At Noisebridge, in San Francisco, some guys showed up to demonstrate their use of piezos for which they'd used soda (or beer) bottle caps and some kind of potting compound; they claimed good fidelity. On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:20 +0200, Renato wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:16:28 +0200 > Svend-Erik K Madsen <sv-e@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Den 17-05-2011 19:10, Renato skrev: > > > On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:41:57 +0200 > > > Svend-Erik K Madsen<sv-e@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi list > > >> > > >> Anyone who has build drum triggers themselves ? > > >> > > >> I just ordered some piezo transducers to build my own triggers, but > > >> your experiences is most welcome regarding material used to > > >> encapsulate transducers, rubber, foam rubber, how thick the size, > > >> and so on. > > >> > > >> I planned to build it up on some angel bracket inside the drum > > >> shell and mount it on a lug screw so that the trigger will be > > >> placed underneath the drumhead near the rim, don't know if thats > > >> good or bad, and if a rim shoot would trigger too, of cause I > > >> don't want that to happen on my snare, for which I plan to build a > > >> separate rim shoot trigger too. > > >> > > >> Hope someone will share their experiences :) > > >> > > >> > > >> /Sv-e > > >> _____ > > > Hi, there is this open source project called megadrum > > > http://www.megadrum.info/ > > > which gives you schematics and instructions to build a drum machine, > > > i.e. something you feed triggers into and which outputs MIDI. You > > > can even order kits or preassembled units. > > > > > > I know it's not exactly what you were asking for but since Arduino > > > came in the discussion (which would, I suppose, have the same role > > > as the megadrum in such a project) you might want to look into it. > > > I'm definitely no expert but I think making the megadrum, although > > > more laborious, would have it's advantages over using an arduino. > > > Well, actually I even tried building such a thing with arduino some > > > time ago, and certainly I can tell you that it's not that easy to > > > accurately detect how hard you hit the piezo; the megadrum > > > supposedly does this good. Also the megadrum seems to have quite a > > > community. > > > > > > Maybe on the site you can even find some info on > > > building/clamping/placing your own triggers. > > > > > > BTW there's a similar project called edrum > > > http://www.edrum.info/ > > > I wouldn't be able to tell you the differences though > > > > > > HTH > > > renato > > Hi > > > > I must admit that I've jumped out in Arduino, and this kinda kit: > > http://microdrum.altervista.org/blog/info/ > > > > I think it looks exciting and lots of fun. > > oh, yes it does :) didn't know about it, thanks. It seems quite more > professional than the approach I used - basically this > http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/29/spooky-arduino-projects-4-and-musical-arduino/ > > wish I knew about it 6 months ago. > > cheers > renato > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user