Talking about 606 hihats … i bought a Behringer RD-6 for that…best 120 euro i ever spent.
Really wondering why A4 hasn’t been mentioned yet. That’s synthesizing heaven when it comes to all kinds of hats.
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Yes, A4! Some older test …
Got even a bit 909ish in this one:
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Ah, that youtube track is a blast, by the way!
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CR-78 for me, closely followed by the 606.
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Synplant is an FM synth through a filter just like digitone so I’m hoping you could get close by parameter matching digitone to the synplant patch. Mostly I would be looking for a magical combination of the core FM parameters that would yield a 909-like tone if it exists.
i want to upgrade my TR-6s to two TR-6s 
one extra instrument but twice smaller in size comparing to TR-8s.
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Don’t forget about additional cables, power adapters (unless you’ll run them on batteries) and a mixer. TR-8s still has more functionality and costs less than 2x TR-6s.
Yeah, I messed with gain staging aswell and punchy you can get I suppose but there is something missing in the body of those sound. And about the top end, it sounded tinny and unpleasant, I used the filter on the channel on the unit to get rid of the worst of
it. To my ears.
I guess I expected it to be great sounding without to much tweaking (as the originals), maybe I had too high expectations, I really dig the machine otherwise!
+1 for hats on the Volca Drum! So lively and satisfying. They just work.
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well, i need a mixer anyway, unless i use MC-707 as a mixer – but MC-707 on the bigger side too, i mean it does not fit ANY backpack, just SOME backpacks.
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+10dB to be exact 
Fuck yeah! 606 is my personal preference, ever since
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Jomox Alphabase is so tasty.
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Meh, I’m not a big hi-hat fan… I’m usually more like “bye-hats!”
JK – I like to design them on the Digitakt or other samplers from various noise sources. Finding/generating different kinds of noise can be a fun rabbit hole to go down. I’ve been using that free Elektron Super Glue sound pack for hats and cymbals lately
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But so expensive
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pocket operator rhythm 
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That’s some amazing info, any source (to read more about it) or own research?
909 samples are my go to when making house/techno type hi hats, the open hat in particular has a classic timeless appeal. when it comes to the elektron world i really like using the e12 shaker (SH) from the machinedrum as a hihat as it is pretty versatile with how the attack is handled and can easily go back and forth from a shaker to a hihat type sound
People rave about the Alphabase and its sound but I had one for a few weeks and quickly grew tired of the awkward interface and several other issues that I won’t go into here but I was was listening on headphones to tracks I had made with the Rytm and Digitakt and then a track I did on the Alphabase and it sounded really boxy.