Best hi-hat controller for Megadrum

[Narbicus]

Have you considered the RHH135? Alot cheaper than a Vh11. Drum-tec.de and thomann.de are the cheapest place to get them.

I read a few bad reviews of that pintech controller on vdrums. Building an optical pedal or using the Alesis foot controller maybe more suited to the pcy100.

[stefan1982]

Have you considered the RHH135? Alot cheaper than a Vh11. Drum-tec.de and thomann.de are the cheapest place to get them.

I'm not completely sure, but the YAMAHA RHH135 isn't a full-range hihat, right? TS asks for a hihat where he could play all the positions between fully open en completely closed.

[stefan1982]

Anyone?

[dmitri]

For a full continius range I can suggest to build a DIY optical or hall effect sensor HiHat controller.

[Simust72]

Hello everybody.
Bought my 32 input Megadrum last year and managed to finish my DIY kit conversion yesterday! Sounds great and thanks to all for precious seggestions and solutions I found on the forum. Only thing that remains is the hihat. Going to try to build a 2 zone hat (tip and edge) and use a hall effect sensor for controller. Could you please give me a good link to buy the correct sensor and magnet? Thanks.
By the way I'm going to post some pictures soon.

[privatex]

Wellcome.
I am glad that you found solutions and everything configured properly.
For the hall efect hi hat controler I used A1301 hall efect sensor (you can use 1302 too). I tried first with some other sensors but they was poorly sensitive. For magnet you can use whatever neodymium rare earth magnet. Usual mounting system is: ring shaped axial polarised neom. magnet + hall effect sensor wired as it's described in many topics.

Here you can find every informations that you need for success:
http://deanmurray.net/dokuwiki/drums:megadrum

For hall effect sensors, you can find them everywhere:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-x-A1302KUA-T-A1302KUA-A1302K-A1302-KUA-Ratiometer-Hall-Effect-Sensors-/170615429963
http://www.ebay.com/itm/A1302-Continuous-Time-Ratiometric-Linear-Hall-Effect-Sensor-IC-/181392471056

Cheers!

[stefan1982]

Wellcome.
For the hall efect hi hat controler I used A1301 hall efect sensor (you can use 1302 too). I tried first with some other sensors but they was poorly sensitive. For magnet you can use whatever neodymium rare earth magnet. Usual mounting system is: ring shaped axial polarised neom. magnet + hall effect sensor wired as it's described in many topics.

Here you can find every informations that you need for success:
http://deanmurray.net/dokuwiki/drums:megadrum
Cheers!

I did searched *a lot*, and I did look at the links you gave me, although I'm not able to find how the wiring should be done when using a Neutrik NYS221 female jack plug. (what should go to ring/tip/sleeve?) And is there any wiringdiagram/schematics to be found somewhere?
If I recall correctly, there should be some resistor somewhere to, right?

Thank you for your answers in advance...

[privatex]

Vin (Power source) = Tip (pin40)
Vout (output of the circuit) = Ring (pin 39)
GND (ground) = Sleeve (pin 15 or 16)

Find a datasheet for your hall effect sensor on the web to see correct pinouts. Select 'FootContr' in HiHat Pedal menu and for Vout use Low impedance pedal pin (39) from MD.


A1302 pinout order:


That's wiring of my hh controller and it works great without any passive components...

[drum_ninja]

Racer52 talked about Dimitri's optical controller design. Dimitri or any other members, can you point me to the design document? Thanks!

[dmitri]

Discussion of the design is in http://www.megadrum.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=422 and the schematic is in http://www.megadrum.info/forums/viewtop ... 5294#p5294 of the same topic