anyone synthesize all their own drum samples??

_boring · Post by **_boring** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:39 am

tis a good method if you know what ur doing.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:45 am

Synthesising drums is something I've never really been bothered to do before. Kick drums are easy, snares and claps harder imo.. One day I may have a go at creating a few kits

I am about to record a set of drum and percussion samples this week though.

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:03 am

i synthesize stuff to layer to put on top and for spacey parts

sometimes ill make some noise and chop it up good

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:20 am

sometimes for noise layers never go into anything that advanced as i have a shit ton of drum machine samples and patches on my micron as is

mico viejo · Post by **mico viejo** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:02 am

futures_untold wrote: I am about to record a set of drum and percussion samples this week though.

sharing is caring (hint, hint)

glottis5 · Post by **glottis5** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:23 am

I would if I didn't love the sound of old drum machines so much

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:41 am

I've been doing this alot, hats are my favourite to synthesize though, especially with my own methods..

EDIT: oh yeah, I have a patch for alchemy, that creates all kinds of gabber kicks, just tweak the knobs and all different, but still phat kick emerges..

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:48 am

glottis5 wrote:I would if I didn't love the sound of old drum machines so much

they aren't mutually exclusive

reverend flipper · Post by **reverend flipper** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:03 pm

I've been thinking about starting to try this just over the last week or so, actually. Any tips on synthesizing drum samples in Reason? In the few minutes I got to play with it I got some nice kicks out of the Subtractor, but I'd be interested in hearing any advice on other samples (like cymbal washes, etc).

jsilver · Post by **jsilver** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:36 pm

hit this up

http://www.gersic.com/plugins/index.php?daCat=29

there's tons of free drum synths and they can make all kinds of blips and bloops and smacks and cracks and you can mix and match them and cut groups for hihats and cymbals are pretty standard

i'd say synthing your own drums is the way to go, but layer in a little sampling/sliced break and itll sound a bit more realistic

you're gonna find that drumsynths for kicks are just swept frequency generators (fl kick, bdx, drum synth live) and for snares they are just bandpassed noise generators with fast envelope settings (drumsynth live, drumular, sdx) and claps are kinda the same as snares but just retriggered fastly from what i can tell

gl

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:54 pm

try having a pitch envelope going from high to low really fast for the beginning of a snare/tom depending on how much noise you add and the filter used

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:39 pm

Reverend Flipper wrote:I've been thinking about starting to try this just over the last week or so, actually. Any tips on synthesizing drum samples in Reason? In the few minutes I got to play with it I got some nice kicks out of the Subtractor, but I'd be interested in hearing any advice on other samples (like cymbal washes, etc).

there's some threads on the grid that have how to synthesize stuff like 808 kicks etc in reason

_boring · Post by **_boring** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:40 pm

yea for a long time i had an ms2000b and a boss dd5 pedal and made 16 bar loops on that making all my own drums

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:44 pm

glottis5 wrote:I would if I didn't love the sound of old drum machines so much

drum machines are yummy!

knobgoblin · Post by **knobgoblin** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:55 pm

I synthesize most of my drums. I think it gives you so much more control and a more unique sound. Plus then you can automate the synth and get way more variations than you could with a sample

_boring · Post by **_boring** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:25 pm

KnobGoblin wrote:I synthesize most of my drums. I think it gives you so much more control and a more unique sound. Plus then you can automate the synth and get way more variations than you could with a sample

tru, what synth are you using?

collective · Post by **collective** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:47 pm

-boring wrote:
KnobGoblin wrote:I synthesize most of my drums. I think it gives you so much more control and a more unique sound. Plus then you can automate the synth and get way more variations than you could with a sample
tru, what synth are you using?

I synth most of my own drum sounds...

http://www.e-phonic.com/plugins/drumatic3.php

fucking dope free lil synth, pc only i am pretty sure

or get microtonic

hurlingdervish · Post by **hurlingdervish** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:49 pm

drumatic has some dope sounds thats for sure

also fm synths are generally great for drum sounds

ableton live's operator is nastiest i think

morro_e · Post by **morro_e** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:07 pm

Deadly Habit wrote:there's some threads on the grid that have how to synthesize stuff like 808 kicks etc in reason

any linkage on this would be highly apretiated

anyone synthesize all their own drum samples??

anyone synthesize all their own drum samples??

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