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Posted by RoBDaWG on Apr-06-2006 02:10:

Making swooshes and sweeps

For starters, I use FL Studio. I'm having a hard time making those swooshes and sweeping wind kinda sounds. The only thing I know how to do is reverse a crash, but then that's only like 1 beat, how can I get ones that are longer, that span over a few measures to really give that buildup feel?

Posted by Chronosis on Apr-06-2006 03:16:

Use a synth that can produce noise and automate it.

Posted by djbruuen on Apr-06-2006 03:26:

use vst's that have 'NOISE' (ie. white noise, pink noise)

such vst's are albino and vanguard

once you have this turned on, just play with cutoff/freq. and you'll get this sort of effect.

Posted by thoughtlessjex on Apr-06-2006 03:49:

Tool around with the noise option for 3xOsc. Play with volume, filter and pan options. Try running it through a flanger.

One thing to try is hit the question mark for one of the oscilators and use random samples from the library (snares, hats, kicks, whatever) and play with those. This can give you some truely trippy sounds.

Posted by funkysouls on Apr-06-2006 08:31:

Nice..

even i was finding it difficult to get that sound for longer measures.

btw, i m using Reason.

any tips?

Posted by RoBDaWG on Apr-06-2006 16:44:

Wow great help guys, I'm at school now, I can't wait to mess with that when I get home later, this has been one thing my tracks have much needed.

Posted by retrobyte on Apr-06-2006 18:03:

A lot of synths have a few great woosh presets that are a nice start. I also like to use a really slow pad played by a full chord every once in a while to get a nice tonal sweep. Absynth is great at this - it has a couple of nice presets that take a couple measures to build up.
Many sample CDs (such as those that Vengeance puts out) are a great resource for wooshes and sweeps as well - though they're not that hard to make, if you find yourself a bit confused by synths it's a good solution. Throw some reverb and delay on one of those and you have yourself a bona-fide sweep on your hands.

Posted by Speactra on Apr-06-2006 21:56:

Check Xoxos Whoosh out. Its not better than any other noise oscillator, but its easy to begin with.
And its made to make the sounds you want.
http://www.xoxos.net/vsti.html