Questions tagged [synthesis]
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How to make a tone that theoretically sounds like it's coming from infinitely far away?
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Is there is an element of sound theory that quantifies how "far away" a sound seems to be coming from?
And is there a way to maximize that value in a sythisized stereo signal?
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Does FM Synthesis have some real OSCs and the rest of the [fake] OSCs are just LFOs which modulates the frequency?
FM Synthesis is very confusing to me as I am a beginner. I'm just started learning ABLETON's OPERATOR, which I assume is an FM synth. The first OSC works which I am sure but cannot figure out if the ...
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Best entry point for kids to learn synthesis
I am thinking of having my niece and nephew ( middle school age ) learn to how to start designing sound. Both are huge music fans, and want to learn how to make the electronic based pop music they ...
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Music Sound Design Thesis Ideas! [closed]
I'm about to start my thesis and I'm a bit confused as what to start with. I like to make music in my free time so I thought it would be a good opportunity to learn more about sound design in the ...
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Does shifting harmonics change the resulting sound
So the most basic sound wave is a sinusoid
for a frequency F, we can create the wave using
sin(F*2pi)
We can add harmonic to make the sound richer:
sin(F*2pi) + sin(2F*2pi)
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Is this additive synthesis?
I'm creating a very basic synthesizer in purr data.
I start with a fundamental frequency, and send that frequency to a "phasor" object which creates a sawtooth wave at that frequency. By ...
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Synthesizing Locomotive Engine Sounds from Videos
I'm working on a project to equip model locomotives with sound boards. I'm in the process of designing the board at the moment, and the idea is to allow users to load their own sound files onto an SD ...
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what is the strings-like lead in this trap song?
For example Lil Boosie - Never Been a B*tch:
The chirpy top line melody in the first few bars. Does anyone recognize this sound? I have a nostalgic attachment to ...
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VCV Rack - what is the maximum frequency deviation for FM?
On VCO-1, the amount of FM can be controlled by the "FM CV" knob, which ranges from 0%-100%. I'd like to know the frequency deviation that VCV uses at 100% modulation.
I did a few tests to try to ...
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Why does a synthesized polyphonic sound completely different from the “real” one?
I am making a software audio synthesizer and so far i've managed to play a single tone at once.
My goal was to make it polyphonic, i.e when i press 2 keys both are active and produce sound (i'm aware ...
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What's the difference between additive and subtractive synthesis?
It seems that most hardware synths use subtractive synthesis techniques, while in the digital realm it's common to see synths that work with different degrees of additive synthesis.
What's the ...
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How Software Automatic Mouth synthesis speech
Does anyone know by what mechanisms the Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) that is used for text-to-speech on machines including Commodore computers synthesized speech? The manual for the product mentions ...
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Designing Sound Effects For Digital UI
I'm trying to get better sound design and I wanted to tackle the area of digital sounds for UI that you'd see in a sci-fi thriller or something like that. Something like the sounds at the beginning of ...
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How to deal with clipping/distortion in a custom synth app
I'm writing a custom MIDI synth software as a hobby, and have wondered how to gracefully deal with the possibility of audio clipping/distortion when compositing a lot of waveforms on top of each other....
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Deep noise by FM synthesis
Is it possible to create a deep (eg. lower frequencies only) noise by the means of basic FM synthesis (like Yamahas DX system)?
The usual procedure for noise is to raise the modulating operators ...
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What's the difference between "FM synthesis" and "MIDI synthesis"?
I'm trying to understand how "FM synthesis" and "MIDI synthesis" are relative to each other.
For example, in one article that I found on the Internet (here it is) it is said that...
the process by ...
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Is it possible to use frequency modulation synthesis to play human voice?
Wikipedia says "yes":
It was initially designed for radios to transmit voice by modulating one waveform's frequency with another's. This is why FM radio is called FM (frequency modulation).
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Do Opus And AAC Use Artistic License To Improve Sound Quality By Sacrificing Accuracy?
I was reading a forum thread the other day and came across a post which claims that unlike MP3, other codecs such as Opus and AAC "[invent] audio data that's not accurate to the source" by "[...
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Suggestion on changing the quality of generated sound
I have built a text to speech system that is generating speech for a given text, however the generated audio has a lot of vibrations in it. Although the speech is clear, it doesn't really sounds ...
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How do you make this huge distorted analog bass/pad sound?
I would really appreciate information on how to create this analog sounding bass/pad sound at 0:02 and 1:13 onwards.
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Sound Design: water, river, streams etc using a synth
working on a game here and need a whole bunch of water-y sounds like rivers, streams etc .. of various sizes and characters... but given the abstract visuals having realistic water recordings simply ...
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How to design squeak and creak sounds of metal objects?
Are there valid guidelines to design squeak and creak sounds produced by metal objects?
Here are some examples:
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
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What is the effect used here that resembles a distorted guitar?
I am building a project for my music technology module in University and would like to know how to imitate this effect. Originally, I thought it was guitar but after having watched a video of the band ...
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How to make a basic thick soft bass
I am experimenting with VSTs lately to try to make some nice bass presets I can use (LMMS doesn't have many). So do you have tips on how to make a nice basic bass? I experimented a lot, I usually took ...
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making a tree crack and creak and falling with sound synthesis
I'm have a good grasp of basic synthesis but need to make some sounds synthetically quite quickly for a project, and am not sure where to start
It is a the cracking and creaking as a tree or large ...
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How can I create this transition effect
I don't know what this popular transition effect that DJ's use is called, but I'd like to know how can I recreate it with common DJ programs (like Traktor)
The effect I mean is the kind of noise in ...
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How to make this synthpop 80's style tom sound?
i would like to know where the kind of drum sounds heard in this video at 27m13s 36m56s and in particular the tom sound ("pew pew pew" tom )are from. And how to make them?
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Possible Harmonium/Reed Organ Synthesizing Techniques
I am working on a project to make a synthesizer for RaspberryPi capable of playing Harmonium/Reed Organ using an external MIDI keyboard. I am making it in Python 2.7 using NumPy. Till now, I have ...
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Tool for creating a WAV given a function of time/sample
What software could I use to create a WAV file from a function of sample number?
I am building an implementation of Group Additive Synthesis in a modular softsynth and I just need a simple way of ...
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Recreating This Bass with a VST Synthesizer
I'm hoping someone can put me in the right direction on what sort of bass this is from this dance track and how I'd go about re-creating it with any synthesizer VST, please. I'm using FL Studio, and I ...
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Miss Independent Synth
I've been trying to design a synth with the characters of the synth that occurs right at the beginning of this song. I get close, but there's something missing and I'm not sure what it is. I know that ...
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What is this sound? Some kind of LFO synth? Song: Heart of a Lion, Kid Cudi
I am wanting to create a sound like this one. It has something to do with LFOs with a degree of instability.
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Is it possible to synthesize speech?
All of my Google research gives me results for text-to-speech. This is not what I am looking for. Instead, I am wondering if it is possible to create a "voice" (or recognizable speech) from scratch ...
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Hardware FM synthesizer similar to DX-7?
I'm looking for a FM synthesizer (either keyboard or rack) that is similar to the Yamaha DX-7, but more modern and that would include the following features:
Musical patches based on modulation ...
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What effect(s) are used to make this sweeping delay?
It sounds to me like possibly a delay plus a filter that are both sweeping upwards, though I'm not sure if there is some other common effect that would accomplish this sound.
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Modulating Ratio in FM8
It seems that there should be a way to modulate the ratio of an operator via an LFO in FM8. Why is this not a possibility? What are the alternatives?
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Tropical Ambience: creating a minimal background using synths
I'm working on a project that takes place in a small tropical village.
The director clearly asked for a minimal background so the use of field recordings are not an option since they're so busy with ...
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Speech synthesis in MATLAB : diphthongs
I am trying to generate vowels on MATLAB by using source-filter model. In case of monophthongs I'm using Rosenberg pulse as my source signal and then this source signal is convoluted with sounds ...
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Japanese Anime/Arcade 'Shing' sound
I am trying to recreate the 'shing' sound which can be heard at 1:22 in this video - https://vimeo.com/106517842 and also another variation at around 0:32 in this one - https://vimeo.com/106517842.
I'...
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Novation Bass Station II
I recently bought a Novation Bass Station II and am finding it considerably difficult to adapt to. Most notably, I'm finding it difficult to produce relatively simple tones/timbres. What parameters ...
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Mixing Subbass and kick. How to replicate this tech house bass
Im currently using the following track for inspiration:
I've been really trying to understand/replicate the bass in this track, introduced at 1:02. Im wrestling ...
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How is this specific sound synthesized?
Would like to know what kind of synthesizer, with what all type of controls might be used to synthesize the dominant instrument (obviously apart from purcussion, guitar) playing in this clip:
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Examples of Synthesized Sound Effects
This question was asked a few years back and I actually supplied one of the answers (Examples of subtractive analog synthesis in sound design). I'm looking to expand on this and want to know of any ...
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Is there a way to synthesize somebody saying "Aah" like in melbourne bounce?
I have recently been listening to a lot of Melbourne Bounce and I was wondering how the producers of that music make the human-voice-like leads.
So I fired up my DAW (Ableton) and started synthesizing....
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How can I achieve this sound?
I would like to achieve the main neuro sound (1:07 in the video) of this track.
Any tips or tutorials?
Best,
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Clap or Hi Hat? Whipping noise
trying to see how to reproduce this sound that you here in this track. They do it several times in the track and every other time it sounds quite different. To me it sounds like a clap or hi hat ...
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How to use unison without voice beating/phasing
I've been learning to make trance and progressive house for the past few years, and have always encountered the same problem when creating sounds with unison, eg. plucked saw chords.
Every few stabs ...
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Any good quality neuro and reese bass tutorials [massive, FM8, Serum]
Do you have any links of quality for neuro and reese bass sounds tutorials.
here is an example of neuro sound:
here is a reese bass example:
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TR-606 hi hats oscillator running
Quick question, does anyone know the exact timing for the 6 square oscillators that make up the hi hat sounds on the TR-606?
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Start learning synthesis
I'm new to electronic music and this community (not to "regular" music nor SE). I'm thinking about getting a Bass Station II because I've been playing with NI Massive and some other VST's but I prefer ...
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