Whit noist hi-hats

[theprodigy11]

I read in musictech techno tutorial that white noise hi-hats are great..

i understand putting a blast of white noise in a track to give it a lift..

but how with hi-hats.. do u run the output of the hi-hat channel through a white noise plug-in

[Milesy303]

Just use a white noise generator. I do this.

I use superwave P8. This is a nice free VSTi.

SUPERWAVE P8

Just trigger your hat MIDI pattern into it, change the oscilator to white noise, and use the filters to get a nice sound to suit... Just mess about You dont need to actually use hi hats....

You can add distortion and bit crunching to it as well.

My favourite is "shaker" samples with the effects I mentioned which gives them a nice crunchy, white noise effect :D

[Reptil]

Originally Posted by theprodigy11

I read in musictech techno tutorial that white noise hi-hats are great..

i understand putting a blast of white noise in a track to give it a lift..

but how with hi-hats.. do u run the output of the hi-hat channel through a white noise plug-in

It's useful yes. Layer with something that has some transients (the original hi hat) - so mix a parallel, never seen a white noise gen that has an input, use the volume envelope of the original hi hat, and change that a little bit in the white noise part (by using an envelope generator or a gate if you don't have seperate EGs) and vary the freq content slightly (using a filter with random freq) to make it more "alive". Lots of tricks.. experiment!