I'm thinking about building something that lets me trigger samples with
my voice when I'm playing live. If I could get a headset mic that
wasn't too sensitive it might work. Has anyone attempted something
like this before.

Paul

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I'm thinking about building something that lets me trigger samples with
my voice when I'm playing live. If I could get a headset mic that
wasn't too sensitive it might work. Has anyone attempted something
like this before.

Paul


Hi Paul,

Its probably been done before although I can't think of an example right
now. Implementing it depends on what you really want to do. Do you just
have one sample you want to trigger ( just use a mic into a trigger to midi
converter ) or do you have many different ones? If you have many, how do you
want to select which one to trigger? Bring up the samples by hand on the
sampler? Several mics, one for each sample? Volume sensitivity selection?
( soft, loud and louder triggers three different samples ) Pitch selection?
( you would need a pitch to midi trigger )

Also, are you planning on only using your voice for triggering sample or do
you plan on singing too?

Start looking at the hardware made for drum and guitar synths ( like Alesis
and Roland products ).

Best of luck!

--
John L Rice

On Thu, 05 May 2005 08:06:39 -0700, LightningRod wrote:


I'm thinking about building something that lets me trigger samples with
my voice when I'm playing live. If I could get a headset mic that
wasn't too sensitive it might work. Has anyone attempted something
like this before.

You can do this kind of thing with a modular program called pure data
(pd) if you want to build it yourself. You could even use some band pass
filters and multiple rms detectors so different pitches triggered
different samples. It's a little tricky to get to grips with, but for
custom things like this it's really nice.

Check out the bonk~ pd module. It's really for detecting percussive sounds
and triggering stuff, but may do what you want.



Paul