Part 37
Analysing Metallic Percussion
Metallic percussion (hi-hats, cymbals, gongs) gets its characteristic shimmer from inharmonic frequency ratios. Unlike pitched drums, these sounds are built from multiple square-wave oscillators tuned to non-integer multiples of a base frequency, creating dense, complex spectra that we perceive as metallic.
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Preset
Oscillators
Filter & Envelope