Ambient For Reason - IMPORT

Sample CD

This huge REFILL features the combined contents, in full, of both of the original AMBIENT audio sample CD libraries (AMBIENT Volume 1 and AMBIENT Volume 2).

With over 470 Mb of stunning sounds produced by highly acclaimed British electronic musician Ian Boddy, there is a fantastic array of dreamy NN19 atmospheric and FX patches for use in ambient dance, trance, film soundtracks or futuristic/ spacey/ trance music of all kinds.

Combining the hypnotic charms of Jarre, Floyd, Tangerine Dream and so on with current dance trends, "Ambient" is designed to mellow you out with relaxing washes, laid back rhythms and awesome sound effects.

An impressive inventory of analogue and digital synths were used to create these well organised stereo samples, including Roland System 100m, SVC3 vocoder, JD990, Korg Wavestation, EMS VCS3, Memorymoog, PPG Wave, and Oberheim Matrix 6 and 12. There are digital drones, pads and effects (all very lush stereo) conjuring up deep space hyperdrives through sinister alien landscapes, etc.

A beautifully realised sound palette, the effects really are as good as you get - smooth, long, ring modulators, digital cascades and arpeggios, filter sweeps of just about every denomination, computer tone bursts, gong sustains, synthetic winds, computer FX (like Kraftwerk c.1975), low drones and sweep-downs, mysterious machinery, anharmonic arpeggios, electronic noise bursts, tubular bells, tasty vocoder loops, etc.

In addition to providing the whole library within a single Refill file, this package also provides all the samples separately as NN19 patches and ACIDized WAV files.

IMPORTANT: "Ambient" can ALSO be used with any software that imports WAV data. The Rex Files contained in this collection can only be accessed using Reason..

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