One of the reasons I will keep my A4 for ever and ever is how good the kicks sound. Today I learned by mistake that you get even more range of sound by playing with the note length.
To elaborate, I got in the habit of picking a kick drum sound, tuning the pitch and placing basic trigs where I wanted the hits to go. Today I had a track going with a melody on it and had set the default note hold length to something other than the usual. When I swapped the sound out for a kick patch and placed new triggers, this boom came out that I’ve never heard before. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on and it was the trigger length which was changing how the envelopes worked. Sounds obvious now but it really opens things up, so I’m posting it here.
Next step is to play with shorter note length on high hats to see if they can be more snappy.