Simple steps to create ANY SNARE you want | Beginner and Intermediate Tutorial

[@STRANJAH]

😃 What type of snare is YOUR Favourite?

[@alejandrogr9516]

How many types of snare are there? I like the one that best suits my track.

[@buzzandjim4265]

Alien girl.....early Congo natty e.g Exodus....brockie Ed solo represents including those lush ghost snares! I reckon you could do a whole video on perfecting ghost snares and getting the groove right.. God knows I need it haha.. thanks for all your hard work Stranjah.. I've learned so much from you.. respect!

[@buzzandjim4265]

@@alejandrogr9516kinda infinite

[@JasonGillmanJr]

Chop snare - featuring the wrath of Venus Theory lol

[@majobernal3738]

I like rims "

[@xxxvt6]

Now we need one for the kick 🤙🏻😁 Great video!

[@stephentrott]

Agreed!

[@waslijn1]

yup, let's get this rolling!

[@djkrptdnb]

Came to KZbin looking for snare design and I should’ve known there would be an excellent Stranjah tutorial!

[@sackoftruth8184]

This reminded me that I was supposed to rewatch Metriks video by Computer Magazine but now I don't have to. Awesome stuff man, thanks!

[@dnbaddicts4364]

You are bloody legend, sir🙏🙏🙏

[@STRANJAH]

thanks man!

[@soulstuckinseth]

I appreciate this quite a bit. Looking forward to something similar for kick-design and also looking forward to the next Stranjah release.

[@thumpercadence9735]

Thanks for this. Your a kind teacher

[@STRANJAH]

You are very welcome

[@brendogb405]

3:18 The snare sound comes out of his mouth :] :o :] :o

[@STRANJAH]

hahahah that is SO ODD!!! What was I thinking.

[@STRANJAH]

the SECRET to snare design is using your MOUTH!

[@brendogb405]

@@STRANJAH Hahaha, Next episode: How to make Kicks with your ears

[@littleadventures3287]

Great lesson.... Thankyou for you time!!!

[@Swancore1]

I have been hovering around this technique for a while and was fascinated by Metrik's nod to it in his video, but again Stranjah you made it more palatable and slowed it down and taught it well. Now I have a good understanding of it when it isn't glossed over. Thanks for this tutorial. This will level everyone up.

[@STRANJAH]

Nice one nathan good luck with your snare creations

[@pascalherz7040]

Nice man. Your tutorials helps me a lot. Greetings from Germany

[@BlankRev]

Thank you so much! I've always wanted to learn how to make a good snare and this is exactly what i needed!

[@strayburn9595]

So, so good. Thank you!

[@supahfly_uk]

love a bit of sound design

[@SkorpionDnB]

One of your best videos keep going back to this template to design snares!

[@STRANJAH]

Thx advanced video coming soon

[@OdoSendaidokai]

Very nice de- and reconstruction. Thank you 🌻

[@danielodell9827]

Can't wait ! All your tutorials are useful and easy to follow.

[@stephentrott]

Another great video. You make pretty complex things super easy to understand. Thanks

[@khimba6333]

sutch a great video especally useing the clipper. you can also use an instument rack nested in drum rack to have all the layers play off a single pad. its less precise but quick if you want to and tweek while hearing it in context.

[@cyberfuker85]

you are a good teacher. easy to understand. i dont do music production at all just like to watch these videos. i feel like sculpting a snare from scratch like this is very time consuming, and you could probably just find a snare that you like instead of "wasting" so much time on creating one, and could focus more on your work flow and musical more fun elements. i get why its not wasted time just how i would do it if i ever start ableton

[@simonbell209]

Man, thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge. You have a real talent for explaining things clearly, concisely and breaking them down into a simple, easy to understand way, while keeping it interesting the whole time. One thing I would love to see some content on would be reverb and delay techniques, Inserts, sends, chains etc... How to set up a template to create a space for your mix to sit in.

[@deafprof]

Great stuff Stranjah!

[@anthonycooper9364]

Kings of the rollers - you got me Reese bass PLEASSSSS LOL

[@Rael-777]

This was an excellent video man. Now I want to create all of my drums

[@kray9438]

Another excellent tutorial 🙌🏽 thank you Stranjah 🙏🏽

[@arisednb]

Great tutorial! I found the snare to hit a little harder and also sound more natural when using a fast pitch drop on the fundamental similar to kick synthesis and shortening the attack to fit better with the rimshot. Putting a super fast LFO (something like 60-100Hz rate) on the volume of the noise tail can also make it sound more natural.

[@arisednb]

I'd also like to see a tutorial on kick snythesis. I just can't get mine to hit properly.

[@jobron1523]

Good ass video been on this mission of snare design for years

[@obszczymucha1337]

Fantastic breakdown. Thank you!

[@Aotearolla]

This is great info!! Thank you StranJAH!

[@STRANJAH]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jakobk5558]

damn your channel is what i was waiting for for many many years .. so much pro stuff to learn, compact and well explained, easy to follow and not a bit of your content is redundant .. i'm using hardware btw (akai sampler, synth, 808 and a tascam 4 track) which is very limiting, time consuming and demands a lot of patience and surely is not the way to go, if you want results on todays level :D but nonetheless i can still apply all of your content in my workflow, BIG thanks for that!

[@Interface3072]

"Look at the beauty of the snare"

[@Tommekemertens]

Great stuff! I like using kick 2 for the body of the snare, even though it's primarely aimed at kick drums.

[@STRANJAH]

that's a good idea!

[@waypoint4824]

Quality video man!! Been looking to start creating my own drums :D

[@STRANJAH]

its a fun artform!

[@osm013]

GJ, well done STRANJAH

[@abledj]

Thanks for another great video! I'd love to see one looking at some Calibre style breaks. I've been layering a chopped Think break but still feels too rigid!

[@nothankyou818]

This channel ROCKS!!!

[@SkorpionDnB]

Thanks for the free snare design project this is pretty cool appreciate it man! Just picked up your gnarly serum pack, felt like you deserved monetary compensation for how much i love your videos and the free content you provide! The drum and bass pattern midi plus the gnarly serum pack have improved my workflow and creativity so much lately!

[@MiesFM]

👏👏👏👏 thank you once again for amazing content

[@andreirobert18]

You can use a lot of Patcher stuff in FL to create sounds in Serum or other VSTs and mix them together into a single snare sound, but I consider this is the next level of sound design. Just like you said, you need to have a good ear and some serious experience in producing. I just love watching your videos btw :D

[@STRANJAH]

I’ll have to check out patcher. Thanks man!

[@yesgeorge333]

thank you for this

[@kidnunmusic]

Super sick 🔥🔥🔥

[@gtabro1337]

Snare dummies around the word, unite! 🥁

[@vkeeblerelfv7643]

Exactly what I need!

[@alperchino8233]

i wonder how „sensai“ made the snare of „return“ for example. dude was a legend

[@ASH-ou4cg]

Very interesting. I never would have thought of creating my own snare like this, never. Really neat how it all came together though, big ups for this. For me though, this is too much time and effort. I think I will stick with finding the best sample possible and tweak that to fit!

[@STRANJAH]

And that is totally fine. It’s for a specific genre

[@yrussq]

Beginner version wins hands down. "Advanced" was way too sloppy and unsynced for my taste. Keeping in mind that 22ms is a whole 1/64 note in 168bpm. 1/64 - is an audible measure. So you can't move attack and decay +/-20ms - need to sync it better. Also phases might be a thing to check depending on sounds you use. Anyway nice lesson! And that first track is good! Thanks and keep it up!

[@ze2like]

Really deep and helpful ! I love those kind of tonal snares, even if they tend to sound a little synthetic, they do smack really hard. Just for the sake of terminology I'm not sure if we could call "rimshot" the initial transient's layer as I believe rim is the circled metallic outer part of the snare a drummer might hit or not. Anyway, this sounds great and your explanations were really an eye opener for me! Thank you so much!

[@riddimfernandez5139]

Great video dude!

[@basysdnb8037]

Such as cool video. Intereting to see these processes formalised. Personally I'll audition each layer with a pitch shifter and get them in 'tune' which is pretty subjective lol, I wont use a sine but have one sample more tonal and get the rest in tune with that

[@STRANJAH]

That’s a good technique!

[@basysdnb8037]

@@STRANJAH cheers bro. Always enjoy your videos

[@tim3limit]

this was super helpful!🙏

[@theory444]

Nice techniques

[@hydro5378]

i’ve got a weird request for you, layering breakbeats with 4/4 house drums. kind of like fjaak or kettama. thanks for sharing your knowledge man 🙏

[@morganwright1131]

quantise the breakbeat :-) this will help a lot

[@jocee2257]

This PLEASE!!!

[@hydro5378]

@@morganwright1131 definitely one of the key elements to it for sure!

[@eschaton7813]

Really good videos. Would you be up for doing a Kettama or Fjaak style tutorial?

[@K0xm4N]

Interesting!

[@ahar2563]

Incredibly useful vid man ; would you do a similar one about kicks ?

[@alessandropaltrinieritroub8224]

total tutorial

[@Taurus-ek6dj]

I notice in many dnb tracks I listen to that the drums start quiet and sound higher pitched to me and then grow over the intro. And in the outros of tracks, sometimes the drums will shift into a metallic sound, for example in an Alix Perez track called White Lies. I’m not sure how to create these effects in ableton. Have you done a tutorial on how to add effects and manipulation to drums?

[@TorontoPopulistConservative]

Maybe the drum volumes and high pass are automated in the intro? For the metallic sounds a really cool trick is to put a delay on your drums with the time around 20 ms or less and then automate the time. Sounds like that's what is happening here.

[@timothyjew8129]

How do you set your view so you can see 250 ms on with those markers?

[@alphaoscillator]

runs it into a clipper then proceeds to lower the output so its not clipping ???

[@STRANJAH]

so its not as loud!

[@mybiggrin]

I'm just wondering why you wouldn't just tune the first snare you used to the song, because that first snare sounded awesome too...

[@justtosharefiles678]

do you use transient shaping usually?

[@STRANJAH]

sometimes, more during the mix phase, but it can be a good step here too

[@shawncartwright]

Failed at step 1.

[@kidohchi]

lůV ya man~

[@keystrokeable]

"sounds pretty fat to me" yuh.

[@DeadlyV1RU5]

I guarantee you 90% of people watching this are not gonna bother with this process

[@STRANJAH]

It's not for everyone, but if you get into it, it is rewarding and fun artform. I was happy when I locked in a nice snare sound

[@DeadlyV1RU5]

@@STRANJAH True. I see this as one of the best markers of someone’s dedication to this craft. If they want a quick and easy result they’ll skip it, if they respect the artform they’ll dive into it. Which is not to say that using samples is bad, but IMO the best results (ie. snares) should be something earned through skill and hard work.

[@STRANJAH]

@@DeadlyV1RU5 Yes. Nothing wrong with using samples, also a benefit with snare design is you have ultimate creative control to make it fit and sound the way you want with your track. You have less flexibility with a sample.

[@anagitatedfrog271]

Probably not, but I think it adds a personal touch to your tunes and the people that will will have that extra unique touch on there song to let it stand out from others

[@DeadlyV1RU5]

@@anagitatedfrog271 except if everyone has good snares then no one will stand out and we’re back to square one. Which is why it’s actually a good thing that getting a good snare is hard / complicated

[@dabnbong]

Does the Fundamental note represent the Note that the snare drum is in? @stranjah