[linux-audio-user] Snare Synthesis

[Brian Dunn]

Carlo Capocasa wrote:

>Here's an incredibly simple trick I discovered to synthesize incredibly
>hard and groovy snare sounds... The typical THWACK that just makes the
>crowds move.
>
>You need nothing more than a noise source, one (yes one!) band pass
>filter and a flexible envelope.
>
>Hook up the source and your envelope and tune your snare with the band
>pass filters cutoff frequency and bandwidth (also known as CF and Q-factor).
>
>Then set up your envelope to have a "knee". If the volume graph for your
>typical snare envelope looks like this:
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>| \
>|  \
>|   \
>|    \
>|_______
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>Make it look like this
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>| \
>|  \
>|   \
>|     \
>|        \
>|           \
>|_______________
>
>
>The psychological effect is that the listener is 'punched' towards the
>knee with great force, and then gently released, constantly keeping him
>or her in that gentle musical trance place, while still being an
>extremely man-moving sound. It's great to help induce that 'dance
>trance' we pop musicians are all looking for for our shows.
>
>Actually, you can get the same effect with an extremely strong
>compressor; however, with this little trick you do the same thing and
>use no extra CPU power.
>
>Carlo
>
>PS: ZynAddSubFX is a great way too implement this; use a Free-Mode
>envelope and add an additional 'point' for the knee.
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Could you post your zyn patch somewhere? sounds interesting.