Hi Oliver

>>i suppose a third question would be, how do others implement the
>>open/closed hh thing
> i do this with the a142 vc decay. with the cv you can control the
> length of the decay: short decay for the closed hh, long decay for
> the open hh. the good thing is you can morph between the open and
> closed hh which can result in very cool grooves.

Thats good too. The only disadvantage is: a "real" open hihat has in
fact not really a decay envelope, but an decay/release, where the decay
happens while the hihat is opened (pedal pressed) and the release, when
it gets closed (release pedal).The question is, whether we want to
imitate a real hihat. ;-)

Florian