Keep in mind X3 is supported on Win7 and Win8 (but does run on Vista). It will not run on XP.

Ok !! I have results! The Addictive drums loaded an has a Alesis DM 10 map which has my hihat opening an closing! Which has me smiling ! On the demo I only have HH an snare n kick n one splash! You mentioned running it along side my SI drums ! Do you know how I would go about that at all? Thanks for all the help you have really shed some light on all this for me! Cheers.

Yep, you need to make a custom drum map sending the hi-hats to AD and the rest of the MIDI data to SI-Drums, AD or whatever.

I dug around a little more, Superior Drummer also supports cc hi-hats. BFD Eco is about $29 on the street may be the best low cost solution with cc hi-hats. I am sure BFD3 supports it too.

Cheers, I'll have a look in to those other softwares! I have made a drum map an bit of trial n error! I've got a mixture of AD and SI DRUMS and it's great to finally get the kit totally playable! Bit of fine tuning an I'm ready to get some tunes on the go! Thanks for your help I'll check out that BFD ! Tis great to have the ball rolling at last!