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I've been babysitting Byeong Sam Jeon's telematic drum circle telematicdrumcircle.net/ back here in Troy, NY while it's exhibited in Singapore at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008.

I got a little bored with re-aligning switches for the pneumatics and resetting various modules, so I dug through Byeong Sam's code. Since it was just 16 serial ports, each at 9600 baud receiving characters '1' through '9' for velocity, I wrote a Processing app to translate MIDI notes to control the drums.

So now I can control them with my Trigger Finger, or using sequenced rhythms in Live.

More "real" documentation from Byeong Sam: vimeo.com/3049854

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  • Memo Akten plus 1 year ago
    pretty cool!
  • Kyle McDonald 1 year ago
    Thanks :) Surprisingly, there's actually still a significant delay when you're plugged directly in. The MIDI input to arm movement delay is very small, but it takes the arm a good 40-60ms to actually hit the drum (longer with some of them).
  • abdullah alhaqbani 1 year ago
    So this is why the synchronization is little missed up :)
    But good job anyway!
    Question: does you app translates the MIDI on-the-fly? or offline? if it's done offline then maybe you can tweak the translation to avoid the miss-sync
  • Kyle McDonald 1 year ago
    There are actually a few reasons for the synchronization issues when you're using the TDC via the web. The actuation time is one, but equally significant is that Byeong Sam has a quantization algorithm running so it's easier for people to play in time with each other (if they're playing quickly).

    Everything is done in real time/online here.
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  • Kyle McDonald 1 year ago
    I'm sure Byeong Sam would enjoy any publicity, feel free to spread this :)
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  • Mike Shields 1 year ago
    Yes, but has it gone viral yet? :) Someone needs to send this to the fine folks @AOTS.
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  • Mike Shields 1 year ago
    Sounds good. I accidentally deleted my comment, so, I reposted :)

    I'll see what I can do.
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  • Rafael de Oliveira 1 year ago
    Great!! Very good!!
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  • Janelle Burdell 1 year ago
    I'm with you Kyle-nice job with the LIVE seq and triggering. Wow, guess Im surprised he didn't write and app to use MIDI notes. Hm..Couldn't get it to happen online tho. I'll have to check it out again later. Thanks again!
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  • JON ZOMBIE plus 1 year ago
    wow, that is an amazing little experiment. cheers to you for putting this up.
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  • Renato A.C. 11 months ago
    dá para montar uma escola de samba inteira , quesito harmonia nota 10!
    A grande vantagem é não ter que pagar cachê pra músico nenhum , fora a dor de cabeça que eles costumam provocar em tours.
    Parabéns!
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  • Gabriel Shalom plus 10 months ago
    awesome!
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