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. :))

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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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through L-secure: http://www.l-secure.net/