How to Choke a HiHat

 

Tony Scharf wrote:

I've had my modular a few months, and thought I would break up all this sampler talk with an actual patch related question! (a novel idea lately J ) (On the List was a Thread about samplers - red)

Anyway, I'm trying to create a patch that will simulate an open and closed high hat. I would like one not to cut off the other (like hi hats usually do), but I can't seem to figure it out.

I've attached the patch that I am working with on this email. I figure I can't be the only person to have tried this..

Ian Halsall wrote:

Hate to say it, but sample it and set polyphony to 1. On an Akai 3000 it's in Edit Program Midi page.

Tony Scharf wrote:

Well, duh, I could do it that way... but I want to be able to tweak the hats in real time.

And to answer the other reply, I want two sounds on different keys to choke one another.

Rob Hordijk wrote:

This is the way I like to play it. Its like a real hihat, when opened with F4 it gives a open HH. When the closed HH on E4 is pressed it either gives a closed HH if the F4 key is depressed, or it retriggers the AD portion of the still sounding open HH if F4 was pressed. So F4 is really a open/close gate, while E4 does most of the triggering (expect when only F4 is played, then F4 also triggers)

I added some tone control.

Tony Scharf wrote:

I like this allot - and thanks for the added tone controls. I plan to put together a little analog kit of sorts, and this was the only thing really giving me problems.

Kevin Thomas wrote:

I appreciate the hihat (and the resulting mutations). I have to say, though, I have found the sampler discussion of at least some relevance. Being the owner of a MicrModular, I see one easy way to expand polyphony being to use a sampler. I just acquired Gigasampler LE with that as a partial excuse J