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how does one create that organic sound filled snare that flying lotus type prodcers use? like eskmo and dimlite types..

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddDWBpkzYg

for starters it's a clap
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like this?

yes its like a beautiful orchestra of claps.. how do i do it? is it really just a bunch of claps thrown together with sum fx?

start with good samples to start with and then yea typical drum treatment and shaping
http://www.modernbeats.com/klub-claps-samples.php

hm.. i guess stock fruity loop samples just wont cut it anymore tho y pay for samples if u have a mic
a good mic and sum sticks is wat i need

but thanks, the organic clap doesnt seem so complicated nemore

Why not just sample it...?

Littlefoot wrote:Why not just sample it...?

because that's genre tsecni and just plain lazy

That one just sounds like a clap with a fairly long attack. But in general, to make that kind of snare, I like layering a bunch of different snare/clap-like sounds and offsetting each one by anything up to 50ms or so. Obviously you have to pick the samples carefully and treat each individual layer with different EQ and enveloping/compression, but the key is to soften the attack by staggering the samples (how you do this is up to you - simple delay, line them up in a wave editor manually, resample, etc).

its a assortment of claps or snares and claps.

pick organic sounding clap samples to begin with, then layer as appropriate.

this helps a lot thanks the offset layering is wat i was missing.. how many layers would a snare/ clap like that have? ussually ill have 3 layered snares

There is no set recipe for this, just experiment with layering claps slightly off beat, hitting at different volumes, using panning & EQ until you get something that you like.

yea, it's not just one clap. If you listen to it, there's quite a few of them. Some hit early, some hit on time, and some hit a bit late. All you really need is one clap sample and you can do this. Get one that sounds really organic, if possible, just sample someone clapping into a mic. Then layer a bunch of them up, set some off time both early and late, pan some in different directions, change the volume of some of them. It would also help to pitch a couple up and down just to get some different sounds happening. It's really just a matter of how good you are with your sampler.

deadly habit wrote:

Littlefoot wrote:Why not just sample it...?

because that's genre tsecni and just plain lazy

Lazy?

It's the foundations of dance music!

there's a quite decent collection of these in boyinaband.com's g-funk sample pack. check it out. layer a few of them bitches on top of each other and maybe tweak a little bit and you got what you're looking for.