RFSAudio

Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or your oven is heated, and when Siri responds to a question you’ve posed.

We’re almost at the end of a big year on Audiotuts+. I’d like to send out a huge thank you to our authors and the larger community. I’ve spent hours today exploring all we achieved in 2011, and I’m impressed. Out of everything we’ve posted this year, here are the Top 20 posts according to the interest of our readers.

We’ve posted 500 times this year. That makes this list the best 4% of our 2011 content. Congratulations to those authors who made the cut.

How was the list built? We collected every 2011 tutorial, quick tip and article that had ten comments or more, and sorted them according to how many visits they received in the first week. For good measure we took into account Facebook likes, star ratings, and traffic rankings for the year. The Top 20 posts in the list made the cut.

This tutorial is actually based on a request that someone made in a tutorial about synth-based effects. Creating noise-based rises and drops for dance mixes is something I get asked about a lot so I though this maybe helpful to some of you.

We’ll take a look at the different types of effects typically used and the ways in which you can create them. You should be able to follow this tutorial using pretty much any DAW and any capable soft synth. In this case I’m using NI’s Massive and Logic Pro 9.