Stacey: That will depend on the samples you have available. I usually use a real tamborine for that sort of thing. As far as the high hats, if you want to do that sort of thing, try using a sample that has several notes across the keyboard. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Stacy Blackwell To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 4:38 PM Subject: [ddots-l] High Hat rythyms Hello, gang. This is more of a musician/ Sonar question rather than an accessibility issue. How would you guys go about trying to play a double handed high hat rythym along with a snare and bass drum, such as in some 80's pop/rock. I am sure the first step is to slow the temp down and get the quantize right, but I was thinking for authienticity it might be better to enter it with two fingers on the keyboard. This would involve a drum map I suppose. Or would you simply trial and error in sound on sound mode one hit at a time until a decent beat is done for copying and pasting? Along these same rythym lines, how can you create a shaking tambourine for this type of music? I'm not talking about the tambourine that hits on the beat, but the ones that sounds like it is being shaked/rattled before it hits on the beat. Is this possible? Thanks for any suggestions. I've been on a long analog break. It's going to feel good to get back into my amateur-MIDI mode! SLB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. Check it out