alva noto kind of sound… – Sound Design Forum

Hi, i read that he uses sine waves most of the time from sound testing equipment.
I am resurrecting this thread because i think it is interesting and i decided to try and make a short 3 sec drum loop using only recorded sine wave.
here is the raw sound

sine.7z

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here is the processed loop

sinedrum2.zip

for kick i had to lower the pitch and make a tail with stronger initial attack, saturation was added
for that weird sound that is supposed to have the snare role i used the same kick cut but higher pitch and eq shaping the sound
for that metallic sound that is re triggered to be glitchy i had to make short cut from the sine and bring the pitch way up, after that i used ring modulator
the top of it was spectral EQ to give it that weird sound
it is very easy to make actually, you just have to experiment with effects, the pitch shifting is the most important part though