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Roflcopter - helicopter flying sounds

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afleetingspeck

April 6th, 2014

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Music > Solo instrument

Synthesized sound of a flying helicopter. The patter is as follows:

Sound 1 || Sound 2 || Sound 3 || Sound 4 || Sounds 1+2 || Sounds 2+3 || Sounds 3+4 || Sounds 1+3 || Sounds 2+4 || Sounds 1+2+3 || Sounds 1+3+4 || Sounds 2+3+4 || Sounds 1+2+4 || Sounds 1+2+3+4 || Sounds 1+2 again || Sounds 1+2 with phaser effect (pitch up and down)

Each sound above is exactly 2 seconds long except the second-to-last sound (4 seconds long) and the last sound (8 seconds long).

All sounds synthesized in Propellerheads Reason's Thor polyphonic synthesizer. Here's how I did it: Used two oscillators (one noise oscillator and another multiple-wave oscillator), and then passed them through two different filters. In each filter, I lfo'd the frequency knob at 2.0Hz (120bpm), and the pattern you see above is each oscillator-filter combination muted in different ways. For the last sound, I applied a phaser effect and automated the frequency knob or some other knob to give that pitch-up pitch-down effect.

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Alien
Chopper
Helicopter
Synthesized
automate
copter
distortion
lfo
oscillator
phaser
request
sample
triangle
wave
whish
white
whoosh
wind
wobble

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:16.000

File size

12.8 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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T
tubbers

3 years, 10 months ago

The second, fifth and next to last sounds sound like a John Carpenter movie. :-)

J
jerotamayo

6 years, 5 months ago

awesome mate

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