Haven't been able to get in the studio all weekend as I've had DIY shit to be doing (shudder)... Will get on this later.
This is going to sound noobish, but can someone explain 'pitch drift' and how it is achieved, I haven't heard the term before.
I'm not sure you will be able to emulate it exactly with soft synths as it is most likely some 'gremlins' in the hardware that caused it.
However i think with massive you might be able to achieve this with some clever use of envelopes to modulate pitch. I will give it a try when i am home.
Re: Horror/Zombie Movie Synth Sounds
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:16 am
by wub
Not strictly horror film, but Carpenter's Escape From New York has some sick score on it.
Re: Horror/Zombie Movie Synth Sounds
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:01 am
by sully_harmitage
to do pitch drift...
modulate each osc to a separate Sample & Hold LFO (Sine will do...) each at a different speed with 1% ish modulation amount. Instant unstable analogness.
John carpenter is a huge influence for me so is Ennio Morricone. He pretty much nailed that 80s horror sound with the intro music in The Thing:
Best film ever btw
I had a go at making this sound on the Virus the other day - saw waves detuned into an analogue 2pole low pass with lots of res and some analogue satuartion to tame it down a bit with the filter cut off all the way down and a +ve envelope doing a nice slow sweep with the amp envelope doing the same sorta thing - slow attack and release.
Also have the mod wheel controlling the filter envelope amount
Another tip for those horror sounds is have one saw wave tuned to 0 and the other tuned to +1 for that dissonant evil sound.
Re: Horror/Zombie Movie Synth Sounds
Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:07 am
by narrator
being a huge zombie movie/Carpenter fan i absolutely love these synth scores
especially this
the way it drops at around 50 seconds. shivers.....
would love to make something like that.
Re: Horror/Zombie Movie Synth Sounds
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:37 pm
by deadly_habit
thread necro
think i cracked it Soundcloud
think everything but the inital sound is free plugs too, booting up the project
Re: Horror/Zombie Movie Synth Sounds
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:39 pm
by Shekul
deadly habit wrote:thread necro
think i cracked it Soundcloud
think everything but the inital sound is free plugs too, booting up the project