Most of the primary atmospheres I recorded whereby using the Soma ETHER and Moog Mother 32. The Moog Mother 32 was recorded into my audio interface into Ableton Live. Meanwhile the Soma ETHER being an instrument that thrives on being moved about was recorded into a Zoom H5 handheld recorder. All these sounds were moved into Ableton live and edited to good sized sound files.
The Soma ETHER recordings were done in one continuous half an hour take, so when exported into Ableton I took parts of the sounds I thought would work for the game. I kept the processing to a minimum but used these effects primally, Eight EQ (8 Point EQ), Valhalla Supermassive, and transportation of clips. The reason i kept it minimal was to not get the sounds too muddy. The ETHER microphone picks up on all types of frequencies so using the EQ was handy to subtly change it so some of the pitches weren’t too low/too high. Put not used heavily so it doesn’t alter what is so great about the ETHER.
The Moog Mother 32 is a semi analog desktop synthesiser, the mother 32 is great for low brooding drones, and ambient space passages. Which are 2 sounds that are used heavily in the game. I experimented with the ‘cutoff’ and ‘resonance’ knobs on the Mother 32. This experimentation led to this sound. I found this sound rather intense and scary, which I thought would work perfectly for this game. It reminded me of the sound design created by David Lynch and Alan Splet in Lynchs movie ‘Eraserhead’. Which is a big inspiration for me artistically.