One opportunity / challenge when you're kitting out in the autumn on a hobby project (programming being my career - art is my passionate sideline) is that you can ask for stuff for Christmas. IF you can find stuff that has a gift sized price tag, that is. That IF is the challenge.
The only likely candidate on my wish list is the Alesis Controlpad. To get a couple more things put on the list, I thought I'd look into the fact that the hi-hat and kick pedal triggers can be added to it. I started looking for compatibility specs on hi-hat and kick triggers. There's nothing mentioned on the Alesis site regarding interoperability. I could hope ANY apparently correct trigger might work but I've been around tech for 25 years and I know such an assumption is a dangerous one.
I start looking around to try to find out how electronic drum triggers work, only to discover that such information is not clearly explained on any page I was able to find in 10 minutes of google research. I just got repeats of the same old info from one online vendor after another.
Sigh. This is one time, I think, where I'm going to be trundling off to Steve's music to gab with the guys in the drum room and pick their brains. I might even carve out an hour to sit down in the store, set it up with some of their pedal triggers and try them.
The rest of the day was coding and testing, coding and testing. I'm almost ready to move onto a new chunk of work though, which will be most welcome.
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