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'Wooshes'
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:16 pm
by kk
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'
mg-1
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:32 am
by writeroxie
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.
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:55 pm
by Demokid
Wasn’t it the Oberheim OB-1 that made the R2-D2 blips in StarWars? Or was it the ARP Odyssey? I know I have done some sounds on my Odyssey that sounds like R2-D2…
Anyway it is pretty easy to do “space” and “computer” sounds on any analogue sizer with sample&hold…
Regards
Demokid
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:40 pm
by FreqOut
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...
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:33 pm
by Brian G
For added fun, apply an LFO to the filter,square, saw... S/H, or modulate the filter with an osc...play and see what happens
Brian
Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:56 pm
by MC
According to a late 70s Keyboard mag interview with the sound designer of Star Wars, R2D2 was an ARP 2600. An Odyssey could pull it off too.
Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 5:06 am
by Demokid
Hmm 2600... maybe that’s why my Odyssey can make pretty the same sound as R2D2.
