Creating a water drop noise?

nohero · Post by **nohero** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:15 pm

Any tips on how to make or water drop style noise in Ableton Analog (or any synth for that matter) ?

Cheers

MarcAshken · Post by **MarcAshken** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:40 pm

go proper analogue and do it rolf harris stylee, with your mouth. Its pretty easy once you get the hang of it

nohero · Post by **nohero** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:43 pm

Did actually consider this and then sampling it

Phase Ghost · Post by **Phase Ghost** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:38 pm

Yeah dude sample. Just don't get your mic wet.

tone-def · Post by **tone-def** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:58 pm

record real water then apply to much reverb.

oblioblioblio · Post by **oblioblioblio** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:42 pm

it's fun to try and synthesise it imo, and good practice.

Use envelopes to control pitch of a sine wave, and try to automate the envelope times.

Or try a low pass filter which is nearly self resonating, and use the same idea of automating the cutoff... maybe use an lfo.

hydrogen · Post by **hydrogen** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:03 pm

could also record your mouth doing the water drop sound... you know where you flick your finger on your cheeck and modulate your lips?

tons of youtube videos about this... haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWxejK7ojg

pafufta816 · Post by **pafufta816** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:09 pm

take a sine wave. you will want this wave to slide down from about 600 hz to 200 hz, as the pitch lowers you will want the sound to fade out. this should be very short, less than a half a second long. next add delay or reverb to your liking.