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Posted by theholyalex on Apr-22-2007 22:28:

Radio tuning effect using vsts?

Hey there,

Has anyone managed to get a VST to make some kind of radio tuning effect? I'm looking for something similar to this:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/tagsViewSingle.php?id=5460

But obviously using a VST would allow me a far greater degree of flexibility than a sample, so any suggestions would be helpful!

Thanks,

Alex

Posted by Zombie0729 on Apr-23-2007 00:22:

the guy who made it... wrote this

quote:
An effect mimicking the heterodyne whine of an old time radio tuner. It was created with Sound Forge 7's Frequency Synthesizer - generated by using 2 sine waves in parallel (a 7KHz Sine and a 1.1KHz absolute Sine) and feeding them in series with a 4KHz Sine. The amplitude of each was independently varied up and down during a 30 second period to create this whining effect.It was then further processed with a "Cheap TV" preset Chorus effect.Great to sneak in to old time radio broadcasts or problems with tuning.

that looks pretty step by step to me?

Posted by theholyalex on Apr-23-2007 09:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Zombie0729
the guy who made it... wrote this

that looks pretty step by step to me?

I'm sure it is but there are a few terms I didn't really understand, I dont know much of the technical side of producing sounds yet...

"1.1KHz absolute sine"? Don't understand how this is different from a regular sine, and also he talks about generating the 2 sine waves in "parallel" and then "feeding" them into another one in "series" lol, if anyone could explain that to me I'd be grateful!

Cheers

Posted by emc^2 on Apr-23-2007 20:25:

quote:
Originally posted by theholyalex
I'm sure it is but there are a few terms I didn't really understand, I dont know much of the technical side of producing sounds yet...

"1.1KHz absolute sine"? Don't understand how this is different from a regular sine, and also he talks about generating the 2 sine waves in "parallel" and then "feeding" them into another one in "series" lol, if anyone could explain that to me I'd be grateful!

Cheers

Easy. You run a pure sine wave through modulator and route it to DAC and anti-aliasing logorythm, using Fluke audiograph, while oscilating pitch frequency using the inverse LFO envelope, routed through -24dB filter and pitch-shifted through Eventide 8000 FX unit over dual-channel ADAT multimode fiber and detuned to pentatonic scale.

Duh, any n00b could do it!

Posted by Zombie0729 on Apr-23-2007 22:33:

quote:
Originally posted by emc^2
Easy. You run a pure sine wave through modulator and route it to DAC and anti-aliasing logorythm, using Fluke audiograph, while oscilating pitch frequency using the inverse LFO envelope, routed through -24dB filter and pitch-shifted through Eventide 8000 FX unit over dual-channel ADAT multimode fiber and detuned to pentatonic scale.

Duh, any n00b could do it!

i just realized how big of nerds we are...

this is quite sad

Posted by Jmanch on Apr-24-2007 05:09:

lmao

Posted by zodiac9 on Apr-24-2007 23:31:

Yesterday, I was browsing through some soundsets I have for Z3TA+, and came across a radio tuning patch. I really don't have any idea how it was made, as I don't quite understand ZT3A+ yet. I'm not a great sound designer by any means either. If you have Z3TA+, I'll see if I can locate that patch for you.

Posted by emc^2 on Apr-25-2007 04:02:

Re: Radio tuning effect using vsts?

quote:
Originally posted by theholyalex
Hey there,

Has anyone managed to get a VST to make some kind of radio tuning effect? I'm looking for something similar to this:

http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/tagsViewSingle.php?id=5460

But obviously using a VST would allow me a far greater degree of flexibility than a sample, so any suggestions would be helpful!

Thanks,

Alex

I think the easiest thing to do (and kick me if I'm being overly smart-assy here) but what's wrong with buying a cheap shortwave radio - endless supply of sounds on tap and possibilities are endless. I bet you could even find one in the second hand store or fleamarket or ebay for about $20 or so bucks.

just a thought...

Posted by Fledz on Apr-25-2007 04:45:

I think the MS-20 can do something similar, then you just distort it. Don't ask me how though, I've been focusing more on the Polysix.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-25-2007 07:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Zombie0729
i just realized how big of nerds we are...

this is quite sad

Q4T.