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Anything yet on this one?

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Hopefully you’ve got this figured out already… If not, try eBay.  I was in a similar boat and ended up with a Roland TD-30 second hand that I have to admit I’m quite happy with.  I don’t use it for anything but triggering SD3, but the fact that it has copious I/O and allows me to leverage the positional sensing on my snare and ride cymbals is fantastic. I play with ATV cymbals so the 50 was overkill and I’m not a fan of the SSD libraries either.  Hence the TD-30.  You can find one for about $1400 shipped in most cases.  It’s a lot, but well worth it in the end.

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So I managed to answer my own question by process of investigation and elimination…

“Open Pedal” = Splash

“Closed Pedal” = Chick

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Thanked by: Henrik

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Henrik wrote:

Right click any drum in the interface to see the properties. On the lower right corner there’s a Details button, which reveals the MIDI notes used for the selected instrument. It also contains a MIDI in display, which shows the last MIDI note that was received by EZdrummer 2.

You’re 100% correct, but you didn’t answer my question…. :/

 

In details for the HiHat instrument, I can see the following:

Closed Edge

Closed Tip

Tight Edge

Tight Tip

Seq Hits

Open 0

Open 1

Open 2

Open 3

Open 4

Open 5

Open Pedal

Closed Pedal

Edge Trigger

Tip Trigger

Pedal CC Controller

 

Notice what’s missing here – “chick” and “splash” articulations.  Are these available in EZd2?

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If you run SD2 or EZd2 in a DAW, you can run this VST plugin -> NoteMapper

It allows you to select an incoming MIDI note and push it to SD2 or EZd2 as a modified note.  As mentioned, try to find a suitable config that works with the hihat and then just re-map whatever else you might need in NoteMapper.  For me, I needed this in EZd2 when I was running more pads with splitters off my toms and needed to push the rim notes to alternate notes.

Just make sure you route appropriately.  eDrum MIDI -> NoteMapper -> EZd2/SD2 -> Audio Out

One thing to keep in mind here – I did gain a couple of ms of latency when routing this way.  So it’s not perfect, but it does the job for most and did work fine until I upgraded to SD3 (which supports custom MIDI mapping out of the box).

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