Ever try making your own kicks with a synth?

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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 00:36:

Ever try making your own kicks with a synth?

I just started messing around with trying to synthesize a kick today. I got this, which sounds okay but definitely isn't up to being used in a track:

http://www.philosophaster.com/music/synth_kick_loop.mp3

Have you guys tried doing this? Gotten anything usable out of it?

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 00:38:

The basic idea, from what I have gathered from reading about it, is to take a brief, low note, and use an LFO to make a pitch envelope for it so that it hits up high but it ends in bass. This all happens within a small fraction of a second, of course...

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 00:54:

Added some compression and EQ and I think it sounds better. Not usable yet, though:

http://www.philosophaster.com/music..._kick_loop2.mp3

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 01:32:

I changed the lowpass filter from a 12dB to a 24 and now it sounds a lot cleaner. I think it sounds almost usable now:

http://www.philosophaster.com/music..._kick_loop3.mp3

Posted by Spacey Orange on Aug-04-2006 01:47:

what are you using?

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 01:50:

Subtractor, EQ, and compressor in Reason.

Posted by sterilis on Aug-04-2006 02:33:

i dont no it just isnt punchy enough for me. nice work though.

btw your avatar freaks the shit out of me.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 02:41:

quote:
i dont no it just isnt punchy enough for me. nice work though.

Thanks. It isn't punchy enough for me, either. I'd need to fiddle with it some more before I would be willing to use it in a track.

I was surprised that I was able to get something that even sounded like a kick on my first time around, though. Somebody has to make the kicks somewhere along the line, but the process always seemed mysterious to me before I tried it myself.

quote:
btw your avatar freaks the shit out of me.

Sorry.

Posted by cronodevir on Aug-04-2006 02:53:

fruity comes with a Kick synth :P

want a demo? lol

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-04-2006 02:56:

Neat. Have you made any of your own kicks? If you have, could you upload some examples?

Posted by Affiliation on Aug-04-2006 04:12:

Neet little article on how to create them here:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb...secrets0202.asp
I think the trick is that they all need to be just slightly different from one to the other. Kinda like an analog machine does anyway...

Posted by cronodevir on Aug-04-2006 04:25:

Nah, i have 3 gigs of traditinal/ethnic drum samples..don't use the fruity kick much, it can make soem VERY thumping sounds though, coulple that with the fruity bass boost, heh, leet

I once trid remaking the phat ass kick from Prodigy - Firestarter, i mad eit eventually heh

edit- ok so i made a very tiny demo of some of the kicks you can make with frutiy kicker, its nothing amazeing, msotly acidy sounding

fruity kick sample

Posted by DeZmA on Aug-04-2006 09:57:

Unless you can set the phase init to a fixed value, your kick will be kinda useless. I don't believe subtractor can do that or can it?
I've made some decent kicks with a microQ but sold that one. A virus can do some good stuff.

Posted by djsphere on Aug-04-2006 10:06:

never

Posted by PutBoy on Aug-04-2006 13:06:

Please. Use the edit button. Not meant to flame or anything.

OT: No, but I have looked into it.

Posted by mysticalninja on Aug-04-2006 17:21:

keep eqing it. try a distortion/tube/warmer plugin. eq cutting at like 50hz. high q.

Posted by ess765 on Aug-05-2006 02:22:

Hi guys,

I ve made my own kicks many times as some other artists. I use Sony Soundforge, but you can achieve it through substractor and other synths if you understand the basics of kick sound design as well if you know the comands of your synths.
I can tell is that a kick Drum is a sine wave that sweeps from a high frequency to a low frequency rapidly.