

[@davenichollsmusiclife]

I've just realised I have a couple of questions, one of which you have probably been asked a hundred trillion times but what is the DAW you are working in, and what is the instrument/patch that is playing the top pitch bend downwards note you are using. If you mentioned it I missed it all three times I've watched your video. At least it increased your viewing numbers .... maybe ...... 🙃

[@careyvinzant]

Always enjoy listening to your channel. This episode brought to mind one of my favorite bits from MST3K: "Okay... got it? Cool. Now, hold that note. Now, hold it for an hour. Now, hold it until you get a recording contract with Windham Hill!"

[@mredben]

Nice Tutorial. Did you play such more dance tracks live? On Ableton Push 2 or something like this?

[@markMelgeorge2845]

really enjoyed this one. festinating to see how you put stuff together. I try to write cinematic type music and will defiantly be stealing/borrowing these ideas. thankyou for these videos

[@Damiens_music_studio]

Hey that was pretty cool. I picked up y guitar and jammed to it soloing some lead guitar. Sounded dark and gloomy LOVED IT!

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

I thought I was the only one who initially thought Ricky's last name rhymed with Heinz! Took a number of videos to finally hear it pronounced properly (the ending of Martinez). :-P His arrangement tricks are so good! Also I really enjoyed this video, drones are super awesome when done right. But holy that bass texture/rattle is so awesome, how did you do that!?

[@shinyisshiny7780]

great video! one of my favorite techniques for drones and the like, is resampling my layers in full, then pitching that down an octave... adds a nice earthy bed underneath.

[@WayneMcKenzie]

A big thankyou to you for posting. Insightful, I understand and learn so much from you. I wish I had started this aural journey when I was much younger but the technology was in its infancy and obtuse then and I would not have gotten far. Time is running out for me, due to my late start, to get to the creative level that I long for. I have found an Arturia Microfreak, Korg Volca Drum and Zoom CDR70 are getting me closer there. Thankyou again.

[@feyblemusicchannel]

Thank you for this, I’m getting more & more into cinematic scores & wanting to create it. This will definitely giving an idea of more an approach on it.

[@waliddeui6725]

his intros are something else

[@TonyIrayhany]

Amazing video, what a work honestly. I never thought the drones I heard in cinematic action/suspense/scifi were crafted like this. Lots of efforts!

[@4EverEvolving1]

Thank you for the video. The process was definitely cool and interesting to see, while also being inspiring. The end product was cool and sounds like it should be the opening scene/intro/beginning of a bad ass movie. Thank you again for taking the time to make the videos and for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@JediMobius]

Good googly moogly! I think what I've learned here is never hold back when layering. Just go ahead and do all the things. Love it!

[@eilrach299]

Loved this and yes, inspiring. Very grateful for all your content and the more varied the better - gives me more to think about!

[@justayoutubeaccount7671]

first of all great video. It was very entertaining and enjoyable. But I also wanna say thank you because you just gave me an idea and im about to start a new track with that single note concept.

[@robjones8313]

I've taken this kind of thing to the extreme of literally using one note and then processing the audio to generate a track; I guess you could call it minimal ambient drone music? 🤔(I also hard limit myself to 2mins 10second) One of the things I've also started doing is making these tracks at super low BPM rates, with 25bpm being my common one these days, which I use for the same delay trick you mention (as even a 1/4 note takes forever at 25bpm) and gets the delays all nicely sync'd in.

[@_lifethoughts]

Drones are like ogres becasue ogres are like onions.

[@uppastmidnight9061]

Reminds me of the soundtrack from the original Fallout video game. Just toss in some field recordings of a busy farmer's market or wind and you're there. Nice work!

[@TheDenis2121]

Excellent work. I always learn something new with you, and you always inspire me to improve and create new and fresh ideas in my Music. Thank you so much.

[@FluidITGuy]

There is a textured delay hitting after your dune bass line. What is that?

[@BobbyCharlz]

Dude, you had me at your opening, ha ha!! Great video and ima gonna go KZbin junky here and subscribe. You’ve got a great manner of instruction that I appreciate. Keep up the great work 👍

[@VenusTheory]

Glad to be of service!

[@thesesmallboxes]

Very cool track!! I appreciate you pulling back the curtain on this! Hope to see it as a single?

[@unknown_error101]

Seeing content like this really inspires me to make music

[@adammccready2975]

Thanks! For the great vids & inspiring tips.

[@VenusTheory]

Glad it was helpful!

[@chitlun]

“Moustache SquarePants” 🤣🤣🤣 Excellent vid man, I’ll be watching this a few times I reckon, as this is exactly the kind of music I produce and am getting a bit stagnant… Cheers!

[@BrianJilgMusic]

Such a cool video. I have been out of my studio for a bit, and yes this does inspire me. I do love drones and this kind of music. Electro cinematic-ky Pulse Thingy.. Thanks for the awesome video. I ended up on this video as I had listened to your new track Dear Entropy. That is just the kind of track I needed to hear to get me thinking about the studio again. Dear Entropy is an awesome track, congrats!

[@bricelory9534]

I enjoyed seeing the process from concept to track - thanks for the good video!

[@Durdelly]

Your drone sounds like it’s right out of a John Carpenter movie. I love it! Safe travels, my friend..

[@mundelator]

Great tips, great results. It makes me think of an imaginary Dune scene 👏

[@andrewhall6038]

I absolutely love this video - thank you so much. Great advice.

[@DICKTURPIN1976]

Sounds amazing. Love the percussion in this too👏👏