Ambient · Chill-out · Psybient
MIDI tools, wavetables, presets and loops for ambient, chill-out and psybient — plus free step-by-step Bitwig and Surge XT tutorials.
40 ambient presets for u-he Hive 2, built on the EL Organic wavetables — warm pads, hazy atmospheres, glassy bells, Berlin-school sequences, leads, basses and slow soundscapes. 38 wavetables included.
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75 ambient presets for Surge XT, built on the Slow Forms wavetables and EtherLoops' own pad and FX recordings — sounds that take their time.
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64 ambient presets for the free Surge XT synth, built entirely from Surge's own oscillator engines — glassy FM pads, tine keys and textures. No samples, nothing extra to install.
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Track blueprint tool for ambient and chill producers. Pick a few musical choices and get a complete set of MIDI ideas to start your track. Runs in the browser.
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Song structure and arrangement builder for ambient, chill and psy. Plan sections and track entries before you write a note — Bitwig project plus MIDI for every DAW.
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Melody maker for ambient, chill and psy producers. Write lead lines that fit your own chords, then export the MIDI.
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75 ambient presets for the Vital synth — pads, drones and evolving textures for ambient, chill and psy.
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50 organic, evolving 256-frame wavetables for ambient, psy and sound design. Works in Bitwig, Serum, Vital, Pigments, Phase Plant, Surge XT and more.
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A gliding bass, a drifting pad, an animated pluck and a breathing texture — four sounds from free Vital and organic wavetables, built into a 16-bar ambient loop.
Chords from Ether Harmony, every sound from free Surge XT, two arpeggiated sequences, a kick that doesn't always land, and one sidechain that makes the whole loop breathe.
Eight good bars, looped for an hour. Here's how to get chords, bass and pads for every section of the track into your DAW — not just the loop.
Your loop never becomes a track because the arrangement never gets built. Here's how to lay out a full four-minute Bitwig arrangement before writing a note.
Build a complete ambient track from a blank project using free VSTs. A full step-by-step guide to layering pads, a bass drone, an arpeggiator, drums, and effects in A Minor with Surge XT, Bitwig Polymer, and Valhalla Supermassive.
A beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide to building a full evolving ambient loop in Bitwig Studio — pad, bass, sequence, and beat — using only Bitwig's native devices. No third-party plugins.
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Build a complete ambient track from a blank project using free VSTs. A full step-by-step guide to layering pads, a bass drone, an arpeggiator, drums, and effects in A Minor with Surge XT, Bitwig Polymer, and Valhalla Supermassive.
Build a complete ambient pad in Surge XT from scratch — wavetable oscillator, unison, slow envelope, S-LFO modulation, and a strong effects chain. No prior Surge XT experience needed.
Eight good bars, looped for an hour. Here's how to get chords, bass and pads for every section of the track into your DAW — not just the loop.
The pad loop is fine. It's the melody track that's still empty at 1 AM. Here's how to stop hunting for notes one at a time.
Build a complete ambient track from a blank project using free VSTs. A full step-by-step guide to layering pads, a bass drone, an arpeggiator, drums, and effects in A Minor with Surge XT, Bitwig Polymer, and Valhalla Supermassive.
