Need to make a bagpipe noise!
 

ive got a bagpiper in my band, and i wana get his midi pipes connected to my virus KC.

but im going to need a sounds that resembles the highland pipes. anyone got any pointers for me b4 i attempt this? :-)

cheers!

Now heres a challenge!!!!!

Forget about emulating organs etc......why not try some fekkin bagpipes!

Good luck mate.....I wouldnt know where to start, hopefully someone here can give you a hand.

:)

Lol

I'd approach it by FM and paraller filters (probably 2xBP or LP & BP). Then some saturation and voil

cheers ill start there ;-)

i think heavy compression is needed aswell to get "that" sound.

also try pysical modeling plugins.

Yep, heavy compression will turn any VA, Rompler or sampler into a bagpipe sound. :lol:

maybe :wink:

Hoho.

Essential is to get that reedish sound and when the base sound is ok the final touch is gained by pitch envelopes to create that "glitch" of a bagpipe.

This is along the lines of the way I'd aproach the sound too. I'd probably multi-sample a set of pipes that I could get a clean loop from (only of the tail though), then I'd work on the envelopes to mimick the bagpipe. I would attach evelope amounts to things like velocity and after touch to try and get the horrid nueance of the instrument. :D

Definitely the first time I've heard of someone trying to get a bagpipe sound digitaly! I'd be keen to hear what sort of tunes you guys are making actually.

to be honest guys, i think the 'glitch' your talking about is are grace notes that the piper plays.

a set of midi pipes are going to be controlling the virus so i think that will be taken care of.

i only got my virus last week so im pretty new to it, where can i apply compression to a sound?

This is a good idea. Somebody should make a physical/additive modeling bagpipe vsti!!!!! They would make millions :lol:

The only synthetic bagpipe I heard was Orbital's, er, "Bagpipe Style" tune.

Tears of laughter whenever I hear that track. Comedy gold.

I think I even have that bagpipe patch preset somewhere. I think it was for the physical modelling board off the Korg Z1. PIssed myself when I first stumbled upon it.

There is a bagpipe patch in the tutorial bank that accompanies the "Programming Analogue Synths" PDF by Howard Scarr. You can download it at the Access site.

aww thats good news cheers