How To Synthesize Snare Drums

Timestamps:
0:00 Prep
0:40 Physical properties of a snare drum
1:32 What happens when we hit a snare drum
2:20 Four things that we hear when a snare drum is hit
3:02 Anatomy of a synthesized snare drum
4:09 Breaking down a snare drum even further
5:33 What resources could we use to make a snare
8:36 Let's make a snare drum from scratch
10:43 Now we sound design
29:39 That's pretty much it, let's recap
30:30 Thank you for watching!
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Credits:
Host: Light Shard
Images:
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Unsplash Credits:
ASBA Drums [Snare Drums]
Josh Sorenson [Rockstar Drummer]
Andrew Le [Lady slapping man]
Alireza Attari [Kid with headphones]
Sincerely Media [Four fingers]
Luz Mendoza [Bongo Drum]
Marcel Strauss [Shaking image]
Tina Dawson [Texture used in Thumbnail]

[@LightShard]

Hope you all enjoy. There's a lot more that I would've wanted to cover. I would've loved to be more punctual when addressing some topics as well. But I feel like getting this out there should at least help bring everyone up to speed on my current recommendations and some techniques. Hope this helps guide your Drum making journey at least a little. I kind of feel like I just need to get these tutorials out in the open. Almost like throwing all the Lego's on the floor before organizing and refining the pieces. These tutorials are probably gonna move at a slow pace for the time being, but will get more and more refined as time passes. My end goal would be to make a fully rounded course that covers basics to advanced concepts of music creation.

[@kaktusparty6305]

I love this! tysm for sharing your knowledge with us! Also it'd be cool if you made a tutorial about creating trap snares, claps, hi-hats, crashes, etc.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

This is the best snare tutorial i’ve seen. I’ve messed about for years on my own and there’s cool tips in here that never occurred to me. Great work.

[@eliasknaapinen]

10 seconds into the video you won me over. No introducing yourself, no cool visuals, NO BACKGROUND MUSIC, straight to the point. My man. Excellent educational content right here. Thank you!

[@MK-si7si]

After a whole day experimenting and finding out about Karplus-strong synthesis, I have the feeling this is going to be my guy. From the intro its pretty clear he gonna cook up some real live snare, in vital. Just what I need. God bless this man

[@malegria9641]

dude ive been looking for someone to actually explain this for ages, and you just pop up using the exact synth i am, tysm!

[@funlatman3401]

Big brain sound design

[@Multi-Waves_Sketchbook]

Light shard you're so awesome for teaching everyone in such a concise way Thanks for this

[@LightShard]

Thanks! :P Always happy to help.

[@JamesVytas]

Really great snare sound. Sophisticated and flexible.

[@masterbelch1293]

Bravo my guy. Very good video. Right now im using sytrus open in patcher, have the fundamental outside of ratio system, tuned to 170hz. Ive realized ive forgotten the click portion of it. Its been a while since ive opened fl. I used it for 12 years almost everyday doing sound design. Stopped using it for a year and im BAAAAAACCCKKK

[@prod.password]

I love long videos and a lot of information. Keeo doing it please. Thank you

[@lastreverb]

Congrats mate you have explained well, I love the lessons that on board like this. Thanks you for making content like this. 🙏🏻

[@TheSonicTooth]

Great tutorial, very thorough! Gets a little confusing somewhere in the middle though, just piles on a bit too much at once for me.

[@djebrayass]

great video!

[@AlexReidStudios]

Truly an amazing video!

[@NoizProofContent]

Underrated tutorial. Thank you!

[@Reav.]

Awesome video, really interesting!

[@shardsofmusic.]

This is amazing. Thank you!

[@LightShard]

Cool beans. 👍 As long as it helps then I'm happy :P

[@chriskelly7156]

Really enjoyed this video. Hearing the separate components was helpful. What kind of waveform is the metallic/ringing sound? (The 4th one)

[@LightShard]

I'm not entirely sure what you would call this waveform other than it having metallic characteristics. I'd probably classify it as a bell/inharmonic waveform if we're referring to older synth conventions.

[@rallzam]

wow it was ok till 10:45 then, lets click here then lets click there, lets turn another osc on then click here then there... what a mess.. i just dont understand, why you dont just take for every step like click, body, tale, ringing to 4 vitals each step got his own instance and not just throw everything into one synth and just going ham and doing 1000 clicks in every corner, without really explaining which env or lfo is for what. dude just a mess, big time. the idea is good, but the execution just horrible.

[@burrito1413]

You suck at music making, you need to stop and give it up because you will never succeed in this area of life. Do yourself a favor and find another hobby or dream for that matter