Midi Drum

Hi - I am new to the Arduino world, and more than anything I'm looking for some pointers where to turn for info. I would like to build a hand held (on a shoulder strap) midi drum kit. Using piezo triggers and an arduino board to translate the piezo signals into midi data that can then be sent via a single cable to a programmable midi drum machine that will then turn it into sound.

What do you think about using the arduino board for this application?

Has anyone done anything similar that I can learn from?

Thanks for any help. :slight_smile:

Has anyone done anything similar

http://code.google.com/p/ardrumo/

http://tomscarff.110mb.com/midi_16drums/midi_16drums.htm

http://todbot.com/blog/2006/10/29/spooky-arduino-projects-4-and-musical-arduino/

Thanks for the help, I'm particularly interested in Tom Scarff's web site, thanks for that link. It looks like his version of the board will work well for what I want to do, I'll contact him when I get a chance.
I'm kinda surprised that there arn't more similar projects out there. Maybe there are and I just havnt found them yet.

http://www.spikenzielabs.com/SpikenzieLabs/DrumKitKit.html

Thanks for your help here . I have bought the kit from Tom Scarff mentioned by Grumpy_Mike abouve. I'm in the process of putting it together now. Quite a learning curve to scale here. but I'm having fun with it . :slight_smile: