Alesis DM Lite Hi-hat triggering Problems with Session Drummer 3

I have been trying to use my Alesis DM Lite electronic drum kit with Sonar X1, however the hi-hat pedal trigger does not work with Session Drummer. The DM Lite transmits MIDI note #46 (Bb) for open hi-hat and note #46 with CC#4 for closed hi-hat, but Sonar doesn't seem to have a way of interpreting this controller message. Is there anything I can do?
Hope you can help.
Thanks,
Mike.

scook
If you cannot change what notes are sent on the instrument side, create a drum map in SONAR to alter the incoming notes to suit your needs.

I can't see an option in Sonar's drum map manager to interpret CC#4 controller changes.

brundlefly
No drum maps can't remap controller messages to notes, which is basically what you would need to do. The simplest solution is going to be to get the Alesis controller to send note# 42 for Closed Hat. I would think it can be programmed to do that.

The DM Lite is pretty basic in terms of settings, so there is no option to do this from the controller end. I downloaded a demo for Addictive Drums and that interepreted the hi-hat MIDI data just fine, using an Alesis drum map, so why can't Sonar do the same?

Cactus Music
What I found is things like Hi Hat and such work fine if you match them with the correct sfx sound files. In Session drummer I loaded the Yamaha Birch kit and it responds to my Yamaha DX drums controller info.  
But most of the samples are not like this. 
Sometimes I'll even record the audio output of the brain, after I edit the midi track,  as it seems to have the best "natural" drum sound of all. You just have to like the sounds the brain has. But I end up mixing from multiple sources. 
My go to drum set up has been TTS-1 for Kick 
Session drummer 3 and the Yamaha Birch kit for the rest. 
Then I use all sorts of different snares including the DX brain. 

I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean sfz sound files in SD3?

So basically I have to buy Addictive Drums (or upgrade to X3 and get AD with it) to get it to work?
Surely as most electronic drum kits use CC#4 for Hi-Hat, you would expect one of the leading DAWs to accommodate them?!

I have the Alesis DM10 Studio set and the brainbox will not allow me to change the midi notes that the hi-hat uses so I use eDrum MIDI Mapper to remap my Alesis notes, output to a virtual LoopBe1 midi cable and use the virtual midi cable as an input in Sonar. (I also disabled the Alesis as an input in Sonar since the virtual midi cable serves that purpose)
This eDrum MIDI Mapper allows me to remap the entire Alesis set to the midi notes I want/need for backwards compatibility to drum tracks that I have recorded in the past with Addictive Drums' early note/articulation keyboard mapping.
I don't see any reason why this method would not work for Session Drummer or any other drums soft synth.
As a matter of fact, I use this method with Steven Slate Drums sampler as well.

gustabo
I have the Alesis DM10 Studio set and the brainbox will not allow me to change the midi notes that the hi-hat uses so I use to remap my Alesis notes, output to a and use the virtual midi cable as an input in Sonar. (I also disabled the Alesis as an input in Sonar since the virtual midi cable serves that purpose)
This eDrum MIDI Mapper allows me to remap the entire Alesis set to the midi notes I want/need for backwards compatibility to drum tracks that I have recorded in the past with Addictive Drums' early note/articulation keyboard mapping.
I don't see any reason why this method would not work for Session Drummer or any other drums soft synth.
As a matter of fact, I use this method with Steven Slate Drums sampler as well.

Thanks for this. Is it easy to set up?

One thing to keep in mind, since there is no standard for note designations that everyone follows, a C4 in one program may be a C6 in another program.
This inconsistency may cause some hair pulling but once you set everything up, save it as a preset in eDrum MIDI Mapper and you're good to go.
Using saved presets, you can create and save mapping presets for use with different drum softsynth mappings.

Make sure you haven't got the kick and hi-hat pedals reversed.
The hi-hat pedal appears to be the standard Alesis momentary contact on/off switch. It shouldn't be sending CC messages. Unlike most Alesis kits, the kick and hi-hat pedals look to be visually identical.
If you have the kick pedal(one note, velocity sensitive) connected to the hi-hat port, that would explain open/closed as the same note, combined with data that the brain is most likely misinterpreting. Reading note 46 would make sense, as nothing is triggering the variables that would make it read otherwise.
You should be seeing note 46(open), note 44(pedal) if you hit the hi-hat pad as you step on the pedal, and note 42(closed).
Your kicks are probably all being triggered at 127 as well.
hth

I also have the alesis DM lite and a hi hat issue. I'm using sonar 5 producer an SI-drums everything works well except the hi hat it does open an pedal but not closed ! Really doing my head in! I'm glad I'm not the only one, an hoping that it's easy to resolve. I shall post my issue! Fingers crossed!