the problem is clearly on the side of Reason. After some experiments it became clear that Reason’s sequencer does not support MIDI CC4 messages. They can neither be recorded nor played back inside of Reason and they are not even passed to VST plug ins when they arrive via MIDI-in. Since EZDrummer unalterable uses CC4 for the hihat it is simply not usable in Reason. I contacted the Propellerheads support with this issue and they confirmed that CC4 is not supported in Reason, and according to the suppoert guy there are no plans to change anything about this.
So the short answer is: EZDrummer2 (and all other plug ins that use MIDI CC) does not work properly with Reason (and this is Reason’s fault).
I will probably switch to another DAW in the near future.
If you have the same problem it might help to also contact Propellerheads with this issue just to make clear that there is at least some demand for this functionality.
just a supplement to my posting above. I just realized that the above described problem only occurs when using EZdrummer in Propellerheads Reason 10 as a VST instrument. When using the EZdrummer stand-alone application the hi-hat works more or less okay, at least opening and closing is recognized as intended. I haven’t tried other VST hosts yet. I will try to figure our if the problem is on the side of Reason or the EZdrummer VST plug-in.
This post was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by _MTA_.
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