Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Analogue vs MIDI drumkits, just curious.

[Robert J. <rob...@da...>]

Yo,

Thanks for the links. I'll take a peek.=20
What was especially interesting with the mini-box was however that it was a=
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complete solution and in a very small box :)... but if it's not good enough=
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it's not good enough...

Wednesday 12 November 2003 12.33 skrev be...@ga...:
> A question to Robert (and others):
> you said you want to build this LS drumkit expander.
> Nice, but the question is: what's the price of MIDI drumpads ?
>
> Does it pay  off to buy MIDI drumpads (how much do they cost?) compared to
> traditional analogue  drumkits ?

My brother is the expert so I might be wrong. But I think it works like thi=
s:

The pads are all analogue. They just emit a signal when you poke at them.=20
Atleast in theory you could use any kind of microphone, trigger microphones=
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are ofcourse the best choice.

This signal is connected to what normally is called the 'brain'. A bunch of=
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analogue inputs and a sampleplayer engine.=20
Normally you use the brains built in sounds, they do however (normally)=20
suck :-/... atleast for the cheaper brains.=20
The brain does also have midi-out, this is what we where going to try and=20
utilize for this "experiment".=20
Another way would be to use a soundcard with multiple inputs and write a=20
trigger-application, but size and price would go up quite a lot :)

> I'm not an expert here, so I might talking nonsense that's why I'm asking
> :-) =0D=20
> What are the advantages of using a MIDI drumkit ?

As mentioned above, the word MIDI isn't really right here... MIDI is an=20
important option though.

When you have a real drumkit you have lots of drawbacks, loud, hard to=20
amplify, and so on... when they sound right they SOUND RIGHT though :)

An artificial drumkit is much easier to handle, we use it to play live.=20
Amplification does not require any extra work, easy to handle, almost nothi=
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needs to be calibrated. It's a bit "plastic" though, sometimes that _is_ wh=
at=20
you want though ;). Sometimes the sounds just suck... but there are "canned=
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drumkits, like the reknowned Drumkit-From-Hell, that is the option we are=20
thinking of right now.

> Price ?
In the same range as a normal drumkit...starting a bit higher I suppose.

say... 1000 EUR -> 10000 EUR.

> Easy switching of sounds (eg switching from a rock drumkit to a jazz
> drumkit,=0D to an electronic drumkit etc), possibility of recording the
> events ? Possibility to use the sampler module to provide not only drumkit
> voices but an additional instrument like eg. piano too. (given enough CPU
> power) ?=20
Yes those are definitively benefits, and they are important reasons for=20
chosing such a system, and definitely something we will experiment with :).

> Just curious :-)
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> If you build the LS expander we want pics/videos/audio demos of a band
> playing=0D it live to put on the LS site :-)

Sure thing :)

/Robert