What is “Continuous Cotrol” for hihat?

[myron]

Can anyone tell me what this feature is? I am migrating from keyboard drumming to using an ekit. I keep seeing continuous control for hi hat in frequent posts.
 
What does is it mean? Why is it needed?
 
Thanks for your help on this one.

M1 Mac Mini • 16GB RAM • OSX 14.2.1 • UA Quad • Logic 10.8 • Kontakt 7 • Toontrack SD3

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[Whitten]

It’s the opposite of on/off data.
It’s a feature where if you move a wheel on your keyboard, or the pedal of an e-drum hi-hat, data is continuously sent to the Toontrack software.

If you used the more standard on/off midi message instead of ‘continuous control’, you would only be able to trigger two hi-hat sounds (open and closed).

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