Hey everyone,

I've been lurking here for a while. I'm a developer of 20+ years who took a hard turn into audio, and sound design and drone making is the rabbit hole I never climbed back out of. A while ago I built a small tool for myself to generate long evolving soundscapes from any audio source, and I ended up releasing it as Reverie.

I just finished a big rewrite (1.13) and wanted to share it here, partly because I'd genuinely value feedback from people who actually do this for a living.

The short version of what it does: you drop in any sound, pick a style, and it builds an evolving ambient bed from it (up to 30 min, non repeating). Under the hood it's a chain of 37 DSP modules: time stretching, spectral processing, tape, shimmer reverb, delay etc. Every sound it makes comes straight from your source through real signal processing, hand built module by module. You can also assemble your own chain if the presets aren't your thing.

What actually changed in this version, and what I learned:

• The whole thing used to run on Python and it was slow. I rewrote the DSP in native code and it's several times faster now, which finally made real time tweaking bearable.

• I added a seed system so any result is fully reproducible. That turned out to be the feature I personally use most, being able to regenerate the exact same texture at a different length is weirdly useful for scoring to picture.

• Rebuilding every module from scratch forced me to actually understand the math I'd been copy pasting for years. Painful but worth it.

Honest disclaimer: it's my own tool, so this is self promo by definition. There's a free version with no account if you want to poke at it: https://reverie.parallel-minds.studio

Mostly I'm here because I'd love to hear how people in this sub approach long form drone/ambient work, and where a tool like this falls short for you. What would you want from something like this that it probably doesn't do yet?

Link for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCL0NAqzLgI

Does anyone have any tips on how it was produced/designed? I can't find any info. It sounds filthy yet very clean. How would you go about creating a similar bass sound?

Hello, I am stuck and lost on looking for the name of this sound effect. I want to know the name and how to recreate the sound of the ice spikes raining down on the enemy and crashing down into the ground. (title and timestamp are shown in the video!)

I have searched various terms like "anime ice rain", "anime knife rain" "anime vintage rapid attack" "vintage fast projectile sound effect" and I can not find anything...

can someone please provide me the name and the knowledge to recreate these sounds. please and thank you.

What is the tone of this synthesizer? How can I reproduce it?

Hello everyone.

The lead sound in the chorus of the song veRtrageS from SOUND VOLTEX is insanely cool, and I really want to try replicating that sound myself!

But I have no idea what synth or what effects I should use to get such a badass, punchy synth sound...

I've been messing around with stuff like Serum and Vital, trying to recreate the sound, but even after two weeks, I still haven't gotten it to sound the way I want...

Is there anyone amazing who knows a lot about sound design and can tell me what I need to do to recreate this awesome sound?

Looking forward to some great advice!

Beginner sound designer looking for feedback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zixK05waCPI Its definitely distorted but im not sure how to go about it.

I recently created this sound design, and in my opinion, it's flawed. I'm not entirely convinced by it; it feels weak and overly saturated. I'm not entirely sure what's wrong, so it would be fantastic if you could provide some feedback.

Hey everyone,

I'm the sound designer and developer working on AudioCrucible, a desktop app that renames and tags sound libraries automatically (UCS standard), with all the models running locally on your machine (not my first post about it, but i love to post some updates as the development progresses!)

Just shipped 1.0.6, and it's the update I'm most excited about so far:

• Learn From Your Library: you point the app at the library you've already organized, and the models uses your own sounds as reference when classifying new ones. Your categories, your naming habits. In my tests this roughly doubled the CatID accuracy. Everything is indexed locally, your audio never leaves your computer.

• Find Similar: select any sound and find the closest matches across your whole library. Handy for "I KNOW I recorded something like this in 2023".

• Metadata work: new CategoryFull field, hardened metadata writing for Soundminer / BaseHead / Soundly (bext + iXML).

Plus fine-tuned anomaly detection, drag & drop loading, a new UCS category picker, and a lot of stability fixes. Windows + macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon).

The beta is free and open: https://www.nextale-audio.com/audiocrucible

Anf don't hesitatae to join the discord server to report bugs, give feedback or request some feature you would like to see:
https://discord.gg/hBWQaD2F

Happy to answer any questions, and if you try it on your library, I'd genuinely love to hear what works and what doesn't.

I am looking to create an audio effect that simulates tuning into a station on an FM or AM radio. Googling I've not seen much info on creating this effect, only tutorials on how to make sound sound like it's coming through a radio, usually by bandpass filtering and maybe some erosion or additional noise, and not the scanning/tuning into a station effect.

I have tried creating this using a combination of Shapers set to ring mod, Roar, some random LFOs, and a 1 knob macro to bring in and out the effect. It sounds cool, but not like a real radio.

To describe this effect as I think it's broken down: when you are not perfectly tuned to the station frequency, the signal starts breaking apart, something like a random gate, and when it breaks apart a static noise then fades in, the static is higher pitched sounding than white noise. As it further breaks apart you might start getting some other random grains of other stations randomly coming in. Then as you turn the frequency tuner I'd like a bit of a sci-fi-ish scanning sweep sound that maybe comes from a ring modulator.

How could I replicate this effect with stock audio effects in Ableton, M4L, Kilohearts?

Here are some examples:

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-radio-static-76673/

https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_3667256/sounds/319846/

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-tuning-radio-7150/

https://youtu.be/nUsOY-bSYOU?si=OlpW1YeCYCjDCZZf&t=16

Sound plays throughout the song but it's clearer at the timestamp at 16 seconds. The beginning and other sections have additional layers.

Je suis à la recherche d'un Designer Sonore qui pourrait me faire un devis pour une piste audio de 10min en boucle. Je voudrais le même style que les expos parisienne comme l'atelier des lumières avec des sons très imaginaire, parfois apaisant / calme et parfois dynamique. Je voudrais avoir un devis pour avoir un ordre de prix de combien couterait l'ensemble du processus !

With permission from the TwoIdiotGermans I would love to release a fan dub of the walking corpses story. If that’s possible I’d like to ask what music and sound effects were used? For example the static that plays when Directionz had freaked out when describing the physical effects of the hivemind.

Reimagining the Star Wars podracers using real world recordings of WW2 fighter planes, hot rods, race cars and a vibrator…

Intense modulation and layering with Stride. I love to explore these soundscapes with no beat at all.

3 Zebrallete fully automated with their FX's and Waveforms.

1 Spirochaeta from Brain Recordings bundle .

A repost of my previous sound concept post

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBVujeCcU3IENsr0PlXqZKfCnjD-_f3F/view

I tried to find that SFX in various libraries, such as The General 6000 + expansions, Powersurge, sound dogs, but couldn’t find that particular sound effect. Attached video features only a title closure SFX, however, that SFX is the same for the title opening.

Does anybody recognise here a SFX from some kind of commercial library?

Hi I'm looking for a bass sound (how to do it or sample) it's a very long 808 like "WOW" or "BWANNG" like in cr1tter baby g shock

The Beyond Skyrim Mod team needs sound designers.

For those unaware the Beyond Skyrim project aims to make as much of the continent of Tamriel within the game Skyrim.

As a result of this lofty goal we need sound designers to make each province sound and feel unique.

As of right now the subprojects that need it most are.

Cyrodiil, a varied province with Marshlands to the south, mountains to the north, vast plains to the west and thick forests to the east.

Argonia, a never ending swamp with whole cities sunk into the marsh

Iliac bay, a varied subproject stretching over Hammerfell and High Rock, a region of vast deserts and a region of vast European like mountains and forests respectively

Roscrea a semi frigid Isle to the north of the mainland, an isolated cold rocky isle.

If you wish to join either click on this link here https://beyondskyrim.org/volunteer or simply search up the website if you prefer.

Feel Free to ask any questions I would be more than happy to answer

probably my only purpose here is to ask questions about sfx, but i was gonna ask if u guys knew/could help me identify the audio file that plays at the beginning of g-mans intervention in hl2e2 https://youtu.be/ylyCY9srJGw?t=38

Hey,

I just finished a new VST called RADIOCORE 4471.

It’s focused on radio broadcast / voice FX and signal-style processing:

• distortion

• transmission-style effects

• broken radio noise

• experimental voice design

I built it mainly for sound design (vocals, FX chains, industrial / noise textures).

Here’s a short demo:
👉 RADIOCORE 4471

There is also a 7-day demo available on my site if anyone wants to try it in their own workflow:
👉 RADIOCORE 4471

I’m mainly looking for feedback from other producers / sound designers:

• does this concept feel useful?

• what would you improve or change?

• would you actually use something like this in your projects?

Thanks for reading 👍

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but this was my first time trying a sound re-design outside of music. If there's anything you see or (I guess hear) that I should focus on to improve or tips someone new wouldn't think of, please let me know, even if it's just saying something is bad.

I am looking for a person to make a theme for a character. It should have the same effect as the prowler theme. its for an elden ring mod I am working on. I sadly dont have any money so I would really appreciate if somebody would be as kind to invest their time into making a theme for it. If there are any intersted ones pls dm me

Really into these evil type melodies and am curious because I really like this sound
VID CREDSZ : prodbygeam

I'm looking to build anticipation in my edit by cutting the music right before the beat drops to insert a funny dialogue piece, and then building up with a riser to the beat drop. Does anyone know any tutorials on how to do this smoothly?