shubelo wrote:Hey guys,
Im wondering how you use your samples when producing you hi-hat patterns. Say a 808 closed hi-hat every 1/8 beats and open hi-hat at the end of every bar.
I can never find the right closed and open hat samples that go together. I find sample packs only have one sample I like and wont have the corresponding closed or open equivalent. I have tried tune two different samples and another technique by putting an open hi-hat in a sampler and changing the AMP ENV but nothing seems to work. I hear pretty much every professional track have the same sounding hats like its the same symbol been used. How can I get it to sound like that, I am lost for ideas?
its a long time since i made hi-hats with a sampler, but i always just used one open hat sample, and simply shortened the notes in my sequencer (Cubase) for the closed hats, so that a very short note would just give you the attack phase and a very short decay phase, but to close off a preceeding open hat, the closed hat note must overlap the the end of the open hat note.
you must also be aware of the trigger settings (or whatever they are called in your DAW) of the hi-hat track. this wont work in Legato or poly mode (or whatever they are called in your DAW) in other words the sample must only sound for the duration of the note, and only one sound can be triggered at a time
so you draw a long note for the open hat and a very short note for the next closed hat, but extend the end of the open hat note just beyond the start of the closed hat note, this will give you the choked effect.
i hope i explained that ok, maybe if you tell us which DAW you are using i could give you the correct terms.