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

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:16, David Olofson wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 13.52, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> [...]
> > This signal is connected to what normally is called the 'brain'. A
> > bunch of analogue inputs and a sampleplayer engine.
> > Normally you use the brains built in sounds, they do however
> > (normally) suck :-/... atleast for the cheaper brains.
> > The brain does also have midi-out, this is what we where going to
> > try and utilize for this "experiment".
> 
> Are there any sanely priced "brains" without some crappy sampleplayer? 
> Just a basic trigger->MIDI converter...
> 
> 

I bought my Alesis DM-5 a couple of years ago on Ebay for about $200. It
has 12 drum pad inputs and produces MIDI output. It has a lot of built
in sounds which I seldom use.

I got a used 6-pad drumKat, an older funky square design, for about $150
I think. One of the guys on the Pro Tools site at DigiDesign offered it
to me privately. It's a gas to play around with this stuff, and even
though I'm no drummer I can usually get much better patterns this way
than programming MIDI by hand in Pro Tools. 

The down side is I've got these big cables laying around whenever I hook
this stuff up, so it's ugly and I trip a lot, but it's fun.

- Mark