Cool idea. I think TrackMate does it better since it records the rotation of the pieces as well which provides more information. For example TrackMate can set individual volumes of the drums.

http://trackmate.sourceforge.net/

Posted at 8:29 am on Jun 29th, 2009 by Jeff

Wooden blocks would be much easier. Just print and glue to a side.

Posted at 1:23 pm on Jun 29th, 2009 by BigD145

you know what? on that note, why not just use dice? a d6 has pips that should be big enough.

Posted at 1:24 pm on Jun 29th, 2009 by BigD145

I just have to say wow that kind of stuff is right up my alley.
Thank you,
Sunglasswhore

Posted at 9:23 pm on Jun 29th, 2009 by theofficialsunglasswhore

Thanks for the post and the comments!

BigD145, if you try the dice or wooden blocks setup please send us pictures!

Jeff as far as I understand TrackMate is a toolkit, the d-touch drum machine is an actual application.

By the way the drum machine is based on libdtouch which is an open source framework, code available on http://sf.net/projects/libdtouch , but not yet nicely packaged (we’re working on that, we’ll post updates). libdtouch provides angle and size information, but the drum machine UI simply does not use that. In the near future we’re planning to release another application which actually uses the angle.

Enrico

Posted at 11:17 pm on Jun 29th, 2009 by enrico

The d-touch sequencer is finally out. Free just like the drum machine from http://d-touch.org/audio
With the sequencer you can see the rotation control in action.

Please try it and let us know what you think!

Posted at 10:08 am on Aug 20th, 2009 by enrico