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The Ambience Nature collection consists of a comprehensive range of natural ambiences. The subprojects are subdivided into Areas, Weather, Birds and Animals related to the Areas, and Objects Environmental and Water. Like all Strata Ambience collections, some subprojects are arranged to mix ambisonically using the IEM plug-ins in third order and to render to a range of multichannel options derived from the third-order mix. In the case of Ambience Nature, all the Area and Weather projects are ambisonic mix projects. Their intended function is to provide the base layers of Ambience with the Birds and Animals and Objects subprojects providing elements for increased variation of the sound of an Ambience played along with the base layers.

To optimize download size, a Stereo render is included in the collection download, which you can audition in the Ambience Nature project.

The subprojects are arranged to enable auditioning, depending on your monitor systems, and rendering in a comprehensive range of formats. By default, they are configured to monitor in Stereo. The Birds and Animals and environmental object subprojects are similar to conventional Stereo projects and are configured to monitor and render in Stereo and or Mono. The collection is designed so that the Area and Weather projects combine to provide the base layer of an ambience with sounds from the Birds and Animals and Objects subprojects used simultaneously as required for specific augmentation.

The subprojects have Parameter Control tracks that affect multiple tracks and the plug-ins to enable customization of the ambiences, with a range of intuitive names to describe their effects on the mix.

The complete list of all the subprojects and their associated data and embedded metadata is available in the accompanying Ambience Nature SoundBook.

	Note
	This guide provides information specific to this collection. For general information that applies to all Strata collections, refer to the Strata User Guide.

The Main Project

The main project provides a convenient way to visualize, locate, and audition the sounds in the Ambience Nature collection. The main project contains tracks for each subproject, with media items that reference the various subprojects in nested tracks. You can audition any of the media items that reference the rendered Stereo output from the corresponding subprojects.

In the main project, Ambience Nature.rpp, you can double-click any subproject media item to open the corresponding subproject, in which all the tracks and layers available for the specific ambience are arranged.

Use the Region/Marker Manager to find and jump to the different subproject tracks. For more information, refer to Regions and Markers in the Strata User Guide.

	A subproject media item. Double-click it to open the subproject in a new tab.
	A media item that references the rendered output of the subproject. Place the cursor at any point on the timeline and click Play to audition the rendered output.