Fantastic Mr. Fox/123MRK Snare Sound Design

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#1

There is a very lively “wooden” sounding snare in both songs with a fundamental of about 450-500Hz and a high-end of about 2.5 kHz. The Fantastic Mr. Fox track has a bit more harmonic content on the snare than the 123MRK track, but both seem to be derived from the same type of sound.

I was wondering if any Elektronauts had some insight into designing this type of snare. I’ve messed around with quite a few sound engines and was never able to create anything as dynamic as the listed tracks - even processed samples of wooden percussion have sounded flat in comparison.

Which Elektron device and technique would be best for creating this type of sound?

Fantastic Mr. Fox -

123MRK -
https://soundcloud.com/123mrk/sets/noname-6

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#2

I would start with iron bell and try to filter it into moore wooden sound (reduce the harmonics). For my ears it also has some reverb. With synthesis I would go for fm-modulated fast filter attacks or even karplus-strong type of snappy string attacks.

#3

It sounds like tuned down Rimshot to me with some attack, subtle bitcrush and saturation.