[Dream] Drums - sampled? - Sound Forge

[UnderTow]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Kudos wrote:

> The kicks that I made were all quit similar (about 60 of them) as they
> were made from one session of using the signal generator tool and I only
> wanted to make one particular kind of kick tone.  They're just pure
> sines, rapidly falling in pitch from between 9Khz and 14Khz down to
> around 120Hz to 180Hz over about 10 or 20 ms, then slower down to around
> 70Hz in around 80ms, then down to 20 or 30Hz in 300-400ms with a
> fadeout.

This is quite long for a psytrance kick. The kicks I usualy use (samples) 
will be shorter than 200 ms. Sometimes even as short as 100 ms from start 
to finish. So try making the last section shorter if you want a psy kick.


> I'm fairly happy with the result, but I'd like to make a
> different upper-frequency 'tap' to the kick as it sounds a bit too much
> like a ZAP.  I never considered mixing noise or any other waveform into
> the start of the kick so I will give that a try next time.  Does anyone
> know if there's a maximum frequency a kick should sound at?

Well the innitial transient will probably have some pretty high 
frequencies in it (say up to 3-5Khz) but after that it is mainly low 
frequencies. I havn't made my own kicks in years so I can't remember 
exactly what starting points I used.

These days I just wade through my collection of over 3000 kick samples and 
pick one that suites my mood at the moment and tweak it with a bit of EQ 
and/or compression. I really couldn't be bothered to make a kick drum 
sound from scratch...

UnderTow