USB electric drum kits & best custom interface for sampl

[Kragle Profile Website]

I was planning to get an electric drum kit and modify it so i could play the amen break on it or at least trigger samples on it, which program would be the best for doing this?

samples and triggering, when you hit the pad over and over i want the sample to cutoff and begin again anyway of doing this?

Cheers would be sick to do this and get something live going!

[divtech Profile Website]

1. get a drumset which you can plug into a computer, if necessary, you can splice the wires to get it connected to a usb cable (ex. xbox controller->usb)

2. find a program which can convert whatever info the drumpad is sending into midi (much of the time it is originally interpreted as HID so you would need an HID to MIDI converter)

i know there are a number of programs which do this but i personally have never had any breakthrough success with any as i have tried to do exactly what you are trying in the past

this will probably be the most difficult step

3. if you use ableton its just a matter of having the program accept the midi commands, map them out , and triggering your samples in the same channel, they will cutoff the previous sample, unless you set the launch type of the sample to "trigger" and the quantization to "none" the sample will play on beat with your tempo.

[Kragle Profile Website]

thank you for the reply! but it sounds quite difficult but never the less im willing to try! when i have the money for an electric drum kit il have a go at doing it will be a good challenge indeedy did you manage to get it running using this setup Divtec?

[divtech Profile Website]

thank you for the reply! but it sounds quite difficult but never the less im willing to try! when i have the money for an electric drum kit il have a go at doing it will be a good challenge indeedy did you manage to get it running using this setup Divtec?

no i never ended up getting it
i got caught up by the fact that i was switching to windows 7 and at the time i couldnt find an hid to midi program that was built for 7 but there def may be one now.

i may continue to attempt this and if i find success i will let you know


as a side note, if you could find a drumpad that put out midi data from the get-go then things would probably work fine.

[Kragle Profile Website]

yeah keep me posted i do have an electric drum kit here but it doesnt have USB function and quite limited to what you can do with it, but i think it does have a midi output not sure though.. windows 7 seems good but dont it use up alot of ram and has quite a few compatibility issues?

[DISEMBOWELLED Profile]

I think yamaha dd-55 has midi output. however its not a proper full-dize drum kit, more like a kind of desktop drumkit.

im sure you could get a used one for less than £100