Hello, I recently bought the Alesis Strike Multipad and was curious if it was compatible with Superior Drummer 3. More specifically, I’m curious if the hi-hat will trigger correctly? Can anyone confirm if it will work?
Footcontroller CC#4 regulate openness of hihat, and as I recall A#2 note is hihat.
This out of the box. So check out specs for your pads.
But there is a nice configuration to assign anything anywhere in SD, unless your pads can be configured.
From the days of doing drums on midi controller even, I had CC#11, expression volume reassigned to do CC#04 and did hh with that expression pedal hitting the A#-key.
Now since ten years doing edrums I did not have to do anything for regular kits.
So with a continuous controller of some sort you should get it going.
I currently have a 10 day trial of EZDrummer, and am having some difficulty. The Strike Multipad doesn’t seem to show which note the hi-hat pedal uses for the control. In the module I can assign the midi note for the close click and for the pad I hit that triggers the hi-hat. I just can’t seem to define the controller position (CC4?)
When I use a midi diagnostic too, it displays F#1 but that triggers the closed sound. I’m not sure it’s actually transmitting the value of how open or closed the hats are.
If for some reason Alesis doesn’t give hi-hat parameters, I considered using this device: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MIDIPC–midi-solutions-pedal-controller-expression-pedal-midi-data-generator
Has anyone used a hi-hat pedal outside of their drum module before? Ya think the item above would work with a sustain pedal?
Unless you have a continous controller pedal of some sort I don’t think you get various openess of hihat, just doing F# which is closed hihat.
Some have on/off switch shifting F# and A# doing either closed or open hihat. Able to do “catosch” kind at least.
I ran a Yamaha DD55 pad unit for a while, and did continuous controller CC#11 with a separate synth and recorded through a plugin changing that to CC#04 for foot pedal.
So it all depends how real feel you want for your playing on hh. If you want everything between “tick” and “toosch”.
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