Alright...well I'm new here so this may be even more awkward as a first post than intended, but here goes.
Electronic drums suck. My drummer knows it, even I know it. Something far less rewarding about striking a lifeless plastic pad, much like playing bass on your laptop, or something, in an audio application - like Garageband
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I build my own drums (and bass guitars as well for that matter) for our tiny little band. What I am doing is making an acoustic drum and mic'ing it up with a Pulse Red Hot DR-1 drum trigger underneath the top batter drumhead. However, instead of running this directly into something like an amplifier or PA, I want to run it into a sound bank which would then be amplified. This would allow my drummer to upload a selection of samples onto it (or simply one) and play it like an electronic drum with an excellent acoustic look and feel.
Why not get a drum synth you ask? Well, that's the trick. I want this 'sound bank' to be small enough to house both the piezo pickup and the bank INSIDE the drum and just drill a hole for the output. That's why if the bank has only room for one sample, that would be just fine - say the sound of a person clapping for instance.
I just need help finding this god forsaken sound-making-object (for lack of a better word)...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chris
PS - My apologies if anything like this has been brought up before or what I am looking for is completely obvious...
