[linux-audio-dev] Software controller for homemade edrums

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:55:45AM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:56:12AM +0200, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> > 
> > I am now about to code a software controller to  :
> > 1 - either interprete the signal and produce midi (or OSC) events
> > 2 - or interprete the signal, and play samples by itself, in a 
> > standalone manner (no midi)
> > 
> > I tend to prefer the second option, for the following reasons (criticism 
> > welcome) :
> 
> While you could record the trigger signal itself, MIDI or an OSC based 
> format would be more efficient for storage and would make tempo changes 
> easy.
> 
> MIDI would allow to use existing and ready to go apps like Hydrogen 
> or Specimen. There's also Smack (TR style now, physical modeling 
> hand drums in the pipe) or generaly non-sample based percussion patches 
> for Om (or another modular). You don't want to (re)implement such 
> a thing just to get around MIDI (or OSC).

Plus, the latency from a pure software MIDI->MIDI or OSC->OSC connection
is not even measurable in human terms, your're talking microseconds,
eqivalent to sitting a few millimeters nearer to your monitors ;)

- Steve