What is this sound?

[kel]

can somebody tell me what kind of instrument makes this sound? like some sort of glass cylinder or something? i want to make it my trademark effect.
http://www.box.net/shared/30e5147ml8

[ellaguru]

i try:
maybe it's the grey tube with wich you can make pass electrical cables inside?
i remember an interview with brian eno saying he used those to makes some sounds for his "on land" (1981 i think) album: he made rotation in the air with those to make air pass trough and producing a kind of sound like this; the more rapid you rotate the more you find high pitch.

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nww stands for nurse with wound? if it is, interesting band!

[ALCscratch]

easy...its a SYNTH!

check out this website: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/

[cartesia]

Sounds like one of those spooky stick/tube things that kids have sometimes..

or could just be some sample bending or synth work

[kel]

hmm... how do you make a sound like that with a synth? it sounds organic to me. yep that stands for nurse with wound.. great band! my favorite album by them (him) is 'sylvie and babs'. a rare occurrence that i like a band's later work better than the earlier stuff. the sample is from the 1992 album 'cold'. i again heard this sound on a documentary about haunted places around the world. i will further my search, thanks for the clues!

[cartesia]

well..

the first bit sounds alot like wind chimes or a wind chimey synth sound with heavy phaser/flanger as well as some other weirdness, maybe filter modulation...

then there is a little flute-ish bit

then the last bit could be one of the first two sounds, but sampled and then slowed down and / or stretched alloooot

In fact it could be that the 3 parts are:

start - 'start' - however you make this bit
middle - 'start' bit pitched up with different effects/arrangement
last - 'start' bit pitched down and/or stretched alot, with diff effects/arrangement again (just single note)

[kel]

wow, didn't think of that. thanks Cartesia, i'll mess with that.

[tape smoke]

i have made similar sounds by time streching little samples with the fruity loops time stretcher .

[ALCscratch]

youd be surprised with what sounds you can get from a single synth module. Did you check out any of the demonstrations from matrixsynth.com? you can get that sound with flange and pitch modulation. easy

[tape smoke]

also fruity loops beep map can make similar sounds.

still sounds like a spring tube tho

[sleeve]

you put it in your sampler.

[blavatsky]

Waterphone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterphone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQtgkealbRk

You might be a little late to make it your signature sound
It is pretty cool though