Creating Electronic Rototoms

[cjoverly86]

Hi All, I am working on some atypical A2E conversion projects, including a cowbell, tambourine, and, most crazy, Rototoms. The idea is that these are real acoustic instruments that I am removing (or minimizing) the acoustic sound and replacing it with the triggered VST sound. For the Rototoms, I would love to make it so they change pitch as they're turned just like in "real life". I have some ideas about how to do this with harvested midi controller parts and some gear mechanisms. However, I am wondering if there are any features of the eDRUMin, which I do not yet own but will, that could help me with this hair-brained idea? Thank you!

[dsteinschneider]

I think for development purposes you could attach an AudioFront Rotary Encoder to the stand of a real Rototom and then attach a disk to the Rototom itself that touches the Rotary encoder and causes it to turn when the Rototom turns. Then, again for development purposes, use something like Bome MIDI Translator Pro to switch through Royotom's - http://www.alanvista.com/royotoms. Maybe install a mesh head on the Rototom.

This is just brainstorming and something to get the ball going. I'm not sure the above mechanism would hold up to gig performance.