Hey guys,
i trigger superior 2.0 with my td20 which is great, except for when i travel. 🙁
I always take my ac guitar and mbox overseas and create but end up drawing in midi drums in pro tools which i hate, piano keys are just as bad. I do have an old Alesis SR-16 http://www.alesis.com/sr16 which has 12 triggers you use your fingers with (eat your heart out David “Finger” Haynes) Ok so im nowhere near as good.
To the delight of my teachers at school, back in the good old days, i always played drums on my desk with my fingers but with my foot on the floor, this i can do particularly well, i just cant seem to do the kick with my fingers i become an infant on the drums again, alla the curious benjamin button, its terrible. What im hoping for is a MIDI velocity sensitive pedal i can use plugging into the MIDI in of the Alesis and trigger the kick with my foot. Now im not after a proper drum pedal with propper skin response, anything will kind of do, plus a proper kick pedal aint gonna fit in my laptop bag. I read online that people tried to do something similar with elec piano sustain pedals then into a MIDI Solutions Pedal Controller, http://www.midisolutions.com/prodped.htm but the sustain pedal only gave on/off commands.
How could i do this? would an elec piano damper pedal be different? on an acoustic piano using force you can change the level of damper would elec piano damper pedals be the same? and therefore would the MIDI solution Pedal controller, output velocity control from the elec damper pedal?
I imagine i could tape a piezo trigger to my big toe and tap it on the floor which would do, but i have no experience with electronics and wouldnt know how to get a midi out signal from it or piece one together, even with instructions!
Am i over complicating this or am i on the right track? would love to hear any suggestions.
thanks again
Mark.
