Heya! Alright, I'm gonna just get right down to business.

I was in the mood to create a virtual analog drum combinator, and it came out sweet. HOWEVER. I have one burning question that even after all these years, I just can't determine.

I know how to make a kick from a sine wave, how to make a snare and toms, but what would be the best way to go about emulating a hat sound using a VA piece? I know a lot of the vintage machines just used a pcm sample but I was curious what you guys thought. It's not that I'm against using samples, I just wanted to challenge myself for 30 mins or so.

Input desired! Thx in advance

PS my combi setup involves using a triangle wave and noise with a SUPER short decay and practically no release as the closed hat, which could be plausible, but the open hat really sounds more like a triangle xD (as in, the triangle shaped percussion piece you may find in a band or orchestra).

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Haha, this sounds great. I'm the sort of guy who likes making stuff from scratch like that, but I have neither the patience or the competence lol

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Awe haha. It was a lot of fun, I just sent it to a friend over collab to see if he wanted to add to it. I could slap it up on the web somewhere if you wanted to see and add to it as well

This all started cause I couldn't find machine drum samples haha, I figured the hell with it, combitime.

But ya, if anyone has any hat idea please lemme know it's killin me. I suppose a pcm sample would be fine but I KNOW there has to be an acceptable substitute...

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download the reason refills collection from the pirate bay, it has a selection of pretty much all the analog drum machines ever.

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lol doh. Call me oldschool but I'm not a fan of dling stuff from torrents :\

Not cause I'm worried about there being a problem, it just doesn't make me feel... good... inside

I think I decided I'm just gonna use samples for the hats since I have a buttload of 909 & 808 sample sets laying around :]]

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I just want to say that not all torrent downloads are illegal(of course most of them are though). For example John doe programmed some cool presets and decided he wanted to share it with everybody he could just make a torrent file and upload to a site. As long as he's giving you permission to download it's legal. I know a few people who did this, and there's a couple torrents out there from people like that, but you'd really have to dig it up.

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No no I hear ya, it's just another medium for filesharing. I shouldn't have blanket statemented it like that. I catch your drift but I know you catch mine too haha

I'm not one of those anti-piracy people anyway, whatever floats peoples boats haha.

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