u-he drum synth please!

[nilhartman]

Thanks a billion NAD ! The original raw tone is what I'm aiming for. Grabbing it now.

[3ee]

also did some Zebra 808 sketches in the past, some are better than others but I remember the kick turned out pretty good: https://app.box.com/s/1aj5rzvvrcy8q241873t2ov6nd8ko8ii

and a quantized beat demo
https://app.box.com/s/56yjy1t974erg63yhdeu

the snare is not really 'there' and the maracas kinda has a harshy edge... hopefully I'll try again one day for the whole kit!

[NAD]

Thanks a billion NAD ! The original raw tone is what I'm aiming for. Grabbing it now.

Cool. Let me know how you like it, or if you think it needs more work.

[DrGonzo]

Time is such a wonderful thing. A couple of years back I would have placed a u-he drum machine on the top-ten of my wanted list. Today, I don't feel it's that important really. Been messing with making drum sounds in Repro the whole week and it's just plain amazing. Punchy. Deep. Hard. Soft. Wimpy. Plastic. And you can even get quite a cool variety of hihats/cymbals/shakers modulating the noise with an oscillator.

Fantastic stuff.

/C

[Beachboy]

And you can even get quite a cool variety of hihats/cymbals/shakers modulating the noise with an oscillator.

I would like to try that but I can´t find a way to modulate the noise with an oscillator except maybe filter FM. How is it done?

[DrGonzo]

And you can even get quite a cool variety of hihats/cymbals/shakers modulating the noise with an oscillator.

I would like to try that but I can´t find a way to modulate the noise with an oscillator except maybe filter FM. How is it done?

Yep - sorry, that's what I meant. Route Osc B to the filter in the VoiceMod section. Turn of the oscillators, bring up the noise and experiment with the different waveforms. Excellent results.

/C

[DuX]

And, last but not least, to close this nice reading party : no better than the main page of Diva (you have to go to the bottom end of the page, though. Not a problem for an avid reader like you... )

Cheers

So true. It's incredible that a simple webpage uses so much CPU. I love u-he synths and how they sounds, but this clearly shows there is something wrong in the programming department, and I always suspected it. Bloated code? Inefficient programming? Maybe all of that. It's a shame.

And I always have some many warm words for u-he. But at the same time I've been always bothered with why their plugins use so much CPU whilst sounding just a tad better than many that use all the way from 1/4 to 1/8 of the CPU. u-he caught red handed? btw. CPU power is not multiplying as it used to in the late 2000s. These days optimising your programs is getting more essential than ever before.

[DuX]

Time is such a wonderful thing. A couple of years back I would have placed a u-he drum machine on the top-ten of my wanted list. Today, I don't feel it's that important really. Been messing with making drum sounds in Repro the whole week and it's just plain amazing. Punchy. Deep. Hard. Soft. Wimpy. Plastic. And you can even get quite a cool variety of hihats/cymbals/shakers modulating the noise with an oscillator.

Fantastic stuff.

/C

errr, that's just for EDM and synthy stuff. I thought we were talking about real drums emulation here?

[DrGonzo]

Time is such a wonderful thing. A couple of years back I would have placed a u-he drum machine on the top-ten of my wanted list. Today, I don't feel it's that important really. Been messing with making drum sounds in Repro the whole week and it's just plain amazing. Punchy. Deep. Hard. Soft. Wimpy. Plastic. And you can even get quite a cool variety of hihats/cymbals/shakers modulating the noise with an oscillator.

Fantastic stuff.

/C

errr, that's just for EDM and synthy stuff. I thought we were talking about real drums emulation here?

Heh... I got so lost in sound design that I forgot that there are real drums out in the world as well Yeah. If u-he would do something with physical modelling, that would be incredibly amazing.

/C

[sascha]

As a drummer myself who is increasingly sick and tired of having to use an e-kit and sampling libs during band rehearsal, I more and more understand the technological and haptic gap whenever I change over to my a-kit. It's still night and day, and I already have access to the best libraries out there.
I've stopped researching on modeling via finite elements and wave digital filters as I can't see it being feasible at the moment for simulating this instrument, especially because of nonlinearity and time variance. I recently started re-hammering cymbals, and all the physics I thought I knew, and all the properties to look at, it just turned out to be only a tiny bit of the whole story. The real world is way more complex than academics want to tell us, at least there's still no method doing a-drums true justice.

[lunardigs]

Indeed.

[Hez]

I still feel like there is a gap in the market for a very dedicated and dynamic physical modelling percussion synthesiser, maybe ignoring 'hyperrealism' and instead aiming for uncanny valley with a lot of flexibility. Almost all of my percussion on tracks these days is made with Chromaphone 2 or Kaivo and though I love them, there are so many ways in which both could be improved for percussion specifically. I'm not interested in creating fully realistic sounding drums, but in the context of a mix a decent simulation is often enough to give some organic character to a track that is hard to get with samples or other synthesis methods.

I want to design my own 'world drums', basically, and haven't found anything that completely scratches that itch for me just yet.

[omiroad]

So true. It's incredible that a simple webpage uses so much CPU. I love u-he synths and how they sounds, but this clearly shows there is something wrong in the programming department, and I always suspected it. Bloated code? Inefficient programming? Maybe all of that. It's a shame. :sad:

And I always have some many warm words for u-he. But at the same time I've been always bothered with why their plugins use so much CPU whilst sounding just a tad better than many that use all the way from 1/4 to 1/8 of the CPU. u-he caught red handed? btw. CPU power is not multiplying as it used to in the late 2000s. These days optimising your programs is getting more essential than ever before. :(

You're just making up random stuff, stop it.

Spreading misinformation about developers like this is the worst.

[sleepcircle]

And, last but not least, to close this nice reading party : no better than the main page of Diva (you have to go to the bottom end of the page, though. Not a problem for an avid reader like you... )

Cheers

So true. It's incredible that a simple webpage uses so much CPU. I love u-he synths and how they sounds, but this clearly shows there is something wrong in the programming department, and I always suspected it. Bloated code? Inefficient programming? Maybe all of that. It's a shame.

And I always have some many warm words for u-he. But at the same time I've been always bothered with why their plugins use so much CPU whilst sounding just a tad better than many that use all the way from 1/4 to 1/8 of the CPU. u-he caught red handed? btw. CPU power is not multiplying as it used to in the late 2000s. These days optimising your programs is getting more essential than ever before.

they're using, afaik, a prefab CMS system, so the programming of the web page has nothing to do with them also—it must be said—you're replying to a post that's 3 years old

[Hanz Meyzer]

Maybe a bit offtopic, but today I wondered again why there still is not a single drum VSTi available which provides a similar quality like the korg wavedrum, using physical modelling + mic + samples. Since I bet there is a "cheap" arm cpu inside, it can't be the dsp power or so. There are now some slight approaches like IK Multimedia Mododrum, but again very specifically locked. The wavedrum is a lot of fun, since it produces various results and sounds.