[sdiy] Steel drum synth

[Peter Grenader]

Ring will give you close to the basic timbre - but there is a very strange
natural filter envelope to a steel drum.  There will need to be a goodly
amount of secondary processing AFTER the ring involving a highpass filter,
probably two in parallel, being simularily (but not exactly) controlled by
two differnet transcient envelope generators. There is also a bit of audio
range AM going on as well.

This actually is a call for a Frequency Shifter (there I go again).  I'm
serious though - you'd have better results by hering only the sum of the two
inputs waves.

on 6/21/02 12:27 AM, John L Marshall at john.l.marshall at gte.net wrote:

> Hmmmm! Might call for a ring modulator or FM. I hear non-harmonic partials
> that change with time.
> 
> Take care,
> John
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Ressel" <madhun2001 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Synth-Diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 10:49 PM
> Subject: [sdiy] Steel drum synth
> 
> 
>> Yo,
>> 
>> Golly I wish I had a working synth. I was listening to
>> some steel drums played slowly, and wondered once
>> again what the patch would look like. It sounded
>> distorted, maybe saw + square mix? Then some filter
>> action like someone saying the first part of "ouch".
>> Perhaps two sig paths: one BP and one LP??
>> 
>> Anybody?
>> 
>> --TR
>> 
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