I’ve tried to achieve the same thing, although I’ve never had complete success so I’m curious to see what other people think. The two main things I’ve had luck with:
use different panning and EQ on each sample
use snippets of reversed clap samples to give short pickups to the claps
Try importing the track as a sample in Renoise, trim it to a part that has mostly beats, and set the BPM to about 188. Not just the clap is off-beat, also the bassdrum-ish ‘plop’ and everything else is just a little off at times. It looks to me as if the clap often starts early.
And the clap is definately several samples with varying start times.
Just sounds like a lazy flam to me, using 2 or 3 clap / snare samples triggered close together and a little behind the beat. I think you’re barking up the right tree with the delay column, just make sure you’re using a sufficiently high LPB / BPM. I’d suggest using an 808 snare lower down in the mix to add some sluggish snap and body either a couple of milliseconds before or after the clap itself