How do I remove the tappiness out of percussion?

[Tyrisia]

well when I mean tappy, it's a really unwanted attack sound where the attack happens too fast, and the frequency of the wave is too frequent, and sounds too solid.

It's all down to my sound design I'm sure, but I refuse to use percussion samples unless absolutely necessary, I want to stick with makin my own and learn how to get the sound I want out of what I've got, cause I know Attack can do the sounds, it's just how to get them that's the problem.

I was hoping someone might give me a few clues with regards to sound design, but I defo won't go down the sample route, it's just too plain boring..

I'll post an example tomorrow when I've got a little more time to spare, I really want to get to the bottom of this quandry.

[loopdon]

understandable, mate!

i will put up a shitload of percussion synthesis tutorilas tomorrow. btw, microtonic is a percussion synthesizer and a great one at that. i can provide you with loads of presets to learn from for that as well. surely transferable to attack as well at least partially.

how does that sound? :)

[loopdon]

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nord...ercussion.html

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jul0...ecrets0702.asp

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search that site for loads more...

just for starters