More and more clients are requiring this style of hat programming, after watching videos on youtube, it appears that it is super simple in FL or Ableton, but quite tedious in Cubase.
Any tips on speeding up the flow of creating these? I seen a technique using loop mash, but its not easy to be precise with it. ?
I’m sorry, could you be more specific? What exactly does it mean? Any link which describes the technique? How does it work in other DAWs and what would you expect from Cubase?
I don’t really do that kind of style but when I need something similar, what I do in Logic is create one long midi note and then alt+ scissor tool the note at the first 32th lenght so it chops up the long note in equal 32th notes. I know that Cubase has a similar shortcut(that I don’t remember). You can then further chop up those notes for some variations, change velocities, etc. Takes 2 seconds.
You can use the line tool in Cubase. Just select the line tool and draw a horizontal line, and it will create 16th, 32th, (or whatever quantize setting you choose) notes for as far as you draw out the line. Super easy.
I have understood these to be called velocity ramps, but with 64 rather than 32. I have them set up in my template along with other common trap fills and I just copy and paste them in the midi piano roll where needed for hi hats or snares. That’s pretty quick to me. If you just repeat the notes as some suggest, it will sound like a machine gun. Back in the day, I manually programmed a midi build up roll on a large cymbal like you would hear in orchestral music and copied and pasted it where needed, so this really isn’t anything new. Just do it once, and copy/paste. Laziness is the father of invention.