Re: Roland PK-5, Ketron 9PEMK8, or else?

[Tim Mungenast <tmungenast@verizon.net>]

I say stick the piezos into stuffed animals and pound them to trigger your sounds. Impossible to miss.
Use different animal shapes and colors to help keep track of different pitches and sounds.
Imagine the joy of beating the sh*t out of a Barney plush toy!


--- On Wed, 7/18/12, bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Roland PK-5, Ketron 9PEMK8, or else?
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 9:33 AM

Radio shack sells a peizo device, #273-064 I believe. After prying it out of the case and soldering a guitar cable to it, it makes and excellent contact mic, or trigger for drum inputs.
rig

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From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: Roland PK-5, Ketron 9PEMK8, or else?

One way could be to pick up a Behringer FCB1010, set it to hold MIDI
notes and connect a bass synth with a MIDI cable. One bank holds ten
notes, which should work fine for a key. Then you may kick the bank
switch for playing in a different key.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:02 PM, daniel <daniel@ithinkwethink.org> wrote:
> I'm going on tour in Sept with my group 3dCosby (our bandcamp) and we're now
> rocking as a duo. It's sweet and we have great chemistry as a duo
> (considering we've been friends since we're toddlers and playing music
> together for 20 years) BUT we're trying to figure out how to fill out the
> sound (aside from my looping), you know, bring in the low end smiles. Matt
> (my other half) plays drums and is using a Korg sampler, but  it's a bit
> cumbersome for him to be hitting little buttons while also playing crazy
> beats. We've talked with a friend about building some aesthetically
> enjoyable midi-triggers (e.g. into old action figures or pillows).
>
> I was thinking it'd be cool to get a PedalKeyboard and do some simple
> basslines whilst guitaring around.
>
> Here's the rub: I can't afford a super nice one.
>
> Anyone have some experience with these? Recommendations? Anybody have an old
> one they're looking to sell? I'd potentially be interested in trading for
> other gear, too...
>
> Thanks!
> Dan