DIY Kick and Hats pedals

[yoyodyne]

    Hi there!

I’ve been to the DIY tutos sections, very encouraging stuff !

I’d like to build a velocity sensitive kick pedal, and a continuous hats pedal with a velocity sensitive trigger for hats close and footsplashes (I’ still trigger the hats with my fingers on the padkontrol).

The thing is that I can’t afford buying a ddrum brain, so I was wondering if it were possible to build the brains myself?

The brains in question would just need to convert two piezzo signals to MIDI notes of varying velocitoes, and a light dimmer signal to MIDI CC 04.

Mr Beatnick, does it sound DIY-ible ?

many thanks

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[yoyodyne]

Since yesterday I’ve been googling hard and this sort of tings came out:

http://www.instructables.com/id/E88B2U0F0R12VA9/?ALLSTEPS
http://www.maxmidi.com/diy/foot/index.html
http://www.audiomulch.com/midipic/

The potentiometer->MIDI  conversion takes a programmable PIC, yet it still looks feasible, however nothing came out about converting a piezo signal to a note on with variable velocity?

How about brainstorming a little bit around this material ?

The brain would have three inputs, two for piezzos, 1 for a potentiometer, and would have a midi in, midi thru, midi out. It’ll most likely house a PIC of some kind?

[tazinnuedo]

http://www.edrum.info/
 

 
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