DIY drumkat

[SteelProphet]

Is that possible? I'm really fascinated by those things

[SteelProphet]

BUMP, damnit!!! 50 views 0 replies :(

[rhjanes]

possible? sure. Why? Grab a used one for $400 on ebay. Check the upgrade avaliabilty first on alternatemode.com.
Here's the deal. The Kat's use a pressure sensitive membrane. Looks like NASA developed it. Each of those 10 pads, may be velocity split into 4 different pads (you are up to 40 voices now). You do this and control it by the strength of the hit, maybe program a soft touch to be a shaker, a bit harder and get a tamborine, etc. Now, each of those 40 MIDI voices has about 100 parameters to tune. That Kat has about the same horse power as last years PC did. THEN, you take all that, send it out to a brain to make the sounds!!! I've even MIDI connected them together and played two at once, into a brain, sound module, home PC. Oh, by the way, the kats also accept 4 foot switches to program it, a kik input, a hat input and 9 1/4 inputs. (I can take 9 other pads, plug them into the kat, plus the two pedals, plus the 40 voices....what is that....51 inputs!!!!!! some complicated stuff. Wanna get totally blown away? Call up Alternate mode, talk to technical help, tell them you are looking to buy one and what all can it do etc. Use the restroom first....they will talk for 2 hours and only cover the 'basics' of what those things can be programed to do.

Ray

[Kanbasher]

Yeah, those Drumkats are unreal. I had one back about 10 years or so ago. I only scratched the surface of what it could do back then. One might need to be a NASA scientist or engineer to use all the functions. Kinda wish I still had it.

[SteelProphet]

possible? sure. Why? Grab a used one for $400 on ebay. Check the upgrade avaliabilty first on alternatemode.com.
Here's the deal. The Kat's use a pressure sensitive membrane. Looks like NASA developed it. Each of those 10 pads, may be velocity split into 4 different pads (you are up to 40 voices now). You do this and control it by the strength of the hit, maybe program a soft touch to be a shaker, a bit harder and get a tamborine, etc. Now, each of those 40 MIDI voices has about 100 parameters to tune. That Kat has about the same horse power as last years PC did. THEN, you take all that, send it out to a brain to make the sounds!!! I've even MIDI connected them together and played two at once, into a brain, sound module, home PC. Oh, by the way, the kats also accept 4 foot switches to program it, a kik input, a hat input and 9 1/4 inputs. (I can take 9 other pads, plug them into the kat, plus the two pedals, plus the 40 voices....what is that....51 inputs!!!!!! some complicated stuff. Wanna get totally blown away? Call up Alternate mode, talk to technical help, tell them you are looking to buy one and what all can it do etc. Use the restroom first....they will talk for 2 hours and only cover the 'basics' of what those things can be programed to do.

Ray

Damn!! Sounds like value :oops: