Rimshot

Sharp, pitched rimshot / side-stick voice. Covers side-stick, rimshot, woodblock and claves-style percussion.

Available on: Track 4
Built on: Custom CTAG voice — sine oscillator through resonant filter with noise.

Character

A pure sine oscillator, driven through a pair of resonant state-variable filters and a highpass, shaped by an AD envelope. A noise layer sits alongside for the metallic ring, and a separate accent control brightens and emphasises louder hits.

Parameters

Parameter Range What it does
f0 low → high Pitch of the sine body
base soft → hard Pre-filter drive / tone character
decay short → long Envelope decay
reso_hp open → resonant Highpass resonance — more ring at higher values
noise_level 0 → high Metallic noise layer amount
accent soft → hard Velocity / emphasis

Low f0 + low noise_level = woodblock; higher f0 + medium noise_level + more reso_hp = classic 808 rimshot.

See also

  • Clap — shares Track 4.

Origin & credits

Custom CTAG voice (synthesis/Rimshot.hpp / .cpp) by Robert Manzke — part of the CTAG TBD rack library (GPL 3.0). Uses Mutable Instruments SineOscillator and stmlib SVF filters internally.

  • DSP source: synthesis/Rimshot.hpp / .cpp
  • TBD-16 wrapper: rack/RackRimshot.hpp / .cpp