Drumclone
Drumclone allows extracting and modifying high-quality single drum sounds from complex audio sources like songs, samples, or any recording with perceptible percussive elements.
Drumclone comes with models* to precisely isolate and resynthesize drum sounds, which allows a fast iterative workflow thanks to its sub-second processing times and drag and drop UI.
While it works for isolation, drumclone’s main focus is it’s sound-design capabilities. Being able to imitate one-shot percussive noises and tweak their attack, transient, noise component, etc, down to the sample-level.
* kick/ada.1 is the current model available for free, tuned for kick-drums.
Real-world usage
The utilization of pre-made sounds or song samples is a prevalent practice across various music production genres. Drum samples, in particular, serve as essential components, often forming the structural foundation of numerous compositions. Utilizing drumclone, these high-quality drum sounds can be extracted from existing recordings and subsequently modified without any degradation in sound quality.
This methodology can effectively isolate a drum sound and mutate it from pure sine-like percussion, to harmonically rich and distorted drum sounds, while keeping the processing fast enough to visualize the results it in real-time.
Unlike traditional extraction methods, which tend to degrade the quality of the sounds with unnatural filtering artifacts and output static audio samples, resynthesis can model the original timbral characteristics of the drums and allows creative flexibility by tuning the underlying formula with simple user-facing controls.
Capabilities:
- One-shot percussion isolation and resynthesis.
- Flexible transient and body sculpting with tone and noise controls.
- Fine-tuning with sample-level resolution.
- Synthesis models to avoid typical filtering isolation artifacts.
- Extremely clear drum sound output for applying further processing chains.
- Real-time visualization of every change in the waveform.
- Fast drag-and-drop workflow.
- Fully offline, no cloud or servers involved.
- Sub-second processing times on common hardware.
- Multi-segment envelope editors to accurately shape the underlying model.
- Low-profile vector UI with data visualization and inline controls.