I was hoping to put together several loops of 'creepy' music/sounds for Halloween using Rapture or one of the other soft synths that came with X1 Studio. I'm not a keyboard player, so I'm limited in my abilities, and I just want to get something down to put on a CD that gives that haunted house sound while I hand out candy to the kids.
 
If you have suggestions for (1) synth and (2) sound in the synth package in that synth to try, please post. I'll put something together, but with all the possibilities in some of the synths, I'm spending more time auditioning than I want.
 
Best wishes,
 
Bob

I have an idea for you...call my x-wife up and have her record her witch's hideous laugh for you.  It not only sounds authentic...it IS authentic.  Believe me.
 
A Google search for creepy sounds, halloween sounds, with laughing sounds and whatever you can think of should provide you with plenty of raw material.  Then use Rapture or ? to taste.  Don't forget thunder, rain, wind and creaky door sounds.  It's all good.
 
Dub
 
 

No way anyone can top the above. 
 
However CW was giving away Haunted EDM for Rapture awhile back. You can get them from the CW store. I did a search and could not find it. 

overdub
I have an idea for you...call my x-wife up and have her record her witch's hideous laugh for you.  It not only sounds authentic...it IS authentic.  Believe me.
 
A Google search for creepy sounds, halloween sounds, with laughing sounds and whatever you can think of should provide you with plenty of raw material.  Then use Rapture or ? to taste.  Don't forget thunder, rain, wind and creaky door sounds.  It's all good.
 
Dub
 
 

LOL!!! Awesome!!

+1  Very funny comment overdub!
 
Rapture is stacked with cool x-files sounding stuff and I thought of a good plug in to use over the top- it's from SSL and free.
 
http://www.solid-state-logic.com/Special/halloween.asp

This uses the Ambient Woodpecker patch in Rapture. It's kind of creepy.
Feel free to use it if you like.
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=6170515
Or cook your own. Have fun.

this is fun if you have an android phone
 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.etherophone&hl=en_GB
 
 or perhaps this ..
 http://blechturmstudios.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=30
 not tried it though.
 
you reminded me of this from years ago though.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-924l_cVM
 

I fired up Dim Pro and the following are JUST the beginning of the 01-Dimensions section. 
You'll get "traditional" sounds (clanks and such), but remember that lots of sounds can be spooky because they sound like "Alien" or "Halloween" or "Blade Runner" or your Ex's voice or whatever. Think outside the coffin!
Anyway, they're all here, and I just got up to "G" and got tired. (Although it's always fun to audition the great sounds in Dim Pro and Rapture.)
 
Dimension Pro- 01 Dimensions
Alien Force, use chromatic key changes
Alien Piano 3
Amorphous (turn off element 1?)
Antarctica (wind noises)
As you wish (do staccato 'psycho' stabs)
B4rdOK Noise
Brasses from Hell (use elements 1 and 4 only)
Built-in Mamooth
Cathedral 3, play diminished chords or Bach toccata in D
Chimery
Close to Origin, play tri-tones
Cosmic Winds (Blasted Heath - "I am more sinned against than sinning!")
Dark City
Death Sentence Chimes, this'll freak everybody out, play a long spaced LOW note (and don't ask for whom it tolls)
Devil Flute/Devil's Flute is, surprisingly, not so recommend. More shrill, not so devilish
Dimensional Brain 3, find the right chords
Dispossessed = DOOM!
Distant Boom, put these on top of held down notes of Winnowing Machine, "Incoming!"
Distorted Perception, perhaps
Distractive Buzz, swarm of killer bees? 
Diva on mw, sort of theriminy, play the Dies Arae melody and go wild with the mod wheel
Dubious 1 and 2, good hits, put them on top of one of these other patches
Dynamic Cylinder, your basic "Klatuu barada nikto"
Earth & Mars Orchestra, good cinematic stings
Earth Core, hold down chords
Enigmatic Voices, hold low chords and play dissonant highs
Expression of Misery, change the AMP envelope to fade in
Extraterrestrial Meeting 1/2/3, put them all together and freak out the neighborhood dogs
Far Far Away, actually element 3 is all you need
Fear of Flying, changed my mind, put Distant Boom on top of this instead
Feel Noises, turn off element 1, play low and high notes
Fluorescent Windchimes
Foreign Experience, hold lows and ping the highs
Fragments from a wreck, diminished chords
Frightening Place 1/2, duh!
Getting Close, hold chords for five seconds and release
Ghost ships, play chords
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dub!! I had tears rolling down my face I laughed so hard.
Bob: Very cool, and I will use it. Thanks.
czyky: Excellent. Thanks Bro.
 
Thanks everyone. Now, to get this all together in time for the kids.
 
Best wishes,
 
Bob

I came up with this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2f2lnb4lktu5fnv/131028_Halloween_V1.mp3
 
Maybe not the best, but it sounds creepy.
 
Thanks again.