SD3 has separate articulations for pedal open and pedal closed. And that’s what he’s using here. You don’t use sticks for this. They are completely different than hat open and hat closed where you do use sticks. Hat closed can be used to stop an open hat sound or it can be used as a sound all it’s own without the hihat being opened. From what I can see Guitar Pro only sends note 44 which is hihat pedal closed in SD3 – it doesn’t appear to have a hihat pedal open note. SD3’s hihat pedal open isn’t mapped to any note that I can see.

It looks like you’re going to have to abandon Guitar Pro and do the drum programming in SD3 for what the drummer in the video does. General MIDI drum layout only has a note 44 for hihat pedal without notation on whether that’s pedal open or closed. It’s SD3 that makes that distinction.

Mark King wrote:

Played from an ekit sd3 will do the hi hat splash trick without using a stick.

Unfortunately the OP isn’t using an e-kit. He’s manually programming the drums through Guitar Pro and importing that into SD3.

LeanderL wrote:

Thanks, I know…I only write my songs in Guitar Pro, then improve the midis in the DAW…for SD, this means that I only have the basic beats in Guitar Pro, but then rework the hihats, velocities, use “my” entire SD3 kit with 4 crashes, 4 chinas etc.

My question was which of SD3’s samples are needed to recreate the opening groove in the video -> no sticks, but you just open and close the hihat with your foot…which SD3 articulations do I need? I checked out some SD3 midis, but they only use tight edge and closed edge without footwork.

I already told you what you need. But again – you need note 44 which is hihat closed and hihat open which is not mapped to any specific note. You’re going to have to write your own MIDI or modify an existing MIDI string. You’re not looking for a specific sample as such but what note triggers that sample.

LeanderL wrote:

Thanks, but I don’t know what you mean. Which articulations are “hihat closed” and “hihat open”? Please forget what I said about Guitar Pro…I write the hihat patterns in SD3…but which samples should I use for the footwork part? Or is the part I need “pedal open, pedal closed, pedal open, pedal closed”?

PS What is “sequenced hits”?

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I never look at that window as it doesn’t tell you what notes you have to hit to use a particular articulation. And that’s what you need to know. I always look at the MIDI in/edrums window. On the left side of that window are listed all the notes and which note corresponds to which articulation. There you will see that MIDI note 44 is assigned to hihat closed and that hihat open while loaded is not assigned to any note and you have to make that assignment yourself. You’re looking at the wrong window.

Sequenced hits are just that – a sequence of hits/notes that make a MIDI sequence that plays the drums in this case. Basic knowledge.