ezdrummer2 – hi hat issue

[gomatt]

using reason 12, roland TD-15. Hi hat opens randomly or stays open when i have pedal closed. I used to go into e-drums and set MIDI mapping to generic no-cc and the hi hat would function normally. Now, it is not.  Using Roland as the e-drum selection doesn’t help at all. And hi-hat pedal correction does nothing.

Kicking myself for not writing down the fix 3 years ago.

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[gomatt]

this has to be a know issue. I’ve reset the TD-15 module. Installed ezdrummer2 fresh. I open ezdrummer 2 and keep the basic modern kit selected.

• foot on hi hat pedal
• hit hi hat
• it is the open sound

 

• change e-drums midi mapping to roland
• no change

 

• change e-drums midi mapping to either Generic setting
• no change

 

• try all 4 hi hat pedal correction settings
• no change

On the roland module, if i open the midi section, i can see that when i press and hold down the hi hat pedal that lights up. keeping the pedal down, I then hit the hi hat and it switches to hi hat open. This makes no sense.

[John]

Hi,

from what you describe above, it seems more like a hardware issue. Can you start with switching out cables?

Are you using the built-in USB MIDI connection?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[gomatt]

Yes. I have it going into my scarlet. When I play the kit (td-15) by itself, all the items work perfectly. Hi hat, cymbal chokes, everything so I think the module and cables are fine.

just odd that the hi hat pedal seems to be overridden by another trigger. I can watch the ezdrummer screen and I press down on the pedal I see hi hat onscreen moves down and closes. When I hit the hi hat with a stick I see the hi hat on screen pop up.

[gomatt]

I upgraded to EZdrummer 3. The TD-15 is still opening the minute I hit the hi-hat with a stick. How can this not be handled by the software?

[gomatt]

Playing the TD-15 straight up, everything is fine. Once I use it as a midi controller, i press down the hi-hat pedal and i see the hi-hat close on the drum kit in EZ3. I then hit the hi-hat and it pops open with my foot still on the pedal.

TD-15 is available as a preset and it still doesn’t work. I am truly baffled.

 

UPDATE- I brought the TD-15 up to ver 1.14 (was at 1.1) and it is still keeping hi-hat open.

• This post was modified 7 months, 4 weeks ago by gomatt.

[gomatt]

Well. Who would have thought that a $16 piece of rubber could fix my problem? I’ll tell you who, John the moderator is who.

I took apart my FD8 pedal and everything seemed fine. In fact, the kit played normally when i just played the TD-15 kits. The problem only occurred when I MIDI’d into my DAW using EZDrummer2 and that’s when the problems started. Go back to the TD15 and the hi hat worked fine. Did some more searching and found some info that the rubber piece in the FD8 can go bad. But it worked with the kit? Much confusion. Well, I ordered the part and replaced it (the new part was much more flexible) and guess what, it worked.

I still don’t know why it worked on the kit and not via MIDI but I get to prolong the life of this kit. Thanks John for your suggestions. I should have tried this long ago.

[John]

Thanks for sharing and your patience, a weird hardware issue but when you mention it, I think I have actually heard of it elsewhere.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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