How to synthesize breathing?
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- KVRAF
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
It's amazing how many types of breathing there are, so think of a distressed heavy breathing.
ie heavy/deep but not sexual. Like a horror film type...
And I'm mainly interested in the breathing in part.
It must start with white noise but how do I get a sucking start to the note?
It seems like the pitch must need to rise faster than the amplitude attack.
And then at the end of the breath theres a sharp release but the pitch needs to move again.
Now I think about it can it even be done with the standard ADSR?
ie heavy/deep but not sexual. Like a horror film type...
And I'm mainly interested in the breathing in part.
It must start with white noise but how do I get a sucking start to the note?
It seems like the pitch must need to rise faster than the amplitude attack.
And then at the end of the breath theres a sharp release but the pitch needs to move again.
Now I think about it can it even be done with the standard ADSR?
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"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
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- KVRAF
- 13998 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
Nor do I... I would lean more towards the techniques employed when creating 'reversed-cymbals'.Mushy Mushy wrote:Now I think about it can it even be done with the standard ADSR?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
My first attempt.
Need to play with the envelopes a bit, but it's getting there.
Click here to listen to Breathing 01b.mp3
Need to play with the envelopes a bit, but it's getting there.
Click here to listen to Breathing 01b.mp3
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
hiss from an amp pluggin, a compressor and sidechaining?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Really, it's that bad?Hink wrote:hiss from an amp pluggin, a compressor and sidechaining?
Guess I better keep trying.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
- KVRAF
- 13998 posts since 19 Jun, 2008 from Seattle
It def sounds like "blowing" anyway.Mushy Mushy wrote:My first attempt.
Need to play with the envelopes a bit, but it's getting there.
Click here to listen to Breathing 01b.mp3
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
LOL Guess it's a sign I need to go to bed. Thx for your comments mate...Shabdahbriah wrote:It def sounds like "blowing" anyway.Mushy Mushy wrote:My first attempt.
Need to play with the envelopes a bit, but it's getting there.
Click here to listen to Breathing 01b.mp3
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
plenty of different ways. i think fauna vst has a preset that will get you close.
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- KVRAF
- 7120 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
I would look at www.karmafx.dk and see what that modular synth can do. It's very flexible in regard to what modulates what.
- KVRAF
- 6179 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
I use white noise in front of a (Roland) flanger at the start of my track Marigold.
It's slow breathing, but you get the idea.
http://home.comcast.net/~newdabranck/mu ... _part1.mp3
It's slow breathing, but you get the idea.
http://home.comcast.net/~newdabranck/mu ... _part1.mp3
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
I have no doubt whatsoever Karma could do this with it's eyes closed.lfm wrote:I would look at www.karmafx.dk and see what that modular synth can do. It's very flexible in regard to what modulates what.
The sound will eventually be drenched in reverb and hidden right at the back of the track, so I don't want to spend 2 weeks creating it - although it would be very rewarding.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Does sound great mate, but if I'm completely honest I can't hear breathing in it. Just a very thick gorgeous flanger.annode wrote:I use white noise in front of a (Roland) flanger at the start of my track Marigold.
It's slow breathing, but you get the idea.
http://home.comcast.net/~newdabranck/mu ... _part1.mp3
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
- KVRAF
- 6179 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
Thank you.Does sound great mate, but if I'm completely honest I can't hear breathing in it. Just a very thick gorgeous flanger.
The breathing was meant to be lite as if falling asleep, and that i'm sure must be clear.
Sorry, that's all I got.
EDIT: I posted that to show how a flanger can sound like breath. If you were to increase the LFO speed and doctor it to your liking, you might get what your after.
Last edited by annode on Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Ah_Dziz wrote:try formant filters on the noise source.
Just changed to a comb filter (same as a formant?) and it made a huge difference.
Getting very close now. Sounds like it's coming from the nose now though, but it's VERY close. I'm hugely impressed with myself LOL
I think a bit of envelope mod and I'm there...
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"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
