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I don't have any cool patches for using the noise generator in the Radias, but I was hoping that others may contribute their ideas here to this thread. I saw some interesting posts in the, "Is there a use for the noise generator?" thread posted earlier, and I thought maybe some of those ideas could be further shared here, perhaps in even a bit more detail. Would love hear to other members' input as well. Several posts in particular I thought were very interesting:

• "But when i use it for that type of stuff i usually throw some distortion on it. Just using the plain noise alone tends to get kind of flat and boring. Distortion livens it up a tad." —Cassus

• "Can be used with very high resonances to create actual tones/pitches depending on the cut-off frequency of the (usually band-pass) filter. In this case, key-tracking the filter cutoff allows you to turn the noise generator into another playable oscillator, for playing up and down the keyboard. It's also great for synthesising sounds such as sonar pings . . ." —Timo

• ". . . the methods used to send a burst of noise to the comb filter [are] basically the same on the R3 as on the Radias." —Randy/Daz

• "I love to put it on or better under some lead-patches - widenes the lead, adds some higher tones, makes it appear more striking, makes a more dense patch." —Colibri

I've used noise in several new patches that I've been working on...

Flute/clari/oboe breath noise
organ key click
etc

here's some new patches, it's a mixed bag, but I've been getting into the r3...

http://wilsonics.com/korgr3

GREAT! Thanks, Craig! I don't know how to load anything into my Radias, but that's cool of you to share your noise patches! Actually, I don't know how to do anything with my Radias yet except turn it on!

I haven't actually tried this myself, I'm not that into horns or flutes and the like, but if you put a square wave on an lfo to control the amp of a tambre with noise on it you could probably simulate that "rolling the tongue to make a fluttery sound" type thing that you often hear with pan pipes or the like. Maybe using the mod wheel to control the amount or whatnot. Worth a try

Thanks, cassus! I just know there's a ton of cool sounds I haven't thought of that you can make with Radias' noise generator and I was just culling the forum for ideas . . .

Here, therer´s a great example of noise generator from Tangerine Dream:

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjf04jLa ... earch=[url]

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjf04jLa ... ted&search

very impressive! if only i knew what he's saying....

LEVEL4 wrote: • ". . . the methods used to send a burst of noise to the comb filter [are] basically the same on the R3 as on the Radias." —Randy/Daz

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=23816