Device that can simulate the sound of many people clapping their hands to music...

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I'm looking for an inexpensive device that can simulate the sound of many people clapping their hands to the music. I read a lot about MIDI, triggers, etc., and when it comes to that, I'm relatively clueless (and budget-less). Boss used to make the Boss HC-2 hand clapper, but I can't find a used one anywhere. There must be something for less than $100 that can do this. I'm betting you know what it is. Thanks!
 
You are over-thinking this. Google "applause sound" and have your pick, many free.
 
When I have put hand claps into music, I have just recorded myself and others clapping to the song a few times, then I would just copy the tracks and slide them slightly in the mix so they sounded more "natural"..
 
Thanks to all of you. I've found lots of sound effects on the 'net, but what I need is a device - something I can hit and it makes the sound I want at the moment I hit it (whether it's being used live or for recording). Also, not "applause". I want all the claps to occur instantly and simultaneously, and only when I hit the pad, press the button, etc. Thanks again!
 
Try an old windows program called soundplant you could trigger waves using computer keyboard. I used to use it for placing samples when I was big into writing industrial music. I'm sure there's still a soundplant version out there somewhere. It has Cool features too where one sample can kill/ cut another sample.

You just need the wave file. I do agree it's going to sound kind of fake if it's same sample each time.
Record something loop/ merge and just do a few bars of the claps. That way without stopping starting constantly you can layer up.

soundplant.org/download.htm
 
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What you need is a Sampler. There are various hardware samplers out there, and some software versions, too.

If you are wishing to use your sampler live on stage, then the answer is not cheap. You need a keyboard as well. Such musical machines are:

Kurzweil K2500S, K2600S, or the new Kurzweil PC3K8 (which does not have a sampler in it, but can play samples you load into it).

Emu and Ensoniq also made keyboards with samplers.

Software wise, I am not into the software end of things, but I do know there are several out there. Problem is (if you want to play live on stage) you also need a good laptop computer with a good sound card having MIDI capability, along with a small MIDI controller keyboard. This is why I argue that using computers to make music is not cheap as is often cited by its proponents. It all adds up.

If you are only concerned with your home studio, and already have a modern computer, etc., then of course look for software samplers.

Sample playback devices like the Kurzweil I mentioned above, also allow you to synthesize the sample - meaning you process that sample wave, through the whole synthesizer engine, and can do way-out things with it.

The one good thing, that has not been discussed yet, is that with a sampler, unlike the Boss clapper, you can then load infinite new samples into it as your library grows, and get constant new use and application for it.

Samplers allow you to record new sounds using a microphone and save the sound, or record directly into an audio input (to record sounds directly, i.e. guitar, singing, other synthesizers), and then of course, the very nice thing is you can load professionally recorded sounding samples from other sources, as long as you purchase the right to use them.
 
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yeah ..... sampling is the ticket.

I've heard that Boss HC-2 a bunc when it first came out ...... even back then, when we didn't have all the great samples to choose from, it sounded cheesy and laughable.
If you get one and use it live ...... it wouldn't be long before it'd end up in a drawer somewhere never to be used again.
 
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