Replicating the Tanzbar clap

TheRocketeer · 2014-09-18T09:17:56.000Z

I don’t have a Rytm, but it’s #1 on my list, with the Tanzbar and Machinedrum right behind it.

So, has anyone tried to replicate it or get close to the Tanzbar clap? It’s an awesome clap, like a raw noir slap against polished wood, if that makes any sense (probably not). If not on the Rytm, has anyone been able get close to it digitally on the machinedrum?

Cheers.

jamrod · 2014-09-18T12:54:41.000Z

I did love that Tanzbar clap before I sold mine. Haven’t specifically set out to emulate it on the AR, but just from playing around I haven’t gotten all that close.

One particularly nice thing about the Tanz clap is that it’s stereo. Last night I was messing around with panning AR tracks 2 and 4 (snare and clap) and having them play similar clap samples layered with analog clappy sounds. That combining with microtiming the individual hits to be slightly off got me in the ballpark of the stereo richness I’m looking for with a clap.

void · 2014-09-18T13:24:06.000Z

^ that sounds like a good thing to try!

haven’t tried it, but from demos the clap seemed to be the best thing about tanzbär…

a thing I was thinking of, regarding stereo:
how about splitting a stereo sample in L/R channels, and assigning to 2 tracks in the RYTM, panned hard left/right? Could be good…

Barfunkel · 2014-09-18T13:43:16.000Z

If you know someone with a Tanzbär (friend or online) you could always just use a sample and transfer it to the AR.

Probably gets you much closer than trying to coax AR in to emulating another machine.

Neonjung · 2014-09-18T13:51:49.000Z

I was really happy with the claps someone uploaded in this free Tanzbar sample pack - whack those into your Rytm

http://www.arkaudio.co.uk/audio/mfb-tanzbar-sample-pack/

TheRocketeer · 2014-09-18T18:13:25.000Z

Thanks for the input all.

Yes, I could get the sample, but that would take the fun and frustration out of trying to get close to the Tanzbar.

poonti · 2014-09-18T23:25:04.000Z

except that samples get converted to mono in AR, so you’d lose that Tanzbar sound (wow, got a Clash flashback typing that!! )

MichalHo · 2014-09-18T23:40:22.000Z

if i have to read one bad word about tanzbär in this thread i will personally flame the perpetrator…

TheRocketeer · 2014-09-18T23:49:50.000Z

""poonti"":

except that samples get converted to mono in AR, so you’d lose that Tanzbar sound (wow, got a Clash flashback typing that!! )

ya, see, this is what I thought too. Anyway, it’s more that even if you can get close, you get to mess around with some variability in the design of the clap, whereas having just the sample doesn’t allot you a whole lot of leeway in designing claps in a similar spectrum, unless of course you layer the sample.

void · 2014-09-19T00:18:18.000Z

earlier today I’ve tried some stereo clap samples, not from tanzbär, just some random ones I’ve found.

downloaded them on iPad with audioshare, used it to split stereo to Left/Right mono files, transferred to RYTM with STROM… loaded them into two tracks, panned hard left/right…

the cool thing is, with STROM’s CTL-AL function you can tweak params on multiple tracks of your choice at once… so it’s quite straightforward to treat the samples on two tracks as one, in terms of tweakage. Works super good!

for trigs, it’s easy enough to edit one track and quickly copy it to the other…

One thing that was very cool was to do the sample-oscillator thing (loop, close start/end points) in stereo! random S&H LFO on sample fine tune gives nice chorus… totally got distracted by this… the claps went stereo bassline after a short bit lol

conclusion: definitely try splitting stereo samples, and loading them in two tracks.

JustinValer · 2014-09-19T00:24:14.000Z

You can create a stereo clap on the AR using just a single CLAP track (no delay).

AR Stereo Clap Recipe:

Place two adjacent Clap trigs on the sequencer.
Pan the first trig hard left, pan the second trig hard right.
On the first clap adjust the Micro timing so that it’s pushed far to the right.
Adjust clap decay time to taste.
You can also add in a parameter slide to quickly but smoothly pan from left to right.

(You can use this trick on other sounds too)

J

jamrod · 2014-09-19T01:29:12.000Z

""JustinValer"":

You can create a stereo clap on the AR using just a single CLAP track (no delay).

AR Stereo Clap Recipe:

Place two adjacent Clap trigs on the sequencer.

Pan the first trig hard left, pan the second trig hard right.

On the first clap adjust the Micro timing so that it’s pushed far to the right.

Adjust clap decay time to taste.

You can also add in a parameter slide to quickly but smoothly pan from left to right.

(You can use this trick on other sounds too)

J

Oo interesting idea Justin, gotta play with this and see how it sounds…

Elektronot · 2014-09-19T01:56:28.000Z

""JustinValer"":

You can create a stereo clap on the AR using just a single CLAP track (no delay).

AR Stereo Clap Recipe:

Place two adjacent Clap trigs on the sequencer.

Pan the first trig hard left, pan the second trig hard right.

On the first clap adjust the Micro timing so that it’s pushed far to the right.

Adjust clap decay time to taste.

You can also add in a parameter slide to quickly but smoothly pan from left to right.

(You can use this trick on other sounds too)

J

Of course…
Keep up the good work man.

poonti · 2014-09-19T03:45:38.000Z

We need more threads like this!

stutech · 2014-09-19T08:02:00.000Z

[quote=“” void""]
earlier today I’ve tried some stereo clap samples, not from tanzbär, just some random ones I’ve found.

downloaded them on iPad with audioshare, used it to split stereo to Left/Right mono files, transferred to RYTM with STROM… loaded them into two tracks, panned hard left/right…

the cool thing is, with STROM’s CTL-AL function you can tweak params on multiple tracks of your choice at once… so it’s quite straightforward to treat the samples on two tracks as one, in terms of tweakage. Works super good!

for trigs, it’s easy enough to edit one track and quickly copy it to the other…

One thing that was very cool was to do the sample-oscillator thing (loop, close start/end points) in stereo! random S&H LFO on sample fine tune gives nice chorus… totally got distracted by this… the claps went stereo bassline after a short bit lol

conclusion: definitely try splitting stereo samples, and loading them in two tracks.
[/quote]

no fair! want STROM