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I want to make an air raid siren sound with my keyboard, and i dont know if this is possible or not. I just got a new yamaha dgx 500 grand piano, it has over 600 instruments, but i dont know, because im new to this.


and if i cant make it with a keyboard is there any way to?

thanks, tom.
 
Go to an army disposals store and buy a real one for $25.
 
Start off with a square wave.

Add some slow LFO

Portamento to taste and serve.

Carl
 
The DGX series from Yamaha are portable keyboards, not synths. You wouldn't be able to do the LFO editing thing on that, or edit the sound waves in any way. What you can do , however, is just find one within the presets. If theres' 600 voices, theres gotta be a sound fx folder in there with a siren on it. Or, just find a pulsing pad and use your pitch bend.
 
LFO means Low Frequency Oscillator.

Krakit's advice is OK but doesn't mean anything to someone who knows nothing about programming a synthesizer. However, I would use a sine and/or pluse wave and play (or program) a major third interval.

You need a REAL synthesizer to program an air raid siren sound. A preset keyboard won't do it unless it has one already in memory. Alternatively, one could use a sample recording keyboard to sample the sound of a real air raid siren and then play it back from the keyboard.

I don't think pitch bend will work well because: 1) not enough range 2) you won't be able to manually make the pitch bend smoothly enough to be realistic.

tom18222 said:
what the hell ddoes LFO mean?
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