Thought I’d give this its own topic for ease of access later. This instrument is a simple monophonic drum synth with saw/sin/square/triangle waveforms and a noise oscillator.
Really simple, just tweak the macro knobs and play around. Easy to get lots of different tones for resampling or sequencing. Future versions will be posted here if this gets reworked at all.
@kingdoobie@eretsua@slujr I did this in TweakyBeat- looking forward to making something like this (of course it will be non-linear ) with the new patch.
Alright, here’s a template/layout. The one main thing that I’m doing differently is sculpting the waveform changes by attaching the change to piano notes. Thusly, the waveform isn’t changing via keyboard input messages. I have reassigned waveform changes along with the piano notes the sound is connected to.
One reason for this is because we only have 8 effects columns, and I wanted to be able to use the last one for 0R00 and other commands. Yes, I could add extra FX columns if I grouped the track with another track, but I just wanted to keep things to a bare minimum.
I also added an additional sample for a more metallic HH sound, figuring folks could do a lot more with this if they just added their own samples/assigned them to the piano notes.
sweet. will def check this out. working on something rn that I think you in particular will enjoy. a slightly different granular approach in renoise. will post when cooked
•independent level control for the waveform and two types of noise oscillators (white noise and more metallic, inharmonic noise)
•Rudimentary crossfading wavetable behavior between waveforms (sin<>triangle<>square<> saw)
•better constraints on macro values (decay time, pitch envelope behavior, pitch envelope duration)
•integration of pitch start and end into one macro affecting pitch envelope shape
I think it sounds better and has more options for sound generation. check it out and lmk what you think!
the wavetable principle can be extended to other instruments… using multiple modulation sets and volume stepper devices with reset value tied to a macro to act as wavetable position modulation
here’s a short example of some randomly generated sounds from it: