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Here’s the proof:

DFHS followed by Superior 2.0:

http://jezstephenson.f2s.com/toon/HHTest.mp3

DFHS followed by Superior 2.0.1

http://jezstephenson.f2s.com/toon/HHTest2.mp3

So, nothing to do with my edrums then!

Thanks for fixing guys.

[Bassmeister]

The 2.0.1 update seems to have improved things a lot. I haven’t tried the midi sequence again, but based on some general playing last night I didn’t notice any of the abrupt ‘cutting-off’ of samples.

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Just to be clear, I am bouncing the pedal during the HH strikes to illustrate the problem clearly. I did get better results by limiting the max value of cc4 to 120 to avoid getting the ‘tight’ articulations (mentioned in another thread), but it’s still not quite right.
I’d be highly surprised if it was PC hardware-related given the performance of my system with everything else (updated in profile), though I do accept the DTXpress pedal might suck. Even so, DFHS hats still sound better at the moment.

[Bassmeister]

Hi Rogue,
thanks for the tips, but I still am getting poor HH response compared to DFHS.

Here’s what I did in S2:

1. I selected each hi-hat articulation in turn and clicked remove (sometimes more than once to clear the Key field), though I left hatsCtrl as CC4.
2. Selected “Closed Pedal” – learn – stomped on the HH pedal.
3. Selected “hatsTrig” – learn – hit HH pad
4. closed the HH pedal (still on “hatsTrig”) – learn – hit HH pad

With a fresh install of DFHS I did steps 2, 3 and 4 (I wasn’t sure how you cleared stuff..?)

I played through the kit/Superior 2 a few HiHat strikes while I worked the HH pedal. I recorded the midi, copied it and also played that through DFHS. The results are here:

http://jezstephenson.f2s.com/toon/HHTest.mp3

First is DFHS, second is Superior 2.0, exact same midi. As you can hear, DFHS is much better. Any ideas as to why this might be?

Many thanks,
Jez.

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The hi-hat response in S2.0 is notably worse with my Yamaha DTXpress than in DFHS. I am getting very unnatural chopping-off of samples when working the pedal that never happened in DFHS. The Yamaha outputs a single midi note when striking the pad together with CC04 data from the pedal.
The CC04 data variation is not smooth between 0-127, but rather 4-5 unevenly-stepped discrete values.
How does S2.0 interpret the CC04 data? If I evened out the steps using a midi transformer in Cubase might that help?

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