ST-01: Snare1 - it's a bass drum - the unbelievable truth!!
Posted: 11/09/2008 - 21:28
OK Now I'm now totally blown away - I had a tipoff from a chap calling himself Dr_Mabuse about the original source of ST-01:Snare1 that it was derived from a bass kick on the Kawai R100 drum machine! After finding the Kawai R100 sample set on the net and then very carefully playing the samples and compairing them with ST-01:Snare1 I guessed that it might be derived from R100's Bass Drum 2 sound. On loading the two samples into Sound Forge and then, as Dr Mabuse suggested, transposing Snare1 down by about an octave, and then pushing the volume of Bass Drum 2 from the Kawai well beyond clipping and low pass filtering the hell out of it to my amazement came out a waveform almost identical to ST-01:Snare 1!!!I wish I could show you guys just how similar these two waveforms are - if it wasn't for the fact that whatever dodgy sampler was used to make ST-01 then the two waveforms would be the same. They are not identical because the sampler used on the Amiga clearly had a major problem with sampling near DC signals thus resulting in telltail DC offset drift with samples containing lots of very low frequencies. This distortion is present in a very large amount of the ST-01 samples... which kind of adds to their character
Many thanks for that Dr_Mabuse - what's bothering me here is this is clearly well beyond a guess - how did he know about this??? Was he involved in making the original sample sets? Who is he anyway???
