For anybody stumbling across this thread, I got both problems fixed. For the hi-hats always being open problem, all I had to do was uncheck MPE on my interface (an eDRUMin) in the general MIDI settings in Ableton. For the cymbal choke, I adjusted the MIDI note length for my cymbals in the eDRUMin software (most other modules have this setting, to my knowledge) to its max (8 seconds in my case). Didn’t have to touch anything in Ableton.
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