[LAU] Off topic: building drum triggers for acoustic drums !

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Tue May 17 14:23:45 UTC 2011


On 17/05/11 14:37, Svend-Erik K Madsen wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot, I'm looking at it, but actually I'm aiming for building 
> a trigger like the one's you can by at DDrum ect. and the trigger 
> should fit in at an acoustic drum without braking anything. I plan to 
> use an ordinary drum brain like Hydrogen and a midi trigger io.

Maybe use an arduino and send out the strikes as a hardware midi stream? 
There are instructions on the arduino.cc site somewhere on how to send 
midi. Or else send the data over usb and convert to alsa midi in the 
computer. There is a lot of stuff like this on instructables.com and 
youtube.

andy


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