u/MajesticLengthiness0

I've somewhat recently started making techno (raw hypno hardgroove). I come from a forest/darkpsy backround. In techno are there any rules for layering hi hats? Can I just add more and more for energy or should I remove one when adding another? Do you guys get super anal about kickbass phasing like psy heads or do we just slam bass over the kick tail? Also I use bitwig, does anyone have a ML 185 alternative for bitwig or know what it does and if I could recreate it in the grid.