909 Style Clap Synthesis.

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Hi Everyone

I’m trying to create a 909 style clap in VCV. In a VST like Serum it’s fairly easy to use a noise oscillator and a multi stage envelope but I’m at a loss to create something similar in VCV (as in something with multiple transients)?

I think the 909 creates the clap by triggering a VCA 4 times about 10ms apart. Is there a way to do this by chaining some envelopes and delaying them? I tried setting up 4 of the VCV ADSRs with an AS Signal Delay in between with no luck.

There may be a very easy solution to this but I’m not an expert in modular.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

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MindMeld shape master will do that and 100X more.

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Yes, that looks a bit more like it, many thanks. I did try mscHack’s Envy 9 but it was too fiddly.

Also big respect and many thanks for your modules, I use Saws all the time!

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It’s not too difficult really but Shape Master is probably simpler. This my attempt. I’m not sure it sounds much like a clap but it’s fun tinkering with it, the decay on Spank allows you to make it one full sound or to hear each delayed version. I had Computerscare’s Knoly Pobs plugged into the decay to make each hit have a different length which was interesting. Mixing the noise types for the different channels creates some cool results too, you can get all kinds of percussion sounds.

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you are using 1 msecs gates! (in ELSKER)

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I did play with the gate duration but it didn’t seem to make any difference in this set up.

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Reburst is also very usable for this. Jitter gives you variation and it has a gate out, which you can use directly into a VCA.

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Actually that looks exactly like what I’m after. I used the 909 as a reference really, it’s much more interesting to create more unique sounds.

Thanks for that, I’m going to have fun with that later.

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