…swing, various velocity, various decay/sustain length, filter/eq, lfo’s adressing some of those parameters, choke grouping, since in real life there simply is no closed hi hat and an open one AT THE VERY SAME MOMENT IN TIME…
keep in mind each single moment of appearance is as important for any kind of of groove as the moment when it shuts up again…
that’s all the craftmens’ship secrets there are to “good hi hats”…
besides the basic truth, pretty much any sample treated in a combo of these ingredients can grow into a nice hi hat line…
therefor, whenever u think again, oh, that’s not grooving, shorten their overall decay/systain length…
and get ur first accents by making certain single ones longer again…
adress an lfo to velocity and twiddle a little on the track swing…
but most important on the long run, spent more time in crafting than in finding the “right” one…
for truly realizing this, u might wanna try with a simple snippet of plain white noise…