[music-dsp] Cymbal Synthesis (was: re: How to compress...)

[Russell Borogove]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Olofson" <david at olofson.net>
> I've been thinking of various ways of simulating the "rattle" of a 
> snare drum... Maybe similar approaches could be used here? (Basically 
> waveform triggered granular synthesis, or just modulation of some 
> form of noise.)

Chamberlin recommends high-pass filtered white noise 
for the snare. I found it sounded best to take that 
noise, N, a damped-sine tone, T, and use:

N + T + N*T

for the full snare sound, but YMMV. I'm also putting 
the tone part through a waveshaper/soft clipper with 
various degrees of success.