what does an acoustic snare need in terms of sound design to be transformed to an edm snare sound?

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The obvious needed things would first be able to record the snare itself - i.e. using Mics, analog or digital recording device, etc. You can set the snare drum itself up - open and ringing with no muffling or head treatment, or deadened with gels and de-tuning.

After that it really depends what kind of sound you're looking for. There's a literal shit-ton of shaper's, processors, and sampling devices that can take that sample and twist it into pretty much anything you want to hear. Many of the first digital music performance devices basically used gated white or pink noise to mimic the sound of a snare drum. Using a sample back then would have been luxury and taken up way too much valuable memory space.

 

saturation, compression, eq boost to the body / punch, eq boost to the snap

 

in most cases boosting the highs and then clipping them is more than enough

 

One important aspect not mentioned: the shape of the snare. EDM snares tend to have quick decay and short release as opposed to the natural decay of an acoustic snare drum. Often they also sound artificially pitched as opposed to natural drum tuning. And then of course lots of saturation and compression, as others have mentioned before.

 

maybe u can think about layering, cause an acoustic snare it sounds like that...like an acoustic snare.
Compare it to a snare from an 808 or 909 machine,those were the foundation of edm lets say... and u can hear are two sounds VERY different, its instantly the difference.
So u can think about the technique, layering.