[Request]General tips making drum sounds (Zebra2)

[xh3rv]

The noisy part seems to be more difficult though. EQed/filtered noise should nail it in theory but it sounds completely wrong in practice.

Cheers
Dennis

I'd recommend using a couple of oscilloscopes if you aren't already. The timing is *really* tight for the transition between the thunk-y part and the snare-y part and it helps a lot to get that as close as possible. There's also a balance in the tail between the sine-y bit and the noisy bit that shows up a lot better on an oscilloscope.

The other thing that comes to mind, some samples that sound or even claim to be clean have a little bit of saturation or other processing ... Without knowing what's going on with the signal chain, it can be pretty frustrating to try to recreate synthetically.

Sounds like you're getting there from the clip you just posted though.

[Bronto Scorpio]

Thanks for the tips!

There is indeed some saturation going on! I have a very clean 808 sample here and there seem to be a few harmonics. The 808 snare basically consists of 2 sines (self resonating filters) and a highpassed noise if the Waldorf document is right. The sines are an octave appart (not a perfect octave in my sample though) but there seem to be some quiet harmonics at the 3rd and 4th octave.
I guess they haven't really used the best VCAs on the 808 and it saturates a bit (or it is really just a result of the recording).
It's entirely possible that I'm just imagining this though
I got a bit closer with a bit of filter drive (vintage2 mode).
The additional harmonics of course don't do much to the noise though.

Cheers
Dennis