Midisticks and ROCK BAND DRUMS

[Nathan]

Just a question/idea.

Has anyone thought about combining the velocity sensitive nature of midisticks, with the ROCK BAND drum kit?

ROCK BAND drums can be used with PCs but lack sensitivity. Midisticks can provide that.

It would be pretty awesome to be able to pick up midisticks, plug them into a PC via USB and with the Rock Band drum pads be able to control a software drum machine.

Rock band pads would control the drum sound to be played, while the sticks would provide the rest of the data.



Nathan.
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[Andrew Cordani]

Hi Nathan,

You'd certainly receive velocity information from Midisticks, but the instruments mightn't be right - unless the "Rock Band" pads were individually identifiable in some way (the only ones I've seen, the pads are all identical, so the instrument/note MIDI value might not be what you'd expect).

But I'm not sure how you could combine the velocities from the sticks with the notes from the pads - I suppose you could take the nearest (in time), and combine the signals from them, somehow.

[Nathan]

The ROCK BAND drum pads are independant controls and the sound played back would be controlled depending on which pad was hit within a timing threshold (say a few milliseconds). If 2 pads were hit at nearly the exact same time (less than the threshold) then the best you could do is average the velocity and trigger the 2 sounds accordingly. The pads themselves arent terribly fast in response but they are good enough. It would be a cool way to market your midisticks to novice drummers to practice w/o investing in a whole drum kit.

-N.