Drum Cowbell

Drum Cowbell couples two shaped, deliberately inharmonic oscillators to a resonant shell and a short noisy beater. Interval, detune, pulse shape, body, brightness, and pitch bend move it between familiar two-tone cowbells, hollow blocks, dark iron, wooden knocks, and metallic electronic percussion.

Workflow

Insert s3g Drum Cowbell on a stereo instrument track and sequence notes 56, 57, and 58 for cowbell, muted, and high articulations.
Route the track to the main stereo output or a headphone monitor.
Set TUNE, INTERVAL, DETUNE, and SHAPE for the metal pair.
Balance oscillator DECAY against BODY, NOISE, and their decay controls.
Add BEND if the hit should move in pitch, then set character, width, and output trim.

Sound Model

TUNE anchors the lower oscillator and INTERVAL places the upper one as a ratio rather than a tempered musical interval. DETUNE breaks their symmetry and SHAPE changes harmonic content. ATTACK, DECAY, and DAMPING set the oscillator strike and lifetime.

BODY and BODY DECAY add a lower shell mode. NOISE, NOISE DECAY, and STRIKE TONE form the beater. BEND applies a positive or negative pitch offset that returns over BEND DECAY.

MIDI Articulations

MIDI RECEIVE defaults to OMNI; choose CH 1 through CH 16 to accept only that channel when several drum instruments share one sequencer stream.

Note	Articulation	Behavior
56	Cowbell	Full two-oscillator and shell voice.
57	Muted Cowbell	Shortened, damped metal response.
58	High Cowbell	Raised, brighter articulation.

Other notes use the normal cowbell articulation and transpose it according to NOTE TRACKING.

Controls

Panel	Controls	Role
Oscillators	Tune / Note Tracking / Interval / Detune / Shape / Decay	Defines the inharmonic two-tone voice.
Strike / Shell	Attack / Damping / Body / Body Decay / Brightness / Noise / Noise Decay / Strike Tone	Shapes contact and resonant body.
Motion	Bend / Bend Decay	Creates a settling upward or downward pitch gesture.
Character	Drive / Bias / Compression / Rate Reduction / Bit Depth Reduction / Reconstruction / Character Tone	Adds nonlinear and conversion color.
Output / MIDI	Stereo Width / Velocity Sensitivity / Output Gain / MIDI Receive / Trigger	Sets image, dynamics, trim, channel filtering, and three articulation pads.

Presets and Safe Random

The twelve presets include BALANCED BELL, LOW IRON, SHORT MUTE, HOLLOW ANALOG, WOODEN EDGE, and BENT METAL. RANDOM generates a bounded two-tone metal design while preserving OUTPUT GAIN, NOTE TRACKING, and VELOCITY SENSITIVITY.

Output

Width separates the upper oscillator, shell, and strike detail around the centered body. At 0%, both output channels carry the same mono signal.