[LAU] drum synth

[James Morris]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 06:20:28 -0300
Fede <federicogalland at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was looking for the best way to synthesize drums a few months ago,
> and while I tried various samplers and synths, I decided that my
> ultimate drum machine would be a tracker. The tracker interface
> cannot be beaten for the rhythmic purposes. Plus it has perfect
> timing since you don't depend on MIDI.
> 
> I'm currently using the hydrogen drumkit samples for that. Mainly the
> 909s which sound good enough.
> 
> Also, for the arrangements of my band I'm starting to use rosegarden
> +linuxsampler, which I load GMaq's 4pc drumkit sf2.
> 
> Since the drum timbres don't usually change a lot during performance,
> this options plus some effects should be good enough (chibitracker
> comes with reverb and cheesetracker has built in ladspa).
> 
> If you want to make your own drum piece timbres, I'd recommend you to
> use audacity to draw your samples. You have access to all the LADSPA
> and nyquist plugins, and it's a really comfortable tool to work with
> short samples (I'm thinking of the envelope editor function which I
> love).
> 
> Good luck, and tell us the option you've taken.

I resorted to downloading drum samples from Freesound directly into
Ardour and used that to create a two bar loop but never got any
further. Just don't know how I used to find the time... 

James.