Creating A Shepard's Tone Using Ableton Live Part 2

Here is a quick rundown of one way to create a Shepard's Tone style effect using a Ableton Live and Operator.

This isn't the perfect way to create a Shepard's Tone, but it gives a good rundown of the type of process involved in creating such an effect.

This video can be downloaded in Hi Def from my main website, http://www.TomCosm.com

The Ableton Live file that I created is also available from my website, so you can download and see for yourself.

More info on Shepard's Tone can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

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[T20Tigers]

I don't have abletone live - I did it in Audacity. 1. Tracks - AddNew - Audio 2. Generate - Chirp 3. Chirp settings 22.5Hz to 55 Hz, amplitude 0 - 0.5 Linear. 4. Repeat step 1&2 5. Chirp settings 55 Hz to 110Hz, amplitude 0.5-1 Linear. 6. Repeat step 1&2 7. Chirp settings 110Hz to 220Hz amplitude 1 - 1 Linear Then 220 - 440; 440-880; then from 880-1720 amplitude reduced from 1-0.5 then from 1720 to 3440 amplitude reduced from 0.5-0. Then click Transport - Loop Play. It's seamless.

[aleshah]

You get an ascending sinetone.

You can make ascending and descending by simply looping once and then reverse the

second part of the wave.Then phase invert the second wave.

Drop a fowel filter stage 3 on it so you get a filtered fowel.

Use chebyshev disortion stage 3 filter so it sounds more natural.

Duplicate the tone 2 times.

Reduce each by log₂ 3×3 = 4,754887502 dB

Pitch down to [-7, -1 or other ]semitones the 2nd and 3rd channel so you get your chords.

Normalize the results.

[bharath088]

I'm guessing that you should be able to remove the click by making sure that the BPM in your DAW is a multiple of the target frequency. In this case, the A=440, so probably a 220 or 110 BPM should remove it?

[normalboy]

@T20Tigers Thank you for this, HUGE timesaver

[seabass888000]

shift-> up arrow. changes octave

[nyanmiaw]

Thank you for uploading this, was very helpful. Greetings.

[hermesbombay]

Can you help me?

When the loop begins again, you hear the attack of the note .. Not like in your tutorial, where the loop starts again when it seems a continuous sound .. You know how to solve the problem? Thank you!

[Th3Kr4KeN]

Do this in Max and it will be PERFECT

[SintaxBSD]

@aleshah what the.....

[miklec666]

I'm trying to recreate this in Logic but I'm working with Albino and a few other synths and the pitch bend isn't smooth when I use the hyper draw pitch bend method. It sounds like its ascending in steps, is there any way around this or are there any better synths that bend smoothly that you can recommend?

[sabinacovarrubiasa]

Kool! Thanks for shareing 

[spikew10]

@T20Tigers I'm sorry I didn't get it right. Is there any toturials?