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--- In AN1x-list@y..., "Bastiaan van de Werk" <bazziman@h...> wrote:
> Folks, it's allmost christmas so be nice!
Well, honestly we should be nice all year long...:)

> 
> Hey anybody interested in some kick ass 909 snares I got from my 
>an1x?
YES, ME! ME! PICK ME! ;) (someone seen Shrek? :O)

> Some half decent Kickdrums as well, but the snares are spot-on 909! 
Great upload them AND let´s do a tutorial.

At the moment I don´t dig too deep into the AN1x, mostly i tweak some 
sounds from the group, or i take the AN1x-Genetix and tweak those a 
bit, got already some interesting sounds out of it (and uploaded them 
to the group). One of those sounds like a typical Yello sound, those 
racing-car noise.

>Maybe we should have a round of nice tutorials instead of just 
>uploading yet another bank. 
As i said...both...:)

>Everybody takes one sound they are really proud of and than tell us 
>step by step how it was created....well?

Allright, here´s one from the Waldorf Attack(TM) manual:

Roland TR808 Bass Drum
On the Roland TR-808, this sound was made by one filter with a high 
rsonance settingh, triggered by short impulse. Two controls were 
provided to adjust the bassdrum:"Tone" was used to set the pitch by 
chnging the filter´s cutoff frequency, und "Deacay" was used to set 
its resonance, which in turn controlled the decay rate.
On the Attack (AN1x), you could use the filter´s self-oscillation by 
triggering it with a short noise impulse made by the second 
oscillator, whose volume you can control by an envelope.
But a better way is to use Oscillator 1 playing a sine wave, and by 
changing the initial click impulse by means of the filter.

Happy tweaking!

--Tom