So I’ve been tinkering around with doing some hats or cymbals on my Digitakt by simply taking eq’d noise and shaping it with amp, filter and LFO to a nice sound. Giving the sample always a different start position introduces some nice variation that way.
There’s a paper on the 808 cymbal, in chapters 3 and 4 it describes the method used for synthesizing the basic voice of the instrument. And so I tried to recreate a loopable sample in Audacity according to the specifications of the paper. But it doesn’t quite sound like the actual thing when I shape it further on the Digitakt.
This is what I came up with, there is some additional processing that I did, but it loops nicely and has a good metallic character. It just doesn’t sound like the 808.
Using the spirit of this thread, I was wondering if anybody has any kinds of constant sample loops to share for making cymbals or hats or any other kind of treble?