Best VST plugin for "white noise fx"?

[Matthew N.]

I doubt I need to explain what I have on my mind. Any suggestions? I am kinda sick of try-hard'ing to get a unique white noise FX with the 3xOSC and tons of filters.

[prettiestPony]

Hmmmmm this probably isn't the best choice for it, but you might consider Makjen's Chimera. It's a noise-based synth that is great for pads and some slightly odd leads, but I think you might be able to adapt it to other types of FX.

[Legion]

Hmmmmm this probably isn't the best choice for it, but you might consider Makjen's Chimera. It's a noise-based synth that is great for pads and some slightly odd leads, but I think you might be able to adapt it to other types of FX.

What I came here to say. I've never used it for pure white noise, but I'd be amazed if it couldn't pull that off spectacularly.

[Matthew N.]

Can't figure it out yet, gonna need some more time, I guess. Thanks anyways.

[Maelstrom]

Thank you so much!!! I'm always looking into more free vsts! This one's sweet!

[Whitetail]

If you're just going for white noise honestly most synths free or otherwise should handle it just the same, heck you could even just get random atmospheric noise and use that sample as white noise ( http://www.random.org/audio-noise/ - this is kinda neat if you want to mess with different white noise sounds).

That being said if you want to mess with other types of noise waves in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise <- good resource to get an idea of what different types there are

http://mda.smartelectronix.com/effects.htm <- Testtone from this can generate pink noise

NI's Massive can make Brown and a few other color noises


Honestly you're probably best off just grabbing the wav or mp3 whatever samples Wikipedia has in the color's of sound page, since it's just random noise I doubt it'd matter if it's a sample being played over and over again (I doubt it'd be very noticeable that you could hear that it's a loop sampled).


As for Chimeara, it makes some pretty surreal sounds and it's a great ambient lead and pad...... but I doubt it's all that useful for just plain white noise, and even if it is (I remember when I was playing with it a while back some settings could make it sound more and more like actual noise then filtered noise) it's probably not really necessary.



Though note it doesn't even have to be generated by a synth, if you have a mic just record random things - heck just record for a few seconds of it in the open air, take the recording and boost it until the background noise in the area is audible and you've got some white noise right there. You can also try other things like running water, a running fan, etc. etc. - I used the sound of a river flowing for white noise in this track (used some recordings of a waterfall for a sweep):

http://soundcloud.com/whitetail-music/expensive-tastes-dirty-money

[soup2504]

I just use 3xosc. Then again, I use 3xosc for EVERYTHING...

[natsukashi]

Just use an audio file of white noise and modulate it with filters if you're going to FX!

[Matthew N.]

Thanks for the input. Will play around with some WN audio files first.

[the4thImpulse]

I use a free plugin 'JG-3' for all my noise sweeps and effects, I put 100% wet reverb on it too to keep it soft and add delays and filters when I need them. Using straight audio files would do the same thing and it would keep your CPU usage down.

[Matthew N.]

I use a free plugin 'JG-3' for all my noise sweeps and effects, I put 100% wet reverb on it too to keep it soft and add delays and filters when I need them. Using straight audio files would do the same thing and it would keep your CPU usage down.

I'll check that one out, thanks.

As for my CPU: No worries. I've got 4x 3,4 ghz cores supporting my chaotic projects.

[XXDarkShadow79XX]

3xosc is fine. I don't understand what you find wrong with it.

[Maelstrom]

There's other white sounds you can get. If everyone uses the 3xosc sound for white noise, we would get tired of it pretty quick. That's basically it. Just diversity.

[XXDarkShadow79XX]

There's other white sounds you can get. If everyone uses the 3xosc sound for white noise, we would get tired of it pretty quick. That's basically it. Just diversity.

But I mean, it's white noise. How diverse can you get?

[Captain Ironhelm]

you could sample in white noise you generate with Audacity, and then work with that.

[Mundius]

Get a NES VST, place it on noise, play the highest note, and mod that. That's white noise, more or less.

[Kromium]

Tv static lol. .. although I'm not sure what type of noise that is... its quite dirty.