posted 02 February 2012 13:59            

I remember there being some discussion in the past about synthesizing water sounds, but I can not find it. I am needing to synthesis water flowing down a wall - it will be linked to an animation. It will vary in the volume of water, and will at times have obstacles placed in the water path so as to cause diversions. The water needs to sounds reasonably realistic. I will receive OSC data containing

waterStream01 x, y, z, width, energy
waterStream02 x, y, z, width, energy
waterStream03 x, y, z, width, energy
waterStream04 x, y, z, width, energy

Currently I have a bunch of samples of water from single drips to streams. The water streams will move across the space (hence the x, y, z data, of which I am likely to use x for panning and z for amplitude), and would like to apply 'width' to the spread of the signal across a number of loudspeakers but am not sure how to do this in Kyma as Radius does not really meet that need.

I also need polyphony as there will be a number of water events at any one time (maybe 4).

So I thought I would seek some advice on how to approach this. I am thinking I could analyse the various water samples and build a Tao player to morph through the varying intensity? IS this a good approach? I wonder if the morph would be as strong as layering samples?

posted 02 February 2012 14:58            

Since the GrainCloud has a variable width stereo field (PanJitter), when you feed it into a Surroundify, that stereo separation will spread to the surrounds.

posted 02 February 2012 20:22            

The SSC one is really nice if you put it through an vintage Roland space echo.. mulitply and pan it with FX through the surround channels..it sounds really great!

For my small experience in 3D sound design it would be great to create realstic water drops in surround just by kyma alone.

i d really replace some of those "mystic" "old school"parts of my equipment with kyma ... maybe it will be the modal filter to bust the vintage roland .... but i am not shure yet ... anyway great example!
It helped me a lot!

have a nice day
chris

P.S: i tried some drops with current SSC approach and the modalfilter-
It sounds great to simulate water dropping on "metal" surfaces like cars or on a window ledge ... cool...
I remember there was a cool sound for single water drops from SSC
... but i could not find it today ... may "script it randomly a lot" and put it in to surround space (comics wise) would help...
Pacarans do allot of crazy things!

posted 03 February 2012 10:22            

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Originally posted by ChristianSchloesser:
P.S: i tried some drops with current SSC approach and the modalfilter-
It sounds great to simulate water dropping on "metal" surfaces like cars or on a window ledge ...

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What a great idea!

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I remember there was a cool sound for single water drops from SSC
... but i could not find it today ...

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It was in the Synthesis section of tweaky; I just moved it into the Sound Effects section to make it easier to find:
http://www.symbolicsound.com/Share/Sounds#Sound_Effects

posted 03 February 2012 11:22            

The idea of using a drop as an envelop is something I had not though of - shall test that out today too.