[linux-audio-user] Re: Crispy hi-hats

[Loki Davison]

On 9/3/06, juuso.alasuutari at tamperelainen.org
<juuso.alasuutari at tamperelainen.org> wrote:
> Something's bothering me about making beats in Linux (without a dime to
> spare on
> a hardware synth): The lack of high-quality hi-hat samples.
>
> I recently fell in love with a site called Freesound [0], but although I've
> found great samples there I'm still missing those crisp, airy hats I hear
> when
> listening to "real" music. (You may not share my taste for psychedelic
> trance,
> but you will know what I mean if you listen to e.g. Infected Mushroom.)
>
> Of course much of the sound is achieved with EQ's and effects, but one must
> still have a decent starting point. The only hi-hats I seem find sound muddy
> and heavy (I don't mean the genre of music, I mean that the hat hits won't
> "dance" in the air above the head, if you know what I mean). Usually they're
> also ruined by static background noise. :(
>
> I'm considering trying to locate some FOAF who owns a wavetable synth with
> digital I/O so I could sample clean hi-hats, but I would much rather have
> them
> home-made. Can anyone please point me to a free sample repository with
> high-quality hats, or recommend a GPL'd drum synth? (I haven't tried Smack
> yet,
> and I'm keeping my hopes up high - I'm sure it can say "smack" very well,
> and
> I'm hoping the "tschik" will also please me. :))
>
> Thanks,
> Juuso
>
> [0] http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
>
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If you want lovely realistic hi hats smack might not cover everything
you want. Though quite a few are okay for psy. Metallic percussion is
fantastically hard to synth realistically. However some of the not
realistic hi hats might suit pretty well for what you want. :) They
are also all tunable and tweakable which is handy but mostly noise
based.

Loki