how do i make that sound????

[Sean]

ok well i have some idea about synth programming but i still have a hard time working out how to get certain sounds, so i started this thread to see if anyone can help me out.

firstly im after a submarine sonar sound. can anyone help?

[phunkdust]

//:searching vast sample database
//:search term = sonar
//:FOUND sonar.wav

yep, i've got a nice sonar sample, its of a torpedo heading for a submarine, so the sonar pings close in :P tres cool. I sampled it from "The Hunt For Red October" :P

I'll email it over asap :)

[Sean]

thanks that would be grand, sean@inthemix.com.au

[phunkdust]

ooops I already sent it to your other address...:meh:

[Sean]

dont worry, all good :)

[driload]

hmm ive used sub sonar sounds before... a great ambient sound in breakdowns and before a build up


you can make them pretty easily using fm synthesis by modifying some Bell preset sounds and killing off the release, harden up a sine wave and shape it with tri and let it get some muddy reverb for ambience. also theres a patch on the XP30 that you can kill off three of the tones and the last one (number 4) just needs to be verbed a little

having said all that im assuming theres some fuck easy way to do that tone.

what i want to know is how the hell that guy who made Crusher X came up with that program and those sounds

jeeebusssss

[polarbear]

there's a plugin - 'onepingonly' that's pretty funny for that stuff.

you really want two waves; square and noise.

filter cutoff low with no resonance - you just want a bit of bite on the front of the wave, made with an envelope, and then fairly quckly filter to a sine wave. it should never sound bright.

mix some noise in (pre filter as well), and then for that 50's movie effect popularised on many prog tracks, put in a long smooth reverb.

b.

[phunkdust]

yeah i was about to launch into the theory of constructing one from scratch but i couldnt be bothered...

i should get to modifying the tubular bell preset on my dx7ii

i have onepingonly... never really thought about using it for a sonar sound... i'll have to look at it again.

its free, just search for it...

[kenada]

If you are still sfter that sonar sound i got one from a reason refil, akai s5000/6000.

I can mail it to ya if you wish, it's just one ping.

also if you wanted to make one use a 303 like sound, varying the attack on the amp depending on the ping you want.

then use gated reverb, large reverb, and maybe a touch of delay.

I also made some badass whale call sounds, using my 303.

good luck with it.

[Mister_Ed]

yeah, best way is to experiment. you could make the sound a million different ways from a million different samples. atleast if u tune it with ur ear u can do it over and over again.....