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?
Use a synth that can produce noise and automate it.
Apr-06-2006 03:16
djbruuen
house
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Milton
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.
Apr-06-2006 03:26
thoughtlessjex
Yakkity Yak
Registered: May 2004
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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.
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.
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
