midi laser drum

using a laser to send midi

Category:

Music

Tags:

• laser
• midi
• drums
• controller

[mykeymuse]

hey I just got a line laser, i was gonna try that with BFD, and a make controller.

what optical device is that? I was gonna try photocells I bought by a bag for like 2 bucks, how do you get the touch sensitivity

[db3ll]

the thing I'm using is half of a slotted optical switch (you actually have to cut if in half). Photocells may work, I haven't tried them. The velocity sensitivity can be thought of as a timed pulse... the longer it takes for the object to move through the beam, the slower (and therefore "softer") the hit is. It takes for granted that you'll be using the same object to strike each time. Laser levels are available for $5 at harbor freight.

[mykeymuse]

what controller do you convert to midi with? will it work with OSC?

[db3ll]

I use a Ubicom (scenix) SX-28 because, at the time that I started on this kinda stuff (7 years ago) it was the fastest available, which let me code very sloppily and use brute speed to cover up messy code. I don't know what OSC is. Any microcontroller should work... it's just on/off.

[mykeymuse]

would be cool to have a whole "air kit" you could play with regular drum sticks..position 5 or 6 laser lines..Look ma, no skins!

[db3ll]

Yes, I've done just that. The problem ends up being that you need fog to make the beams visible, else it just looks like you're having a seizure.

[thevoicebeatslam]

hey, I like what you are doing!! I have a one man band. I play a drum kit with my feet. Is it possible to get 18 lazers working at once, and then have it midi compatible. if you type in CLAUDE SAMSON, THE VOICEBEAT...you'll see what I got going on. I want to get into doing what I do what lazers? do you think that my set up can be improved with lazers. If you reply, I thank you in advance.....thanks ..Claude

[radishfest]

yessssss

i'm going to try to do something similar with laser gloves and a pointer. ideally i'll have a way to associate wavelengths with instruments/sounds and it will be supremely badass.

[bradless04]

Kipkay on youtube will show you exactly how you can turn this same idea, into a security system, check out his youtube page for it

[bradless04]

did say how he did it, weren't you listening?

[billm90]

I would like to do some of the stuff your doing, but maybe a few notches back... I dont wanna run through processors and computers. I kind of want to make a self contained instrument,that does these neat things. hmm... you got the gears turning now

[graphattic]

With no kind of disrespect, i nowadays believe that we can play drums even by throwing fried rice on o a midi rigged plate or trigger drums with farts and low latency smell sensors, but still , do we have any good drumers left?

[RobinBeltran]

Pure Data? What Software uses?

[Musiccalculater]

i want to line up a bunch of these and assign a whole drum kit.

[JusticeBeatz]

UNIDENTIFIED SOUND OBJECTS*

LOL