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# cracking some covenant sounds
- URL: https://wootangent.net/cracking-some-covenant-sounds/
- Published: 2009-04-22T13:39:38.000Z
- Updated: 2009-04-22T13:39:38.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Sketchbook, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

Download [20090422.mp3](http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/sketchbook/ongoing/20090422.mp3?ref=wootangent.net)

When I'm listening to music these days I often think about how the sounds in it are produced, especially electronic sounds, but one had me totally baffled -- the cold distorted chime-kinda-thing at the start of Covenant's [Winter Comes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34kH02qb1xs&ref=wootangent.net). I've been trying to reproduce it for a while now, but I think I [cracked it tonight](http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/sketchbook/ongoing/20090422.mp3?ref=wootangent.net). Because it's almost a clang-like sound I was thought it would be a job for FM or the ring modulator, but as it turns out, it's carefully filtered noise. Noise has no real pitch, but by cranking the filter resonance to self-oscillation and then having the filter track the keyboard, you can use sculpt noise in to distorted, but pitched, sounds.

20090422: 9 seconds