Creating A Riser Effect On The Roland JD-XA

Riser effects…from pitch sweeps to filtered white noise, are our best friend in creating unique transitions and movements in our tracks. In this video, we learn how this sound can be created using the Roland JD-XA.

As you can see, he begins with a white noise patch with a LP filter cutoff of 0. Then, he uses the maximum attack time on the filter’s ADSR envelope to open up the filter, creating the “sweeping” sound we know and love.

Creating a trance pluck.