trigger MIDI from live drum mics???

[bigdog]

hi all and thanks for a great forum
I play live drums in a duo and am trying to figure out how i can take a line out of my mixer with say a snare drum mic and trigger a MIDI event in Ableton live? the application would be say as a way to play a pad when a low gained mic pics up a loud hit on a floor tom??
the second question is..... how could i quickly switch from one song to another, with say a different key and a bunch of different sounds set up???
cheers and thanks in advance for any suggestions

[outershpongolia]

I'd say your best bet is acoustic drum triggers.

We have triggers on our kick and snare - running into a Roland SPD-s - triggers a MIDI note with velocity sensitivity so we can assign a sound per patch on the Roland OR send a MIDI note into Live for any kind of reason (been thinking about live sidechain compression ducking with a real kick drum, might be kind of crazy)

So you'd have a trigger on the drum you want to trigger the sound, in live you could have a Chain in an Instrument Rack for each song, and a clips on each scene that put the chain selector on the right song at the right time - drum racks or whatever your triggering goes on each chain..

Should get you thinkin'

[bigdog]

thnx for that...ill do some investigation today...cheers

[outershpongolia]

but to answer your actual question, there is programs that will trigger MIDI events based on incoming audio.. So search around for that if you're set on using audio, cheers

[cids]

Have a look at this one, maybe this is what you're looking for...

http://www.alesis.com/triggerio

Alesis Trigger|iO