Tympani sound?

[alexis]

Hello - Looking for a tympani (a pair, or do they sometimes have three drum notes?) on my track. Anyone recommend a source ... on line or CD? I don't need something perfect and expensive, it's just for friends and family, maybe a step up from GM-level quality.

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Daniel Drummond]

If I remember right the Halion One instrument included with Cubase (that you already have) has a timpany preset.

[alexis]

If I remember right the Halion One instrument included with Cubase (that you already have) has a timpany preset.

Yes, thank you Daniel! I've been messing with the HSSE timpani for a while now, not having a lot of luck though. I don't know if it's a general MIDI patch or not, it does say GM 48 or something like that. In any case, I'm having a hard time getting the reverby elastic "boing" sound working right. At least I think that's what my problem is, it's either too soft, or too loud without the nice long decay.

Has anyone with Cubase here used HSSE's Timpani in one of their projects? Or to the original point, found a nice not expensive set of tymapni samples?

[oggyb]

If you're sitting them back in the mix, feel free to compress to bring up the tail of the sample. Or just add a little more reverb than other elements of the mix.

I seem to remember the HalionOne sound has a lot of attack. Compressing can reduce or increase

[alexis]

If you're sitting them back in the mix, feel free to compress to bring up the tail of the sample. Or just add a little more reverb than other elements of the mix.

I seem to remember the HalionOne sound has a lot of attack. Compressing can reduce or increase

Hello oggyb! Your recollection is 100% accurate I believe, the HSSE timpani have an awful lot of attack. Unfortunately the timpani are front and center in the song, and in my hands the degree of compression necessary to tame the attack and bring up the tail introduced too much artifact (similarly with reverb). However, I will revisit this.

Thanks again!

[oggyb]

Try putting a gate over the track, assuming the hits are individual. Set to 6-20ms and see what happens.

[Exalted Wombat]

Hello - Looking for a tympani (a pair, or do they sometimes have three drum notes?)

If you're aiming to be authentic, Classical orchestras generally used two, Romantic and later routinely had anything up to five. And they would all constantly be being retuned to different notes. Any more would probably need two players. No reason to restrict yourself to what a "real" orchestra could do, of course!

[oggyb]

Hello - Looking for a tympani (a pair, or do they sometimes have three drum notes?)

If you're aiming to be authentic, Classical orchestras generally used two, Romantic and later routinely had anything up to five. And they would all constantly be being retuned to different notes. Any more would probably need two players. No reason to restrict yourself to what a "real" orchestra could do, of course!

Correct, and in Britten the timpanist would be expected to re-pitch his drums in a split second, every other note.