Deish MediaEvery metal in the kit. One synth.
Closed hats, open hats, rides, crashes and cowbell from a six-oscillator metal core and a noise band, with a sample layer underneath for the real cymbal.
Cymba, in numbers
- Factory presets
- 191
- Preset categories
- 9
- Metal oscillators
- 6
- Hold stage
- Up to 6 s
- FX stages
- 8
- Drag-out
- 24-bit WAV, session rate
- Licence
- In Strike, $20 for all three
Metal, noise, decay
Six square oscillators at inharmonic ratios make the metal, a noise band makes the air, and one BLEND knob sets one against the other. Tune, a tone filter and the metallic spread set what kind of cymbal it is.
BLENDTUNETONE FILTERSPREADNOISEDECAYHOLDPAIR
TONE and METAL
Blend metal against noise, tune the whole bank, filter it, and spread the six oscillators apart or pull them together.
Long ring for rides and crashes
HOLD adds a slow second stage after the first decay, from 300 ms to 6 s, so a ride keeps ringing and a crash washes out long after a hat would stop.
Cowbell and low metal
The PAIR bank swaps the six oscillators for the classic two-tone 808 cowbell pair at 540 and 800 Hz. LOW BAND opens a lower band, centred anywhere from 300 Hz to 3 kHz, for bells and gongs.
Width and colour
WIDTH spreads the oscillators and noise across the stereo field. X-MOD ring-modulates neighbouring oscillators, RESO sharpens the tone filter, and RING adds a comb to the noise.
A synth on top, a sample underneath
Layer A is the synth. Layer B is a sample with its own envelope, start point, punch and reverse. One slider blends them, and SOLO A or SOLO B lets you hear either on its own while you shape it.
The picture is the finished hit
The waveform you shape on is the synth and the sample summed and run through the whole FX strip, redrawn as you move any control. You see what the compressor and the reverb did before you hear it.
Real recorded samples, or yours
Most factory presets put a real recorded one-shot from the built-in library (125 of them in Cymba) under the synth, tuned and filtered to sit with it. Drag your own WAV onto layer B to use yours instead.
Drag the hit out
Drag the finished hit onto a track as a 24-bit WAV at your session rate, with the FX printed. Each drag is a new file in Documents/Deish Media/Cymba Renders.
Every hit a little different
VARY nudges each hit so a roll does not sound like one sample repeated. Velocity sets how hard the hit lands, and PIANO plays it chromatically across the keyboard.
Eight stages, already on the channel
HEAT, GRIT, SCULPT, SWEEP, MOTION, PRESS, RELAY and SPACE: the same family of engines as Base6ix and Ryza, on the end of the drum, each with its own enable.
HEAT 9 SHAPESGRITSCULPT EQSWEEPMOTIONPRESSRELAY DELAYSPACE REVERB
191 presets, and a die
Nine categories from closed and trap hats to rides, crashes, shakers and metal FX, each one a synth patch with a matched sample and its FX already set.
CLOSED 26TRAP HATS 19OPEN 23RIDES 22CRASHES & WASHES 17SHAKERS & TICKS 27LO-FI 18FX & METALS 37BASICS 2
Roll the die
DICE takes the synth from one preset, the sample from another and the FX from a third. Right-click it to choose which parts it may change. A roll you like is one Save away, and a roll you do not is one undo.
Browse, save, undo
A preset browser with categories, your own presets saved by name, a saved default for new instances, and undo for every edit and every preset load.
The current release, and what changed
Stablev1.0.0
The first release
The complete plug-in on a 30-day trial. The same download becomes the licensed version when you paste in a serial. It is the Strike installer: Smack, Palma and Cymba with their sound libraries, each a tick-box you can leave out.
Installing on Windows? Windows may show an “unrecognised app” prompt the first time, because we are a new publisher. Click More info, then Run anyway. The installer is signed, and the publisher shown is Dishit Patel. The macOS installer is signed and notarized by Apple.
System requirements
- Windows
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit: VST®3 and standalone app
- macOS
- macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel: VST3, AU and standalone app
- Hosts
- Any VST3 host; any AU host on macOS
- Licence
- Strike: lifetime, 3 computers, all three drums; deactivate inside the plug-in to move
- Support
- deishmedia@gmail.com
Current
v1.0.0. The first release.
- A cymbal synth: six-oscillator metal and a noise band, blended, tuned and filtered.
- Hold stage, low band, 808 pair bank, stereo width, X-Mod, resonance, noise ring and filter tracking in the engine.
- A sample layer with its own envelope, start, punch and reverse, blended against the synth.
- Eight FX stages (HEAT, GRIT, SCULPT, SWEEP, MOTION, PRESS, RELAY, SPACE), drawn into the waveform.
- Drag the finished hit into your DAW as a 24-bit WAV.
- 191 factory presets in 9 categories, DICE, a preset browser and full undo.
Exactly what you get
The whole instrument, every preset and the FX strip, on three of your machines, for good.
Sold as a set. Cymba comes in Strike with Smack and Palma: one $20 licence for all three drums. It is a lifetime licence for three machines, one activation on a machine unlocks all three, and every future version is included.
Try it for 30 days first. The trial is the complete plug-in: no account, nothing disabled, nothing watermarked.
Or all seven. Everything puts every Deish.Audio plug-in on one licence for $100, on the same terms. Worth $110 at list, save $10.
Questions or a problem? Licences, machine slots, refunds and bugs: deishmedia@gmail.com. The terms set out the licence and the refund policy.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Type
- Instrument, MIDI in, monophonic
- Layers
- Synth A, sample B, blended
- Presets
- 191 factory, plus your own
- Window
- 1280×860 default, resizable from 1220×740
- Output guard
- Clip or limit, on by default
- Windows
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit: VST3 and standalone app
- macOS
- macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel: VST3, AU and standalone app
- Trial
- 30 days, the complete plug-in
- Licence
- Strike, $20 for all three: lifetime, 3 machines, verifies offline
Questions
Is it a sample player?
No. Layer A synthesises every hit from oscillators and noise as you play it. Layer B adds a sample underneath when you want one, and you can turn it down to nothing.
Does it work on a Mac?
Yes. The signed and notarized macOS installer has VST3, AU and the standalone app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and one licence covers Windows and macOS machines alike.
Does the open hat choke when the closed hat plays?
Each instance is its own instrument and retriggers itself, so a new note cuts the ringing one on the same instance. Two instances, one open and one closed, ring independently.
Is it only hi-hats?
No. Rides, crashes, shakers, ticks and cowbell all come from the same engine, and 22 of the presets are rides alone.