Forest Soundscape [Ableton Note + Vocals]

Ultralight Ambient 001:
I wandered out into the woods near Berlin to see what kind of ambient music I could make using only my phone and my voice. This ambient workflow is made possible by my phone’s onboard microphone and Ableton Note’s ability to resample its own output.

This workflow allows you to treat Note’s eight tracks as you might an old four track cassette recorder. If you get some cool stuff going on tracks 1-7, you can then resample all that goodness to a sampler on track 8.

Then you can delete everything except track 8 and start building again from there, creating new parts on tracks 1-7. You can repeat this process as many times as you want, and each time, the effects get baked into the audio and the playback pitch and tempo can be altered.

As far as arrangement, I’m making sure the loops all have different lengths so the pattern will endlessly iterate, never playing back the same way twice throughout the piece.