On 12/8/05, Michael T D Nelson <m_nels@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> Do you mean the one that sounds like bells? If you do, then I'm > >> guessing it's... bells. > > > > > > I guess that's the one. But I don't think it bells (unless you mean > > synthesized bells), actually I'm quite sure esp since I know what > > instruments are used on this record (they are: analog synths, fender > > rhodes and toy-piano). > > > > I don't know Jean Michel Jarre too well but I seem to remember the same > > sound being used on the Oxygene (the swing one that was a big hit). > > Maybe that could ring a bell (pun intended)... > > Just a guess... Try to Google for something like "bell synthesis -labs > -speech". > > http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/demos/dafx02/ > http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node67.html > http://www.ec.vanderbilt.edu/computermusic/musc216site/Simple.bell.tutorial.html > > Alternatively, buy some books on synthesis methods - visit your local > bookshop/library and take your time! I remember studying one at > University which described methods of synthesising different percussive > sounds, but I can't remember the details. > > Have a go! You might fins a sound which you like even more... > > Michael > Seeing as you're wanting an om solution, try the smack fm drums patches, you can use them quite nicely for bells. I've got some physical synthesis stuff that sounds a lot like bells too if you want to have that. If it's actually the pad you mean then lots of osc's with a bit of detuning always makes for nice pads. Loki
