Sunday, April 01, 2007

Moving forward

There's been some good progress recently. Started designing the custom controller with friends who are helping with the construction. Nothing's final yet, but it's looking percussive. Bought some shotblast rubber for the pad areas.

Sunday: Did a full technical test today by connecting up all the equipment in the chain:

Controller
(Currently drumkit)
\/
Roland TD-6
Drum module
\/
MIDISport 2x2
USB MIDI Interface
\/
PC Laptop
Running 'Reason 3'

After a rather scary half hour of not knowing why it wasn't working at all, I solved a few problems and eventually got a result (big relief). Had some great fun triggering low pitch 'drum spin' sounds using the CY12 C/R cymbal.

Now I just need to develop some really good 'combinator' patches.

No comments: