any news?

[Marco]

Hallo
I'm a drummer from Italy based in Berlin.

I'm working on an inflatable E-drums.

I'm looking for something like midi sticks to be able
To drum directly on the inflatable by mapping different areas.

Is ur project still running?


Marco

[Andrew Cordani]

Hi Marco,
I'm a little confused. The sticks generate MIDI, but your inflatable E-Drums (a very cool idea, BTW!) *also* generate MIDI?

[carmstr835]

I also am looking for midi sticks. I have a percussionist friend that does an awesome job of creating music for a percussion line (drum corps) snares, quads, bases cymbals and such, however he spends an enormous amount of time trying to put it in music form, if we had a midi in that he could play the notes into "finale", his amount of writing time would be slashed into a fraction of the time. Are these sticks capable of sending midi signals such as double and triple stroke rolls, ruffs, paradiddles, 6-tuplets, flams, and drags as well as reflex rudiments?

[Andrew Cordani]

Hi carmstr835,
Sorry it's taken me a while to address your question. My answer's "Probably!" In order to generate the MIDI, they'd have to use a VST Host with Line input (possibly on the same computer and using a virtual MIDI link), or on a separate computer (PC/Mac/Linux which has Line Input and MIDI Output, and connecting its MIDI Out to Finale's MIDI in.

Each stick is velocity sensitive and is capable of identifing multiple materials and mapping them to MIDI note On/offs. So each of the rudiments you describe would map to a sequence of MIDI notes from each stick. Have you heard the demo here
Please note, however, that sadly, the sticks are still prototypes, and not yet on the market.