Philippe

Philippe sent me a few pics of his second(!) eDrum. He said:

Hello Admir,

I had finish the release 2 of your Edrum brain. Great, it's working very well (like the first version). I join few images of my module and my kit (under construction) If you want, you can visit my web site (sorry, but it is in french) details of my Edrum building : http://membres.lycos.fr/groovax/

Congratulations and thanks

Best regards
Philippe/Groovax

Arief Lim

Arief sent me some nice pics of his eDrum. He said:

Hi Admir

HAPPY NEW YEAR........ I wish you the best of everything... That you so well deserve.
Here are some pictures of my eDrum...perhaps you could fit me in your gallery :)
I put a 9 pin serial connector for an external compact pad...beside individual pad input.

Regards, Arief

Andrew Maxwell

Dr. Andrew is from Queensland, Australia. He is a bass player, and he designs and builds his own instruments as well as electronics. Now he is building a few eDrums. He said:

For years I had been searching for a really compact and "Neat" way to build an electronic drum kit. I wanted to use it for recording MIDI drum tracks, as well as get back into playing the kit. After discovering Admir's excellent drum controller system, I set forth and built my unit. Here you can see in all it's glory (and fuzzy out of focus) pictures of my current setup. I have not completed the full kit but have all the pads (at the time of writing) ready to go.

My module is squeezed into a half rack wide case and is also shown in some of the pictures with a little Emu sound module which is used when this kit is played "LIVE" on stage with my local big band. When in the studio, the unit triggers a Yamaha S03 synth.

Also shown are some of the pads. The construction is based on XAN's system, but as I could not route metal, or indeed properly route wood, I opted for a rubber over metal, over rubber, over plywood construction. These pads work and work well. They also have about the same reflex action of a normal drum kit.

I have also started construction on a 8 trigger "conga" like pad which will be used in the big band.

Philippe F.

Philippe said:

Hello Admir,

For beginning, sorry for my bad english (I'm french :-)

Congratulations for your project. I had build my Edrum and it working very well at the first time BRAVO ! I send you 3 photos of my Edrum brain. The pads are under construction.

Thank you very much for your excellent working !

Best regards
Philippe FAVREAU

Miroslav

Miroslav don't speak english, and he sent me pics without description... I must say I like very much his drum stand.

Antonio

Antonio sent me some nice pics of his drum set.

Pedro

Q: Ever wondered what's the lower price of a complete electronic drumset?
A: 8 euros!!!
Pedro from Spain did it! Some tuperware and mouse pads were enough.

Hi Admir,

Hi Admir. I´m spanish and my english is very bad.Sorry I Live in Canary Islands (Spain) and I have mounted your circuit with a few small variations. I use for the pads, boxes for food (like tupperware) bought in a "all for one euro" shop. In the lid, I use Small rugs of mouse. the pads are much cheaper and work well. The velocity response is good. Thank you for the circuit, You work is very good.

Pedro

Olivier

Olivier once designed some boards based on the 16F628 and 16F877 for a a multi purpose MIDI device... then he found my page :-) He sent me rather large email. Thanks Olivier.

Hi Admir,

...

I have to recognize that it is impressive. you did it great ! It worked immediately. I linked the 'box' to a Roland XV3080. The result is incredible. And you say it is only a Beta! Obviously there are certain functions we would like to use different ways but this version is already 'more than' usable. BTW, i find the symbols quite good, knowing the limited possibilities of this kind of LCD.

As i am all but a drums player, to build the pads was a challenge. I first 'borrowed' a PD6 from Roland, analyzed what was comming out and built myne as a hamburger composed by a 10" wood dish (8mm), a neopren dish (8mm), a metal plate (1mm) equiped with a piezzo (I tried different ways to fix it, then discover your site and glued it with hot glue. From all what i tried, it is, if not the best, the easiest) and on top of this a caoutchou dish of 4mm. The touch is a little harder than the PD6 but a little more sensitive. It works fine.

...

Olivier de Broqueville

Marnie

Thanks to Marnie for this beautiful photos. He said:

Admir,

Attached are pictures of the eDrum which I have constructed. Note that I have made it as compact as I can. It measures roughly 6" x 3.75" x 1.8" (LxWxH). The LCD was taken from an old modem which I got from a surplus shop. Mini earphone sockets were also used instead of the standard audio sockets. I still need to place labels on the unit though. Again thanks for this wonderful project!

God Bless,
Marnie M.

Philippe

Thanks to Philippe Decuyper for this nice photos of his eDrum prototype. He said:

Hi Admir !

Here's what I've done with my EDrum 0.61 (I'll try 0.62 next days), Feel free to use it anyway you want... Thanx again for this great project !

Phil...

And the 2U Rack version, wow :-)

Philipe's drum set.

Philipe also sent me some samples of his eDrum module in MID and MP3 format. Very good Philipe!

Tim

Thanks to Tim Heffild for his support and fresh ideas for drumpads ;-) He said:

Hello Admir,

My name is Tim Heffield and I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I came across your website while visiting Thorsten Klose's sight. I built your Edrum today and let me say what a brilliant design! It works very well and is just what I have been looking for. I didn't get any Remo practice pads yet so, to test it I taped a piezo sensor to a Tupperware lid (don't worry it's just temporary!). All eight channels worked perfect the first time I turned it on. I am impressed with the hardware simplicity and how well the firmware works. The Japanese characters for drum symbols looked a little strange at first but I have grown to like them...it's a neat idea. I built the PAIA thumb drum several years ago and was disappointed with it's slow response. It used an 8031 uP, an ADC0809 A/D, and many support chips (ram & rom). The Edrum's response seems much better even with a Tupperware lid! Thanks for sharing your design on the web. I really enjoy building things with PIC chips, and have them installed in devices all over my lab. I am so pleased with the Edrum that I just had to stop and let you know. Keep up the good work! I will be checking your website frequently for news and updates...let me end this note by saying thanks again!
Tim Heffield
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Greg

Thanks to Greg Macmillan for offering help. He said:

Hi Admir,

Let me introduce myself. My name is Greg Macmillan, I am from Australia and was shown your site By Thorsten Klose. I have designed a printed circuit board for the midi box 64 pot on Thorstens site and also discussed the idea of building a drum box similiar to yours. in fact i have one completed but not fully working. It has 16 inputs like Thorstens midi box plus. i would like to rebuild it using your circuit and was thinking about making a circuit board design if you don't already have one. Do you think the circuit will change much in the future? Have you considered making a 16 input version? I originally intended to use some inputs as velocity sensitive triggers and some as pedal controllers for various special effects.
Hope you have time to reply

Regards
Greg