can someone please explain to me how to assign different choke group numbers to different hi hat articulations? I didn’t find the manual or chatGPT to be much help.
I’m not sure that you can. I think the choke groups are just for choking other kit pieces.
Yes, I think you are right. But tell that to chatGPT and Grok that wasted several hours of my time. If AI is going to take over the world it has a ways to go. I catch it in significant errors several times a day.
But maybe you can help me with my problem. Let’s say a hi hat has maybe 8 articulations. And maybe I have three of the articulations assigned to three different drum pads. I press a pad. Then, when I press a second pad I would like the sound from the first pad to be muted, or choked.
With some of the factory presets this works if you press pads in one order, but not in reverse order. And with other pad assignments it doesn’t work at all. It seems to me that any articulation should be muted if any second articulation is triggered. But maybe I’m wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.
I’m not really sure. You’re using a MIDI drum pad controller?
Maybe have a look at the HiHat fades sections in the Engine Prefs? That can tweak the sound and choke behavior of the hats. The manual explains it better than I can in the Engine Prefs section.
@CHASER may have some suggestions.
I got it figured out. This is all controlled by the BFD internal logic. So, for example, when you go from open hi hat to closed hi hat a choke happens. But when you go from open hi hat to half hi hat, no choke happens. And there are many other combos of articulations, each of which has their own rules. There is no way to change them, but that is OK since it is all designed to sound realistic the way they programmed it. Thanks for getting me to pursue this further!
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Thanks for sharing your findings. That’s actually quite interesting. I didn’t realize it tried to use fairly intelligent logic to figure out when choking should actually happen. I thought the choke groups were essentially guarantees of mutually exclusive sounds.
I think that is why they probably don’t allow users to make changes to how it operates. Too easy for users who don’t know what they are doing to screw it up. Like me. Of course, I could be wrong. I’m just speculating.
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