[linux-audio-user] Re: Smack ideas. What else do people want in a drum synth?

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:30:14PM +1100, Loki Davison wrote:
> 
> I'm going to need descriptions on what the hell some of these are. 
> Amsterdamned kicks? How do they sound? name sounds mean! ;-)
> Industrial i can do, as well as the phil collins style. If anyone has
> other requests, do tell.


After some research the term amsterdamned is not in active use at all 
(there's a movie with taht title, though). Read an article where it was 
called like that years ago, and it got stuck. Always wondered why it  
wasn't rather called rotterdamned. *shrug*

Anyway, I mean techno hardcore and gabber style big, mean, hard 
distorted kicks. Techniques used to get them are fuzz pedals, 
overdriving a mixer channel, EQ, compressor, sampling (layering, 
pitching, cutting off a bit from the start).

I tried to get there in a more direct way. Found a square wave 
with fast pitch envelope (like one you can use on a sine for 
a TR alike) works somewhat, but not convincing on its own.


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Thorsten Wilms