I admire the patience! I tried it once and quickly realized everything I did got me nowhere closer, so I stopped. I’m not very picky about hats for most things, but sometimes you just want that hat. Something about the 909 transient and the mod frequencies together, it seems difficult. I don’t think it’s impossible though 606 hi hat is much more realistic to imitate with the Syntakt I think.
The only approach I can think might get us to a 909 hat involves layering two tracks - which frankly sucks, since often I already use two tracks to layer my kicks. Not to mention that using probability / random LFOs to humanize can sound sloppy with two tracks that are meant to be layered.
haha thanks! ages ago i made a youtube vid that did quite well & someone commented “man this is the shit!” and fourteen-year-old-non-native-speaker me was like “whyyyy, i was trying so hard ” lmao.
I’m coming to realize hats and cymbals are my personal bete noire. On Digitone 2 as well, I find myself endlessly tweaking those sounds …
I never had any complaints about Cy Ride, and also really like the 808-ish results from HH Lab. But with HH Lab and even more with CY Alloy, the sweet spots to sour spots ratio can be tricky.
Your trick to use the EQ 3 for Alloy sounds has helped me make my favorites so far…
If only my ear consistently liked the results from one session to the next time I sit down to listen to it…
I boosted the high EQ on my Bébé a bit for this pattern, that EQ boost doesnt sadly come with the pattern. I removed all the other sounds, only the hihat track on the pattn.
According to Bébé’s manual, the high eq boost is a baxandall boost @ 13 kHz, so add a few dB around that area to get it even more “hatty”
Two Syntakt-only tracks, at opposites of the spectrum.
First off is a rework of the 175bpm “track” I posted earlier, this time more choppy and with more prominent dub elements.
This feels like the heaviest and most hard-hitting stuff I’ve done with the Syntakt so far. It’s recorded straight from the Syntakt, but it might be fun to run this through the Analog Heat to push it further.
Then a quiet and nostalgic chord progression, gradually going full out and then back again.
@JohnDaker Thanks! It’s simple, but a little time consuming. There are 5-6 monophonic tracks within a pattern that make up the complete chord, and it’s basically built up note by note, track by track. I think I used 5 different patterns with slight differences and some elements added. I like working with monophonic lines, it’s easier to add smaller variations and things that I wouldn’t normally think of when playing chords on a keyboard.
It was exported as a pattn, using Sysex Librarian (I was unable to get Elektron Transfer to recognize the pattn dump). I just went to Syntakt main menu, “Sysex Dump” - “Pattern” and hit YES on the selected pattn…
Is there a better way to dump these to a computer? I can try other methods if you tell me what has worked for you…
Using the latest Syntakt OS
This is the same way I exported one snare velo mod matrix tutorial pattn earlier to one thread on this forum, and either that one worked, or nobody noticed cuz no-one DLed it to begin with (I have a feeling not too many bother with syx files…)…
Oh yeah, there was also another one with some DNB bass sounds… This is the first time I hear about problems…?
Yeah, I exported it as pattn since I’m not sure if the patch sounds the way it does because of the trig programming & plocks. If it turns out the trig programming / plocks side doesnt do much, I suppose it could also be saved as a sound? Just thought it easiest to dump the entire pattern, I didnt want to change anything in fear of messing up the sound hehehe!
606 hi hat is much more realistic to imitate with the Syntakt I think.
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