EDIT/UPDATE: I just found out here that I’m not the only one, better to continue here:
https://www.toontrack.com/forums/topic/non-smooth-transition-between-hi-hat-samples/
Hi!
I’m new to edrums and looking for advice: when playing my hihat semi-open, the hihat gets slightly tilted up and down on every hit, pretty normal, but this tilt pushes also the control unit slightly up and down which is recognized by SD3. When this happens on the border of two articulations, or on tight articulation zones, I think the transmuting feature kicks in and trys to play all those triggered articulations up and down… and this just sounds weired/wrong, like open2 is cutoff, then open3 is played, and then back to open2 (and this on every single hit)… when I play near tight zones, like in the area of closed, open1 and 2, these three articulations are played up and down in an unrealistic manner.
Playing tight or closed works perfect, also splashes or opening the hihat after a hit on closed (here the transmuting shines!) is great.
Is there a “best practice” on this? I want to play tight and closed, but on some parts of the song I need a very semi-open hihat to play a rocking groove, but this sounds weired because the sound is wobbling between two or three articulations up and down and transmuting makes the hihat sound unrealistic.
Is there a misconfiguration on my side, is there a setting in SD3 I missed? Or is this a known drawback with edrums, do I need to adjust the articulation zones to my playstyle (like wider open-zones?) AND also adjust my playstyle to edrums (like playing the hihat pedal with “zones” in mind)?
Thanks!
