Ambient Noise Options

[mellotron]

does anyone have any good tips for creating ambient noise? any good sample cd's? if i was to create some stuff on my own, where should i start? ive got a song that i want to put some abient noise in front of to fade in. i was thinking of making my own samples to do it. im also looking for a way to create the sound of a beating heart. im not really sure what to use to do that either.

[trippinginthefal...]

Two ways to do ambience, that I can think of.

Raw - get a portable dat recorder with a microphone. Carry it with you to places that have natural ambient noise, factories, junk yards, empty warehouses... etc.

Synth - get a hardware synth. Set the oscillator to noise, play with the filters and lfos to create individual textures. Record them. Manipulate to taste, either by layering, crossfading, timestretching, pitchshifting, etc. etc.

Using sample CDs isnt really musicality. Create something, don't copy something.

Scotty