double time hi hat patterns

Tried a search but there were too many posts to sift through due to the fact the word double shows up in a lot of threads. so can someone tell me how to do double time hi hat patterns on the 2000xl, thanks.

You might want to ask these sort of questions on the newbie forum..

But anyway!
Do you know how to use note repeat? If not then first look it up on the manual.

When you got that down you should try to flowers around with it, and try it out with different timings to find the settings you need!

cheech is right....

double time is easier than it sounds. FIrst, you have to know how to lay down regular hihats.

Hold down the note repeat button while your sequence is playing then press a hihat sound. Notice that whatever timing is selected in the TC-the sound will be played at that setting i.e. 1/16 or 1/8, 1/32, etc. It will play those according to the bpm of the sequence. (if you "open window" on TC, the note repeat will also play according to the swing settings currently set) Now if you can understand this.

THen all double timing is-doubling up the bpm, but instead of programming your timing to the double bpm, programming it to the original bpm: E.G. on a normal 90 bpm track, the snares land on the 2 and the 4. However, if you doubled the bpm, it would play the sequence twice as fast....if you still have the snares on the 2 and 4, your sequence will soundmore like a dance track than a hiphop track....so instead of putting the snare on a 2 and 4, you can just cut it in half, and put the snare on every 2. Since the seqeunce is playing twice as fast, but you only have Half the snares, it will sound like it was playing at 90 bpm.

So on a 90 bpm track, If you double the bpm to 180, then play 1/8 note, it will actually play at the rate of 1/16. Essentially you are doubling your bpm, but playing your notes at the normal bpm 90, thus doubling your resolution.

If you double your resolution, you can get differant groove to your patterns because there are more places a note can land. This is important to understand because if you are doing hihats, you can use the note repeat to get faster snare rolls, or hihat patterns that normally you couldnt just plaly with a normal 1/32 note. A real drummer might not play at exactly 1/32 at 90 bpm.....so if you have less of a rigid quantize and resolution, it will sound more realistic.....ALSO alot of people use the double time for snare rolls because snare rolls are extremely fast and if you are programming them, its difficult, and sometimes cannot be played without sticks, but with double tiem you can get pretty close. OR IF YOU WANT that dirty south sound to your hihats, you can get a fast hihat in there.

hopefully you undertood that peace

Another way is to do your regular hihat pattern, then overdub more hits inbetween the existing ones. I do it all the time.