i posted this up a little while back on another forum, it will help you get a nice interesting sound out of your snare drums
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Rather than boosting your snare's frequencies with EQ try this instead
load up a decent snare sample in the step sequencer and assign it to a mixer channel
add a 3xosc and layer it up with the snare drum, generate a noise wave and turn the other 2 osc down
in the 3xosc INS tab (vol envelope) cut the attack hold sustain and release to 0, you wanna keep a short decay time (i have had good results by adding the smallest amount of delay at times, i have found it can add body to a snare sound)
apply a band pass to the 3xosc, add some reso to make it sharper and tweak both parameters till you get a sound that grabs your attention
apply the 3xosc to the same mixer channel
now compress and EQ them as you wish to tie them both together, add a touch of reverb
you can mess about the the volume of the 3xosc, and all the filter parameters to get different sounds and effects
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try it, it works
