Hi-Hat always open no matter what when using e-kit

[adamgreen]

I’m using an Alesis Nitro e-kit. Everything is sounding and working great except that the hi-hat is always open no matter what, even when I have the foot pedal depressed! What adjustments should I make? I set the MIDI mapping to “Alesis.”

Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

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[Shootie]

When using the Alesis kit as is, no software. Does the hihat pedal work fine? What note is the closed hihat triggering? This note can be changed in the head unit if it’s not triggering the correct closed hihat sound in EZD2.

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[TheUnexplainable1]

I’m having a similar issue that just cropped up a few days ago. I have an Alesis Nitro Mesh kit and have several kits within the drum module created with varying MIDI assigned to triggers depending on the kit I choose within the module, but I purposely set up the same hi-hat MIDI assignments for open, half, closed, and pedal across all of my kits in the drum module. The hi-hat I use within EZ drummer 2 is from the modern kit.

When I went to play two days ago after restarting my computer, despite having absolutely everything saved within EZ drummer 2 and my module, all my closed hi hat sounds were playing as open. In checking the MIDI in the drum module, all my closed settings are assigned to 42. If I look at the MIDI Layout PDF for the modern kit, it shows No. 42 as closed, so it’s very odd that this is suddenly playing as open. What I also discovered is that several other MIDI numbers changed sounds:

• My open setting of 46 has change sounds completely. Hitting my open hi-hat at 46 now triggers Tip Trigger in the articulations menu instead of what I believe, if memory serves, was one of the four option options.
• My tom2 is sounding different despite having the same MIDI assignment (45). It sounds like it’s from a totally different kit than what it used to be.

I had wondered if there was some update I was unaware of and came to the forum to see and found this thread, but it’s frustrating since it took me a long time to find the sounds and pitches I liked for my various kits and now they seem to be gone. Any idea what might be happening here? Happy to help troubleshoot anything I can to find the issue.

(Probably important to point out that I have changed my hi-hat closed MIDI assignment from 42 to 65 and the pedal, both for closing the hats and as a pedal hit, works just fine, so it doesn’t seem to be a hardware issue).

EZdrummer version: 2.1.8
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

[Shootie]

You did not mention if you adjusted the EZD2 settings or not. Menu>Settings>e-drums.

I don’t know how else EZD2 can change it’s interpretation of incoming midi. Drum modules control EZD2’s incoming midi. Hopefully support will correct me if I’m wrong.

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• This post was modified 5 years ago by Shootie.

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[TheUnexplainable1]

Ah, my bad. The only thing I did there was select Alesis because it was no longer selected under MIDI Mapping after restarting my laptop, which is something I had done before with no change in sound.

I’m absolutely open to the possibility, or probability, of user error here. I’m still fairly new to e-drums and EZD2, so it’s likely that I did something wrong, but nothing is standing out that was different from anything I had done in the past. I can’t explain it either and I highly doubt EZD2 or my module are sentient enough to mess with me by changing sounds on their own, although these are strange times so I guess I couldn’t be too surprised if it happened.

The description I posted above is exactly what I experienced from my point of view as a new guy to this, but if there’s some other way this could happen that I’m not thinking of, I’m totally open to checking and trying. If I hit something with my elbow or opened the program in the wrong sequential order (the blood sacrifice is done right as EZD2 starts to open, correct?), whatever happened, it’s probably something I did. My thought that brought me here was, “hey, maybe there was some update that changed all the sounds that I’m not aware of” and that may not ever happen in a million years and I wouldn’t know since I’m very much still learning. Anyway, thanks for bringing up the question about settings. I didn’t think anything I did there was of any major consequence by selecting Alesis because I had done that before, but maybe that’s wrong? I dunno.

[Juan Manuel Valenzuela]

Having the exact same issue. Did everything according to what you’re supposed to do but I can’t make the close hi-hat sound to work. Any suggestions? Does it have to be with the Big Sur update, maybe?

EZdrummer version: 2.2.0

[Juan Manuel Valenzuela]

Having the same problem! Just updated EZD2 to see if that works.

EZdrummer version: 2.2.0

[Shootie]

Was it working at some point or you’ve never got it to work before?

What midi note does your closed hihat sound produce from the head unit? What head unit do you have?

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[Juan Manuel Valenzuela]

Fixed it! All you’ve got to do is to adjust the pad settings to match the MIDI note with EZD2. The way to to do it is: Go ti Voice (keep pressing until you get to MID) then when you’re in the MIDI setting, step on the pedal and assign the number that corresponds to the setting. For example, open Hi Hat on EZD2 is 26, so you assign that number on the PAD. It took a little bit to figure it out but it worked.

EZdrummer version: 2.2.0
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[James Fidanza]

Thanks, also, that helped. I have a Alesis Nitro Mesh and the MIDI for me at this time is 23.

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