Whoooo hoooo!

Let's make a horror film soundtrack in under 10 minutes

Public Service Announcement

There will be REALLY loud noises!

I am not a musician

but I like making noise

Synthesizers

DAWs

Orca

Sonic Pi

Sunvox

Soundplant

SuperCollider

Generative

Algoraves and Livecoding

Blade runner dirty 80s bassline

Creep orchestral violins

Crazy beats

Oh... and I've sent you a load of spooky samples could you work those in too?

Clockwork Orange

brass!

And can you make like 10 hours of sounds and we'll pick the best bits

Bespoke Synth

Download the app, and definitely watch the introduction video.

 

There are lots of essential UI tips.

Here's a version of my demo with sound. 

BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover: Requires registration and downloading of the Spitfire Audio app. Samples were carefully recorded in London. Lovely.


Spitfire Audio LABS: Lots of VERY unusual sounds for free, from Plaintiff Wail to Seasick.


ValhallaSupermassive. Echo and Reverb. Includes a preset called "Make Everything Better" … and it does.


Surge and Odin2: Two fantastic plugins that are so much more than synths. Amazing sounds.

My fave VST plug-ins

Remember: All of these are optional, but fun.

Examples

These files are me just playing with Bespoke with the Bespoke source file, so you can see how I did it. I'm still learning how it works. :-)

 

I used VSTs (plug-ins) that you won't have installed yet, so the source files may not sound quite as "spooky".

Bespoke - Halloween

By Tom Smith

Bespoke - Halloween

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