Florian wrote:

> I do it similar as Kim, but the other way round: the decay is set to the
> long time, the release to the short time. This ensures, that a retrigger
> stops the open hihat.

I have that built-in, as I've only done it with monophonic synths :-)

> The corresponding Audio Example is available at:
> http://fa.utfs.org/musik/synthesizer-buch/book-audioexample-31.mp3

Enlightening :-)

Cheers,

Kim