Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Drum synth
From: Lachlan Davison (ltdav1_AT_student.monash.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 13:31:48 EEST
> > RANT TIME (to everyone but dmitry ;).
> >
> > Everytime i talk about a drum synth people point me to a sampler. i think
> > i've worked out what a sampler is for by now or they point me to a
> > modular. Samplers are wonderful but for drums i want both because some
> > flexibility is really nice, i.e being able to change decay and tone just
> > on the fly and tell how it sound with the other elements of the track or
> > slowly change aspects of the drums duing the track, like in Sultan or
> > GPal's tracks. Really i've tried drums in SSM, etc however it's just not
> > quite as useful as a TR808 or drumatic. A) it doesn't sound good B)
> > horrible UI and C) doesn't run too well on my machine (650mhz P3 laptop)
> > Is anybody who writes the great collection of modulars keen on coding a
> > useful synth in one of them? Something along the lines of an Access virus
> > or JP8080 might be handy. Also a bass synth of some discription might be
> > nice too.
>
> i did not invest enough time in building drums in galan.
> the nice thing about modulars is, that you can prototype the synth
> rather fast.
>
> when you are happy with a patch you can port thew patch to C without
> playing around.
>
> i dont have a headset nor real speakers here, so i cant code a bassdrum.
> but i would be quite happy about pointers to schematics of drums.
>
> i cant follow horrible UI. explain that.
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> --
> torben Hohn
> http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
Well, horrible ui, i just mean that the ui in SSM, the only modular i've used drums in is the UI for the drums when your are playing is a little less intuative, and quickly usable than http://www.e-phonic.com/vstplugins/drumatic.html or the hardware TR606 or TR808 though i understand your point of the usefulness of them for prototyping. Schematics, just the question i hoped you'd ask!!
TR909 schematic
http://mitglied.lycos.de/raf909/
TR909 manual
http://www.vintagesynth.org/roland/roltr909/index.html
TR606 schematic
http://www.secretstars.com/new/tr-606.html
TR808 schematic, and tons of other stuff
http://www.synthdiy.com/view/filecat.asp
I'm not really very educated about that kind of electronics, I built an amp once but that's about as far as it's gone, so some help at translating this into a usable softsynth would be wonderful. I'm mostly just keen on the bassdrum, snare and hats. Does anyone know of a site with some for of explination about how to go about emulating drumsynths or other synths with a modular or from schematics?
Loki
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