creating sound fx via a software only-any suggestions?

Question

Hello everyone,

I will be very thankful for any advice concerning the bellow-

I am willing to create funny/cartoon sound fx (later to be sold as stock sound fx) using a software only, so no external recording is involved.

I am looking for a software that enables such a task, maybe a synth software or or any good alternative that might be helpful.

I will be thankful to know about some good and affordable options.

Thank you in advanced for the help.

Kind regards.

Answer 1

I create a lot of Sound Designs and music using nothing but white noise. I take very small sections of the audio (5-200ms) and loop it in a sampler to create a wavetable oscillator. That gives you your basic synthesizer for you to then envelope, filter, modulate etc. Then it's all about your processing chain.. I tend to granulate a lot of audio and use spectral gates, both of which can be achieved using the range of plugs created by Micheal Norris..

http://www.michaelnorris.info/software/soundmagic-spectral.html

(They're free)

For comical sound FX you want to play with Pitch a lot.. I recommend any good sampler (Kontact, Alchemy) Also, experiment with some delay modulation in Logic's Tape Delay or Artificial Audio's Plug 'Quartz'

Answer 2

Many thanks for the info:-)

Answer 3

http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/ for more 8-bit-sound-like sfx, if it helps... it's free :)

Answer 4

Not going to work.

Most/all of the great cartoon FX are made with inventive physical sound making devices and instruments. See for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TSf8Er2gV_Q#t=265s for inspiration.

And if you're sampling and repackaging, you'd be violating copyrights.