Digital Snare

Crisp modern snare voice — tuned body with a filtered noise layer. Default sound on Track 3.

Available on: Track 3
Built on: Mutable Instruments Plaits — synthetic_snare_drum model.

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Character

A tuned oscillator pair plus a noise layer, shaped by a fast envelope. Pitched content gives it more presence in a mix than classic analog snares — great for digital / electronic styles.

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Parameters

The ds-allparams macro exposes all five DSP parameters across two pages:

Page	Knob 1	Knob 2	Knob 3	Knob 4
Tone	Freq	Decay	FM	Snap
Snap	Accent	—	—	—

Tone

Parameter	Range	What it does	DSP
Freq	low → high	Pitch of the tonal body	f0
Decay	short → long	Body + noise decay length	decay
FM	0 → high	Envelope FM into the oscillator — adds bite	fm_amount
Snap	body → snap	Balance between tonal body and snare noise layer	snappy

Snap

Parameter	Range	What it does	DSP
Accent	soft → hard	Velocity / emphasis	accent

Lock Freq per step to create snare melodies; very short Decay values behave almost like rimshots.

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See also

• Analog Snare — warmer 808/909-style snare on the same track.
• Clap — layering partner on Track 4.

Origin & credits

Based on Mutable Instruments Plaits’ synthetic_snare_drum voice (Émilie Gillet, MIT-licensed). TBD-16 integration by Robert Manzke / CTAG (GPL 3.0).

• DSP source: plaits/dsp/drums/synthetic_snare_drum.h
• TBD-16 wrapper: rack/RackDSD.hpp / .cpp