Drum trigger for ARP Odyssey?

[Frank Olivieri]

The Shack part is a Piezo element. It a Piezo buzzer without the buzz! hehe...
Anyway, thats the best external trigger I ever used. I had a drummer friend of
mine mount one on a beer can that was attached to a cymbal stand and went to my
Synare type of synth. Worked great! And the crowd loved it!

Tom Baldwin wrote:

> 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
> >