I've been using Pure Data for visuals for some time and now I'm attempting to make some music. I've come across some great tutorials (especially those by Obiwannabe) but I'm getting a bit overwhelmed by them.

As a starting point, can anyone advise me on the simplest way to create bass/snare drum sounds? I'm not after the best sounding drums, just something that can help teach me and that I can build on

Thanks

For bass drums/kicks, the simplest is probably something like:

[500, 0 100(
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[line~]
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[osc~]
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[*~ 0.5]
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[dac~]

For a snare, try:

[noise~]
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[*~]\_[line~]\_[0.5, 0 100(
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[dac~]

The second line in the snare example is a [0.5, 0 100( message connected to a line~'s left inlet connected to the right inlet of *~, in case it's not clear (i don't know how to do ascii pd patches)

There are actually some decent drums in the rjdj abstractions folder. You can find them on GITHUB: https://github.com/rjdj/rjlib/tree/master/rj

There are also Hardoff's (mod) abstractions from his DIY2 library - http://www.m-pi.com/DIY2.zip

@atarikai said:

There are actually some decent drums in the rjdj abstractions folder. You can find them on GITHUB: https://github.com/rjdj/rjlib/tree/master/rj

There are also Hardoff's (mod) abstractions from his DIY2 library - http://www.m-pi.com/DIY2.zip

Thanks! These are great sounding patches, but I was after simple patches

did you check katjav's efficient percussion patch?

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1093-2.html