Midi Sustain Pedal as Hihat Controller…

[mckaymental]

Hi guys! I want to use my keyboard sustain pedal to trigger hi hat sounds but it doesn’t work.
The midi signal reaches cubase when I press the pedal but Superior Drummer 2.0 won’t learn the hits at all.

I think it’s because the sustain pedal midi value is something like CC64 and superior won’t recognize it.

Is there anyway to fix this problem??

Thanks a lot guys!

YEAHH!H!!!!!

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[mckaymental]

Anyone know how to fix this? I’m sure it’s easy but I can’t figure it out by myself! 🙁

YEAHH!H!!!!!

[Scott]

A sustain pedal is an on/off switch. I’m not sure what you want to control on the hi hat with it. I guess you could do ‘foot chicks’ with it but you’d only have 1 velocity level.

I’m not sure what type of ekit you are using or how the pedal is implemented though. If you are using a MIDI keyboard with the sustain pedal attached, then no, you can’t use it to control the hi hat in S2. Through the keyboard MIDI output it is sending a cc64 message and that cc message isn’t used in S2.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[mckaymental]

Thanks for the answer! There’s no way to change or convert that CC64 message into a message that would be supported by SD2?

Before that I bought a Yamaha HH65 hi hat pedal and I’m not able to use it in my setup wich is A2E Kit/Firepod Presonus/Cubase/Drumagog 5/.

Is there any way I can make the HH65 work without any drum module?

Thanks

YEAHH!H!!!!!

[Scott]

Some type of drum module is required for the hi hat pedal so the info from the pedal (openness, etc) is translated into useful info that S2 can interpret on MIDI CC4.

Scott Sibley - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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