I want to use drum triggers to audio IF to MIDI while tracking

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Digital Larry
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I want to use drum triggers to audio IF to MIDI while tracking

Post by Digital Larry » Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:13 pm

Yes, there is KTDrumTrigger but this claims to only work in 32 bit Windows.

http://www.koen.smartelectronix.com/KTDrumTrigger/

Next up there is Steven Slate Trigger 2.0 Platinum, which looks like it would do the job. My only concern is that I already have a ton of drum kits and don't need more. $149 isn't out of the question, but you know. Would rather spend less and be able to use the drum kits I already have.

https://stevenslatedrums.com/trigger-2-platinum/#

Realistically speaking I am talking about using just 3 triggers... 2 from an Alesis mesh snare and a separate kick drum trigger. I actually have an old Ion kit with hard rubber pads and an DDRum DDTi WHICH DOES WORK but I don't really play drums well enough to take advantage of it. I can probably do 1 or 2 things at a time. Plus I would like to reclaim the floor space used by the Ion kit. Recently I've played a couple simple drum tracks in on the keyboard and yes that does work for simple stuff.

Edit - considering my options, I can of course keep the DDTi and just use it with these 3 trigger sources. It's not the worst option and I can still get rid of this old Ion drum kit.

I also see that there is a convert drum to MIDI function in Ableton 10, and I'll try it, but that doesn't work while you are playing which ideally is what I'm after.

Thanks,

DL

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