Hey guys,

Today I'm after a seemingly simply sound effect. Here are two examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxdgRWLmOP0 Right at the beginning, not the brass but the high pitched "glittery" sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-_9ZjwRC4 It's kind of hard to pinpoint here but it happens at the beginning and throughout the track. Again its the high pitched swirly glittery sound.

I've tried making this with white noise and filters but no luck. Any ideas? Thanks for your time

Please? I promise that if someone shares some ideas I'll be happy to help them with any sound design questions of their own as best as I can.

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There is a percussion instrument, or you might find a sample in a drum kit, where a person jingles or tinkles something similar to a tamborine.
http://www.sounddogs.com/results.asp?CategoryID=1008&Subcate goryID=6&Type=1

check out the chime samples here and either find similar samples or just loop the one you like. If you check out acoustic drum kits orbell samples for chimes and Tinkles you will soon find what your after, Ive forgot the name for the instrument though,some kind of jingle tinkle thing.

http://www.soundsnap.com/tags/tinkle

the first one on this nails it in better quality, simply download or record it

Yeah, the instrument is a wind chime

http://panda-blog.org.uk/windchimes-samples/#chime

here is some free to download, so they will probably be the same or better but I havent listened as Im tired of wiping peoples botties for them

Yes Ive just listened to one, so simply right click on audio and save as

PS_ synthesize the sound with FX, this was as close as I could think of, but if you are after the same, you need to recreate this type of sound with a synthesizer, or simply digitize one of the samples with a lot of pitch fx and stuff.

Wow thank you for your replies Trakstar Much appreciated.

I'd had a feeling it might be chimes and I've played around with some samples of my own. Will download yours as well. However, the sound I'm hearing has absolutely no body to it, just an airy tinkle. The chimes have a much more present body and rhythm to them... But I suppose EQ would help that.
Any ideas how you could synthesize something like this?

cut off the tails as the sounds fade out for the very minimal of each of them, then glue them together with crossfades and then pitch the audio up with your DAW FX or vst. You could use an additive synth such as Alchemy I think where it will analyze the audio and recreate it synthetically. I dont know about how to create a similar patch as I would have to start from scratch and learn. The easiest way I would achieve a similar sound. Listen to a few samples and chop the bits out what sound the best and then stick them together in 1 file. Use either lofi, or bitcrusher to give it a really digital synthetic feel.And lastly either pitch it down a few octaves and then back up to give it a more synthetic sound to it. Experiment and listen to the demos you put up until you are satisfied with what you get, it will be quite close as well. the first few samples at pandablog were the best so download the entire 2mb file. I think it tells you at the top of the page to pitch them up and down to get a more special fx from them. If it sounds too grainy, run it through a really brite chorus or something to make it glimmer and shine and a spacey reverb to give it air, you could also use a high freq enhancer, but sparingly. Go with the lofi, chorus pitch and reverb first. You are looking to pitch it up quite a few octaves as the last step before the fx section in order to get the more hi pitched sound like in the audio demos. Im really tired and repeating myself and there is probably lots of mistakes in my spelling, but this should do it. Right Im done, night

Thanks for taking the time to write all that, you've given me lots of ideas!