I just bought a used Alesis DM5 brain to replace my original, which had lost input on 5 of its external triggers.
The new unit appears fine APART FROM input #1 (the hi-hat), which I can't get a response from. I've tried using a known "good" pad (i.e. one which works fine as a Tom trigger), but I do not see Trigger #1 highlighted on the display when I hit the pad. I've tried setting the Footswitch option to both "Hat" and "Adv" but neither have helped.
Does this necessarily mean that the trigger input is faulty, or is there some setup specific to the hi-hat trigger that I may have missed? How can I check definitively whether the trigger #1 input socket is working?
The new unit appears fine APART FROM input #1 (the hi-hat), which I can't get a response from. I've tried using a known "good" pad (i.e. one which works fine as a Tom trigger), but I do not see Trigger #1 highlighted on the display when I hit the pad. I've tried setting the Footswitch option to both "Hat" and "Adv" but neither have helped.
Does this necessarily mean that the trigger input is faulty, or is there some setup specific to the hi-hat trigger that I may have missed? How can I check definitively whether the trigger #1 input socket is working?