User Guide

Chapter 29 Ultrabeat 613
Creating Hi-Hats and Cymbals
Electronic hi-hat sounds are very easy to create in Ultrabeat.
To create a hi-hat in Ultrabeat:
1 Load the Standard Tutorial sound.
2 Switch off Oscillator 1 and turn on the noise generator.
3 Choose the following settings for the noise generator:
In the screenshot above, you can see, that the Cutoff parameter is modulated by Env 1.
The modulation is negative, the position of the Mod slider is below that of the base
parameter value.
4 Use rather short decay values for Env 1 and Env 4.
5 Set the attack time of Env 4 to a value of 0. The attack time of Env 1 should also be
rather short, but not equal to zero.
Note: You’ll find a similarly constructed sound called HiHat 1 at a pitch of F2 in the
tutorial set. Also analyze the hi-hat sound Hihat 2 at a pitch F#2.
It’s not far from the hi-hat to the crash cymbal: the main difference between a hihat
and crash cymbal sound is the length of the decay time. Correct assignment of the
envelopes is the key to producing different cymbal sounds.
Select the Cym 1 and Cym 2 sounds in the Tutorial Kit and try different envelope
assignments and settings for Cutoff and Volume in the noise generator, Cutoff and
Volume in the main filter, and so on.
Metallic Sounds
If you want to create metallic sounds with Ultrabeat, the ring modulator and the Model
oscillator are the ideal tools.
To use the ring modulator:
1 Load the Standard Tutorial sound.
2 Activate a phase oscillator and the Model oscillator. Choose a pitch for each oscillator
above C3 so that a slightly detuned interval is created.