How to: That build up noise, before the drop.

[Astral]

Usually a combination of things used.

As said: reverse cymbol, risers, pitch automation.

Try using things like white noise to, and crack a huge wet delay on something a few bars before the drop, automate the volume out, then back in when everythings getting to the climax.

Or pull a stench, keep the master 2db lower until the drop xD

[grooki]

having a buildup up until the POW!, except don't have the pow on the 1 (the kick), have it on the 3 (the snare), if you're doing the old kick snare. I love that hang.

[jsills]

i will usually layer one or 2 or more of the diff options mentioned (hp, bp, white noise, rev cymbal, increasing reverb time or distortion gain etc etc) and also use a couple diff throughout the track to spice things up. or i get fucking lazy and just process and effect vengence build ups. yup

[teqh]

even a bit of silence can do the trick sometimes

[Pedro Sánchez]

even a bit of silence can do the trick sometimes

So true, and a sec or so of silence after a long buildup before a drop is like taking a breather before diving in.

[erratech]

Heres what I wrote on the nsb forum:

The favourite riser Ive made was made like this: take white noise set filters to serial. Set filter 1 to lowpass, very low start freq, about 60% Q , set filter to to comb filter, frequency to about 70% or so, high damping if your synth allows. Tempo sync lfo to appropriate length (Saw shape). lfo to filter1 freq very high modulation (have a play), lfo to combfilter feedback about 40-50% modulation.Long A volume envelope. I then ran it through some overdrive/waveshaping for a bit of bite.

Its a bit of work but it sounds sick, and right at the end the combfilter feedback creates this phat bass frequency. Give it a go if your synth has combfiltering. Other than that multiple lfos modulationing multiple lfo rates so they increase (controlling pitch/filter/pw) seems pretty good.

Or reverse cymbals adsr'd into reversed tonal samples (like a protracted chord/stab from vinyl or crustified bounce from project) can be really good if it fits the project style.

Not exactly a riser but take a note from the melody or any other sound really and run thru a nice dub delay with longish (tempo synced or unsynced depending) delay and automate the delay time , as the time decrease the pitch of the delay will rise creating a riser sound. Run through some effects if so inclined, automate fx.

Bouncing a massive note from a pad or something and putting into a sampler and using pitch adsr can work well because all the fx and lfos and shit increase for free.

I havent really worked out any other ways except a few horrible antique vsts with no interface that destroy shit, unfortunately you cant save for some reason in most of them. If you can find it arcdev Echotank XL can make some crazy delays that build intensity to chaos. there was another arcdev one that was a glitchy delay thing that was wicked if you can find it (lost it years ago). The other couple are secret . Using Probably more as a last resort. automating buffering vsts can be insanely cool sounding but i always forget that one when im working on shit, i think ive used it once hahahaha.

And if you bounce your risers for reuse remember to write the note/key in the name. While youre at it reverse the pitch envelopes and save a copy like that for versatility if your a comprehensive motherfucker.

EDIT: one more possibility use fm8 to make a feedback sounding sound ala tutorial FM Synthesis Basics pt3 http://nextstepaudio.com/ havent done this yet but just thought of it then. Good luck.

[yamaz]

Damn, I only ever uses reverse cymbal or bp white noise....now there's a ton of other fun tricks to play with....thx peepz )