In this post I will show you an interesting way to make a unique synth from noise.
An interesting thing I learned long ago, you just need to record any kind of noise like the noise of a plastic bag, rain, wind, whatever you think it would be cool for your synth.
For this tutorial, I have recorded 2 samples, one plastic bag and another sound of the street from my window. The microphone you are recording with doesn't have to be of high quality, all the sounds I recorded with my iPhone 5s.
If you do not have anything to record your noise or you have no idea what to record feel free to download these samples or download some other noise from the internet.
You can follow these steps in other daw programs not only in Ableton Live.
Creating Instruments from noise
1.Add EQ Eight to the effects
2.Turn off all filters
3.Add filter bell
4.Set Q all the way up ( 18.0 )
5.Set frequency band on 440 Hz
If you are interested in why 440Hz here is an explanation from the Wikipedia.
A440 or A4 (also known as the Stuttgart pitch), which has a frequency of 440 Hz, is the musical note of A above middle C and serves as a general tuning standard for musical pitch.
You can also add 880Hz frequency in the same way as for 440Hz. Because that is the same tone for the upper octave.
6.Play sample and adjust the gain till you hear note
7.Increase scale if it too quietly or just duplicate same EQ Eight one more
8.If you duplicate it turn down scale to make it sound good
9.Freeze and flatten track
10.Add Sampler from Instruments to new midi channel
11.Drag and drop sample to the Sampler
12.Set the root key to A3
13.Set Sample Start and Sample End where you want
15.Go to Filter/Global and play with Filter, Attack, Release to make it how you want
16. Same thing with Modulation ( LFO 1 / LFO 2 )
Here's an example of how I did it, with the beat and bass line - Noise Sample Beat Example
I hope this tutorial will help you in further production, give you ideas for new things. If you make something out of this post it in the comment, I would like to hear it.