Only in terms of tonality though, otherwise low toms made with noise or other sounds of a similar vein wouldnt be consistent on each note on. There's no way you are going to get a consistent fundamental from noise as far as i can tell but sounds made from noise, do not to my ears sound like frequencies come and go.
Obviously being random it must do but how fast is it happening? Maybe too fast for the ear to notice which makes it 'stable' at least to human perception. There must be a probability factor that all frequencies are present at all times, they call it psd (power spectral density).
If, like the OP you bp filter noise, you do to some degree get a workable oscillator, I read somewhere that bp filtered noise actually helped construct those 'spectral' patches on earlier roland digital synths. Its interesting anyway, i wont be trying it any time soon but stuff like this makes me want to experiment.
Using white noise for bass
Didn't find the time to respond until now. For those who're interested, I've uploaded my ableton file so you can see how I made this bass (It's really really simple).
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZYK8DRZ6
edit: didn't seem to work so: http://www28.zippyshare.com/v/14508169/file.html
It's not always easy to hear if a bass will sound good on a soundsystem here at home. My monitors aren't the best, and the room I'm using isn't acoustically handled. So if you say it sounds muddy I'll just have to trust you. But your theory seems plausible.
Just a BP filter with 12dB/octave. But actually I started with brown noise rather than white noise, so that's why you only hear the lowest frequencies.
Yes.
It sounds like noise, lol.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZYK8DRZ6
edit: didn't seem to work so: http://www28.zippyshare.com/v/14508169/file.html
steevio wrote:i think if theres anywhere in the frequency spectrum where you want tonal clarity its the bass.
it would probably serious mess with the bass speakers in a soundsystem.
It's not always easy to hear if a bass will sound good on a soundsystem here at home. My monitors aren't the best, and the room I'm using isn't acoustically handled. So if you say it sounds muddy I'll just have to trust you. But your theory seems plausible.
AK wrote:You were bp filtering either side of a resonant filter? Did you lp filter it too? Why was i assuming you were just lp filtering?
Just a BP filter with 12dB/octave. But actually I started with brown noise rather than white noise, so that's why you only hear the lowest frequencies.
AK wrote:There were 2 basses, one reverse style bass and one with more attack, were both created this way?
Yes.
AK wrote:Try this, a few 8ve's higher, play yourself a 3 note chord and see if it is clearly percievable, you can do that with a bass tone. If its a muddle, id go percussive with the sound, if its clear, id be happy using it as a bass tone
It sounds like noise, lol.
That was acctually the kind of bass I was aiming at, but more in stabs instead of constantly rumbling.thasim1 wrote:is it possible to use white noise to create low rumbling basslines like these? i gave it a shot but i wasnt able to arrive at anything similar. what do you guys think? is this a stupid question?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NP23laSCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSUf3YD7XLU
bass @ 1.00 on both.