Air Drum Trigger?

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Ok, not so much an air drum, but a way to play a basic kit on your knees and have it triggered in midi.
I play great airdrums (like Neil Peart :), but put me on a real set and I suck big time. Trying to put down drum tracks using a guitar synth or a keyboard is a real pain too.
I could easily do the basic drum tracks if there was something available to let me use my left and right hands for hihat/snare. My right foot for a kick. And my left foot for opening and closing the high hat.
Anything like this available or am I totally nuts :)
 
Perhaps one of those cheap little Yamaha table-top drumsets? They might trigger MIDI.
 
If you have some 58s, strap them to your knees. plug them into a mixer and send the direct out (or any out) to a sound module. When you hit the mic it will trigger the sound (or midi). I assume this will work with your foot as well, but you might want to pad the mic so you don't stomp it into the ground.
 
An idea for the snare would be to get one of those pads that you strap on your knee and slap a cheap trigger on to that. Not sure how you would do the rest of the kit though.
 
I remeber seeing triggers that attached to your knees. They might be what you are looking for if you can find them. I know there is someway that you can accomplish what you are trying to do.
 
A few years ago I found some plans on the net to build a set of electronic drums by frankenstiening some remo practice pads with self-rigged triggers inside, and the signal was fed to a DM5. I built it, paid about what i would have for a entry level acoustic kits, but I was never happy with the sound. It used an electric piano sustain pedal to control what sounds triggered for the hi hat open close, and the pads were for the normal drum sounds.

Anyway, you could probabaly find the basics for the same plan and modify it easy enough (i don't even think they needed sodering) and build smaller (and cheaper) versions of the triggers that you could use like you describe. Not sure how to make the signals go to MIDI, but if the suggestion of sending noise from salpping mics would work, i would think this would as well.


Good luck.
 
Yo,

Go to ebay and type in Body pad drum triggers
into the search bar. I think this is what you're looking for. Of course, you'd still need a drum/sound module such as the Alesis DM5.

-Clintage
 
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