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[Damian Blunt]

Hi,

Historically the default hi-hat settings in Superior Drummer 3 (and earlier iterations) attempts to mimic the behaviour of a real hi-hat i.e. when you move the pedal to a more closed or open position the ringing sounds transition to more closed or open sounds. We refer to this process as transmuting. For the majority of users in a real playing scenario this behaviour has worked well.

One area where transmuting has caused some problems for users has been with moving hi-hats such as the Roland VH-13. If you are playing a groove with the hi-hat in the open position sometimes hitting the pad would cause a significant enough CC deviation to cause a transmute to the next more closed articulation. This could occasionally sound slightly choppy and feel unnatural.

The new ‘E-drum Optimised’ setting continues to transmute with pedal movement only as the hi-hat is opened but no longer transmutes with pedal movement to a more closed articulation. This prevents a transmute to a more closed articulation when hitting the pad. We chose not to set a closed CC threshold to mute open hi-hats as this continues to cause the same problems with unwanted transmutes with moving hats. In a real playing world there is unlikely to be a scenario where a closed pedal note is not generated when closing the hi-hats although if you very gently close a Roland hi-hat a closed pedal note will not be generated so the open hit will continue to ring out.

The new foot splash settings allow you to turn off splashes completely (useful for rock or metal players that want to keep time by stomping on the hat pedal) or you can set the sensitivity to make it more or less easy to generate a foot splash.

Hope this helps!

Damian Blunt - Toontrack
Quality Assurance
Betatesting

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Thanked by: Brad

[Damian Blunt]

Thanks for the report. We will fix this in the next update (it is Eddie Kramer)

Damian Blunt - Toontrack
Quality Assurance
Betatesting

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