{"id":4551,"date":"2019-02-01T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:42:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:42:18","slug":"free-vst-turns-any-mic-into-a-midi-drum-trigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"Free VST turns any mic into a MIDI drum trigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was looking to buy a MIDI drum trigger, and they are priced between $170 and $700, or more (!)<\/p>\n

So I thought “I’ll bet there’s an app for that….”<\/p>\n

Sure enough. This free 32-bit VST, KTDrumTrigger by Smart Electronix<\/a> is the answer.<\/p>\n

Available for Windows or Mac, still in beta, but works well. You can control a drum synth, bass synth, or any synth with it.<\/p>\n

You’ll need to wear headphones while using this, to avoid feedback. It could probably be used live with a very directional mic or a contact mic, and a software gate.<\/p>\n

This VST runs well in 64-bit Reaper, here are the settings I used to control another free VST, the 909 emulator drum synth, DR-910:<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Not sure what it will be in other VSTs, I came up with this solution in a few minutes of experimentation.)<\/p>\n

I tried different settings and came up with these settings to trigger different drums (different MIDI note numbers) with different sides of the pad I used (a piano bench):<\/p>\n

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(Your settings may vary with that, depending on your mic and what VST synth you’re sending it to).<\/p>\n

I’m using this mic<\/a>, these drum sticks<\/a>, and this piano bench<\/a>. You don’t drum on the mic itself, you drum near<\/em> the mic. Like on the piano bench in the top photo.<\/p>\n

It has a bit of latency, so you’ll need to do some quantizing, and I recommend on beats of 110 BPM or less.<\/p>\n

I also ordered this drum practice pad<\/a> and this contact mic<\/a>, to make a more permanent input device. Will tape the contact mic to the bottom of the practice pad.<\/p>\n

All in all, a great solution to a problem that usually costs many dollars to solve.<\/p>\n

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I was looking to buy a MIDI drum trigger, and they are priced between $170 and $700, or more (!) So I thought “I’ll bet there’s an app for that….” Sure enough. This free 32-bit VST, KTDrumTrigger by Smart Electronix is the answer. Available for Windows or Mac, still in beta, but works well. You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}