Rashidma

I have a set of working Soviet electronic drums (called "Formanta") - 2 toms, snare and pedal bass-drum, all of them are completely the same pads with Big-Jack analog output. But I don't have any drum module (Alesis, etc.). Can I use SB0240 for that purpose?

I've tried to plug one pad to the Mic In (because pads are not powered by itself - they are silent, and act pretty much like a microphone) and managed to get some sound by biting them - but it is only a "click" (or "pop").

So, 2 questions arises:

1) Can I turn this "click" into Midi Events and instantly play it? Or, at least, make it more "natural"? Maybe some reverb/EQ/other plug-in?
2) Can I combine 2 mono signals (from pads) into 1 stereo signal, and moreover, use other cards inputs (Mic2, Lin-In, etc.)?

Rashidma

Oh, btw, I used only analog AC97 recording, I'm not familiarized with ASIO... Maybe it is what I need?

Smurf43

Hello,
If these are made like all other pads, they just use a "piezo" element to create an electronic "spike" to "trigger" a sound moduale. The harder you hit the pad the more "juice" is generated, thus a louder "hit".
You need a controller box to plug these into. Then it will convert the signals to midi information that your program can identify. Pads to controler to midi output of box to midi input (joystick) of computer. Just google for some more info, and good luck!

Rashidma

I know I need a controller, but I was wondering maybe I can use kX for that purpose

Rashidma

Maybe someone knows such program, that can monitor Rec "pikes" and convert them to midi notes & immidiately send them to midi synth?... If I could plug even 2 pads to Audigy, it would be great enough, cause I can purchase another (second) card into slot, maybe even old live will suit well.. I don't have possibilities to buy or order drum module.. thanks.. and, btw, sorry for my english

Nando Dominguez

Have a look at KTDrumTrigger:
http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

I've used it for converting recorded real drums to midi notes within cubase, with very good results. May be you can use any vst host aplication to get what you want. In example SpinAudio Virtual Mixing Console can run vst fx and instruments at the same time, so you can plug the pads to mic in or line in, then insert KTDrumTrigger, and the resultant midi notes to any vst drum innstrument. I suppose it should work fine, although I never tried.
I hope it helps.

Nando

>>note: kX hasn't any function for this itself, but you'll get very low latency witn them (necessary for what you want), so I recommend it. Anyway I think sb240 should be any model of Audigy 2 if I'm not wrong, and it has an Asio driver included that you may use if you find kX ones too complicated.

Lex Nahumury

You don't have to buy a expensive drum module.
There are very cheap (DIY and build) Drumtrigger->MIDI solutions on the net
using MicroControllers.
(A kX regular called ROBSIX may have quite some info on the subject)

Of course it is possible to use (any) soundcard's ADC to read in analog pulses.
However, you'd probably still need some analogue electronics circuitry to clip/filter the pulses, and special software to do trigger->midi note conversion in 'real time'.

So all and all its probably easier and better to go for a DIY Drumtrigger->MIDI solution.

/LeMury

Way2Loud

This may just be what you need. www.d-trig.com I've tested it with my soundcard EMU1820 and it seems to work OK. It is still beta, the full version is released by the end of february.
Still, you will need one line input for each piezo trigger........

//W2L