3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
11:01 a.m.
Assembling piezo microphones, cardboard, foam, wood
and a cymbal stand,
I have just made my first DIY electronic pads. Actually it's electronic
percussions, because I will play these mostly with hands.
I've found a few sites about DIY "edrums" (1), as well as some detailed
documentation about how to build a trigger-to-midi hardware controller
(2). But since I started this little project, I've been thinking about
plugging the piezo mikes directly into my soundcard inputs. My first
tests are very good : the signal is clean, and indicates faithfully how
hard the pads get hit.
Hi,
There will be a lot of developments in smack in the coming months on modeling hand drums
and i think you might get some good results with your triggers and smack. You can also try
pluggin the audio out of your triggers and the excitation signal for the physical modeling
drums in smack. This would allow you to get a level of control that is very difficult with
midi/osc in that it directly uses the attack/release/velocity etc of your triggers in the
sound.
Give me a yell if you want a hand with using them like that, as i'd love the testing.
Loki