Rockin' the crappiest drum triggers ever

[caseyandtim]

Hey mr, I really want to set up a single trigger in my shower... I'm planning on using DSP Trigger on my laptop for the drum brain. Do you think the microphone input on my laptop would provide enough amplification to drive a piezo? Thanks

[jacobwalters85]

He can tell me how to make crappy drum triggers, and I can tell him what a vagina feels like.

[mudvainian]

ive seen crapier..... nah nvm tat shit was pretty tight



[alonzomnKS]

hey dude nice drumming, but the drum sound comes from the alesis trigger?, cause maybe im stupid but i thought the IO was only to connect the triggers and then connect a drum module to make the kick, snare, and toms sounds . please answer

[ShooterMaGavin]

@alonzomnKS The alesis trigger i/o will trigger midi notes on your PC through programs like EZ Drummer, Superior Drummer 2.0, etc. It allows you to program which sounds go which trigger and their sensitivities and other various things. I have an alesis drumkit, with the trigger i/o and EZ drummer and it works great for rockin out or recording into programs like fruityloops, cubase, BFD2 etc.

[stongej]

Thats pretty cool...

[drumtravelfun]

...

[pokpoknopy]

Awesome!!!

[plasticPlaystation]

Yeah!

[poxcr]

LOL

[MrGutsy1200]

Gt the job done though hehehe

[drizzit06]

Ok so question for any drummers out there... I've been doing some research and it seems like almost all the really talented drummers out there (Slipknot, Dream Theater, etc.) are using triggers. Would you use triggers for just amplifying and controlling your drum part instead of trying to get the mics set up right, or to add complexity etc to a drum part that you could never actually physically play? I just hate the idea of guys using samples and midis instead of really playing their parts.

[slippedknot99]

@drizzit06

they dont make the drums any easier, nor do they do anything for you, they just give it the sound of your choice, in a nutshell

[Jrim615]

@slippedknot99 they do make it easier. for instance the faceless. therer bass is insanly fast and they use triggers. but with out em they wouldnt sound as clean. and you dont have to put as much effort into hitting it. just tap the bass and it will make the desired sound at a certain sound level

[reclusivesage]

Do you need a hardware drum module to use triggers, or is there a way to do it with just a computer, a nice sequencer, and a library of drum sounds?

[SkooterBush]

that's actually not as bad as my ion e-drums.

[fedejair]

:D

awesome!!

[yatap101]

dude can i have schematic, im inspired to built one like that.. plz......

[johnbambammorgan]

LOL

[ormium]

Can you please indicate a link where one can bye these speakers :)

[OwMyQuach]

radioshack

[12gatochino13]

hahhaha cooool

[doublebass08]

nice. hahaha

[FULAS714x20]

hahaha

[kesslavada3]

whats a good quality trigger, that will give me alot of response to like the slightest tap?

(i.e. Futuremans drumitar)

[HsS1Clan]

ddrum triggers. used world wide great quality

[daftypunka]

That was actually pretty impressive. Didn't sound all that bad, and it seemed like the response wasn't too bad, either.

[pdubs926]

so r thouse suppsot to got on drums or r they for the table cuz i have roland triggars on my drums rite now and they dont look anything like those

[CJtooeasyN]

hahahaha

[DethDaeNossi]

SICK!

[TheVoice22222]

Don't let your cat up there

[THUMBSEY]

thats actually rly sick

[rockon2112yyz]

cheap dose not mean crappy

[GhostmanOnThird]

agreed. they do the job

[iPanicshot]

you can put them on remo prac pads and make a set

[ThePottersWheelPro]

WOW how can I get some triggers

i would love to make a drum kit.

I can get practice pads for $15.00 to $21.00 but I don't have much money so

I will be looking for some kind of plastic.

[yoyojkt]

you should make a tutorial on how to make them

[Section8Films]

agreed.

[PatrickDsX]

agreed. [2]

[guns1rose]

agreed.  [3]

[DoCWaSaBe]

sounds good to me =P

[dementiadeath]

so are all of those cords running into your computer and youre using a program to make the drum sound for each trigger? and if so, then how do you have so many jacks in your computer for each cord?

[gunmansole]

Its good to see the diy appproach. you could use your scope to generate a signal & then use switches taken from a mouse or joystick to trigger the signal into the midi brain.

[BadRabbyDesigns]

Its not totally devoid of velocity... actually with a little tinkering with the TriggerIO you can come up with like 6 or 7 distinct levels per element and map them to different samples in Battery...

The piezos are quite a bit more sensitive if you take them out of any enclosures (like the black plastic housings seen in my video) and just use the element.

[BBoyXy]

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[ScorchinBeats]

I'll buy 10 of em! Haha, nah but that's pretty cool man.

[BTLDrummer]

Great ha

[bamadrummer76]

hell yeah desktop drum set ftw

[speedboy999]

excellent stuff mate - it all sounds good to me so just shows how much money music companies are making by rigging up a bit of electronics in a flash looking box then selling at silly prices!

[AnihilatorPT]

fuck!! :O

i'm impressed!

[sess882vdub]

lol, thats f*kin tits right there

[micahm817]

That would be really cool for some jam band type stuff, make for some cool shows cause you could really post them on anything.

[rbowden123]

that was awesome ahah

[brokenground]

dude that was some awesome shit

[weeksy79]

rockability...5 out of 5. i want it...now :P

[jeffillinois]

You must have been really really really really really REALLY BORED!!!!!! :-)

[TomiBonTomi]

Yesssss!!! :)

[jesuslives6665]

Lol dude your my hero of ghetto drums...

[JordanJames762]

that was pretty cool!!

[mattstaericsta]

that was pretty cool

[phaserwah]

that was pretty cool!

[jester0card]

Fing awesome. 5/5 for sheer cooliness!

[rednotch91]

that kick's ass

[PearlExt]

skills.

[KingGoreGoth]

so you could hook these onto a drumset and record them without using mics? someone plz message me and tell me what are drum triggers

[JuanCarreras1]

triggers pic up the vibration of your drumhead and sends a signal to a module thats al that i know there are alot of video's on youtube explaining what triggers do you can look it up (and my englisch isnt the best)

[fruitbooting132]

so its like an amp to a guitar?

[JuanCarreras1]

guitar to an amp?

[fruitbooting132]

well i meen like how a amp amplifies the sound of a guitar to triggers amplifie the sound of the drum or do they change the sound or w/e

[BadRabbyDesigns]

@fruitbooting132

Nope, not really at all.

These are piezo elements. They are unpowered, and use the piezoelectric effect to generate a small (~300mV) voltage when vibrated or hit.

There is a TriggerIO unit that is sampling the voltage from each of the triggers, and creating a corresponding MIDI note. Run that into a drum sampler such as BFD or Battery and Boom. Electronic drums.

You could use something like this to instrument a drum set (badly) for digital input, but not to record it.

[shanebieda]

@fruitbooting132 It's like a pickup

[wesler10]

NIce

[phattenors]

"Masterful"

lol...that's awesome man. I was crackin up.