Topic: Gongs II--the fxp
I just uploaded an fxp, the result of a 15 minute attempt at a gong that sounds decent (decent, I say) from the lowest possible note to around the G above middle C. (Most notes above that range just sound bad.) Middle C and C# may sound the best. Hold the note instead of just hitting it.
Different velocities on different notes sound better. On too many of the hard strikes, the sound is still too much that of a bell. On the E above middle C, for instance, where even low velocities retain too much of the bell sound. I should probably have reduced the possible velocity range and raised the volume.
It was made, of course, from one of the bells. (And a few small changes can make this into a cymbal sound, for better or worse.)
The problem, even on lower strikes, as one might expect when converting a bell to a gong, is that the notes don't decay in a gong-like manner for long. I couldn't get enough of the big, recurring woof and warp of pitches that a gong gives off for several seconds--the decay may smooth out into one perceived pitch too fast.
Revisions, suggestions, new presets?
And the lowest notes, at high velocities, come close to sounding like an orchestral tom heard from some distance, although the decay is too long. DrumTeq? PercussionTeq?
