Breaking glass

blue hell · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: Breaking glass

I've been working a bit on breaking glass, soundwise. It's not really breaking glass that I'm after, as I want it to have some tonality, it should play some melody, but that's secondary.

Anyway, here is a patch I came up with. It's pretty lame though, it does have some glass like features in it I think but it's more like a mix between a zipper and a steel drum still.

Any suggestions ?

I found this, pdf on the web, not sure if its helpfull as I've only read the first few paragraphs sofar.

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in search for breaking glass

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ian-s · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

Taken from an old prf, not so much designed as stumbled upon, it is a descendant of my tambourine patch. Not easy to impart tonality without breaking the effect.

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blue hell · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:47 am Post subject:

Thanks, sounds like glass alright, I'll see what I can make out of it.

3phase · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

I once made a sound with a sampler that had a glass tonality...
The recording was made with the rest of a bottle smashin session just as a secondary try... i stired with a stick thru the debree auf the smashed bottles ... the clicking and falling around each other of the glaspieces gave a very nice atmospheric loop that had acousticaly 100% glass identity ...
you allways was reminded to breaking glas by the sound..but it wasnt a percussiv or explosiv event...rather hundrereds of microglasbreaks...
Granular sampling ...stirring in glas grains... If this is from interest for you i maybe can locate the tape...

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject:

I'm always interested in hearing a little sample. But you gave me a new idea to try already - maybe I can send Ian's patch (or a couple of 'm) through Tim's delay magic.

I've tried filters sofar and the vocoder, but those kill the glass aspect, nothing but sad noise bursts remains. And then I got distracted by some mad noodle :-)

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject:

The glass aspect stays better, but Ian may be right, hard to make it tonal - it seems inherently noise ...

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