Hoping we can get a HiHat Synth in the future

spanaboy505

@BroCoast said:
Spectrum has a hi-hat mode.

I’ll check it out. Seems interesting

HotStrange

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I don’t see as much love for the Ruismaker series of drums as I did when they came out but FM, Noir, and the original are still amongst my most used drum machines and have been for a looooong time now.

Noir is my go-to for non-real percussion sounds, love it almost as much as my DFAM, plus it doesn’t have some of the DFAM’s down sides. But then it doesn’t have some of the DFAM’s advantages, so swings and roundabouts.

The thought occurred to me while reading this thread that it might be worth seeing what can be done by loading hi-hat samples into the AudioThing Hand Clapper app. Would give you some control and shaping options, though maybe not enough.

The handclapper app was my first thought as well. Might give that a try later on tonight. It’s actually a really fun little app and can do some cool things once you accept its limitations.

I love the idea of the DFAM/M32 but I don’t have space for them. And the lack of midi is kind of a bummer though I supposed with the SQ-1 it wouldn’t matter as much.

The M32 has MIDI, so you can clock the DFAM from it. Likewise the SubH - or an SQ-1, so lack of MIDI on the DFAM isn’t disastrous. Being largely tied to 8 steps is occasionally annoying, but then being able to patch it up with cables to other kit is a huge plus. The thing sounds blooming amazing, though.

Sound wise it’s certainly fantastic. The only 2 Moog’s I’ve ever owned is the Grandmother and Wersktatt. I’m thinking of buying the Mavis soon to have a Moog again since I don’t have space for a big boy lol.

The Mavis is great. Sounds wonderful, and remarkably versatile. It can get pretty wild.

Thanks! The demos seem really great. I wanna make a small little modular setup with the little Bastl synths, Volca Modular, and the Mavis. Seems like it would pair well sound wise to all of those.

Did you say you have an SQ-1? It really opens up the Mavis, both for sequencing (natch) and for MIDI to CV so you can use generative stuff on the iPad with it.

Thanks, yeah I do! It’s become a pretty important tool box for me over the years. It can do a lot for very little (price wise).

spanaboy505

@brambos said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@auxmux said:
Or roll your own using Drambo.

All depends on @spanaboy505 's skill level/knowledge of Drambo. Technically any semi-modular synth can be used to produce hihats. Mix white noise with a high-pitched triangle wave, hipass that until it feels right (higher than one may initially think). Then add any effects to taste.

Also worth a try: the 808 hihats were made by multiplying a number of square waves at certain frequency ratios (which account for the metallic ringing). Very clever, these Roland guys!

It is worth a try 👍

jwmmakerofmusic

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@jwmmakerofmusic said:

What genre(s) are you producing in? And do you have Koala Sampler? Also, if you're on iPad, have you tried Splat-to-Clat?

I prefer the trap genre. Really I’m down to create for any genre.

Man I absolutely love Trap. I also love Drill and Jersey Club and also BoomBap, Lofi, and pretty much all genres of HipHop. What's odd is I love listening to HipHop, but I didn't use to produce HipHop until I discovered Lofi back in Nov last year, lol.

And I have the latest 2023 iPad Pro.

Nice! I got the last gen M1 Pro 12.9", but I prefer to produce on my 1TB iPhone 14 Pro Max these days. Really wish @GospelMusicians would port Splat-to-Clat over to iPhone, but then again trying to cram the UI to fit on the iPhone would be a massive pain in the arse.

I’ve been wanting Splat-to-Clat for a long time that it’s ridiculous at this point I haven’t bought it yet.

I triple-dog dare you to buy it. 😉 Your wallet sure won't thank me, but maybe you will, lol.

I do have Koala too but never use it, I use Dawnbeat more than Koala. With Koala, Dawnbeat, BeatHawk, & even AASample Player I guess you can just sample a hihat and hope it comes out good.

Now me, I never really got stuck into Dawnbeat as of yet. Seems like an awesome app, but Koala has my full attention. I even released a 6-track EP created 100% in Koala and mastered in Cubasis 3 which includes three HipHop instrumentals (Trap, Jersey Club, and LofI), Synthwave House, Modern House, and Vaporwave. Koala is very capable of handling those 808 hihat oneshot samples like a champ.

Of course I have all the IAP feature expansions in Koala Sampler such as the bussing mixer and Samurai Mode. Altogether about 15 quid. I see that Dawnbeat can load AUv3s, but I wonder if Dawnbeat itself can be loaded into AUM to sample other apps directly like Koala can. 🤔

Usually in samplers like GarageBand, Cubasis, when the sample is small like hihat, it comes out like crap and the sample goes fast in the upper octaves.

Absolutely. GarageBand's sampler and Cubasis' sampler are rather "meh". Beatmaker 3 has the best sampler hands down on iOS, but it's iPad only sadly, and I'm an iPhone producer these days.

Have you ever seen FLStudio on how producers use HiHats to roll and slide on the pianoroll grid, wow I was wondering if they have hihat presets or if they’re one-shot samples that producers use.

I think they're oneshot hi hat samples, but of course I could be wrong. I don't normally use hihat loops and simply use oneshots.