Tutorials: Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds

Tom, at the excellent blog Waveformless, has been running an ongoing series of tutorials aimed at creating your own, custom drum sounds using various synthesis techniques. If drums are a big part of your tracks, and I don't think very many of us go without them, I highly recommend you check out Tom's tutorials and try your hand and building some unique sounds.

• Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds, Pt. 1
  
• Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds, Pt. 2: Attack of the Phaser
  
• Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds, Pt. 3
  
• Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds, Pt. 4: Kicking it With Sine Waves
  
• Rolling Your Own Drum Sounds, Pt. 5: Self-Oscillation - It's Not As Dirty As It Sounds...
  

Tom's tutorials are really great. They're well-written and easy to follow, and while they're never Reason-specific, he explains things so well that you should be able to follow along with the instruments and effects contained inside of Reason. I plan on spending some time with these tutorials myself and building my own custom kit.

One of the first posts on Reason Patch A Day was a recreation of Tom's Tape Flutter Logic effect, which was inspired by the Boards of Canada sound.