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808 style hi hat synthesis?
 

offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2012-02-15 11:50 [#02429304]
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envelopes are no problem

what's this malarky about 6 square wave oscillators
ive tried everything going and still cant get it right on
reaktor or modulars. one bloke reckons you tune them to
different frequencies so that all the harmonics add up to
fill the spectrum thus creating noise (is this right?).
another geezer claims that the specific frequencies dont
matter, which doesnt match with what im hearing (obviously
you cant tune all the oscs to 20KHz...)

ppl suggesting fm?


 

offline Squawk on 2012-02-15 15:29 [#02429315]
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they need to be band pass filtered and tuned independently,
at least that's what I've done when using that approach


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2012-10-01 11:06 [#02442148]
Points: 6531 Status: Addict



the 808 hat circuit apparently has a weird logical 'OR'
thing going
its 6 mixed square waves
( at 1, 1.3420, 1.2312, 1.6532, 1.9523, 2.1523 ratios of
tune - thats what ive got in my patch anyway )
but after they're mixed ( with max amp of 6.0: cos its
potentially 1.0+1.0...etc. ) they go thru:
IF ( signal == 6.0 ) OR ( signal == 2.0 ) OR ( signal ==
1.0 ) output=1.0 ( otherwise output = 0.0 )
( actually each one of these is scaled independently )
that's the bit that gets it noisy(er)
then Resonant LP and steep R HP



 

offline staz on 2012-10-01 14:40 [#02442151]
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any interesting tweaks that makes the hihat sound
different/cool but still retaining some of the integrity
that makes the original so appealing?


 

offline staz on 2012-10-01 15:02 [#02442152]
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there was a standaloen program that came with fruityloops 3
or something called 'drumsynth' where you could do 808 style
drums quite easily, think it even had some presets that were
in that vein. havent touched it for years though.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2012-10-01 22:45 [#02442179]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular



pretty sure each hi hat is supposed to have the wave
starting point offset, as the 808 had one osc running
continuously for hi-hats which was not tied to the tempo.
(which is prolly what that guy meant about having 6
different oscs) preferably you'd want these running in a
kind of round-robin for the most accurate emulation.

this is also great to synthesizing humanized hihat
structures, since no hi hat played IRL would sound exactly
the same with each hit.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2012-10-01 22:48 [#02442180]
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Put donk to level 7, and hiss to level 23.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2012-10-01 23:00 [#02442181]
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i prefer to just leave my "donk" knob maxed out at 11, no
matter what.


 

offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2012-10-02 06:52 [#02442202]
Points: 394 Status: Regular



Drum synth? All those types of software dont use 6
oscillators. They use a special module called "metal" or
something é like that. Probably 6 oscillators that can't be
controlled. How shit is that for learning how it works!

I found one solution. Use 6 pwm oscillators, tuned between
1KHz and 2 KHz. Play them through 1 or 2 bandpass filters.
Osc PWM can be slowly modulated. Then mix in some noise,
digital or analogue depending on your taste.

But this sounded like shit in reaktor. Sounded great on my 2
analogue modulars (6 oscs) and in cooledit 2 (generated 6
waves then filtered + enveloped them manually)

It wasn't exactly like an 808 but it was the same type of
cymbal / hat type of vibe. About halfway between a casiotone
(plinky plonky) and a real 808.

Using up 6 oscs is a bitch though! No room for basslines or
leads! If someone mentions rigging up 6 555 timers I will
start throwing punches around here.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2012-10-02 07:12 [#02442203]
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wat about 3 556 timers m8


 

offline staz on 2012-10-02 08:13 [#02442205]
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true but it was good fun when you didnt know jack shit about
what an envelope even was 10 years ago


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2012-10-02 23:46 [#02442260]
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I've got a Combinator I made in Reason of 3 x Subtractor
layered that works on 808 HH synthesis principles (even if
the end result sounds like a generic synthetic 'percussion'
sound, rather than an emulation of the 808. If you use
Reason (V4 or up) put your email and I'll send you a copy.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2012-10-03 01:03 [#02442267]
Points: 9099 Status: Regular | Followup to Ceri JC: #02442260



curious about this reason thing, ceri!
send it to melack27 gmail
if you want to share, thanks


 

offline Junktion from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2012-10-04 09:09 [#02442368]
Points: 9713 Status: Lurker | Followup to Ceri JC: #02442260



Yo Ceri - hook me up with that Reason patch too.
steven(at)stvn.net
I'm in a electro-project where we use Reason, and this could
come in pretty handy


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2012-10-04 09:19 [#02442369]
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can someone tell me how to use a counter like a 4520 to do a
moog-style suboscillator


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2012-10-08 23:09 [#02442517]
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Melack/Junktion, sure gents, will send it over shortly. I
spent a about an hour searching for it today until I
realised I'd said "reason 4 and up" for a reason and it's on
my other machine. :) I will dig it out in the next few days
and send it over.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2012-10-09 13:49 [#02442534]
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nice, thank you mate!


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2012-10-09 17:37 [#02442548]
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Resent in V4.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2012-10-10 19:03 [#02442580]
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not received...


 

offline betamaxheadroom on 2012-10-11 01:36 [#02442613]
Points: 1066 Status: Regular | Followup to HIGHLANDER: #02429304



try shoving it up your ass and claiming youre gay, then sell
a promo 12" that another member had kindly sent you on ebay
for free. dickhead.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2012-10-11 09:36 [#02442632]
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Should be, I sent it to your hotmail (IE replied to your
last email)

Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 17:30
Subject: Re: Reason Percussive Sound Combinator

Attachment was as a .zip this time as multiple files, just
in case that alters your spam folder rules.

Resent now (to both addresses) just in case.

:/


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2012-10-11 11:03 [#02442637]
Points: 9099 Status: Regular



thank you ceri,
i had received it the first time,
i just started doing other things and totally forgot about
it :S
im begging to worry about my mind state...



 


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