First post – The Sound of Bubbles.
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I’m the project manager for group Quetzalcoatl. We’re creating a game through our interpretation of the “SelFish” concept document. In addition to managing I produce music and sounds for the game using my prior knowledge on the matter. I also try to help out with any other tasks I can. The game is set in a fish tank. Before agreeing on every common design choice, we knew bubbles would be present in the game (both as particle effects and as projectiles). It seemed like a reasonable place to start my endeavour of music and sound effects for this game project. I prefer to create sounds from scratch with the software I have; it allows for tailoring to exactly what is needed and makes sure we own the copyright to them. However, I had not made sound effects for bubbles prior to this project. I decided to use a software synthesizer by Native Instruments called “Massive”. Synthesizers are instruments commonly used to produce Electronic Dance music etc. I do not particularly like Massive, but it’s the synth I’m most familiar with. It’s easy to learn as there are many tutorials and presets available. Instead of playing a note, I fed continuous white noise which I then manipulated with a filter to sound like a stream of bubbles. The filter looked like this: In the essence, the noise gets chopped up as depicted by the white line above. I can then reduce or increase the pitch to create different sounding bubbles (low for large ones and high for smaller ones). I then added reverb to the sound and cut off any unnecessary frequencies. I now had the sound of a bubble stream. I can simply cut the stream to smaller pieces for single “bubble burst” effects. I made another bubble stream in a similar manner to create the ambient sound of being in a fish tank. This time with plenty of bass and larger sounding bubbles to bring forth a deep sound. I can not post audio in the free version of WordPress, but both of the bubble streams can be streamed (pun intended) directly from my Dropbox: Stream 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8v0957ul6y9hj5/BubbleStream.wav?dl=0 Stream 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6krcxkt57q0zq2a/Ambient.wav?dl=0 -Mikael Sukoinen  |
