FXpansion DR-008 - Manual (Page 25)

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4.3.8 HX-Drum
HX-Drum is similar to HX-Bass (see left), but is tuned
differently for producing hard-hitting synth tom sounds,
rather than bass drums.
4.3.9 Tambourine
A fairly simple module for generating tunable tambourine sounds. Parameters are
tune, amplitude decay, and volume compression (allowing you to add sustain).
4.3.10 Stompin’ Kick
Stompin’ Kick is a big, heavyweight kick drum generator,
ideal for trance ‘four-on-the-floor’ kicks and suchlike.
Stompin’ Kick features a variable-shape envelope (similar to that used on the
Waldorf Attack), waveshaper/distortion unit for adding thickness and harmonics,
and a variable low-pass filter with velocity modulation.
4.3.11 DrumSynth008
Overview
Sounds are created using two bandpass filters with an
extraordinary bandwidth range: from completely open
(no filtering) right down to a single frequency (sine wave).
The filters are fed with a mixture of noise and sampled
waveform and each have their own envelope generator.
The first bandpass filter has some additional controls that
are particularly useful for kick drum and tom sounds:
A pitch envelope for producing a swept-frequency sine wave, and waveshaping
distortion to produce odd or even harmonics. The second bandpass filter envelope
has an adjustable attack, and decay shape variable from logarithmic to linear
which is useful for snare drum and hi-hat sounds. Multiple triggering is available
for clap and guiro sounds, and when set for no decay between triggers this holds
the envelope at maximum level for extra ‘punch’. Hard clipping can be achieved
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