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Hi Everyone,

I'm requesting (what I believe) is called a "White Noise Sweep".

I've looked around the site for this and some come very close but I always need to tweak it . . . and therefore messing it up (!)

Again, I'm guessing a "White Noise Sweep" is the term for it,
but I describe it as:

"A very high pitched static, windy sound that starts high and gradually gets lower in tone . . until it completely drops out."

(Think House/Trance music I suppose.)
Maybe 15 seconds or more in duration from high . . . . to low.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

Peace,
Steve

Hi,
I've made an example almost 30 seconds long; if your DAW supports sample stretching, you can easily speed it up at will.

http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/263815/

The sweep is linear, you'll probably prefer it closer to logarithmic, it can be done eventually.

HTH

I remember this sort of effect being used in a lot of cheesy pop-trance around the turn of the century (‘Will I’ by Ian Van Dahl comes to mind, the radio edit opens with this sound).

Here’s how I think I would go about making this with a software analog-type synth. Set one oscillator to output noise, put it through a low-pass filter with the resonance high, and set an envelope to sweep the cutoff down. For a bit of extra sparkle you can also set an LFO to modulate the cutoff at the same time.

(I’m assuming you know a little about synthesis, if not, what I’ve just wrote will sound like gobbledegook but I hope it helps.)

In order of likelihood ...
http://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/166074/
http://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/198765/

Perfect!
Thanks everyone for your help.

Excellent files!

Peace,
Steve

deleted_user_2906614 wrote:
I remember this sort of effect being used in a lot of cheesy pop-trance around the turn of the century (‘Will I’ by Ian Van Dahl comes to mind, the radio edit opens with this sound).

Here’s how I think I would go about making this with a software analog-type synth. Set one oscillator to output noise, put it through a low-pass filter with the resonance high, and set an envelope to sweep the cutoff down. For a bit of extra sparkle you can also set an LFO to modulate the cutoff at the same time.

(I’m assuming you know a little about synthesis, if not, what I’ve just wrote will sound like gobbledegook but I hope it helps.)

Which DAW do you use?

NitPick: If you sweep it, it's no longer "white noise". It's more like "violet noise changing to red noise". Even that's not quite right.

deleted_user_2906614 wrote:
Here’s how I think I would go about making this with a software analog-type synth. Set one oscillator to output noise, put it through a low-pass filter with the resonance high, and set an envelope to sweep the cutoff down. For a bit of extra sparkle you can also set an LFO to modulate the cutoff at the same time.

(I’m assuming you know a little about synthesis, if not, what I’ve just wrote will sound like gobbledegook but I hope it helps.)