After jamming with a friend’s Boss RC-20 I decided to integrate live looping in my setup. Since I haven’t found any device that completely suits my needs as a drummer, I started to build my own looper device: the Loopdeck. It’s a portable device that fits into a 19″ rack and runs a minimal Linux […]
This time I will try to explain how my MIDI drum trigger system works. As you might have seen in the videos (or live), I am trying to control as many functions as possible using my drumsticks, thus creating an interactive electronic instrument around my drumset. While it will take a larger number of posts […]
It all started with the MIDIbox64 I built back in 2003. I needed a physical controller for some freeware drum machines running on a Windows-laptop, and decided to build one myself using the manuals and schematics you can still find on Thorsten Klose’s uCApps website. It is based on the MIDIbox Hardware Platform and uses […]