On board sounds

[ohawker]

Good point about the ISA and don't dis FM! Yeah fair point about making one, wouldn't have much practical use (or much of a market ). I'll just stick to vst for the moment!

As i said earlier theres a chance a free drum sampler may slowly find its way into the community but i was wondering, does anyone know where to get any decent free drum samples without raiding battery 3? i can find basic oneshot samples, but where can i find nice ones, i.e. Velocity layers, stereo and at least 48k?

Also, anyone seen a DIY audio interface? I don't have the cash to fork out for an 8in 8out rackmount commercial one, but studio is growing and so is the demand for audio ports!

[dmitri]

If you really need drum sounds without using a PC it is more financially viable to buy something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=009
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=006
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=012
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=012

and then break out sound generation internals plus control buttons and an LCD(if present) and combine them with a MIDI Drum trigger of your choice. Imho, a DIY drum synthesizer is just not practical.

[ohawker]

Possibly, although from my experience of using these, the sound quality isn't that great, not worthy of MegaDrum anyway I'm only thinking for live performance where VST could be unreliable, or in studios where everything is centered around one PC, and anything that can save a little CPU time is brilliant

I remember seeing a DIY kit on youtube somewhere, and I think the guy said he built a sound module for it, although I can't find the video again! I will track him down and have a word with him

I just think that on-board sounds would give MegaDrum a real edge over its competitors and not only that, it would probably encourage more people to build megadrum than buy a professional unit? I mean, MegaDrum is incredibly functional as it is; I had a play on some expensive Roland drum computer in my local music shop, and although it had the typical Roland fancy stuff, as far as Trigger > MIDI goes, MegaDrum kicked it

Anyway, I'm not a microcontroller programmer, so (much as I would like to ) I can't volunteer to write firmware for or develop a hardware version of Battery 3! However I will do what I can to find out what the internet has to offer, and look into developing something, and get back to anyone who's interested with any findings!

And btw, I'm not pushing for anyone to put any more work or effort in, I'm still amazed by the dedication of everyone on this forum!

ohawker

[ohawker]

OK forget that, he was using sounds on a hidden keyboard

I'll think and get back to everyone.

[der Papst]

I think it's possible to make something like that, but forget small µControllers like ATMega or PIC...

You could build a small "computer" with an Ti OMAP (very powerfull arm-based 32bit-cpu with much stuff integrated) running Linux as OS and a Software-Synthesizer on it, for example Hydrogen.

But i don't know very well samples for hydrogen

[dmitri]

You could build a small "computer" with an Ti OMAP (very powerfull arm-based 32bit-cpu with much stuff integrated) running Linux as OS and a Software-Synthesizer on it, for example Hydrogen.

IMHO, this is the thinking in the right direction. And this is why I bought http://www.developmentboard.net/index.p ... LCD/info/1 to do some research in spare time from the spare time use for MegaDrum development.

[Ken Forgettable]

... thinking in the right direction. And this is why I bought http://www.developmentboard.net/index.p ... LCD/info/1 to do some research in spare time from the spare time use for MegaDrum development.

Putting a MAX812 reset chip (as used in the above) on the existing Megadrum design would be a good start - I'd have more smilies too ;¬\

[dmitri]

... thinking in the right direction. And this is why I bought http://www.developmentboard.net/index.p ... LCD/info/1 to do some research in spare time from the spare time use for MegaDrum development.

Putting a MAX812 reset chip (as used in the above) on the existing Megadrum design would be a good start

I'm sure you did it in your MegaDrum board.

[Ken Forgettable]

... thinking in the right direction. And this is why I bought http://www.developmentboard.net/index.p ... LCD/info/1 to do some research in spare time from the spare time use for MegaDrum development.

Putting a MAX812 reset chip (as used in the above) on the existing Megadrum design would be a good start

I'm sure you did it in your MegaDrum board.

... couldn't get the emulator to work!
[off topic] I have had the PIC corrupt twice now. WinPIC says it was OK and XP enumerated OK but until it was erased and re-flashed there was NOWT [/off topic]

[dmitri]

[off topic] I have had the PIC corrupt twice now. WinPIC says it was OK and XP enumerated OK but until it was erased and re-flashed there was NOWT [/off topic]

Don't worry, you're almost always off topic on any topic