Now that we have perfected our single channel that can record, playback, load, and save samples, we need to duplicate it out so that we can have 8 drum tracks in our drum machine. This episode shows you how to do this in a couple of ways. There is a […]

In this week's episode, we see how we can add loading and saving functions to our drum machine. Ultimately, we want to be able to load in and save out samples, rename them, and store them generally in our samples folder. This will allow us to bring in samples from […]

Thus far, the drum machine that we are making in PD can record samples, but the samples that are recorded are usually not up to snuff for sample playback in the drum machine. We will look at audio editing techniques to craft samples that sound good. There are also a […]

In this episode of Wayfarer Forges Sound, we add MIDI triggering to our first drum machine channel. This way, the user can use a MIDI controller to trigger sample playback. We will add the features that allow the user to set the channel and note for the drum channel so […]

Wayfarer Forges Sound is starting a whole new adventure in the building of a drum machine in Pure Data. PD is a very flexible software with a wide-open potential for making apps for making music. In this first episode, Wayfarer show one how to make a simple sample recording and […]

In this episode, Wayfarer uses Thor from Reason to make a robotic growling lead sound. This sound uses three oscillators, a low pass filter, a formant filter, two LFO’s, and two envelopes beside the amplitude envelope. Some delay helps to round off the sound. See more of Wayfarer’s Tutorial Streams

Thor is a very powerful synthesizer in Reason that has 3 main VCOs, 2 filter sections, 3 LFOs, an amplitude shaper, delay, chorus, and a step sequencer. The variety of oscillator types and filter types is also quite extensive. In this episode, Wayfarer gives one a tour of Thor and […]

Subtractive synthesis is probably the most common approach to synthesis and is used by many virtual instrument plugins and hardware synthesizers alike. This video teaches you the basic of subtractive synthesis using SubTractor from Reason. It is a great synthesizer to learn from, and these concepts can be applied to […]

In this episode, Wayfarer shows how to approach sampling pitched instruments. He demonstrates this by sampling a wood pipe pan flute and assigning the samples to zones in the NN-XT Advanced Sampler in Reason. See more of Wayfarer’s Tutorial Streams

n this episode, we take the drum samples that we made in the previous episode and use them in a drum pattern player that has a step sequencer. While many drum sequencers are very similar, we are going to use ReDrum from Reason because it resembles many of the drum […]