This page contains sounds I created from scratch, for use in music productions. You can download my zipped drumkit samples (sometimes a minimal kick+snare combo, sometimes a more complete drumkit) and my instruments in SoundFont and FL Studio DirectWave format.

Soda Can Piano

This DirectWave instrument contains a short synth preset resembling an electric piano.

It was created from scratch with FL Studio from Image Line starting from a sample of a chopstick hitting a soda can. A looped long note was obtained by isolating a small portion of the sample where the waveform patterns starts repeating, to create a sound with an aluminum “feel”. The long note was then fed to a vocoder as a modulator, using a “red colored” long synth sound (made with FL Studio 3x Osc) as a carrier.

The carrier synth color was created according to the instructions found in the Color section of the Sound Production Manual.

Drum Kits

These are drum kit sounds I created from scratch. I used a vocoder to generate the kick and snare samples, with a short noise as a modulator and a layer of long synth bass notes as a carrier. Most of the times the short noise is me tapping my finger on an object, such as a laundry detergent bottle or a grocery store food package. The carrier was a layer of notes for the kick, a layer of notes mixed with noise for the snare. The carrier long note always has a pink coloration, because percussive rhytmical sounds describe to the brain the ancestral image of human skin, so I translated skintone hues to synth sounds to create these kits. A negative phase of the carrier (salty) will create a woman’s skin, a positive phase (sweet) will correspond to a man’s skin, so you will have to carefully plan the correct polarity inversions in order to dedicate your track to the right gender, according to your sexual orientation. Please refer to the Color section of my manual for instructions on how to control the color of a synth sound and to the Synesthesia section for more info about synesthesia. If you create your own drum sounds, remember to select a natural human skintone color or you’ll end up creating “aliens”.

After creating the electronic kick and snare samples, I had to degrade them through a subwoofer and a tweeter (see Drum Sounds for instructions), mix together the resulting samples, apply effects (boost, pogo, EQ) and perform the necessary polarity inversions to confer to them the desired synesthetic features.

Drum Kit 012 – Drum Kit 013 – Drum Kit 014 – Drum Kit 015 – Drum Kit 016 – Drum Kit 017 – Drum Kit 018