The world of music production can be a real art form with lots of time spent on creating dynamic and interesting drum sequences – especially hi-hat sequences, as they tend to be programmed with heavily repeated notes. Therefore, it is extremely important to add some movement to them to avoid sounding robotic. Movement can be achieved by humanisation, using swing and velocity adjustments to create a great groove; however there are other creative techniques we can implement to spice up our hi-hats.
In this article we are going to discover how to create interesting pitchshifting by applying multiple LFOs to modulate the pitch. We will start off by adding the Shifter and LFO devices to the hi-hats and then explore how we can connect the LFO device to a parameter on the Shifter to modulate it. Furthermore, we are going to look at applying additional modulation with Shifter’s own LFO section to get an interesting and unique result with a comprehensive number of controls to customise the multiple layers of modulation.