Drum trigger for ARP Odyssey?

[Tom Baldwin]

You can make an excellent trigger from a remo practice pasd and a $1.50 part
from RadioShack
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Williams <will7370 at tao.sou.edu>
To: Analogue list <analogue at hyperreal.org>
Cc: DIY <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 5:31 PM
Subject: Drum trigger for ARP Odyssey?


> Years ago I saw a guy epoxy a small radio speaker to the underside of a
> congo drum head.  The idea was to use this as a simple pickup for a
> trigger mechanism.  The leads from this speaker he fed to some kind of
> bread board which he used to trigger his ARP Odyssey for drum effects.
> Does anybody have schematics for this kind of bread board?  Would just a
> Trigger work, or would there need to be a CV voltage too?
>
> Robert
>