In this chapter, we are going to build an interactive drum set. We are not going to build the actual drum set, of course, but we are going to enhance a drum set by placing a few sensors on some of the drums, which will give us input on each drum hit. We will use that input to trigger samples in various ways. We are also going to use foot-switches to change between various types of sample playback, but also to activate/deactivate each sensor separately.
The sensors we are ...
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