HELP!! drum midi triggers and samplers

[Keith_H]

First of all I don't a damn thing about midi but I have an idea... I have a Akai S-20 sampler, it has a midi in and a midi out jack in the back. If I buy one of those pad like a pintech tubular pad can it hook up to those jacks??? like say I had a cool sound sampled, when I hit that pad while I was drumming would it play, or am I retarded??

Keith

 

[DavidK]

Yup, you got it right! I am assuming the tubular pad
gizmo has midi, which it surely should have.
If so, you can hook it up to anything midi,
and trigger the sounds by hitting the pad.

You could even hook it up to a piano module
and trigger piano sounds.

Go get a'whackin...........David

 

[mikeh]

Many (most)drum triggers have 1/4" jacks, designed to feed a signal to a brain (sound module). The module then has a midi out which can send the midi signal to the midi in of another module (a sampler for example).

I have no hands on with the Pintech, however the key thing for you to understand is that the trigger pad/device must have a midi out jack to control your sampler. A 1/4" jack will not do it.

Also understand that there are 16 midi channels transmitted through a single midi cable. You need to make sure the midi controller and the "slave module" are set to the same midi channel. Midi channel 10 is the "industry norm" used to transmit drum data.