Well, this is not the ambient track I was planning on submitting to this contest, but since it’s not entirely non-ambient, and I wrote it over these last few days, for 8Dio Score This: The Captain, I figured it might make a nice bonus entry for now.
And yes, there is lots of 8Dio stuff (including the Insolidus choir that was mentioned recently), and there’s also some basic cello!
This is almost exclusively 8Dio libraries with some processing, except for one synth, one drum sampler (the low kick), and one acoustic cello played by some 4 month cello beginner.
I started out with the synth loop, and built on that with mostly synth and hybrid sounds, trying to tie the emotions of the scenes together into an abstract story.
8Dio libraries:
Insolidus
Majestica
Claire Alto Flute
Claire English Horn
Hybrid Synphony
Blendstrument Alive Cymbals
Blendstrument Hybrid Pulses
Supercluster
Didgeridoo
Hybrid Tools 3
Other software:
Cubase Pro 10
Kontakt
VPS Phalanx Single
2sense Wiggle
FabFilter Timeless 2, Pro-R, Pro-Q3, Pro-MB, Twin 2
Eventide Blackhole
kHs Multipass, Transient Shaper, Frequency Shifter, Delay
Ghz Midside Matrix 3
Brusfri
STA Delay
Brauer Motion
Ozone 9
Hardware:
Massive DAW rig
Acoustic cello