Comments on: Download Drumtrig – VST sample replacer

By: Darren Landrum

Darren Landrum — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:07:56 +0000

Heh, I was just kicking around an idea of making sets of piezo triggers, some with different filtering, so as to be discernable by a program. That way, I wouldn’t be limited to the eight inputs on my soundcard. Active filters could be easily made to band-pass a piezo disc in any range.

By: des

des — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:56:57 +0000

Darren, there’s an example on the KTDrumTrigger site of something very similar. As scuzzphut noted above, KT can filter input by frequency, so you can even get away with using fewer microphones than drums. Fun stuff.

By: Darren Landrum

Darren Landrum — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:57:26 +0000

I wonder if this would open up the idea of making some piezo triggers that can be played like a real kit. Record the various clicks and pops that the triggers make, then sample-replace them. Alternatively, the MIDI output of KTDrumTrigger could drive a drum synth in real time.

It’s a thought, anyway.

By: des

des — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:20:02 +0000

Ya, that one’s definitely my favorite. (It’s first in the list on this page: http://www.hometracked.com/2006/04/29/free-drum-replacers/.)

The “velocity sensing,” which Drumtrig lacks, is key for realism, at least outside of electronic music.

By: scuzzphut

scuzzphut — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:03:59 +0000

Alternatively………….

KTDrumTrigger
http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

Blurb
KTDrumTrigger is a VST plugin with custom editor that triggers MIDI notes based on the sound level of the incoming audio stream in different frequency bands. It allows you to “detect” occurrences of percussive sounds in an audio stream and send out a MIDI event whenever that happens.

This plugin has three channels and each can be tuned – so you could do kick, snare and hats in one pass if your original recording is decent.