On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 06:20:28 -0300 Fede <federicogalland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was looking for the best way to synthesize drums a few months ago, > and while I tried various samplers and synths, I decided that my > ultimate drum machine would be a tracker. The tracker interface > cannot be beaten for the rhythmic purposes. Plus it has perfect > timing since you don't depend on MIDI. > > I'm currently using the hydrogen drumkit samples for that. Mainly the > 909s which sound good enough. > > Also, for the arrangements of my band I'm starting to use rosegarden > +linuxsampler, which I load GMaq's 4pc drumkit sf2. > > Since the drum timbres don't usually change a lot during performance, > this options plus some effects should be good enough (chibitracker > comes with reverb and cheesetracker has built in ladspa). > > If you want to make your own drum piece timbres, I'd recommend you to > use audacity to draw your samples. You have access to all the LADSPA > and nyquist plugins, and it's a really comfortable tool to work with > short samples (I'm thinking of the envelope editor function which I > love). > > Good luck, and tell us the option you've taken. I resorted to downloading drum samples from Freesound directly into Ardour and used that to create a two bar loop but never got any further. Just don't know how I used to find the time... James. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
