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Lots and lots of cool tricks to do with snares, but the key, as Steve said, is to separate the drums into multiple audio tracks.The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. You do that by using a fairly long predelay on the reverb. The idea is to have the chorus kick in after the initial transient so that it just adds shimmer to the tail without softening the attack. One more: try a chorus effect on snare reverb. These can make the snare seem really wide. Experiment with both very short delays and delays the length of a quarter note.Īnd panning. It creates an effect somewhat like a gated reverb, except that you can modify the white noise with EQ to get a wide range of sounds.Īnd don't forget delays. Then use the snare track to key the gate's sidechain so that the white noise burps with every snare hit.
#Drumkit from hell superior drummer 2 Patch
Insert a synth with a white noise patch and add a gate to it. Jeez, now that I'm thinking about it, there is almost no end to ways to fatten a snare. And the patch you double with doesn't necessarily need to be a snare patch! It could be another instance of EZ, or a soft synth such as the TTS-1 or Dimension Pro. You might even experiment with cloning the drum MIDI track, delete everything except snare hits from the clone, and then route the clone to another drum synth. I'm looking forward to the new Transient Designer in SONAR 8, hoping it'll be good for this. Use it as an alternative to compression for increasing the snare's attack.
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Since you used the term "thicker", I'd suggest trying a gated reverb, which can make the snare ridiculously thick.Īnother cool effect on drums in general and the snare in particular is a plugin the modifies the amplitude envelope, such as the free Dominion. All these things have been used, lightly or with a heavy hand, to make the snare more interesting. Whether or not hats go with them is a matter of taste sometimes you'll put hats on their own track and keep them dryer than the other cymbals.įinally, the snare lends itself to extensive effects: compression or parallel compression, delays, lots of EQ (tune in some lows to give it more whump, boost some 5Khz to add more snare), gates or gated reverb. But whatever you put on cymbals will probably be different than what you put on other instruments in the kit, so rides and crashes should be grouped onto a common audio track. Gating can be used to keep them from ringing too long.Ĭymbals usually don't need much treatment when it's a sampler (as opposed to real drums), although for certain types of songs some reverb and/or compression can give a nice effect. Compression also works well on toms, to bring out the attack.
If you want a big sound from the toms, you may want to add some reverb, anything from just a hint of ambiance to dramatic 80's style thunder. Toms will want some EQ, too, usually to take out some 400Hz.
You probably only want a little EQ on the kick and nothing else, so it goes to its own audio track and is left dry. You generally want to treat the kick, snare, toms and cymbals as four separate entities (although this philosophy is by no means universally accepted!) so that they can be effected in different ways. Steve's advice is good for any drum sampler/synth. Hope that helps a bit Mike - if I'm preaching to the converted and you already knew this stuff, I apologise - if not and you want a few screen shots to help out, that's no problem. Here you can add effects and processing as if it was a single track. You can now independently adjust the volume and pan of the snare drum in the EZ Drummer mixer but, much more usefully, you can treat it independently in SONAR by default EZ Drummer assigns track 2 to the snare drum - in SONAR, the snare will be found in track 2 inside the main track folder. You can manually change the track number but the defaults are ok for most uses. Now, open up the EZ Drummer mixer and right click on one of the Trk 1 settings in the Output row and from the options, select Multichannel - EZ Drummer will now assign a new default Track Number, corresponding to the 8 tracks in the Track Folder routing the instruments to these tracks.
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This will insert the EZ Drummer Track folder into your Tracks View, you'll notice that inside this folder, 8 assignable tracks plus the MIDI track have been inserted. First off, have you tried changing the snare drums in your kit? Click on the small arrow at the bottom of the snare in the drum-kit view - there are 10 different snares available to choose from.Īssuming you still want to be able to treat your snare separately, when you open EZ Drummer from the Insert>Softsynth dialogue, select the All Synth Audio Outputs: Stereo option.