Today, we're showing you how to create your own drum sounds using white noise. Almost any synth with a noise generator can be used for basic drum design - it helps if your synth houses a multimode filter and drive stage though.
While a low-pass filter is fine for ‘standard’ hi-hat and clap synthesis, other filter variants can add a modern twist to traditional noise-based percussion – we’ll demonstrate this with a comb filter and drive, but feel free to experiment with other external effects too. Also, remember that drums are usually heard in a realistic space, so use reverb treatments to take off that dry edge.
