I’ve been getting back into using the DN for drums. It can really make some amazing percussive sounds. And I had been running a pretty old firmware, but finally upgraded to the latest and one feature I hadn’t tried yet was the master overdrive – so great for drums!
I know Oscillator Sink has been mentioned here, but this video on drum synthesis is awesome:
A lot of these might be standard drum design techniques, but some of them are very Digitone-specific, like for example using a one-shot LFO to crossfade between the A/B mix for different phases of the drum hit – some genius stuff in there and it can be applied to other sound design, not only drums.
I agree that on the Digitone it can be very educational to deconstruct other people’s patches. And you can easily end up with something totally custom from a preset as a starting point… I was doing that with drums, but lately I’m starting all my drums from scratch because it’s so much fun