Drum

Synthesized hits: kick, snare, wood, metal

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Drum synthesizes a hit on every trigger, no samples: Kick is a sine with a downward pitch sweep, Snare a tone plus band-passed noise, Wood a short resonant click, Metal six inharmonic squares through a high-pass. Tone shifts pitch and colour, Decay the length. Event velocity becomes the strike strength, so the velocity layer of the Sequencer and the Burst make living rolls.

Try this

Trigger Drum with Clock and choose a sound for a steady pulse.

Ports

trig: Trigger: hit
out: Sound

Parameters

Model · Tone · Decay · Level

Try this

Euclid 16/5 → Kick with tone 0.2 and decay 0.5 — a heartbeat for slow ambient.
Metal with tone 0.9 and decay 1.5 through a long Reverb — distant bells.
A Bernoulli gate before two Drums: one trigger, two instruments, the coin decides which.

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