MOTM

The latest sale catalog from the evil chainstore (the one with the 
initials G.C.) had stick-on pizeo triggers by Pintech @ 3 for $30 ... 
how could I resist?  So I put 'em on the snare, floor tom & rack tom 
(I am NOT a drummer; I just happen to own 50% interest in the kit 
that sits in my studio), plugged 'em into -800's, and started 
pounding the skins.

Wow!  Fun stuff.

I actually found it more useful to plug them into the "gate" input of 
the -800.  That way, the intensity of each drum hit would determine 
how far into the attack phase the EG would go, and thereby the 
maximum amplitude of the EG output.  This would then vary depending 
on the setting of the "decay" (which, in "gate-only" mode on the 
unmodified -800, actually controls the attack time) knob.

It was also interesting to plug a trigger into the "sync" input of 
the -320, so one drum could start the LFO, which would then modulate 
the sounds generated by the other two drum triggers.  Or to plug a 
trigger into the "step" input of an analog sequencer, so that each 
hit of the snare would make both toms sound different.

Has anyone else used drum triggers like this to control your 
modular?  Especially for things other than simulating drum sounds 
(seems to me that a sampler would work just fine for that).  
Definitely worth checking out for people who (like me) think that 
there are more interesting means than keyboards of controlling your 
synths ...

    -Doug
     ceres@...