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Hi, does anyone know how to map an open hi hat noise to play when i operate the foot pedal on my v-drums? i want to be able to play some funk patterns into ableton, but cant get it to recognise the open hi hat when i release the pedal. thanks

Not sure if got you right:

I ain`t no drummer and i haven`t got the v-Drums, but i guess the Problem is that the Open Hi hat sound does`nt match the pad/midi note it should. In this case, if your using the Ableton Drum Racks and just want to trigger with V-Drums, check out the midi notes you get when played with pedal pressed and when not touched. With a empty Drum Rack you can see a yellow blink while sending the midi note in the corrosponding pad.

From there on, move all the sounds you want to the corrosponding midi notes. A good friend of mine got it working with a roland drum set. I realised, the Roland sends MIDI-notes not corrosponding with the Session Drums mappings. But it definetly sends different notes while operating the pedal.

Hope that helps. In case not, at least i tried

usually, pedal is mapped to pedal close (note on). If you have a pedal controller, it should be mapped to CC4, then play your open hh trigger and it should vary from open to close. Dunno what you are using, but session drums has this for sure. If you really want the pedal to trigger an OPEN hh, then just change the drum rack so that note is an open instead of closed hh.

Cheers Guys, I try that out later