# Sound design and ambient music production techniques - [[Creating a Reese synth bass]] - [[Granular synthesis and effects]] - [[Making sci-fi synth effects]] - [[Dramatically slow down a sample]] - [[Make a mud pie]] - [[Normalize silences and use them for ambience]] - [[Record the scrubbing feature of your DAW]] - [[Create tape loops]] - [[Use generative sequences]] - [[Use random parameter modulation]] - [[Sigur Rós vocal sampler effect]] - [[Make a pad out of anything by using a long reverb]] - [[Use a vocoder keyed to a noise source]] - [[Use a steep bell filter to highlight harmonics]] - [[Quantize pitch]] - [[Round robin pitch shifting]] - [[Use an envelope follower on a field recording]] - [[Chop vocals and other sounds]] - [[How to design botanica sounds]] - [[Drag things around in MIDI with key-snapping]] - [[Click through presets and record it]] - [[Scrub through a reversed snare sample to excite a resonator]] - [[Create a filter sequence]] - [[How to create late 90s dark ambient sounds]] - [[Modulate filter cutoff with noise]] - [[Use a mixer as an instrument]] - [[Simulating Akai cyclic time stretching in Reaper]] - [[Use an envelope follower for performable swells]] - [[Use Mason Self's Skipper]] - [[Make weird sounds accessible by quantizing them]] - [[Random MIDI mutes and semi-generative drums]] - [[Create a musical soundboard]] - [[Formant shift stuff for glitches]] - [[Layer pads like a pipe organ]] - [[Use a Bass VI sample to reinforce deep basses]] - [[Run guitar through Cardinal]] - [[Frequency modulate a filter]] - [[Modulate the parameters of a delay]] - [[Use a guitar signal to modulate a synth]] - [[Chop out a split second of audio elsewhere in the song and flip it]] - [[Sidechain distortion]] - [[Sidechain ring mod]] - [[Polymetric broken chords]] - [[Stretch your samples downward]] - [[Trance gating]] - [[Try overtone painting]] - [[Emulate the early Sufjan sound with low sample rate]] - [[Use velocity to control pitch and such]] - [[Make a foley randomizer]] - [[Automate sample length]] - [[Sped-up neck pickup electric guitar sounds cool]] - [[Use a harmonizer on drums]] - [[Use an extremely fast stereo delay with high feedback]] - [[Make a guitar pedal feedback loop]] - [[Use envelope followers with modular]] - [[Automate arpeggiator time]] - [[Automate the pitch of foley in a sampler]] - [[Change pulse width with each trigger]] - [[Create pads with spectral stretching]] - [[Do a sound harvest day]] - [[Emulate this first choral synth]] - [[Formant-shift a reverb]] - [[Pitch up and down again for generation loss]] - [[Put a perc loop in a convolution reverb]] - [[Sample and chop snare rolls]] - [[Start with a texture]] - [[Steal this gliss]] - [[Use per-voice pitch drift]] - [[Use per-voice random panning]] - [[Try per-voice round robin with disparate samples]] - [[Use an envelope follower for layering]] - [[Vocode spoken word samples]] - [[Use plugins with setting randomize]] - [[Make some game jingles to be used as instruments]] - [[Vocode cymbals]] - [[Record weird stuff through a magnetic pickup]] - [[Dark ambient drones]] - [[Try spectral looping]] - [[Chords with a random sample per voice with TAL-Drum]] - [[Record a jam, rearrange or sample after]] - [[Sidechain gate a track to noise or foley]]