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Hi-Hats … why Hi-Hats of all things?!

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Navigator: Best of Beat # 239

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HI-HATS & TOP-END NO MORE ROBOTIC GROOVES! SOLUTIONS FOR A MORE HUMAN FEEL • The perfect drums and hi-hats for your next beats, songs, and productions! Our masterclass shows you how to choose the right hi-hat sound or design your own, utilize the full stereo width, and shape your own signature groove with micro-rhythmic finesse. With the correct use of compression, transients, and EQs, create crackling drum textures, punchy snares, and rolling fills – based on synthesizers, grooveboxes, and even field recordings. In the bonus chapter, you‘ll also learn everything about miking, recording, and mixing acoustic drums. And watch out: As a Beat reader, you‘ll receive over 200 MIDI clips with ready-made beats and hi-hat patterns for free! Plus, a market overview of the best tools for mixing and recording drums and hi-hats. Beat Magazine couldn‘t fit more content!

Let your hi-hats groove! • No matter what style of electronic music you produce, static hi-hat patterns can quickly sound boring. With the powerful multi-filter Sugar Bytes WOW2 [1], you can add movement to your sound, for example, with pulsating filter effects on hi-hats or rhythmic rain noise. We‘ll also show you how to coax cool hi-hat patterns out of complex beats.

Free, endless grooves • Always the same 16th-note hats? With our Hi-Hat MIDI Generator, you can create organic rhythms with swing, dynamics, and character – quickly, musically, and inspiringly. The free web app delivers fresh patterns for hi-hats, shakers, tambourines, and more at the touch of a button and allows export in MIDI format.

6 Quick tips for a better top-end • Before we get into the nitty-gritty on the next few pages, we‘ll start with a small collection of tips that show you how to make shakers, hats, and other top-end material more dynamic, lively, wider, more realistic, and more entertaining. And you can do this with any modern sampler. So, let‘s get started…

Lack of ideas? Here‘s the trick for a unique top end • You don‘t always get inspired, or you get stuck in the same old patterns and routines – breaking out of them is usually difficult. That‘s why we‘re showing you an alternative way to build hi-hat grooves that you definitely wouldn‘t have thought of on your own (nor would we, by the way). And all it takes is a delay …

The (indispensable) final touch • Thanks to our hundreds of MIDI patterns for the top end, you‘d never need to do anything yourself again, but a loop doesn‘t always fit the existing beat right away. And you can always fine-tune the stereo width and the mix anyway. So, for the final touch, the following tips are indispensable …

Ultimate hip-hop hi-hats • The hi-hat is the heart of every drum loop and plays a crucial role in shaping the groove. Whether it‘s fast, succinct patterns with closed hats or relaxed grooves with open hats, small mistakes can ruin a lot. We‘ll show you how to use them perfectly in your mix!

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