


31 Best Synth VST Instruments For Indie Producers.Read more about Affiliate disclosure here. Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something that we recommended. There were no timpani or "kettle" drums, so what we did was have a drummer play a bass drum and at the same time I did a smooth glissando on the string bass, starting at the desired pitch and going upward, which was fabulous. This was in Wichita, Kansas and due to the huge presence of The Boeing Company-which at the time was designing the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress to replace the Boeing B-47 Stratojet-the public school system was funded generously, which mapped to having both band and orchestra classes, as well as a thoughtfully designed music room with tiered seating and instruments for everyone, although some students had their own instruments. The "snare drum played by brushes" emulating technique is based on something I learned in junior high school when I was playing string bass in the orchestra. The advantage of this technique is that if it works, then it costs nothing because it uses the native NOTION 6 Snare, which you already have. If there are other instruments in the NOTION score-for example, piano and string bass-then this technique will be all the more realistic, but remember to put the Reverb unit on the Snare track, not on the Master track, because this Reverb setting is designed to make the Snare sustain longer than usual, hence it's specific to the technique for emulating a snare drum played with brushes. The one that sounds most like a snare drum being played by brushes is the combination of "Unmeasured Tremolo" a particular type of Reverb, where the "Room" value as indicated is very important and dotted quarter notes with eighth note rests between the dotted quarter notes.

However, I had some interesting results with snare drum, one of which might work. I did some experiments with maracas and snare drum, but maracas won't work. Percussion Collection for NOTION (PreSonus Shop)

PreSonus has a virtual festival of sampled sound packs to extend and enhance the instruments that come with NOTION 6 and while I have not found any of these that have brushes playing snare drums, there is a sampled sound pack that has rain sticks and sand blocks, both of which sound a bit like a snare drum played with brushes. Īddictive Drums 2 Custom retails for $169.95 (US), so if available the 33 percent discount saves money.
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Īs best as I can determine, XLN Audio is having a discount sale where their products are discounted by 33 percent when you use the code they show at the homepage, but since I have the first version of Addictive Drums and Addictive Keys, when I login what I see are upgrade prices which are 50 percent less than the retail price so how the discount works is just a guess. Īlso included are three choices of MIDIpaks and three choices of Kitpiece Paks. If you do not have Addictive Drums 2, then the best purchasing option is to get the Addictive Drums 2 Custom package, which includes the Addictive Drums 2 engine and 3 ADpaks that you can choose, where one of the three choices will be the "Modern Jazz Brushes" ADpak. There are several flavors of Addictive Drums 2, which range from basic to complete (everything). It runs as a VSTi virtual instrument in NOTION 6. Is there a way to have Notion add a "stirring pattern" on the snare to match that sound?Īddictive Drums 2 (XLN Audio) has a "Modern Jazz Brushes" ADpak that will create the required snare drum brush sounds. Christopherrussell wroteI have a choir performing Christmas Time Is Here, and I'd like to add snare to the audio file to mimic the original.
