The Idea
u heard a sound and want to know how it's made, or your don't have the fancy huge $10,000 synthesizer your idol has and want to look for something that can do the job. But - how do you do that?
The Rules
Requests
If you have a request on how to program a certain sound, provide an example.
Either use one of the many services available to put up a snippet of an mp3 file that contains the sound, or refer to a good quality Youtube clip (no cellphone camera recordings).
But I don't have webspace!
Try one of the following:
How do I make this sound Artist X makes? / The sound I want to make is in this song
When you want to have your request fulfilled, tell me where in the fragment the sound occurs for the first time, and add a description. I can't do anything with only an artist name, a song name or a vague description. If you have a 30 second mp3 and the sound kicks in at 0:12 plus it sounds like a bass, that's generally enough information. If you have 2 nebulous sentences and a misspelled artist name, you won't get an answer.
Cutting out fragments / converting to MP3
You can use Audacity to record your examples or remove the silent bits. You can also use this to save as mp3 - you'll need to install the so-called LAME encoder. A different method is to use this separately - you save the .wav in Audacity and then drag it into something like RazorLAME. This has as an advantage that it can do multiple wave files in a row and you don't need to hit Save and wait every time.
Last but not least
Not every sound rolls as a 100% duplicate straight out of a synthesizer, so learn about stuff like equalizers, compressors and effect devices, and techniques like layering.
Send in your requests here.