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Ambient Tutorial: The Intuitive Decision Making Process (Patreon)

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2023-05-12 10:00:03
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2026-05-30 21:35:52
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What influences my decision making process? Let's find out! This question of "How do you know what comes next?" is something that I've heard

What influences my decision making process? Let's find out!

This question of "How do you know what comes next?" is something that I've heard time and time again and for good reason...it's a great question! It was recently brought up again as a possible content block for the eBook and I've attempted to address it here in a tutorial so you guys can better understand what influences my decision making process while I'm producing. As always the goal is so you guys can feel more confident when making your own tracks.

What are you favorite ways to break through your own obstacles when it comes to producing? What are your thoughts about this tutorial? Let me know in the comments below!

Cheers and enjoy,

-S1gns

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Waveform

This video has probably been the most help to me personally - I've always said that my ambient related struggles are "in my mind", so more videos similar to this would be appreciated! - Finding an approach to potential pathways, structure and development are gradually sinking in to me, and videos like this are helping me to bring the right focus to my ambient endeavours! :)

Anne-Marie

This kind of video and sharing is exactly why I got into this channel! I love the way you show your process, how you listen. That is what I need. Technical stuff is easy to get through. The creative process is much more an art to develop and seeing and hearing you diving into it is what I get the most from being in this community. Thanks for that!

Uwe Kullmann

Hi Chris. Like what Waveform already said is true. I have some ideas in my mind, e.g. inspired from E-Mantras The darkest hours, but have no idea how to start nailing that ideas down :-) Because it is not a written track in my mind, it seems just to be a rough idea, for example i know the colors on my palette like, it should become a blue picture somehow, but the details are not real, yet. Therefore it would be maybe a good starting point to select the sounds, e.g. some presets which may fit more or less, start with one layer and see where the path will bring me. Seems like what you are doing, right? I've seen that process of production more from a technical point of view, but it seems that you just do and see what happens next...

Geoff Warren

Thanks for this, Chris, and sorry to hear you're not quite the thing: hope you recover soon! A couple of things you said reminded me of things I'd come across before but had forgotten. Near the beginning you say that we don't don't need to start with complicated stuff as some basic waves may well be enough. Reminded me of this quote from Brian Eno (all hail!) who said: 'I have a theory that, as a maker you tend to put in twice as much as you need as a listener. It’s the symptom of contemporary production. That’s why old records are interesting, because they don’t have that problem a lot of the time. With the facilities that you have today, you tend to plug every hole… you’re always looking for that charge, so you put more and more in to get it. But as a listener you’re much less demanding… you can take things that are much simpler, much more open, and much slower.' We can start simply, and can also continue simply: as you said, feeling what comes next but also resisting the temptation to throw everything we've got at it. I was really struck by your idea of putting in blank clips to give an immediate structure, which is a great idea as you've then already partly solved the question of what comes next: you can then fill in the blanks. Sadly, I can't remember who it was, but I was struck a few years ago by a contemporary orchestral composer saying that she will sometimes start with quite a rigid framework - a minute of this followed by two minutes of something else and so on - and then again fill in the blanks. And setting that framework needn't be mathematical but can also be 'intuitive': 'after this it should feel like that'. So thanks again for the inspiration, and now I must go and make some music!

Scott Garman

I've got family visiting this weekend so I don't have time to watch this all the way through right now, but I'm stoked you covered my question, and that other people are finding it to be a valuable topic. Thank you Chris and thanks to this community!

Leonidas

I love it when you use Omnisphere in your tutorials! It's a huge help for me!

SOLAAR

fantasmagorically inspiring once again sir. trusting intuition is a top method. i like the dummy clips idea. i will start doing this instead of using markers in the session. the clips is just a way more visual way or mapping what you're doing.

darren

Wow next level this is perfect delivery for creation - these tutorials are the way of the future ;) congrats really enjoyed this