Sound Designing... Without Oscillators

[Kromium]

I haven't been making any music lately so I decided to sound design with Massive. What I've found out is that White noise can be used for a Dubstep growl... like the stuff in transformers if automated and filtered properly.

Have a listen.
http://db.tt/62HvtB9f

And the patch if anypony wants it... Note that this patch is played 2 octaves below C0... don't know about other DAWs but I used Ableton to play it.
http://db.tt/m60R7a69

Also... Inb4 White noise is an oscillator on some synths.

[Unlimited Mana]

white noise is an oscillator on massive too
I was actually doing the same thing yesterday. Got something kinda similar to the intro of Destroy Them With Lazers.
Comb filters work awesome on white noise.

[KillerAmp]

This sounds interesting, probably will be useful when trying to make certain sounds in massive!

[Sugarholik]

Oscillator is basically anything that vibrates, so white noise is basically product of an oscillator...
But let's not go in to that. One thing I once did with noise was filtering it heavily, until it sounded almost like a sine. Slapped distortion on it and got this drifting and dusty square wave sound.
Also you can't speak of white noise without mentioning Majken's Chimera

[Whitetail]

Everything on Massive works the same way with wavetables if you're going to be picky about that =P


You can do other neat things too though without doing things "typically" - take a filter on massive and turn up the resolution to 100% and keytrack the cutoff rate to make a "Do it yourself" sine wave.