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spradders wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 11:45
I was looking for a basic midi trigger pedal; you could make one reasonably cheaply using Arduino but it all seemed very teccie to me. Then I thought about getting an old secondhand electric drum kit module and using that with a foot pedal. But still haven't found a tidy, small, simple solution yet. I want it to trigger a bass drum sample, so I can use it like a stomp box.
Something like these stomp pedals? LINK
Or an Alesis SamplePad (basic model is enough and has connections for pedals)
FZiegler wrote: ↑08 May 2024, 06:43
You'd need to find out about velocity controlling: I don't think that you would easily control volume by a finger or foot tap, so you should rather send a fixed velocity signal.
Thanks FZiegler. Yeah, that seems to be the caveat with the Akais - the pads are velocity controlled and there's no way to make them 'fixed' to the same volume regardless of how hard you hit it!
Thanks maxpiano! That Roland pedal looks cool, but looks like it only triggers one sample at a time, since there's only one pad? Not sure if it would work for playing multiple samples within a song... like if I want to trigger 3 samples in succession during a song.
Maybe it is cheaper to buy a Bluetooth MIDI pedal and use it with a tablet/smartphone app to play the sample?
This definitely sounds possible and worth investigating! Thanks again!
If I had problems like this, I wouldn't quirk around too much but add a second keyboard (with as many foot pedals as you want) or ask another musician in the band to play an auxiliary keyboard (or pad - even a Nord drum 3P or the like).
FZiegler wrote: ↑09 May 2024, 10:55
If I had problems like this, I wouldn't quirk around too much but add a second keyboard (with as many foot pedals as you want) or ask another musician in the band to play an auxiliary keyboard (or pad - even a Nord drum 3P or the like).
That or now you make me think also about the classic organ bass-pedals (MIDI of course and connected to a HW sample player or a computer/smartphone running an appropriate app, as I mentioned before)