Synthesizing hats and shakers with FabFilter Volcano 3

In this tutorial, Dan Worrall explains how to design synthesized hats and shakers with FabFilter Volcano 3, using noise, filtering and modulation.

[chandeleerjet]

The start of the Shaker sound was the best sounding hi hat in the tutorial!

[TommyUrbanskiDJ]

Priceless tool and tutorial 🙌🏻 the amount of time I’ve spent looking for best fitting rises and hats before!

[thevi_olin]

On my third rerun of this. These videos are an amazing resource of information and possibilities, and Volcano is slowly making it to the top of my fav plug-ins. Thanks Dan and FabFilter team for providing the tools and the inspiration!

[alfordscott]

Good day Dr. of sound i’ve been listening to your techniques for over two years keep up the good work

[LAxemann]

Once again, creative, helpful and incredibly well-presented.
Thanks and kudos, Dan!

[bassplayingchris]

Brilliant! I've really enjoyed these synthesis videos, the modulation sections in these fabfilters are so freaking powerful! These tutorials have helped immensely my understanding of the endless parameters. I hope the last screen is a tease of a deep dive in timeless!

[cmd_f]

These vids are so nerdy and fun. I love it :)

[popchode]

I need to really dive into this plugin, looks a lot more powerful than I thought

[Thr-Words]

Holy hell, the results you're getting is exactly the kind of drum design I've dreamed of achieving with e-drums!

[aaax]

Bottom end is so much louder when it's Fabfilter Dan lol

[Beatsbasteln]

sweet tutorial. i also enjoy synthesizing hihats, but when i do it i let them go a bit trippier with massive feedback comb filters and resonant highpasses going into fiddly trance gates and stuff. dan, your allpass filter trick from the snare-tut might also apply to hihats here. maybe even more than to snares

[paulwitbeck]

This is funny to me and I'm sure others have already pointed it out but if you just reverse the directions for the first way of controlling the length of the note (long decay and short release), you'd achieve the desired effect of having an "open" hat on notes you hold down and "closed" on notes you quickly press and release. This would also be more effective at emulating reality as releasing the note would be similar in effect of a drummer pressing down on the pedal to cut off the sound of the hat. Would also making programming the midi sequence far more intuitive.

[donit.]

Thats why i like Fl Studios VFX Key Mapper

[KristofferLislegaard]

How about doing it this way?:
Add new midi source - select keyboard tracking - map to decay.

[cornerliston]

Very fun way of using the filter.
Although—you should do a tutorial how to set up the midi trigger thing in different DAWs. I can't get that to work in Logic and most likely because I'm missing a very simple step somewhere and too ignorant to understand where and what.

[braincoralrecords]

i sense a mild harmonic distortion in your 100-150k range, Dan. got a sore throat?

[rasbill]

how do i synthesize my guitarist playing a good lead part?

[troeteimarsch]

Dan could sell me anything, really :)

[kirkegodfrey]

Confused as to why not just use decay time for duration, and have a short release so short notes equal ‘closed hats’ longer equal open?

[martti]

Anyone figure out how to route the midi/audio channels in Ableton to work so that Volcano 3 actually recognizes incoming midi? There seems to be magic happening somewhere down the line that isn't clearly explained in this setup.