Cheap drum trigger for your modular...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Robert Trelease just posted the following on the Blacet list. I thought it might be interesting to those of you that have modulars but aren’t on that list:
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The Blacet 2225 I/O works great for producing analog percussion and
bell sounds with inexpensive professional drum triggers.
I’ve gotten great results from a Pintech RS-5T drum trigger ($23)$13). The TT3 trigger trap
mounted on a 6” Remo Practice Pad (
bracket had to be slightly modified (end tab cut off) to fit the
practice pad. The trigger output is a 1/4” jack, making for easy
cable connection to the I/O.
Best results were obtained with 100X amplification on the I/O 2225,
with gain and level set for reliable triggers and gating. It was
easy to set the levels for stick or hand drum play (way simpler than
on my Yamaha DD-5 digital drums).
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Here’s a link to the trigger at Musician’s Friend. Any ol’ practice pad should work.
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It's common knowledge that with a $3 Radio Shack piezo sensor, you can build your own drum triggers. I made a pair of yogurt-container triggers and they worked really well, someday I want to do up a whole practice pad set (like this guy: http://members.cox.net/ampage/triggers.htm ) and hook it up to a MIDI drum brain so I can trigger soft synths with them. But yeah, if you google "DIY piezo drum trigger", there's a wealth of information about them.
Yeah, about ten years ago some friends and I built some DIY trigger pads out of scrap plastic, scrap metal, piezos taken from a $5 kids drum toy, and old mouse pads. 'ardcore.
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