Spectral Editing

ezahp · 8th September 2010

Anyone have any tips about spectral editing - i.e. removing, shifting, delaying or otherwise manipulating partials for making sound design type FX? In theory it should be possible to do all sorts of interesting and useful things but the only previous experience I've had in this area was with NI's now discontinued Spektral Delay and the results were just smudgy and uninteresting.
I'm hoping to make a red tailed hawk sound like a Wilhelm scream.

charles maynes · 8th September 2010

that has to be about the most awesome audio cliche ever..... excellent!

as to morphing them, there are different things out there......

Prosoniq Products Software GmbH » morph

NReichman · 8th September 2010

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Originally Posted by ezahp

Anyone have any tips about spectral editing - i.e. removing, shifting, delaying or otherwise manipulating partials for making sound design type FX? In theory it should be possible to do all sorts of interesting and useful things but the only previous experience I've had in this area was with NI's now discontinued Spektral Delay and the results were just smudgy and uninteresting.
I'm hoping to make a red tailed hawk sound like a Wilhelm scream.

IRCAM's Audiosculpt, Izotope's RX, and reNovator are the best spectral manipulation tools I've used. Not sure if Audiosculpt is still in development, but it was certainly the most radical of the bunch. Good luck.

Smallbudgetguru · 8th September 2010

The soundhack stuff is cool too. Also check out TAPESTREA

Its a very neat program that essentially allows you to grab certain elements from any sound from within the frequency spectrum and timeline. It creates its own "assets" with your selection and then allows you to recreate and re-synthesisze each asset in a new timeline with wonderful randomization features. Imagine taking an ambient recording of a specific environment, selecting exciting elements and reworking it to be a new environment.

There is a short video explaining how it could be used. You may view it here http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/lis.../tapestrea.mov

You may download TAPESTREA from thier website here TAPESTREA: A New Way to Design Sound

It takes a little learning to get things working but its fairly straight forwards. If you have used basic spectral repair software then you already know how to do most of the isolation of sounds, the manipulation and re-synthesis is pretty straight forwards.

jafbox · 8th September 2010

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8th September 2010	#1
ezahp Gear Head Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 47 Thread Starter	Spectral Editing Anyone have any tips about spectral editing - i.e. removing, shifting, delaying or otherwise manipulating partials for making sound design type FX? In theory it should be possible to do all sorts of interesting and useful things but the only previous experience I've had in this area was with NI's now discontinued Spektral Delay and the results were just smudgy and uninteresting. I'm hoping to make a red tailed hawk sound like a Wilhelm scream.

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charles maynes Gear Guru Joined: Jan 2004 Location: out in the dirt. Posts: 15,625	that has to be about the most awesome audio cliche ever..... excellent! as to morphing them, there are different things out there...... Prosoniq Products Software GmbH » morph __________________ Charles Maynes credits Charles' webpage "Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them." T.E. Lawrence today is a good day to make your obituary better.... General Smedley Butler- WAR IS A RACKET American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower - Farewell Address

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Smallbudgetguru Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 243	The soundhack stuff is cool too. Also check out TAPESTREA Its a very neat program that essentially allows you to grab certain elements from any sound from within the frequency spectrum and timeline. It creates its own "assets" with your selection and then allows you to recreate and re-synthesisze each asset in a new timeline with wonderful randomization features. Imagine taking an ambient recording of a specific environment, selecting exciting elements and reworking it to be a new environment. There is a short video explaining how it could be used. You may view it here http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/lis.../tapestrea.mov You may download TAPESTREA from thier website here TAPESTREA: A New Way to Design Sound It takes a little learning to get things working but its fairly straight forwards. If you have used basic spectral repair software then you already know how to do most of the isolation of sounds, the manipulation and re-synthesis is pretty straight forwards.

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