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I use reason sample drums and I have noticed that my hihats are really clanky and it sounds like the drummer is hitting them as hard as they can.
I want more of a hissing sound.

since, I record the MIDI on an instrument track then bus it to an audio track, I am wondering if I need to lower the volume of the drums as it is coming out of the keyboard, or if I need to bring the REASON fader down, or if there are other tricks to getting your hats to hiss.

I want the sound they use in reggae or jazz. not heavy metal which is what I'm getting.

anybody?

I read somewhere about editing your MIDI notes but I don't know how to do it. what would be nice is a way to take every MIDI hi-hat note and bring it's velocity down.

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anonymous Tue, 11/18/2008 - 02:31

really?! I had a hell of a time trying to record a snare drum one time.

just couldn't get it to sound right. I think that my biggest problem was that I just didn't know how to tune it properly

and I don't have the best rhythm

but I did learn how to adjust my parameters in REASON and I took away some of the attack and added some res filter

now it sounds better. I'm still going to have to make some more adjustments though

anonymous Wed, 11/19/2008 - 09:33

Greener wrote: "just couldn't get it to sound right. I think that my biggest problem was that I just didn't know how to tune it properly

and I don't have the best rhythm "

Lol, sampling crap gives crap samples.
However, you don't need rhythm to make drum samples. One hit is enough. Unless you're talking about loops.

I'm pretty sure he was replying in regards to Remy's advice to record real drums...not samples.