a DIY midi drum pad

[WellzTheDude]

Bird at 2:43 lol

[valterbarberini]

Did you see a spider or fly walking at his experiment?

[TheGhettostylus]

is that an old sampler you have on the desk?

might not be but it looks a lot like one!

[gang1ion]

@TheGhettostylus No, I think you're looking at my oscilloscope.

[TheGhettostylus]

@gang1ion I don't really know what that is, but thanks for the reply.

[gang1ion]

@TheGhettostylus It's a tool for viewing variations in electronic signals. Pretty essential if you're working with electronics.

[mikesyr]

Really glad I found this. Great job.

[therunningmanlives]

this guy rules

[Eyemallfunkedup]

Fly at 2:17



[gang1ion]

@Eyemallfunkedup Believe it or not, you're not the first person to have noticed that! ;-)

[Sfilm3]

Dude this is amazing

[gang1ion]

@Sfilm3 Cheers :-)

[mickmon]

Inspiring..

[gang1ion]

@mickmon Glad you like it. :-) There's loads of stuff like this here and elsewhere on the web if you're looking for ideas to build yourself. instructables is good.

[SexyEarHole]

This is the man that will build the super laser that will melt the asteroid that is hurling towards earth! Love this character.

[beaudeeley]

Nice work!

[gang1ion]

@beaudeeley Thanks. Some time soon I'll be doing a bit of work on the software to make it more usable. I'll post here when it's done.

[priatnasuardi]

@gang1ion good job mate, im a drummer, this pad will be a special pad for snare, feed it to midi in of the brain u'll get the most realistic electronic snare ever...im suscribing you

[gang1ion]

@priatnasuardi Glad you like it.

[priatnasuardi]

@gang1ion any further development or progress?

[gang1ion]

@priatnasuardi I have some ideas about improving the interface and the software, but haven't had the time to do them yet.

[bewaretheintertubes]

@dasbeats lol leave the poor guy alone. 12 hours and 40 redbulls of working on this and I'd look haggard too.

[ErMasCaniero]

@bewaretheintertubes for sure, with that shivering, he can't steal tambourines... surefire!!! LOL

[NIHMusic]

Awesome!

[gang1ion]

@NIHMusic Thanks :-)

[DasBeatz]

Bloody hell this guy needs to clean up a little bit!

[gang1ion]

@TheSnakeSystems The thing is, I can help with ideas, but you'll have to do the work yourself if you want to make this thing. Also, with things like that there may well be other people who know more than I do, so look around. You might be better off trying to build a separate controller using a micro board like the arduino (dot cc) that adds the functions you want, and then integrate that with the program you are using (mixxx is supposed to be good), rather than struggle with herucles firmware.

[kelleydv]

Never mind, I checked the link. Really cool project, the drum looks sensitive from the demo

[kelleydv]

Awesome! What were you using do generate sound from the midi input?

[dubmonkeyaudio]

damn nice videos, i wisj i could be talent to make these things.. i actually want to make my own midi controller with mostly nobs .. is that hard and will it be alot of money?? thanks !!

[gang1ion]

@dubmonkeyaudio Not too hard. Look at the arduinio (dot cc) microcontroller board. Their wiki has instructions on outputting midi, and reading potentiometers (variable resistors) from the analogue inputs is pretty straightforward. If you want more than 6 knobs, you'll have to get clever, as that's how many inputs the arduino has. One way to do it would be to make a (e.g) 6x6 matrix of knobs and poll it using software. Instructables (dot com) probably has tutorials on stuff like this.

[jihadjihad6]

leave this dude alone , be nice if more people like him made videos of building such devices, there are people out there who are interested m8 , thanx for the video

[gang1ion]

@jihadjihad6 Thanks. Glad you like the video. :)

[ThisHolographicLife]

@gang1ion will you make more videos of this or any other DJ equipment?

[gang1ion]

@ThisHolographicLife Not sure. I'm thinking about a possible second version of the drum pad that will do multitouch and sense continuous pressure variations, so if that works out then I might post another video.

[ThisHolographicLife]

@gang1ion cool ;D

[thebigbadwolf96]

its cool, but your insecurity annoys me...

[gang1ion]

@thebigbadwolf96 Well thanks for the cool bit. I didn't realise I had that effect on people.

I think it's cool too. I've just been looking at a modular synth called ingen that looks good as an easier way of making patches for it than supercollider. Also thinking about a different version of the same idea which will do multitouch - similar to vimeo.com slash 2433260 but hopefully with simpler electronics.

[thebigbadwolf96]

@gang1ion no doubt about it, youre brilliant. ima just go buy a kaossilator, cos im lazy...

[gang1ion]

@thebigbadwolf96 Ah. That looks nice, but it doesn't have a strike velocity dimension, and it's a bit small for 2 handed drumming.

[thebigbadwolf96]

@gang1ion fair enuf :)

[hai2you2]

@thebigbadwolf96 Thanks for letting us know how we can cater to your needs and desires. Come to think of it, your comment could not be more self-centered and that annoys me. Who the fuck gives a shit what you think? Crawl back into your cave.

[thebigbadwolf96]

its cool, but your insecurity annoys me....



[MaghoxFr]

This is amazing I wish I had the skills to build one!

[gang1ion]

@MaghoxFr Thanks. It's not actually so hard to make - you just need some very basic carpentry and metalwork skills (cutting and drilling) to build the pad, and also to be able to read a circuit diagram and solder it up. The difficult part is writing your own synths for it - this takes a bit of programming and audio knowledge.

[MaghoxFr]

@gang1ion I'm confident on the carpentry and metal work part...but couldn't you just use soft synths to play it? I use linux and there's lots of synths. If it's just sending MIDI CC messages it should work. But of course I don't know anything about programming, specially the part you said that you could assign two instruments to the same pad, that's awesome.

[gang1ion]

@MaghoxFr You could use a softsynth; the only problem would be finding one that worked well and sounded good in this context. I think most softsynths are meant for tuned instruments, not percussive sounds. Also you don't usually have the idea with a softsynth of the sound varying according to two dimensions.

You could try using a modular synth and build patches with that. There are a few of these for linux - you create a synth by wiring boxes together in the GUI.

[MaghoxFr]

@gang1ion I see, I'm not that good with tweaking soft synths so I usually end up using the presets and patches, but I'll see what I can do. Thanks for everything mate, keep up with the awesome videos! You sure seem to know your stuff!

[gang1ion]

@MaghoxFr P.S. If you need more help with building one, PM me and I can send you my email address.

[irvingdmotion]

bug pet?

@ 2:25

[Griffinnn89]

this is a smart cookie right here

[rh001YT]

cool invention! I think South Asians would love this because they could get all their drums sounds on one pad, with all variations inbetween.

[gang1ion]

@rh001YT Glad you like it. :-) One of the effects I've done sounds like a bass drum on one side and a snare on the other, so you could use it for western music as well.

[sponderman]

ur like the doc from Back to the future

[gang1ion]

@sponderman Hey thanks - I liked that film when I first saw it.

[artgeezer]

this dude lives in my town

[gang1ion]

@artgeezer Hello. Hope you like the video. :-)

[gregorys1989]

 this guy has to smoke bows

[electriccwecozz]

that guy scares me

[TheSoundFever]

WOW very nice man :O :D

[gang1ion]

@TheSoundFever Thanks :D

[gang1ion]

@CrazySteezMan Cheers :-~

[tw28st]

i have painted a picture

i want to touch it

and hear information

can you help me

[gang1ion]

@tw28st maybe but I'm not sure what you want. Can you be a bit more specific? What do you think information sounds like? All sound and images can be represented as information.

[popcorno]

Cool stuff! I will check the instructables and give it a shot when I get some free time. I guess the fly at 2:17 wanted to make some beats too.

[gang1ion]

@popcorno Glad you like it! Let me know if you build one. :)

[KlandestinoRec]

Excelent Job! Congrats!

[tw28st]

a lot of chicken in the left ear

but it works

if you was a painter

like finger paint you could paint

music

[gang1ion]

@tw28st I kind of like that so thanks :)

[Pipotron3000]

Very nice work :D

New music interfaces create the future of music

Nothing more boring than a midi keyboard ;)

[gang1ion]

@Pipotron3000 Thanks a lot! :D

[firehandszarb]

really pleased I found this video. Thanks for sharing. Your project has loads of potential.

[100roberthenry]

cool man....like it a lot...

[111Sabad]

nice work bra

[is4i]

genius!

[stk931]

from 2:16 to 2:48 there is a fly on your pad. and just barely you can see one flying in the top left hand corner of the camera at 2:40. sorry i notice these things

[gang1ion]

@Northlaine8624 If you said something you had actually thought about, it would be more interesting for both of us...

[balot912]

fuck what u did was nice but you look weird. abd talk weird. sorry

[gang1ion]

@balot912 Just shows not to judge by appearances... :)

[mouldeck]

@balot912 speaking about talking weird, you should use spell-check and use a proper punctuation. that really helps to make a point

[ceetheproducer]

@balot912

nahhh this guy in the vid looks perfectly normal, i renember as a kid my dad had a mate who looked jus like this guy, plenty of people in the uk look like this guy.

theres nothing at all wierd about how this guy looks or how he talks, i fink a lot of u guys who are slaitin this guy r from the usa n u jus dont understand that this mans hair, clothes and laid back persona are just his style.

hes just a trendy fella, WHO HAPPENS TO KNOW HIS SHIT so stop the haitin people.

[johnnypdeuce]

@ceetheproducer STOP THE HAITIAN PEOPLE!

[lukeykookey]

2:21 the fly on the foam lol!

[danabeyin]

instead of describing the function of the parameters, it would be veeeery useful to describe how the code interprets the input from the 4 piezo sensors i guess,

but the concept is very nice thanks for inspiring

[gang1ion]

@danabeyin The code is available at the web address shown at the end of the video if you want to see how it works. Roughly the way it works is you create a set of calibration data by striking the pad at measured points, then the software uses a least squares curve fitting algorithm to fit a pair of simple equations to this. Once you have the coefficients for the equations, they can be used to convert the 4 sensor readings into x-y coords.

[AJollyGoodFelon]

I found the piezos on ebay for $2.49 each.

[kpisman]

I noticed the fly on table, very cool ;)

[gang1ion]

@kpisman A friend of mine said I should have eaten the fly then carried on talking, but I'm not that desperate for youtube notoriety! ;)

[davchandler]

@gang1ion rofl that would have been funny xD

[spinecraft]

you are a total badass. i've subscribed to future videos and look forward to seeing more.

[gang1ion]

thanks :)

[lisco1978]

gang1ion jestes moim idolem ...

skad wytrzasnales tak zarąbistą vintage sklejke ha ?

[satorichris]

Good vid, useful close-ups, clear demo, Sounds like rain on a steel drum.

I did notice one bug in the machine though....;-)

Totally added to the geeky ambiance. Very post-Neo too, that bit with the scrolling code. Great to come back off holiday and see this.

[Lagorce99]

Hello, Andy, what a surprise! Great! Next time you come to Lagorce take the drum pad with you.Love M.

[mjw368]

Wow, Andy - that last improv sounded a bit like a John Cage piece from the 40s. The technical side is over my head, alas.

Martin

[gang1ion]

@mjw368 Thanks. Good to hear from you.

[colon0s]

COOL!!!!!

[guscarreno]

Quite AWESOME!!! Never knew you were into electronics. I'll have to catch up on our next GeekUp m8!!

[strummer43]

Nice one. Heard about Arduino on Guardian Tech Podcast a while back. Interesting to see an example of how it can be used.

[Ralpharama]

Good stuff!

[garantuan]

Nice one Andy, Democratic tactility!!! I like the fly as well.

[gang1ion]

@garantuan Thanks. :) I was hoping no-one would notice the fly! :P