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A bassdrum consists of 2 parts:
The startclick is arguably the most important part of the bassdrum and its properties will determine if a bassdrum is perceived to be either bright or dull.
To create the startclick, a filtered spike from an envelope might be enough. For more notes on this, see the specific chapter about making clicks.
To create the tonal part, use an oscillator at low pitch. Connect an envelope with no attack, short decay and 0 sustain to the pitch input. You might need to rescale the output of the envelope to suit your particular bassdrum needs. Most common shapes for the bassdrum oscillator are either sine or triangle, but if you want a more distorted gabber-type bassdrum, pulse or saw might be good.
Extra filtering might be used afterwards to give a nicer decay to the tone.
A tom can be made by using a low-pitched oscillator through a filter with high resonance and low cutoff (e.g. for Blok, cutoff at 70 Hz, resonance 58, HP). The tuning is made by adjusting the cutoff. Adding an extra noise generator through a filter (LP) will give you some extra flexibility.