I want to upgrade my TR-6S to a TR-8S, but can’t allow myself to until I spend more time with my new[ish] Digitakt. Haha!
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Yeah, CY Ride is def my fav HH machine
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Love the Pulsar-23 hihats 
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Any Drum Machine I own (AR, ST, DT). The secret is in the Modulations. I love you Random LFOs.
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Love the hihats I get on the DN!
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I really like the mix parameter for a modulation source with hats on the DN. The drift between feedbacky hits and more tonal flavors within a groove is appealing.
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I agree, it’s great BUT, to my ear the Roland ACB technology haven’t nailed the 606/808 hihat sound. I actually sold mine because of it.
It’s something about the top end sheen and the punch (yes I do think there is some kind of punch to those hats) that’s missing.
I since got a Acidlab Miami and it kicks butt!
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I also love the 606, the sound itself and how closed/open hats react when sequenced together, it’s really cool. Although I usually create hats by mangling some samples on DT, when I’m looking for classic sound, 606 is first choice (followed by other x0x classics on TR-8s).
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Ive said this before, but there’s so much gain available in the TR8-S. Stupid amounts.
Kit level is -8db (ish?) By default, and you can go well over unity, and hit the soft clipper.
Thats without accent, track fx, and master compressor taken into consideration.
Its punchy as fuck, and super shiny. I have the high shelf on my mixer dialed down permanently on the TR8-S channel. Just to tame the high end.
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Reminds me of the patches for Microtonic that try to match vintage drum machines.
I checked the demo video but the 909 section doesn’t have any hihats or rides so I’m not holding much hope. Really hoping TE releases a bigger version of the PO-32 tonic next.
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One can hear a closed 909 hihat in the video, and it sounds nice! On the computer, of course we can do all that ourselves in one way or another …
blending over from the spectrum of the first hihat i found (it’s from the volca drum) to the 909, reference sample at the end …
(Personally I want my own hihats, catching the 909 vibe, not actually sounding like it …)
I do really like using Gotharman gear for hihats. The lo-fi gritty percussion engines can go far. And you can blend them with samples as well.
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I hear it now, how did I miss it? 
Agree. You can upload the synthesized 909 hihat from Mictrotonic to the TE PO-32 tonic and have it in hardware but I don’t think it’s very tweakable there. Hoping a tonic 2 might help.
Yes!
Just had an idea, what if you used Synplant 2’s AI sound cloning capability on 909 hihats then copy the patch over to digitone?
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Interesting idea, I never looked into Synplant. However, on the Digitone I rely on natural intelligence - but just need a peak filter to be happy 
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Is that a thing? That would be amazing tbh
This link will take you straight to the good stuff. It is really mind blowing.
There is a thread here
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I like rytm noise for hats then maybe layer with some sample.
Having 16/16 trigs then LFO on the amp attack is real nice
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I just bought an original 606 so I’ll have one for sale/trade soon if anyone’s interested/
I know about synplant, but can you replicate the sounds in digitone?
Besides obvious 808 and 606, Modor DR2 hats sound surprisingly pleasant.
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