Would it be possible to use a gate to filter out triggers below a certain level? Would this work? I work at Guitar Center in Boston and I actually was asking the drum department people about v-drum pads and how they work exactly last week. I was thinking about buying some for my modular to trigger EGs.
PS: if you need new gear email me I would love to help out and hook up fellow motm'ers :P
I too have a V-Drum set. I hadn't thought about using it to trigger the modular directly, but it seems like an idea with possibilities.The biggest problem is with false triggering. I think the simplest way to address this problem is for you to have a circuit that compares every impulse on all the pads and initiates a trigger for the pad with the largest impulse. The difficulty here is that you could hit more than one pad at a time, or more than two if you use your feet.You also need to have a delay time between triggers for each pad to prevent multiple triggers from just one hit. A sensitivity control could either control the amplified gain of the signal prior to triggering, or could actually set the level required to generate a trigger with a comparator.I don't think noise is too much of a problem, but hitting anywhere on the kit, including the stand can potentially generate an unwanted impulse. Even an overenthusiastic fellow band member can generate a false trigger by jumping around.It's a difficult problem, that I've never seen solved entirely to my satisfaction. I use my kit for recording only, and I always edit the midi stream, so I'm very aware of all the false triggering that does occur.Paul Haneberg------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <FONT COLOR="#000099">Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease?Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts!</FONT><A HREF="http://us.click.yahoo.com/pKxVKC/UOnJAA/n1hLAA/VpLolB/TM"><B>Click Here!</B></A>--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links<∗> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/motm/<∗> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: motm-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com<∗> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/