[Bonkers]

I think I’ve solved most of my problems now. I apparently was having multiple problems.

I have a DTXpress III set. I’m using the stock pedal. I think it say HH65 on it. Is there a better pedal than this? This one seems to only output values of about 0, 40, 60, and 79 (I’m not at the drums now so I can’t verify exactly, but it’s something like that). Unfortunately I’m not sure I can scale this in Live at all to the full 127 range, but that seems like it may not matter.

My hatsTrig problem was that I didn’t realize octave numbers could go negative. I thought F#-1 was just another format for writing F#1. Now that I mapped closed and open high hat on my e-drums to F#-1, I get different hihat sounds with different pedal positions.

I’m still confused on exactly what the soft, hard, and limit numbers mean here. Is soft fully open, hard fully closed, and limit fully ignored in every way? Is the open/closedness between soft and hard fully linear? Can I adjust that at all?

Thanks for the quick responses so far. They’ve been very helpful.

[Bonkers]

I still can’t get the pedal to even have any effect on the hi hat sound.

I’ve tried having my e-drums send the closed hihat, hatstrig, and not sure what else, but I can’t get my pedal to go from open to closed. The pedal does play closing and splash sounds, but I think the e-drums are emitting separate notes for those.

What am I doing wrong? I’ve recorded MIDI clips in ableton live to make sure the correct notes are being sent out and that the CC4 curve looks like I would expect. It ranges from 0 when open to 79 when fully closed.

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