You will need some sort of signal processing betwixt the transducer and the console to convert the signal to something usable by the console.
You need something even smarter to do anything that is actually useful with the trigger like link a particular drum hit with a particular beat in a bar of music or phrase in a song. A simple trigger won't know anything other than the drum was hit.
[edited by: sk8rs_dad at 11:42 AM (GMT -6) on Wed, Jul 2 2014]
You will need some sort of signal processing betwixt the transducer and the console to convert the signal to something usable by the console.
You need something even smarter to do anything that is actually useful with the trigger like link a particular drum hit with a particular beat in a bar of music or phrase in a song. A simple trigger won't know anything other than the drum was hit.
[edited by: sk8rs_dad at 11:42 AM (GMT -6) on Wed, Jul 2 2014]
Just to clarify something here--The console cannot take a Midi String or Midi Note signal as an input. We are adding OSC as an input in v2.3 but currently only Midi Note output is supported.
Ok. So the external trigger on the ion is really for something more along the lines of a light switch, or a momentary switch of some kind. We covered the trigger port quickly when I was at ETC in New York, but we never really got in to what it could and could not do. I guess I'll just wait for v2.3 to come out and see where it takes me. Thank you for your time!
You can use an Arduino Ethernet board for signal processing of the drum trigger, maybe a simple mic from adafruit, and for sending an udp string to control your ion.
