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Below is a post from another site that helped me fix the hihat problem…as far as your floor tom triggering the china to the “construct” window and at the bottom right select “floortom 2” and also select “center” then hit the “learn” button and strike your floor tom 2 pad.

as for the hihat

All drums

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you want to clear out all articulations that are currently assigned a midi note and use SD2s learn function to re-assign all the note values to the correct articulation in SD, it won’t take long, and will work like a beast after, select each instrument in SD, click down in the bottom right, select each articulation and click ‘remove’ until you no longer see a note value in the little box above the remove/learn buttons, now hit learn and re-assign each pad, there is a turorial on these forums regarding the hi hats which will also only take a few minutes itself but is by far the most complicated part (that isnt complicated!)

Hihats with VH-11 in a DAW

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1. Create and Load Superior 2.0 in my Sonar project from the default “N.Y. – Avatar” state.

2. Right click the HiHat to select it (blue ring forms around the hi-hat graphic)

3. In the “Instrument” Pane (lower right hand corner), go through each Articulation one-by-one and press “remove” to completely clear out all default assignments. (most articulations have multiple assignments, so clear them all out. Doing this step ensures that there are no unanticipated HiHat events)

4. Play my VH-11 and exercise the pedal. Verify that Superior 2.0 triggers absolutely no sounds.

5. Mapping the pedal controller: Choose the “hatsCtrl”‘ articulation. Type ‘CC4’ in the Key field and press enter.

6. Mapping the Open edge zone: Choose the “hatsTrig” articulation. Leave the HiHat pedal open completely. Press “Learn”. Strike the edge of the HiHat with stick. Should result in a mapped Key of ”D0″. (or if you are viewing MIDI Notes as Numbers: 26)

7. Mapping the Open bow zone: Choose the “hatsTipTrig” articulation. Leave the HiHat pedal open completely. Press “Learn”. Strike the bow of the HiHat with stick. Should result in a mapped Key of “A#1”. (or if you are viewing MIDI Notes as Numbers: 46)

That gets me the full range of Open sounds while playing the hats and using the pedal. Now for the Closed Edge and Bow sounds, foot chick and foot splash.

8. Mapping the Closed edge zone: Choose the “hatsTrig” articulation. Step on the HiHat pedal to close it (important: do that before you Press “Learn”). Press “Learn”. Strike the edge of the HiHat with stick. Should result in an additional mapped key of “A#-1” to the “hatsTrig” articulation. (or if you are viewing MIDI Notes as Numbers: 22). You can view all mapped keys to an articulation by right clicking in the Key field.

9. Mapping the Closed bow zone: Choose the “hatsTipTrig” articulation. Step on the HiHat pedal to close it (important: do that before you Press “Learn”). Press “Learn”. Strike the bow of the HiHat with stick. Should result in an additional mapped key of “F#1” to the “hatsTipTrig” field. (or if you are viewing MIDI Notes as Numbers: 42)

10. Mapping the Foot chick and Foot splash: Choose the “Closed Pedal” articulation. With the HiHat open, press “Learn”. Step on the HiHat to close it. Should result in a mapped key of “G#1”. (or if you are viewing MIDI Notes as Numbers: 44)

Some final notes: The TD-10/VH-11 combo does not have “pressure sensing” on the HiHat to obtain Tight sounds by pressing the pedal harder. But the Tight articulation is being used with the pedal closed normally. If you desire just the Closed articulation sounds in that position, you can map the notes from steps 8 and 9 above to the “Closed” and “ClosedTip” articulations respectively. You will no longer access “Tight” sounds.

If you like the way your HiHat is working, Save your MIDI Preset now so that you have a starting point to load just the HiHat (it requires the most tweaking, the rest of the kit is quick and easy to map with the “learn” feature).

Print this out and take it with you when you go to adjust the HH articulations.

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Once you get it set up like you’d like, SAVE the kit as a preset… it will remember the HH stuff. This also works with a CY-5 / FD7 combo like I have.

Choke

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Do not use MUTE

Choke in Superior 2.0

Pretty simple actually…
1. Highlight the cymbal you wish to edit by right clicking it…it will turn blue.
2. In the envelope area, move the switch to the “Aftertouch” position.
3. Type in 110ms Release.
4. Enable Envelope settings on top right. It will turn blue when activated.
5. Click Learn and choke your cymbal. You’ll get something like ATA2 or ATC#2

Test your cymbal, it should now choke.
5. You have to do this for each cymbal.
6. Remember to save project, and you will have cymbal chokes from now on.

Do not use MUTE

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