Category: drums(electronic)
Where hitting becomes audio:
piezos, FSRs, MIDI interfacing, control mapping, etc.
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Pad expression on live eDrum kit
Movitation I’ve been experimenting with playing live electronic drums for a while. For most e-kits that one can buy off the sales floor, I find there is limited expression for controlling the sounds while playing them, beyond using the dynamics of your hits to control volume, tonality, or switch between samples. I found myself wanting…
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Working with drum trigger godfather/innovator Dan Dauz to (try to) improve (one of) his products.
Motivation Since 2005-ish, I’ve had a frustrated love-hate relationship with electronic drum pads. This was even part of the passion for musical interfacing that carried me through grad school, but now I’m finally putting my ideas and tools to test a design that remains dynamic even under hard playing in loud-vibrating environments. Product Tech and…
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the amazing electronic drum kit of Jim “Mouth” Parole
A SoCal performer/comedian shows me his a kit somewhere between overkill and engineering marvel.
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MicroSampler becomes a DB-90
…some people spend their Sunday “making beats,” I spend mine “making metronomes”
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photo album of NEW STAND for The PercussioNeuron
PercussioNeuron Motivation: The PercussioNeuron is (presently) an ATA road-case-stye pedalboard by RoadCase USA, containing Trigger IO / Dddrum DTI drum-trigger to MIDI interface Akai MPC1000 sampler, acting as sound module Korg KP-2 Kaoss pad: touch-controlled FX processor that allow me to control effects and sampling on e-drum sound(s) of my choice using the big touch…
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Alesis SamplePad Pro: thoughts and application of features
Personal experience, feature comparison, and other product-review thoughts on the Alesis SamplePad Pro, the newest (and cheapest) self-contained electronic percussion pad that supports using your your own sound files.
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presenting: VIDEO from my AES demo on drum triggers at AiPh
Last summer (09/2016), I led a workshop at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on drum triggers, covering: electromechanics of the piezo trigger sensor playing MIDI with a full human body tricks and inspirations from various sound parameters. …see my initial photo-post HERE. Several students happened to shoot video of my presentation, and over the past…
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initial photos from my Drum Trigger workshop for the AES at AiPh
UPDATE: I have subsequently found and uploaded video of this event HERE ! Hey Friends I had the honor, privilege, and joy of presenting to the Art Institute of Philadelphia Audio Department‘s student-run group in the Philadelphia chapter of the Audio Engineering Society. I presented on a topic very close to my heart, my…
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one of my dDrum triggers died, and I was surgeon enough to revive it
One of my dDrum brand acoustic drum triggers died, so I performed a simple surgery. Thoughts, photos, and tutorial inside !
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The MIDI Pile (V 3.5 ) gets new Elektron-ics !
the PILE of rhythm robots has just gotten an upgrade in the drum-machine slot, with the Korg ESX being upgraded to the Elektron Rytm… thoughts and photos inside !