making laser sounds

Klix · Post by **Klix** » Mon May 05, 2003 10:56 pm

does anyone know what program is used to make laser like sounds?

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:31 am

I made a laser sound once by recording myself making a laser sounds with my mouth ("pshhhew!"), and then using Gold Wave to fiddle around with it.

It wasn't that good a final product, though.

Yotto · Post by **Yotto** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:17 am

In the 'real' world, you can get the sound by whacking the grounding wire from a telephone pole with a wrench. Sounds just like the blasters in Star Wars.
Any decent synthesizer program (IE, anything that will play midi) should have a laser sounding plugin or two. In fact, I own (uninstalled, and not touched in about a decade, and on floppy, so no promises here) a program called Finale that, given a piece of music, will play it in midi, and I think I remember making fun laser music way back then. If it'll help, I'll try to install it tomorrow. This was, at the time, high end software designed for musicians. I dropped about a hundred bucks on it and that was with the student discount.

Yotto · Post by **Yotto** » Fri May 09, 2003 7:58 am

Yotto wrote:Any decent synthesizer program (IE, anything that will play midi) should have a laser sounding plugin or two. In fact, I own (uninstalled, and not touched in about a decade, and on floppy, so no promises here) a program called Finale that, given a piece of music, will play it in midi, and I think I remember making fun laser music way back then. If it'll help, I'll try to install it tomorrow. This was, at the time, high end software designed for musicians. I dropped about a hundred bucks on it and that was with the student discount.

Well, the floppies are MIA, though I do have all the manuals. Sadly, I can't get the manuals to generate a laser like sound. But now I have a mission, to find a synth program, preferably free. I'll keep you posted. I'm on dialup and doing some hefty downloading so it may take a while. I'm going to see if I can find some midi player source code, as well. That way, we could put it in the main program and play all sorts of stuff (Music, lasers, engines, all could be done with midi fairly easily) Is this a dumb idea or would it be useful?