Hopefully you’ve got this figured out already… If not, try eBay. I was in a similar boat and ended up with a Roland TD-30 second hand that I have to admit I’m quite happy with. I don’t use it for anything but triggering SD3, but the fact that it has copious I/O and allows me to leverage the positional sensing on my snare and ride cymbals is fantastic. I play with ATV cymbals so the 50 was overkill and I’m not a fan of the SSD libraries either. Hence the TD-30. You can find one for about $1400 shipped in most cases. It’s a lot, but well worth it in the end.
Right click any drum in the interface to see the properties. On the lower right corner there’s a Details button, which reveals the MIDI notes used for the selected instrument. It also contains a MIDI in display, which shows the last MIDI note that was received by EZdrummer 2.
You’re 100% correct, but you didn’t answer my question…. :/
In details for the HiHat instrument, I can see the following:
Closed Edge
Closed Tip
Tight Edge
Tight Tip
Seq Hits
Open 0
Open 1
Open 2
Open 3
Open 4
Open 5
Open Pedal
Closed Pedal
Edge Trigger
Tip Trigger
Pedal CC Controller
Notice what’s missing here – “chick” and “splash” articulations. Are these available in EZd2?
If you run SD2 or EZd2 in a DAW, you can run this VST plugin -> NoteMapper
It allows you to select an incoming MIDI note and push it to SD2 or EZd2 as a modified note. As mentioned, try to find a suitable config that works with the hihat and then just re-map whatever else you might need in NoteMapper. For me, I needed this in EZd2 when I was running more pads with splitters off my toms and needed to push the rim notes to alternate notes.
Just make sure you route appropriately. eDrum MIDI -> NoteMapper -> EZd2/SD2 -> Audio Out
One thing to keep in mind here – I did gain a couple of ms of latency when routing this way. So it’s not perfect, but it does the job for most and did work fine until I upgraded to SD3 (which supports custom MIDI mapping out of the box).
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