[linux-audio-user] Snare Synthesis

[david golightly]

Frank Barknecht did a wonderful tutorial a few years back on how to do
make drums using PD (no samples), also good basic intro to synthesis:

http://footils.org/tut/pddrums/pddrums.html

david

On 3/28/06, Dana Olson <dana at ubuntustudio.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:26 -0600, Brian Dunn wrote:
> > 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:
> > >
> > >| \
> > >|  \
> > >|   \
> > >|    \
> > >|_______
> > >
> > >Make it look like this
> > >
> > >| \
> > >|  \
> > >|   \
> > >|     \
> > >|        \
> > >|           \
> > >|_______________
> > >
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Could you post your zyn patch somewhere? sounds interesting.
>
> I would like to hear it too. I'm very new, in fact uninitiated, to
> synthesis. Is there a good tutorial (for newbies!) somewhere for how
> to .. do it?
>
> ...
>
> As a side note, I hope that discussion of file-sharing or a
> sample/preset database hasn't fallen by the wayside. This would be a
> perfect time for such a thing! I have about 40GB of transfer per month
> that we can use, but if it goes over... Then I'm SOL. But at least it
> would be a start. If anyone knows of a website framework suited for such
> things, using PHP/Perl & MySQL (this is what is on my host) then let me
> know, and I could set it up.
>
> Dana
>
>