Anyone know how Alesis achieves continuous control on the RealHat?
I got a refurbished Roland FD8 hit hat continuous controller today, got it home, tried it out, and could barely get it to work.
I figured it was a returned, used unit, that was supposed to have been fixed, so I didn't think it would matter too much if I took it apart.
After getting it separated, it looks like an fsr strip that gets pressed by a curved piece of rubber to vary the pressure. The rubber had shifted from directly under the metal tab attached to the foot piece to press it down.
Straightened it out, put it back together, and it works like a champ now.
Anyways, I was wondering if this is also how the Alesis RealHat works.
I'm thinking of maybe trying to DIY one from a pedal.