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Anyone have any idea how to make one of these ? I did have a tutorial in computer music magazine but my mate threw it away by accident

Its quite a typical sound in trance and newer house.

reverb swell?

Is that the air bit before all the drops, the side chained in?

yeh it is. That sort of rising washy sound that gets louder as it builds up.

It's just hi passed noise. Automate the master level and cutoff frequency to go up and of course sidechain compress it to your kick.

kejk wrote:It's just hi passed noise. Automate the master level and cutoff frequency to go up and of course sidechain compress it to your kick.

What he said ^. There are many ways of going about it. I would personally take a different route. For the noise it self :Open up a snyth, go down to effects and noises and find air or pink noise ones.

cheers for the help !

pretty obvious now i think about it haha

Uh, the name "reverb swell" kinda gives it away, though you can of course make buildups with filtered white noise.

An actual reverb swell:

- Pick a sound that's about to come in (I like using lead synth bleepy noises fed by a reverb swell)
- Isolate a short riff - a few notes' worth - and reverse it (bounce it to audio first if necessary)
- Stick a very long reverb on it (20-30 seconds)
- Compress to bring out the reverb tail
- Bounce the resulting mess of reverb decay
- Reverse the bounced audio

....there's your reverb swell. Works a treat if you use the reversed reverb sample to feed into the sound that generated it.

static_cast wrote: Works a treat if you use the reversed reverb sample to feed into the sound that generated it.

yeah this ^

oh and if anyone uses logic there's a reverse option in the space designer reverb

static_cast wrote: Works a treat if you use the reversed reverb sample to feed into the sound that generated it.

I dont get what you mean by this, so like with you example taking the lead sound and doing all those processes, how do you mean by feeding it into the sound that generated it?

the reverse reverb leads into the sound you made it from!

You record a bit of audio, reverse it, and send the reversed bit througha reverb.

YOu save this as audio clip, and open it up into a sampler...

You reverse the new, reverbed bit, so the sounds are back in the right order, bt the reverb comes in instead of going out...

Cut off the part that ISNT reverb tail, but rather, the little clip form step one...

Now your left with JSUT a reverb tail, as a sample.

Say you reversed a snare and performed this technique. Take that sample thats JUST reversed reverb tail, put it leaing up to a clean, forwars version of the snare...



Seeeee? bright bits your original sample, lead into it is the verb tail...

great for that boom-pap, boomshhhhpap steppy drum effect too lol, IDK how to type that out as drum notation though...

Kick_ _ _ Snare _ _ _ Kick _ verb snare?

Ohh yeah I get it now! I thought feeding into itself was going to be some complicated way of like sending it though a bus or summat and have it like sent to the sound that generated or something.

so you know like in tracks where like they have the vocals, and then it seems like the very first bit of the vocals, say the first word was 'I', it seems like the 'I' sound is just looped a building up getting louder until the vocals come in, but you cant hear a loop it just sounds like one sound. could that be done using this same process?

skimpi wrote:Ohh yeah I get it now! I thought feeding into itself was going to be some complicated way of like sending it though a bus or summat and have it like sent to the sound that generated or something.

so you know like in tracks where like they have the vocals, and then it seems like the very first bit of the vocals, say the first word was 'I', it seems like the 'I' sound is just looped a building up getting louder until the vocals come in, but you cant hear a loop it just sounds like one sound. could that be done using this same process?

Yes, just have a rather long decay on the original reverb.

Basic A wrote:You record a bit of audio, reverse it, and send the reversed bit througha reverb.

YOu save this as audio clip, and open it up into a sampler...

You reverse the new, reverbed bit, so the sounds are back in the right order, bt the reverb comes in instead of going out...

Cut off the part that ISNT reverb tail, but rather, the little clip form step one...

Now your left with JSUT a reverb tail, as a sample.

Say you reversed a snare and performed this technique. Take that sample thats JUST reversed reverb tail, put it leaing up to a clean, forwars version of the snare...



Seeeee? bright bits your original sample, lead into it is the verb tail...

great for that boom-pap, boomshhhhpap steppy drum effect too lol, IDK how to type that out as drum notation though...

Kick_ _ _ Snare _ _ _ Kick _ verb snare?

Thanks to you and static_cast,VERY helpful haha way more fast and easier than I was doing it

N/P guys glad we could make some sense of it!

Btw, its worth noting that this doesnt just have to be used to bring in whole verses n stuff... alot of effective uses just to transition different melodies in and out, lead up too snares like I said above, the vocal in's my man up there was mentioning, ect.