Hi
I was wondering if anyone could help with this. I am trying to create a really long pitch bend similar to in this tune. This trick has featured in many songs over the years and I would love to create it myself for a track.
I’m using logic and have tried a few things on the ES2 including drawing in a really long note and altering the glide and detune on each synth. I’ve also tried some automation but I’m still not getting the effect. Each time it goes up in stages instead of gliding.
The pitch bend on my keyboard is good but only goes up 1 octave. Can I re-program this. Or is it modulation instead?
If anyone could help with this I’d really appreciate it.
Cheers
Its a shepards tone.
You can read up on it here.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone[/url]
Here’s a video showing one way to make it.
There’s also a free vst plugin made by mda that does pretty much the same thing.
[url]http://mda.smartelectronix.com/effects.htm[/url]
Theres also an effect called corkscrew which does a similar thing, may be others too. Basically with the effect you just hold the note on one tone and it takes it up for you
Interesting.
Yep cool I’ve found it. Costs 29 squid though.
[url]Corkscrew by Anarchy Sound Software - Pitch Shifter / Time Stretch Plugin VST Audio Unit
Yeah good for Windoze users
i dont think the kind of Siren kind of sound that it plays in Total Departure - ( Selway and Smith Rmx) have to be more with the LFO routed to the Pitch .and tons of automation that includes white noise.
my friend tried to replicate the same noise in his Juno synthetizer and he got pretty close.
i will try to see if he can help me post how to do it.
[quote]alinenunez (1/24/2010)[hr]i dont think the kind of Siren kind of sound that it plays in Total Departure - ( Selway and Smith Rmx) have to be more with the LFO routed to the Pitch .and tons of automation that includes white noise.
my friend tried to replicate the same noise in his Juno synthetizer and he got pretty close.
i will try to see if he can help me post how to do it.[/quote]
You could be right. I remember seeing one of the SA tutorials (risers) where Phil indeed routed the pitch to an lfo on mod env 1 within Sylenth but I think in this case it sure sounds like a Shepards tone due to the fact that the pitch in reality never really seems to change that much even though it sounds like its forever moving upwards. The classic mo of a shepards tone technique.
Either way I am sure the OP has enough information to make an informed choice based on the information posted here.
actually you might be right becuase i was trying to do the pitch in my Synth and even do i set the LFO ratio to the lowest still couldnt get that effect.
even do i could resample and automate the filters and Oscillators still can get that sound. good point.