[sdiy] TR-808 Cymbal Was: TR-808 Kick Drum modelling explanation

nvawter nvawter at media.mit.edu
Thu Jul 9 23:13:47 CEST 2015


These are all so great!

If anyone has more, I'll add them to my wiki:
http://www.diydsp.com/index.php?title=Analog_Drum_Synthesis


I once read a terrific one on the TR-909 Kick drum, but I just can't 
find it anymore, after looking every few years and just now.  Any leads?



-Noah



On 2015-07-08 23:32, saure wrote:
> You should also find this interesting to read
> 
> http://icmc14-smc14.net/images/proceedings/OS24-B10-TheTR-808Cymbal.pdf
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Richie 
> Burnett
> Sent: quarta-feira, 8 de Julho de 2015 12:13
> To: Bruno Afonso; synth-diy
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] TR-808 Kick Drum modelling explanation
> 
> I'm not sure about the links.  However, it's not difficult to program 
> these
> sorts of algorithms in C, Visual Basic, or whatever, if you just want 
> to
> synthesise sounds "offline".  i.e. Writing them out to a WAV or AIFF 
> file to
> 
> be played later.  I've even used MS-Excel to test some VA algorithms 
> before.
> 
> Real-time synthesis requires a bit more effort though.
> 
> -Richie,
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruno Afonso
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:52 PM
> To: Richie Burnett ; Colin f ; synth-diy
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] TR-808 Kick Drum modelling explanation
> 
> 
> Just catching up to this. Very interesting reading. I was excited to 
> play
> with the gen~ model but it does not appear to be public. Did I look in 
> the
> wrong place? One of the links in the paper is broken, when they mention
> additional sound samples.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:48 AM Richie Burnett
> <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> wrote:
>> Here's a 606 bass drum having its trigger pulse swept from about 0.2ms 
>> to
>> around 6ms.
>> http://www.colinfraser.com/606-trigger-sweep.mp3
> 
> Thanks for the MP3 Colin.  It's interesting how the filters in the 
> 606BD
> circuit start clipping against the supply rails when the trigger pulse 
> width
> ventures much above 1ms.
> 
> I guess they designed the filters to max out their dynamic range with 
> the
> intended 1ms wide trigger, and they can't cope with the increased 
> energy in
> wider pulses without clipping.
> 
> -Richie,
> 
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