[linux-audio-user] how to synthesize this sound

[Michael T D Nelson]

Atte André Jensen wrote:
> james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> 
>> Do you mean the one that sounds like bells?  If you do, then I'm
>> guessing it's... bells.
> 
> 
> I guess that's the one. But I don't think it bells (unless you mean 
> synthesized bells), actually I'm quite sure esp since I know what 
> instruments are used on this record (they are: analog synths, fender 
> rhodes and toy-piano).
> 
> I don't know Jean Michel Jarre too well but I seem to remember the same 
> sound being used on the Oxygene (the swing one that was a big hit). 
> Maybe that could ring a bell (pun intended)... 

Just a guess... Try to Google for something like "bell synthesis -labs 
-speech".

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/demos/dafx02/
http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node67.html
http://www.ec.vanderbilt.edu/computermusic/musc216site/Simple.bell.tutorial.html

Alternatively, buy some books on synthesis methods - visit your local 
bookshop/library and take your time! I remember studying one at 
University which described methods of synthesising different percussive 
sounds, but I can't remember the details.

Have a go! You might fins a sound which you like even more...

Michael