How to create a Hip Hop wet snare tutorial

Hope this freebie how to create a wet snare tutorial is of use to you guys.

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Zukan

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more for ur PC use....... but still cool info tho

mr.pleasant wrote:more for ur PC use....... but still cool info tho

The theory can be applied to any platform and any device.
The MPC can even do this and I did exactly this in one of my MPC 2500 dvd tutorials.

Zukan wrote:how to create a wet snare[

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Buy a drumset, trash the kick drum, hats, and toms. Fill up the bath tub, throw in the snare!

Can I get that camel plugin as a VST or AU for Mac? Looks cool, anyone know?

Zukan wrote:Hope this freebie how to create a wet snare tutorial is of use to you guys.

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Zukan

You could just use the filter envelope instead of an lfo?
I think you just about nailed it, little too much resonance

Good clear tutorial!

I do this all the time on my 2500 with all different sounds. Calling it a 'hip hop wet snare' is a bit silly tbh.
It's just filter modulation; be it with an LFO or an envelope.
You can do it with the filter envelope and/or the LFO (with filter) on JJOS.

Like I said at the end of the tutorial you can assign any source to modulate the filter cutoff.

You guys are doing it in the MPC because it has a dedicated filter and envelope with a source that can be set to an lfo. I am trying to show people that don't use an MPC how to use lfo to modulate the filter cutoff.

Additionally, using the filter envelope is standard practice if you have access to an ADSR. As most people don't I use an MPC it makes sense to create an envelope using the lfo shape. Also, the lfo can provide cyclic shapes (envelopes) that a standard envelope cannot unless it has loop mode like Synth Squad's synths.
The MPC does not have loop mode on any of it's envelopes (repeat of the env) so an lfo is a good choice. Also, when using lfos as sources, you can use sync mode which can be BPM matched to a far higher degree that slaving a device to BPM as the sync can be customized in equal divisions (1/4,1/8) and triplets and so on.

Where the lfo comes into power is when it can generate random noise which a standard envelope can never do. This can make for some amazing sounds. I created a sound bank for Albino using lfos to modulate all sorts of destinations and symmetry was one of them and this allowed for PWM, and in the sense of effects I was able to create cascading bell sounds using only sine waves.

I could go on but suffice to say this is a freebie short tutorial trying to show people how to modulate filter cutoff using a lfo, in any software or hardware, to create a slap down effect on a percussive sound.
TBH,I covered this in my MPC dvd tutorials in more depth.

I called it 'wet snare' because that's how we refer to that type of sound in the studios I have worked in. The only distinction being is that no reverb or delay was attached to wash it.
Resonance is down to taste.

In my sound design tutorials I will be showing how lfos can be used for creating far more complex textures and how we use them for certain production qualities.

Hope that helps.