WiFiSunset Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hey All, I was wondering what instruments (or sounds) were used in this Synth drop at 00:08 in this song. And in other trance songs too, that's the kind of drop I'm looking to recreate. What instruments are (sounds) are generally used for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 EDIT: Derp, you meant the drop, not the lead up to the drop. @zircon uses ISW Juggernaut for this kind of stuff, but since he made Juggernaut with some other sound designers I'm sure he has insight on how it was constructed, so I tagged him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiFiSunset Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Alright, thanks man :)! Yeah it's something I want to figure out how to make so I can use it in some songs. Even a drop/(explosion of sound lol) like this at 00:03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohesyd2Um20) in J-E-N-O-V-A Celestial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannthr Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Perhaps Andy will chime in on his approach for that track. To my ears, the two examples you gave, sounds like a Kick Drum sound that has a long release tail and a pitch modulation that has a long tail as well. I would probably approach building that particular kick drum with two envelopes a fast envelope and a slow envelope and both would have pitch modulation on it. Add in the relative contrast of having very few instruments playing to have more instruments being layered together, and you create a nice explosion of sound. Pair in a crash cymbal for higher frequency filler and maybe some mid synth and you've got a pretty fat hit. You can build a crash cymbal using noise as your primary source and modulating the sound with an envelope. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 On 2/11/2016 at 10:15 AM, Cosmic Sounds said: Alright, thanks man :)! Yeah it's something I want to figure out how to make so I can use it in some songs. Even a drop/(explosion of sound lol) like this at 00:03 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohesyd2Um20) in J-E-N-O-V-A Celestial. This sounds like a cymbal layered with a dance kick (such as from Vengeance Club Essentials; there's a fast pitch envelope), a sub bass drop, and perhaps an ambient rim shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiFiSunset Posted February 24, 2016 Author Share Posted February 24, 2016 Thanks for that : )! I've been trying to find good kick sounds that don have this weird hiss to them when you EQ them, but that's when using soundfonts Should I just go with .wav files (samples) instead for these sounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Yeah, pretty much all of the drum samples I have are samples, not soundfonts. http://goldbaby.co.nz has some nice free "sampler" packs of samples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiFiSunset Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Thanks for that, I found some pretty good ones there too :)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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