That disco "PING" sound ...
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My friend cherishes that "PING" sound featured in songs like Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" and she'd like to know anything and everything about it. I figured someone on here must know something.Does the sound have a name (besides just "that damned disco ping sound")?Is there a particular drum machine that is famous for it?Classic tracks? (I know there's a million ... favorites?)Any contemporary songs that have made good use of the sound?Was "Ring My Bell" the first song to use the sound?Unload your ping knowledge.
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Electroharmonix space drum:
http://www.keyboardmuseum.org/d_machines/ehspaced.html
and it's virtual!
I know this was a favorite because it could be triggered via a microphone, as could the space clap.
also isn't this just a triangle or a bell or something?
Whoa. Thanks. That's perfect. Time to annoy the hell out of anyone within earshot.
I think so. I remember it being on my Herbie Hancock approved piece of crap Casio back in the mid-80's.
Yeah ... I'm sure it was a very common sound on 80s keyboards. The pitch descends, so it isn't simply a synthesized triangle or something. Electronic Tom-Tom is probably the closest thing to a proper name that this sound ever got.
Definitely a "BOOOOOoooooo" maybe even a combination of e, u and w following the B. But never a "Ping".
P.S. I heart Onomatopoeia
Yeah! My dog nearly did a backflip when I hit it for the first time (i had the volume all the way up too, whoops)
There's also a silent "ng" at the end
I think they were called Syndrums. According to Wikipedia, they were made by a company called Pollard originally. Dude from Joy Division used to use a Syndrum CM, a later model made by the company which bough out Pollard; this would have been around '79/'80, so it's roughly the same time frame as that Anita Ward record.
BRAEK.
Another juicy bit of info. Thanks.
Same here, my little pooch girl went nuts when I clicked on it.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
The tone has to go from high to low, it has to switch trough a octave.
You can create it with a sampler to. Sample a 808 bassdrum. Than loop one of the waves very short of the bassdrum.
Pitch it very high, like 24-36 tones higher than the original. Now you got a high tone. Than program that the tone goes from one key to another while it plays, for example C3 - C2
Now you got the starting point where it makes Piiiii --- and than it goes dowmn to --- iiiing
Thats the whole secret.
Those sounds where also often used as a sound effect in movies, that where the sounds of laserguns.
Peace
Hawkeye