Whoosh and Motion Designer

Create rich and dynamic cinematic sound effects for ads, films, games, music and more

Blend 3 noise and texture layers, customize with modulation and effects

Optimized workflow with 400+ presets organized by type

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Designing Sound in Motion

Created by and for sound designers, Whoosh FX is an easy-to-master yet powerful tool for generating all manner of movement, wind and whoosh-type effects. Set duration, customize 3 discrete layers with a deep selection of noises and textural sounds with categories including air, electrical, fire metal, orchestral, water, wind and more, choose envelope presets or draw them in with your mouse, add movement, doppler effects, transform your sound with a morphing vowel filter, and add studio-grade effects including convolver, digital EQ, delay, IR reverb, limiter and more.
Whoosh FX offers a deep feature set packed in a clear and intuitive interface, easily yielding everything from synchronized sound effects for motion graphics, television and films to rich, moving soundbeds for musical and environmental applications.

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Cinematic Trailer Scoring

In Depth

A Powerful 3-Source Structure

At the heart of Whoosh FX are 3 sound sources: Noise, Texture 1, and Texture 2. These 3 sources are fully-configurable, with discrete envelopes controlling amplitude and filter (seen in the center of the UI), multi-mode filters, stereo placement, tilt, pitch and level controls, helping you quickly create a huge variety of different sounds.

Sound Sources

The Noise layer contains 11 types of synthesized noise to choose from including Band, S+H, Violet, Blue, White, Pink, Brown, Lorenz, Rossler, Logistic and Sinus, meanwhile the Texture 1 and 2 layers add a wide selection of dedicated field recordings and synthesized sound sources created specifically for Whoosh FX. Sounds are organized by category and include Air, Distorted, Electricity, Fire, Fx, Material, Metal, Motor, Noise, Orchestral, Rock, Sparkle, Synth, Water and Wind, and can be independently pitched by +/- 24 semitones.
Each layer can have a unique filter mode (LP, Comb or HP) and cutoff frequency, and can be edited individually or all at once. Selecting the Sources tab at the bottom you'll find controls for the noise and texture types along with layer-specific parameters such as pan, tilt, pitch, and width. Texture 1 and 2 both include Randomize and Undo buttons allowing for chance inspiration and a quick way back in case you overstep.

Envelope Editor

In the center of the UI are envelopes relating to each of the 3 layers, these can be set with presets or drawn with a mouse, and can be edited discretely or all-together and refined with Time and Amplitude Nudge, and a Smooth button to tame any unwanted rough bits. For example, press the All button under the central editor, draw an envelope shape, then go one-by-one through the layers adjusting timing and amplitude offsets while previewing your sound to quickly create a layered effect, or choose from a wide variety of included preset shapes ranging from basic to extreme.

Time and Motion Controls

Overall effect duration can be set explicitly in seconds or in tempo-synced musical divisions, up to 32 seconds or 16 bars, and looping can be enabled for rhythmic effects. 3 imaging modes provide options for Mono, Stereo and Wide, with Pass-By and Speed Curve affecting your sounds directional velocity. Set the overall Pitch modulation depth and choose from the standard Doppler-style modulation, or drive pitch with one of the 3 central envelope shapes. The Warp slider above the main editor allows you to globally stretch all envelopes left or right.

Vowel Filter

The Vowel tab lets you route any of the three layers through a morphing vowel filter. Select the layers, set the start and end vowels, then use the envelope editor to shape simple or complex morphing over time. Copy the main envelope if needed, and fine-tune formant depth and Q.

Effects

Finally, the FX tab reveals a choice selection of effects including a convolver, 5-band EQ, delay, IR reverb and limiter, so you can put the finishing touches on your sound without the need for additional plugins.
A powerful and creative sound design tool, Whoosh FX was designed to be focused, intuitive and feature-rich, helping users produce professional-quality sounds quickly and reliably.

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White Noise

Sound Designer & Composer Dave Whitehead and Sound Designer Michelle Child

The Hobbit Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Blade Runner 2049, Tin Tin, District 9, Snow Piercer, Elysium

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Whoosh FX is a dramatic improvement for whoosh production software. This one has a few key things that really set it apart: it’s pitch sensitive, so I can map a bunch of notes out on my midi keyboard and get a nice variety of whooshes, spaced as far apart as I like.

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Sunny Levine

Producer, Composer & Recording Artist

Shabazz Palaces, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Pete Yorn, Happy Mondays

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I can make fire, the sound of ice caverns, and the sound of ice caverns exploding. I've been using it for transitions and impacts all over my tracks. It really is down to how deep you want to go.

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Create transitions with UVI Whoosh FX

2probeats

Whoosh FX review

Mikael Baggström

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Specs

Licensing:

3 activations per license on any combination of machines or iLok dongles

What you get:

Size:

1.45 GB (FLAC lossless encoding, was 2.04 GB in WAV)

Content:

402 Presets, 545 Samples

Sample Resolution:

48 kHz. Recording at 96 kHz

System requirements:

  • Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.0.5, and Falcon version 1.6.6
  • iLok account (free, dongle not required)
  • Internet connection for the license activation
  • Supported Operating Systems:
    • - MacOS 10.14 Mojave to macOS 26 Tahoe
    • - Windows 10 to Windows 11 (64-bit)
  • 2GB of disk space
  • Hard Drive: 7,200 rpm recommended or Solid State Drive (SSD)
  • 4 GB RAM

Compatibility:

Supported Formats:

Audio Units, AAX, VST, VST3, Stand-alone

Tested and certified in:

Digital Performer 8+, Pro Tools 2019+, Logic Pro X+, Cubase 7+, Nuendo 6+, Ableton Live 8+, Studio One 2+, Garage Band 6+, Maschine 1+, Tracktion 4+, Vienna Ensemble Pro 5+, Reaper 4+, Sonar X3+, MainStage 3, MuLab 5.5+, FL Studio, Bitwig 1+, Reason 9.5+, Ability 1+

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