Hello,
Anybody familiar with Flinestones, Star Trek or Star Wars...such films or cartoons have these effect we hear atimes..'wooshes'..this effect happens when spaceships takes-off or passes by. I guess it is possible re-creating these sound-fx with analogue synths or even the Subtractor and Malstrom...can someone please give me a hint...thanks alot
Regards,
'kk'
'Wooshes'
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With my Moog/Realistic MG-1, I can get some really cool wooshes, spaceship take-offs/landings, bleeps, creepy horror movie sounds, everything, etc. It's a really good synth for that stuff... as well as creating awesome music. But... I bet most ANY Moog synth would do all that stuff. 
KK: To get started exploring the world of wooshes you can use any analog synth or even a software synth.
1. Set up a noise source as your oscillator. White noise or pink, doesn't matter.
2. Use a lowpass filter with the resonance set a bit below the point where it will self oscillate.
3. Adjust the cutoff frequency of the filter to create your woooooosh.
4. After you've experimented with using the cutoff to control the woosh, try using an envelope to control the cutoff of the filter. This will make an automatic woosh for you.
Basically, a woosh is just a noise source through a filter.
Like anything involving synthesis, there are usually more than one way of doing things. Play around, and you'll figure it out!
FreqOut
PS> R2D2's bleeps were done with an Arp 2600. (from "Vintage Synthesizers" by Mark Vail. GREAT BOOK!)
They also used a vocoder for some parts, but I don't know what kind it was...
1. Set up a noise source as your oscillator. White noise or pink, doesn't matter.
2. Use a lowpass filter with the resonance set a bit below the point where it will self oscillate.
3. Adjust the cutoff frequency of the filter to create your woooooosh.
4. After you've experimented with using the cutoff to control the woosh, try using an envelope to control the cutoff of the filter. This will make an automatic woosh for you.
Basically, a woosh is just a noise source through a filter.
Like anything involving synthesis, there are usually more than one way of doing things. Play around, and you'll figure it out!
FreqOut
PS> R2D2's bleeps were done with an Arp 2600. (from "Vintage Synthesizers" by Mark Vail. GREAT BOOK!)
They also used a vocoder for some parts, but I don't know what kind it was...
