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ProfessorJulius
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February 6, 2020
Question

Creating a puppet which is beat box triggered or triggered by actual drums

  • February 6, 2020
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I'm making an instructional video for guitar-music threory integration, and I'm running into a couple of small issues that i was hoping to get some help with.  

 

First, one of my puppets is a guitar neck with individual, articulating fingers.  I've rigged it up somewhat, but it could definitely be better.  It's a little too.... sticky.....

 

The really issue I'm having is with my Robot dude.  I'm trying to figure out a way for him to "perform" drum beats live.  I'd like to know which of the following two solutions would be worth more time investment for the desired results.  

 

A: is there a way to trigger off of something like a drum sound..... meaning: if i isolated a drum track, is there a way to have my character "hit" different drums in an animation, depending on what drum strikes in the track...... ?

or B: should I just trigger him to hit different drums based on an approximation of the drum beat using a "Beat box" (Boots and Pants = Kick, hat, snare, hat) technique? Would that be Kick="B" sound; Snare="P" and so forth? 

 

I'm totally ok with experimenting with all of this and getting there slowly.  ...no. 

 

No I'm not.  I'm like Veruca Salt man.  I want it now.  

 

 

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joshuag86337383
Inspiring
February 8, 2020

I believe you can add a trigger based on volume, but I don't know about actual sounds. I saw it recently in a video on Dave Werners Youtube page, but I can't find it now.

The midi drum idea works well. I've used it.

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jawdoe
Inspiring
February 9, 2020

so having a midi keyboard you could set up the keys to work as triggers? and they wont play any music?

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joshuag86337383
Inspiring
February 9, 2020

Correct. They would only play a sound if you assigned a sound to them. You can think of a midi controller (keyboard) as your regular keyboard that you type with.

alank99101739
alank99101739
Legend
February 6, 2020

I think there was some kind of audio trigger - but never used it, it i doubt it would be mutltiple triggers. Keyboard shortcuts is a logical way to go.

 

The other alternative is you can wire triggers up to midi notes, so if you had a midi electronic drum set you can probably play the drums and it will generate midi events that you can wire up to triggers.

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ProfessorJuliusAuthor
Participant
February 6, 2020

That's a pretty great couple of alternatives! If I can't figure out the trigger side I'll probably go that route. 

Thanks for the suggestion!

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