Pink noise vs White Noise

[LucB]

I miss my Korg M500, while lots of folks diss this little wonder of a compact preset analog synth, i miss it a lot.

While i had lots of fun with the melodic sounds i could get out of it, i have yet to find a hands-on, huge pink noise like this little feller has. The Traveler control added to it's tweakability, and i wonder how i could get a pink noise on to my XP-50.

White noise just seems so gay compared to this, i have only been frustrated in my attempts to reproduce this strong, unpredictable growling wind effect.

Help!

[Synthazaiser]

pink noise is just a more limited band of white noise.

[aeon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

In short, white noise with a 3db/oct. lowpass filter should get you roughly there.


cheers,
Ian

[Dano]

The way I think of it is that with pink noise each octave has an equal amount of noise power while with white noise each frequency has an equal amount of noise power. That's why pink noise doesn't sound as high pitched because for each octave rise, the frequency doubles so the same amount of noise power has to cover more and more bandwidth.

[tekkentool]

maybe it wasn't the type of noise that governed why you liked that sound so much. synthesizers produce different shades of white. so maybe you just liked that particular version of pink done by the m500?

[LucB]

Tekkentool, that's what i fear the most: the particular rendition of pink noise on the M500, again with the traveler, was just amazing, and now i'll have to get my hands on one again!

If anyone see one for sale, get back to be ASAP, i'd be willing to give up my SK-20 for that.

Thanks for your input everyone!