Homemade drum triggers
posted Aug 2nd 2005 9:30am by Eliot Phillipsfiled under: home entertainment hacks
Ah, back in Nebraska, back to work, and back to regular installments of hacking. For the musicians out there (I know there are quite a few of you) here is a guide to building electronic drum triggers. Full disclosure: they sell the parts on the site. So here is a different link for some free info.
[thanks patrick]





I may be wrong here, and please correct me if I am… but I’m a drummer and a computer guy, and I’ve run into this before… and what stopped me is the inability for these simple piezo triggers to pickup something as simple as 32nd notes and/or drum rolls.
Is the functionality of the pickup limited by the actual equipment used in the drum (type/quality), or by the actual brain module. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that I’ve seen a few ‘professional’ electric drum kits that cannot hold anything more complex than a simple rock ballad… notes just drop out and it sounds … incomplete. I would be interested to talk to hear from someone who has actually done this ‘hack’.
Posted at 9:36 am on Aug 2nd, 2005 by jfryman