Arduino Drum MIDI Triggers - Newbie

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Hey folks, just a feeler post, total coding/arduino noob here, go easy on me. Looking for some advice on the feasibility/tips for this project.

Would it be possible to connect a vibration sensor (attached to the underside of a drumhead) to an Arduino unit, and then use some code to translate the vibration data from the sensor into MIDI velocity data and on/off?

Been watching some videos like THIS where it shows the Arduino outputting a steady stream of vibration data from 0 ~ 15000 units, so would it be possible to scale that down about 100 fold to output numbers from 0-127 like MIDI velocity?

Assuming that is all possible, the other question I had is how many of these sensors I could have running simaultaneously into a single Arduino Uno unit and coming out of separate midi outputs in the breadboard (triggering separate samples in the DAW)?

Thanks

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Have you searched for something like "Arduino MIDI drums"? You will find lots of answers in the many projects that have already been done.

It's more common to use cheap piezo sensors rather than those vibration sensors. The practical limit for a Uno is probably about 10-12 inputs.

And you seem to have a misunderstanding about how MIDI drums work. You only need a single MIDI Out then each drum will send a different note value. The sampler in the DAW will translate these notes and trigger different samples for each.

Steve