Abstract:
With the rise of electronic music and home production in the music industry,
drum triggering is gaining popularity and is now used widely by professionals and
amateurs in live and studio environments. Drum triggering allows a musician to sample
various sounds using mechanisms to detect a drum strike, which then triggers a midi
sample. Typical setups involve sensors or “triggers” for each drum that are wired to a
drum module, which either directly triggers samples or generates midi data. There are no
current products that allow for cheap wireless triggering, which are portable and easy to
setup. This design project aims to fill that gap in the market by developing a system that
uses just one microphone and a microcontroller to distinguish between multiple drums.
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