Re: [linux-audio-user] how to synthesize this sound

Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Michael T D Nelson wrote:
>
> > Just a guess... Try to Google for something like "bell synthesis -labs
> > -speech".
> >
> > http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/demos/dafx02/
> > http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node67.html
> >
http://www.ec.vanderbilt.edu/computermusic/musc216site/Simple.bell.tutorial.html

>
> I appreciate the help, but I'm sorry to say that it sound to me like
> everybody that replied are listening at another sound than the one I'm
> talking about. Here's another sniplet from the same record with a
> similar effect. This one sound more like filtered noise with resonance,
> and I'm more interrested in the first example. This is just to stear
> away from the bell-thing:
>
> http://www.atte.dk/download/sound3.ogg
>
> Anyways here's my breakdown of what is heard on
> http://www.atte.dk/download/sound2.ogg
>
> 1) Shaker/egg on downbeats
> 2) Bass
> 3) Pad
> 4) Toy piano playing the chords on downbeats
> 5) synth lead with bender playing melody
> 6) fender rhodes in the background
> 7) some kind of percussion, something like hand played snare drumm
> 8) about 5 seconds (held untill the end of the sample, although barely
> audible towards the end) into the sniplet a rising sound, resembling a a
> wind chime is heard.
>
> To me is sounds like you're all listening at the toy piano (which is
> what it is,
> I saw the band live in a small club in copenhagen, same toy piano on
> that tune), but I'm talking about sound #8, the "synthethic wind chime"!
>
> Sorry for my poor explanation in the first place, hope that you'll care
> to listen again, since my initial interrest in the sound, as expressed
> in the original posting, still holds.
>
> And just so straighten that out; I'm not a novice synth tweaker. And I'm
> not really interrested in say a sample of the sound to use in my music.
> I want to
> *understand* how the sound is done.

Ah got it!

It sounds like a played rapid apeggio. I think I was able to get something
similar with the 'pad' bit of Zyn... and with fairly wet long reverb.

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Bungee