[Autuin] picked up the drums at the age of 18, but by his own admission he’s no [Bonzo], [Buddy Rich] or [Ringo]. Practicing always seems to fall off the end of his to-do list, and there really is only one way to Carnegie Hall. One thing [Autuin] is really fast at is typing, so he figured he could improve his drumming skills by banging a few paragraphs out.
The core of the build is a Yamaha DTX drum module, a MIDI-to-USB adapter, and little light coding. Basically, [Autuin] made a chorded keyboard out of his drums; by hitting one (or two, or three) drum heads at the same time, he can type characters in Open Office.
For going outside the comfort zone of a steady rock beat, we’re thinking [Autuin]’s build might just be useful. He’ll be displaying his Keyboard/Drum mashup at Vancouver’s East Side Culture Crawl alongside a horrible device of artistic merit. If you promise not to break anything, drop in on him in a few weeks.
Vidia after the break.
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I can only imagine how will this stuff look when hooked to emacs, when one codes hard.
something like…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBz66zyuGGo&feature=related
Now remove the melody from it, I doubt code will sound that melodic.
drums is rhythm not melody…
I’ve heard of people sending messages on jungle drums but this is ridiculous!
So is this opensource? I WANT THE CODE. I’m sure we could write some sort of driver that would treat it like a normal keyboard and work with any application that will run on the platform.
Fritz, it’s right here:
https://github.com/asmecher/mididrumkeyboard
It submits regular keypresses, so it’ll work with pretty much any application. (It’s written for a Linux platform.)