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Best free synth to make your own kick?
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vector_0
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Posted : Nov 13, 2010 00:46:38
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Hi guys,
I'm wondering what the best free synth is to make your own kick. I recently watched a tutorial on how to synthesize a kick using Ableton's Operator, but I do not have the Ableton suite and thus don't have access to this feature. Is there a free (or cheap) alternative that would work well (mac compatible too)?
Thanks!
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Wizack Twizack
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Posted : Nov 13, 2010 01:24
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The Andychrist
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Posted : Nov 13, 2010 02:13
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willsanquil
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The Andychrist
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You will need supercollider to run this patch, and it is available free from http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu I found the patch at http://www.nabble.com/kick-drum-Instr-tf4151358.html#a11809619 and its reproduced below:
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Instr("drums.statkffreq", { |trig, basefreq = 50, depth = 100, fallratio, beatertime, falltime, attack, time, decay, ffreq, rq, preamp, postamp|
var freqenv = EnvGen.kr(Env([depth, depth, 1, fallratio], [0, beatertime, falltime], exp), trig),
freq = basefreq * freqenv,
sig = SinOsc.ar(freq, 0.5pi),
noise = BPF.ar(PinkNoise.ar, (ffreq * freqenv).clip(20, 20000), rq, preamp)
.distort * postamp;
sig = sig + noise;
sig * EnvGen.kr(Env(#[0, 0, 1, 0.8, 0], [0, attack, time, decay], -2), trig);
}, [
TrigSpec(),
#[20, 300, exp, 0, 50], // basefreq - fundamental
#[1, 500, exp, 0, 100], // depth - initial sweep from basefreq * depth to basefreq
#[0.1, 1.0, exp, 0, 1], // fallratio - fundamental fall-off after beater
#[0.001, 0.5, exp, 0, 0.01], // beatertime - time for initial sweep
#[0.1, 10, exp, 0, 1], // falltime - time for fall-off
#[0.001, 0.5, exp, 0, 0.005], // attack - amp envelope attack time
#[0.001, 0.5, exp, 0, 0.1], // time - amp envelope time to decay to 0.8
#[0.001, 0.5, exp, 0, 0.2], // decay - amp envelope time to decay to 0
freq, // ffreq - BPF center freq on noise component
#[1, 0.05, 'linear', 0.0, 1], // rq - BPF rq
#[0.01, 100, exp, 0, 1], // preamp - noise component amp before distortion
#[0.01, 100, exp, 0, 1] // postamp - noise component amp after distortion
]);
p = Patch("drums.statkffreq", [BeatClockPlayer(4)]); // or just Patch("drums.statkffreq")
p.gui;
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after you have installed supercollider, open it, click "boot", and create a new window (option-n). then copy the block of code (without the quotes) and paste it in the new window. now just highlight the whole block of code and press the enter key. don't press return, that will replace the code with a carriage return.
when you press entrer, a nice little gui will open up and let you start making a kick! once you have a nice kick that you want to record, click "prepare recording" and then click "record". when you're done, click stop recording. the recording will appear in the Supercollider folder in the subdirectory "recordings", and it will be a in the left channel only, so you'll just have to deal with that.
I know it's not quite as nice as a vst plugin, but it's free, open-source, and lets you have nice kicks.
Andy http://soundcloud.com/the-andychrist
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Upavas
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aciduss
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'zzism ain't free u know? |
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The Andychrist
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dija
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Posted : Nov 13, 2010 05:17
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sound forge > generate sine wave @ the root of your song > pitch bend until satisfied > fade out until satisfied and wont overlap bass or phase bass
its not a vst but its a synth. you can even make a kick in 3xosc in fruity. pretty much anything that has a pitch bend and a sinewave you can make a kick from.
http://www.youtube.com/user/trawhi (tutorials)
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aciduss
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How to layer kick without phasing? |
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Upavas
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TaZaR
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Posted : Nov 13, 2010 11:44
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Soundforge & fruity are not free...
About kicks, you can basically use any free synth for it with correct pitchbending, like Synth1, etc.
What kind of vst synths do you use? Because most synths have some kick presets which can help you to base your psy kicks on them.
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Colin OOOD
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The Andychrist
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