The Hat With The Phat

[DSmolken]

https://www.karoryfer.com/karoryfer-sam ... h-the-phat

I wanted to make a sample library of something I knew no reasonable person needs sampled badly enough to pay for it - an oversized hi-hat made up of two ride cymbals. So, it's free. Somehow it ended up over a download that's over 600 MB. How did that happen? I didn't even let the open hats ring out fully, the longest samples are around 20 seconds, but I guess that stuff adds up. And all samples are duplicated with a pitch-shifted version.

[pljones]

Tsk, it needed 32 velocity layers, you know... And brushes...

(Sounds pretty nice... )

[jancivil]

I've seen a hats folder in one library that was 4GB

[DSmolken]

Yup, if you want to do a bunch of degrees of openness and mic positions, you can easily end up with 10000 hat samples alone, and if you let the open and splash ones ring out full, some of those files will be pretty dang big. Add brushes, it all doubles.

With an unfamiliar sound, though, I can get away with less detail. I mean, nobody's gonna go "I've heard the real sound of a vastly oversized hi-hat a million times, and this doesn't respond properly to very gentle playing".

[Michael L]

I did not know that this sound was missing from my life

[DSmolken]

Somebody in another place pointed out that this is the opposite of the currently trendy trap hi-hat sound in many ways. A lot of woody percussive stick sound in the tightly closed and squashed sounds. OTOH the loosely closed and sizzling sound kinda like cymbal stacks.

Pushed out a small GUI update so the MIDI note assignments are now displayed on the controls tab - thanks for suggesting that. Also, caught a small mistake in the walkthrough: pedal chiks have four velocity layers, not two, it's splashes and clutch drops which have two. Ah well.

[jancivil]

small hats are trending big in super-progressive drumming as well. Also, more than one and the additions purposed somewhat differently. and stacks, for sizzle

[DSmolken]

Yeah, stacks are fun and easy to sample. Don't ring long, you can make a lot of different stacks out of just a few cymbals. Plus, they are pretty popular for the past few years. Making a bunch of stacks as an expansion library for an existing drum kit wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. Add in an extra tiny hi-hat, and you can bring an older kit up to today's trends.

If, y'know, I didn't have a million other ideas for things I also wanted to sample. Heh. That's always the problem.

[thecontrolcentre]

Thanks for these. Very nice