[linux-audio-user] Re: Synthing drum sounds

[Dana Olson]

On 2/19/06, Loki Davison <loki.davison at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Carlo Capocasa <capocasa at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to synth some good, hard drum sounds from scratch, maybe with
> > Zyn. Something like really heavy kicks and these whip-like THWACK snares
> > you hear when things get a little funkier.
> >
> > I'm pretty clueless. Can you help?
> >
> > Carlo
> >
> >
>
> Yeah, i can. ;-)
> Try http://smack.berlios.de/ All the drums are patches for om if you
> look through them you can get a good idea about  drum synthesis or you
> can just use most of them as they are. You can also check out my
> thesis about drum synthesis. http://smack.berlios.de/thesis.pdf Though
> it mostly discusses physical synthesis and not analog style synthesis.
>
> If you've got any questions or new drum patches etc give me a yell.
>
> Loki
>


Hey! I want to package Smack for Ubuntu Dapper, but I only have like,
a couple days left. Could you tell me where to get the tarball that
actually fully extracts? I tried finding you on IRC in #lad, but I
guess you're not on yet.

dana at polly:~/debs-dapper/Smack-0.2.1$ tar zxf smack_0.2.1.orig.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
dana at polly:~/debs-dapper/Smack-0.2.1$

I've downloaded it several times from Berlios...

Thanks!