Wind and rain sounds -- how to make from basic sources?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around techniques for synthesizing natural sounds such as wind, rain, and ocean noise using various noise generators and filters. Participants explore the use of FFT filters, white, brown, and pink noise, and discuss the characteristics needed to create realistic soundscapes.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Technical explanation
  • Debate/contested
  • Mathematical reasoning

Main Points Raised

  • One participant suggests getting creative and experimenting with the spectrum of natural sounds for inspiration.
  • Another participant emphasizes the importance of introducing time-varying characteristics in volume and spectral content to achieve realistic sounds.
  • There is mention of using an ADSR envelope in music synthesis to shape sound characteristics.
  • A participant expresses difficulty in achieving the correct buffer size with the NAudio class and notes that their attempts to filter brown noise do not yield satisfactory results.
  • One participant is attempting to filter pink noise into rain noise but is unsure about the appropriate settings for low-pass and high-pass filters.
  • Another participant suggests that a random impulse generator may be needed for creating rain sounds.
  • One participant shares a link to an audio sample, indicating that it does not sound like rain.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express varying opinions on the methods and settings for synthesizing natural sounds, indicating that multiple competing views remain. There is no consensus on the best approach or specific filter settings.

Contextual Notes

Participants mention limitations related to the equipment used and the challenges of achieving desired sound characteristics, highlighting the dependence on specific setups and the need for experimentation.

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ok I have a FFT filter ( lowpass and highpass), white, brown, and pink noise generators.

How do I use all these things to make wind ,rain, and ocean noise ?
I am told there is a way.
 
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You get creative.
 
You could have a look at the spectrum of the natural sources you want to mimic for some inspiration. Then as Baluncore suggested, get creative, experiment.
 
btb4198 said:
ok I have a FFT filter ( lowpass and highpass), white, brown, and pink noise generators.

How do I use all these things to make wind ,rain, and ocean noise ?
I am told there is a way.
Some of these have time-varying characteristics, either in volume or spectral content, or both, so you won't produce anything realistic unless you can introduce the cyclic variations needed. The surf sound gets louder, then ebbs, with each roller. The storm's wind rises to a scream, then falls to a growl. Gentle rain is easy, it's constant.
 
NascentOxygen said:
Some of these have time-varying characteristics, either in volume or spectral content, or both, so you won't produce anything realistic unless you can introduce the cyclic variations needed. The surf sound gets louder, then ebbs, with each roller. The storm's wind rises to a scream, then falls to a growl. Gentle rain is easy, it's constant.

I do ...
I have it on a sin wave that drop down to 0.
 
two things
1)
I can't get my buffer to be 2^N size, it is because I am using NAudio class and is it just not designed like that. but I did get it to be 262136 size which is close to 2^18( 262144). And I test that and it works , but not as good at it did with 32768 sample.

2) I am filter brown noise and I could not find anything online to help on how to do it, but it doe not sound like rain or wind.

I tried both the low and high and I did like 10hz 100Hz 200Hz, but I am shooting in the dark here...
any ideas ?
 
Pink noise into rain

I am trying to filter pink noise into rain noise
but it is not sound right

right now I am trying to high pass filter and I have it set to 6000

what should I use?
Low pass or high pass or both ?

and what should I set them to?
 
btb4198 said:
I am trying to filter pink noise into rain noise
but it is not sound right

right now I am trying to high pass filter and I have it set to 6000

what should I use?
Low pass or high pass or both ?

and what should I set them to?

not knowing what equip you are using etc that is pretty unanswerable

do lots of experimentation. you have the gear in front of you, we don't :wink:Dave
 
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btb4198 said:
ok I have a FFT filter ( lowpass and highpass), white, brown, and pink noise generators.

How do I use all these things to make wind ,rain, and ocean noise ?
I am told there is a way.

For rain, you'd need a random impulse generator to start with.
 
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I have that put

I have the pink noise generator on a sinwave
 

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