synthesizing clap sounds

x-ecutive · Post by **x-ecutive** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:39 pm

I have been making my own snare drum and bass drum sounds. I'd like to make some claps as well but I dont even know where to start.
Any help with this would be grate.

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:45 pm

f**k with some white noise? that is all the info I can give you since I have never tried synthesizing a clap. i would say reaktor is amazing but i am sure you can synthesize a clap in almost any synth if you know what you are doing.

Duffman · Post by **Duffman** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:01 pm

Record yourself clapping, old school style

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:09 pm

Really not a bad idea. ^

If you ever have questions about this, look at a waveform of what you're trying to emulate, like a 909 clap, for example. That can act as a roadmap for what you can do. W/ 909 claps, there are three smaller hits, and then a bigger hit. This is likely filtered noise with a few different envelopes on the noise osc (or a few different noise osc's with their own envelopes).

Another technique is to synth up a singular clap sound, put that in a sampler, map it across the keyboard, and mash your keys... ie, hit a few keys very loosely in time, at different pitches (eagle claw technique), record the output through processing like perhaps an eq or filter and a compressor and limiter. Maybe with a touch of reverb in the mix, depending on what you want to do.

Pedro Sánchez · Post by **Pedro Sánchez** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:19 pm

I draw claps in soundforge.

vision · Post by **vision** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:26 pm

Pedro Sánchez wrote:I draw claps in soundforge.

That sounds crazy....
Iv never used soundforge. Could you print screen me what that might look like???

Humm im still stuck. Im useing massive and im not even getting close to what I want. It dose sound like a clap tho, just a very crap one.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:27 am

Does anyone have any good links to resources (something big to read preferably) on synthesising drums sounds in general. I'm crap at it.

drake89 · Post by **drake89** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:33 am

what's the point? just an excercise? or bragging rights?

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:40 am

Would like to be able to design my own sounds? Seems more personal.

Seems like you could carve out more of a sound for yourself if you're shit hot at sound design in general.

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:44 am

wolf89 wrote:Would like to be able to design my own sounds? Seems more personal.

Seems like you could carve out more of a sound for yourself if you're shit hot at sound design in general.

good attitude is good.

3za · Post by **3za** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:52 am

wolf89 wrote:Does anyone have any good links to resources (something big to read preferably) on synthesising drums sounds in general. I'm crap at it.

I give you the mother load; http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

There are quite a few parts on drums

drake89 wrote:what's the point? just an excercise? or bragging rights?

I find sound design the most fun part of production.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:28 am

3za wrote:
wolf89 wrote:Does anyone have any good links to resources (something big to read preferably) on synthesising drums sounds in general. I'm crap at it.
I give you the mother load; http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm

There are quite a few parts on drums

Yes! This looks like exactly what I was after.

Cheers

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