HS9: Your Specialized Hi-Hat Sampler
In the world of music creation, especially in the genres of hip-hop, electronic music, funk or R&B, the role of the rhythm section is extremely important. And often, it is the hi-hats that give the groove, movement, and characteristic touch to the beat. Finding the perfect hi-hat sound to fit your track can be a challenge. That’s where MARVIN PAVILION’s HS9 comes in – a compact but powerful VST plug-in designed specifically for working with these key elements of the drum section.
What is HS9?
HS9 is not just another sampler. It is a purposeful tool optimized exclusively for working with hi-hat cymbal samples. Its philosophy is to provide a simple, fast, and efficient way to integrate your favorite hi-hat samples into your workflow. Forget about complicated multifunctional samplers where you need to wade through a lot of settings that are not related to your current task. The HS9 is focused on one task at a time: making your hi-hats sound the way you want them to.
Key Features for Maximum Control
Despite its specialization, the HS9 offers a wide range of features to fine-tune the sound and integrate it into your project:
- Two Stereo Samplers: Allows you to simultaneously load and play two different stereo hi-hat samples. This opens up possibilities for layering sounds, creating dynamic transitions, or simply quickly switching between different sound options within a single plugin.
- Mute Group: A critical feature for realistic hi-hat playback. It ensures that an open or pedaled hi-hat sound correctly interrupts the previous closed sound, avoiding the unnatural overlapping of samples that often occurs in simple samplers. This makes your hi-hat sound more natural and lively.
- Pitch Control: Easily change the pitch of your loaded samples to better integrate them into the harmonic context of your track, or simply to create interesting sound variations.
- Two Envelope Types: Shape the dynamics of your hi-hats with two different envelope types. This lets you customize the attack and decay of your samples, from short, sharp sounds to longer, smoother ones.
- Decay Control: Additional, more granular control over how long a hi-hat sound lasts after it’s triggered. Ideal for fine-tuning the length of the sound to match the tempo and style of the track.
- Level Balance Control: If you’re using both stereo samplers, this control allows you to fine-tune the volume ratio between them.
- Supports 8bit/16bit WAV formats: The HS9 supports popular WAV formats, including the 8-bit depth option. Using 8-bit samples can give your hi-hats a distinctive, vintage or lo-fi character that is popular in many modern genres.
- MIDI CC support: The ability to control plug-in parameters using MIDI Control Change messages opens the door to more interactive performance and control over the sound during recording or live performances.
- Automation Support: All key HS9 parameters can be automated in your DAW. This allows you to create dynamic changes to the hi-hat sound throughout the track, such as changing the pitch, fade, or sample balance in specific sections.
Simplicity and Efficiency
MARVIN PAVILION designed HS9 with musicians and producers in mind who value simplicity and efficiency. The plug-in’s interface is intuitive, allowing you to quickly load samples and customize their sound without any extra effort. The absence of hundreds of unnecessary functions makes it light on CPU and stable in operation.
Conclusion.
If you are looking for a specialized, reliable, and easy-to-use sampler exclusively for hi-hat cymbals, the HS9 by MARVIN PAVILION is an excellent choice. It provides all the tools you need to integrate your favorite samples, shape their sound, and play them realistically in the context of your beat. Try HS9 and see how effective working with this key element of rhythm can be!
