Smack — A new fetish in linux audio

About

Smack is a drum synth, 100% sample free. It intends to emulate a large number of famous drum machines (TR/others) as well as sample code for physical modeling. It's built with LADSPA plugins and the Om modular synth.

Currently it's got full TR808 drums, TR909 bass and snare, noise based drums, formant and compression based drums, frequency shifting drums (Single side band) and some FM hihats. For the full low down on physical synthesis and related stuff you can check out my thesis. For a quick one page summary of some of the issues with exciter modeling you can look at my hands as exciters thing.

I'm keen to hear any thoughts or feature requests, and especially any music made with smack. If there is a drum that you want and it's not here TELL ME. If there is a prob, tell me too. I don't bite.

There's a BerliOS Project Page with statistics and bug reporting among other things.

News

Screenshots and Demos

Audio demos:

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You'll require om, omins, blop plugins, cmt plugs and swh plugins to use smack.

Source and RPMs for Mandrake/Mandriva 10.2

Ebuilds of om, omins and smack for Gentoo kindly provided by Gnarlie.

The latest source code in development can always be found in the SVN Repository.

Documentation

If you want to know all about drum synthesis in stupid amount of detail (60+ pages) try my thesis. As far as user docs there is just the README, read it.

Contact Info

Get me at loki (a.t) berlios (d.o.t) de. I can also be found as LFactor in the #lad IRC channel on irc.freenode.net way to often.

If you've found a bug please submit it on the bug reporting page.