Rain, Storm sounds...

saulc12 · 29 Oct 2006

_pascal_ wrote: Hi all, How do I create a rain sound with only a burst noise and some delays. A guy from ableton did it with Live 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL4MMJMXEFk I think that reaktor has a module that achieves this too.

Best, Pascal

Pink noise, some filtering and some reverb is a good place to start, for rain at least - the thunder effect in the clip seems a bit more complicated though

AngularMomentum · 29 Oct 2006

to add for rain..a Sample&Hold LFO on the filter cut.

_pascal_ · 30 Oct 2006

thanks, but I think it's a more unconventional way with onlu an impulse and some delays. I think the key is the Grain Delay. Do you know something about this ?

jobro · 12 Nov 2006

Hmmm let me think here ... It was way back in the days around 1988 or so. Roland D50 had a patch called "Rain harp" or something, and the "rain" was generated by playing 2 percussive loops crosstuned through a ringmodulator just playing the sum of the sounds.

sunsynth · 12 Nov 2006

Hi pascal,

i think a randomizer might come in handy 4 this...

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It's not fuzzy-logic but may help...

SUNsynth

Tom7777 · 13 Nov 2006

not sure if a randomizer would do the trick for grain delay that would probably require a new type of waveplayer added, im sure it's possible to make one already but i have no research available on grains but im guessing its something like a buffer splitting the input wav into lots of smaller pieces then re-aranging them in a different order. Probably would use a randomizer for the ordering though but it would probably require alot of work, i haven't tried anything like this before though so i have no idea how hard it would be to do.

I think that getting a rain sound would be much easier than that though i think it's probably all to do with the processing but even simpler than that would be to just record the rain or download a sample from the web 😉