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Synthesizing kick drums
 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-10-15 09:12 [#01750608]
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How do you shot web? I've been trying to synthesize the
ultimate kick - well to my ears andyways - and I found
this and this article from Sound on
Sound extremely helpful.

If you have other bass kick tips post 'em here and we'll
shift the earth a few inches to the left.


 

offline Taffmonster from dog_belch (Japan) on 2005-10-15 09:19 [#01750612]
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i cant syntheise drum sounds for shit i suck at it

pads and evolving atmospheres ok percussive sounds now :(

 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-10-15 09:25 [#01750616]
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I agree, drums are much harder than pads. Leads are maybe
easiest.

Making a nice meaty melodic patch for basslines is also
difficult.


 

offline staz on 2005-10-15 09:38 [#01750628]
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drums are easy to make except for cymbals.

kick drums are fairly intuitive, just a low frequency (with
drop) with proper decay/release! that's the cliché one
anyway.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2005-10-15 10:07 [#01750660]
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That's what I thought, then I read the SOS articles and put
together something that used a triangle oscillator, a touch
of saw for growl, a frequency shifter to make the overtones
enharmonic, a lowpass filter, and a noise generator for the
click. Plus some envelopes. Next I'm gonna try putting a
bandpass on the noise component.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-10-15 10:35 [#01750684]
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I just use a sine wave and volume envelope...

 

offline staz on 2005-10-15 10:39 [#01750687]
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Yeah, more advanced techniques are also interesting, but you
should always start out with the rough ones to learn the
basic jist (sp?) of it.


 

offline exillon from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-10-15 11:02 [#01750705]
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compression and eq! i try to reference other material to
keep my samples in the ballpark eq wise, sometime there's
way too much bass or no clarity.


 

offline recaps from keys on 2005-10-15 11:34 [#01750718]
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I've read those articles at SOS and they really do help you
understand the diffrent sounds going on in the drums. I take
a couple of synths and try to synthesize the diffrent
elements ie. the noise click, bass sine, and layer them up.
Then i do some eq and compression and put some reverb and it
sounds rather convincing (exept for cymbals that is).


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2005-10-15 12:18 [#01750735]
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i combine up to 4 sounds for one bass kick sometimes so it
gets that real crunchy noise


 

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