Homemade Electronic Drum Kit:Coltronics Kit-e
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This is my homemade electronic drum set. I call it the Coltronics Kit-e ("Kitty"). I made this video to show how I put it all together in case you might be thinking about making your own electronic drum kit. I came up with my own design. It started with a piezoelectric transducer soldered to a couple of wires and connected to a quarter inch phone jack. By trial-and-error, it morphed into what youre seeing in this video.
Ive had it for a number of years but its held up well. Im pleased with its design. Its compact. It works well. It was relatively inexpensive to put together using materials that are fairly easy to obtain. So check out the video. I hope it gives you some ideas.
I'm trained as an electronic tech working with engineers on new designs. I owned a Drumkat 3.5 for awhile. I got to hand it to you that is a very sweet job you did there. I have the electronics & soldering chops, but not the mechanical skills to do what you have done. You also did a first class job in presenting it. You should send this in as an article to Pop Mechanics, Science, Modern Drummer, electronic musician, etc. You are under-employed as a heavy equipment operator. Kudos sir!
Wonderfully simple, cheap, and functional... and fourteen years old at this point. Great job!
Hello on my you tube channel you can see my own DIY multipad I made two years ago.On various videos,triggering my restored DdrumAT,my Ddrum2 and my own diy analog 5 channel drum synth....Here a link to one of these videos:
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Thierry EPPHERRE from France
Finally. Something cool! I just spent almost 2 hrs listening to dorks yap on their electronic kits, telling myself "Just another minute. He's gonna shut up and demo the thing!" I think I'll pick up some piezos, sheet metal and some wood and try for a plate reverb! Thanks for the idea!
In the early 90s I experimented with making my own eDrums but after lots of trips to radio shack and the local hardware store I gave up. Couldn’t get the cross talk to stop.
You have made an incredible drum set. Thanks for sharing your build tips and design.
Thats pretty ingenious idea on the bass pedal. I'm going to steal that.
All I have to say is "WOW"! This is downright cool and I thank you Sir for sharing your creation with the rest of us! How cool is this?!?! I've wanted an electric drum set for awhile now but just couldn't afford to do so. This could make it a reality. Again, thank you!
Just stumbled across this the other day. Might well be just what th' doctor ordered! I am by NO stretch of the imagination a drummer, just a guitarist who wants to have the occasional lick of percussion on his home projects, and have something easy to store that an actual drummer could use if needed. :) Given the limitations of my microcontroller (12 analog inputs) I'll be making it with 8 units instead of 10 (which will allow external hi-hat, kick, and 2-trigger snare, one o' these days :P) Thanks a bunch for posting this way back when!
You should send this video to companies! This could be sold for relatively cheap in stores! It's awesome.
Awesome! Very professional outcome! awesome!
Looks great. I think I might build one like this. Looks like a pretty straight forward design built with parts that seem easy enough to get.
Very nice solution you've come up with, I really like it. It's inspiring 👍
The best diy drum pads I have seen yet! Any chance you'd share the sketchup file?
Really nice sketchpad video and design! Awesome!
excellent video and narration
Amazing job!
Very cool. Wonderful piece of work!
Seriously thank you for making this awesome well thought out video. We all appreciate it
What sensors are you using? Specifically here: 0:48 seconds.
Very clever design. Thank you for sharing.
Lovely, clean work.
Nice setup. Really like the DB25 idea. I made something similar about 20 years ago and used ceramic tiles for the plates which worked well. (never cracked or broke one)
Just got to say well done on the equipment and the video - top-notch. I have an Alesis Control Pad that I'm about to try and repair.. not sure if i have the skills to put together a Coltronic Kit-E but I feel inspired to learn now.
incredible workmanship, well done
you sir are one smart guy
I made one myself and i glued him directly to the plate. Works perfect!
Incredible and fascinating. What a fabulous design and a quality video production and narration.
Brilliant video! Thank you for sharing your expertise and the excellent production quality!
My goodness, mate, that's an informative video. Cheers.
Very nice project bro. Congratulations !
superb job man!!! now to rock on
Inspiring and very useful, thanks for putting this up. What a great job for a homebuild, even down to the neat label and logo.
i dont think i can like this enough!
thanks so much for this video, i was looking a buying a drum pad soon but this has sold me on the idea of making my own! im sure you get this all the time but
"i'm gonna get me some kit-e"!!!!
so clean and nice. i wish i had such knowledge
Very nicely done!
That's so cool. Congrats, and thanks for sharing.
Wow that's amazing. The 25 pin cable is an old dot matrix printer cable.
That's a pretty amazing drum set. Thanks for the tricks!
Innovation! I plan to make a rubber marimba.
GREAT GREAT GREAT JOB YOU DID !!!! Thanx for Sharing this !!! Big Hug from Argentina
What a beautiful video. Congratulations.
Well done!!!! very neat job
wow so complicated yet so simple
Great job! Congrats!
Good job! Very nice!
What fantastic, thorough demo.
great!thank,that will give lot of ideas!
That was a great video. I understood everything and your research will save a lot of us a *lot* time. Many thanks.
Very, very cool. Well done, man...
Excellent Job.
God bless.
Good job mate, I am making one myself just right now, and found yours inspiring.
Cheers
Dude this is sick…
My only worry if I made one myself is that maybe that foam would deteriorate after too long?
i like your design... very clever!! ^^
@WeakEndProductions Very good idea. thanks.
A piezo pad in place of each key would work if the keys work like I think they do.
Now to acquire a cheap midi keyboard.
Thanks for the idea!
Great work!
@WeakEndProductions
this is exactly what i am going to do...just solder the piezos to the assigned keys...
of a 25key midi keyboard...no module...nice n cheap too...
i want to have double bass kick...just got to work out how to make sturdy pedals..
great project man...looks cool....
Cool and great!
wonderful! a great muse-carpenter
Best Regards
Excellent !
This is great. I am doing a dance pad conversion to piezos. I was really interested in how you isolated the piezo assemblies. I can do something similar to isolate the foot triggers. Thanks.
Insane!
Very nice good work. Maybe someday I would, too, make it based on your video tutorial. Thank you
Very nice mod.
Excellent work! Inspiring!
Thank you so much for sharing
it is very inspiring to see this video. i have a concept on replicating the Kraftwerk drum board that uses tethered sticks to trigger the drums.
thanks i ll make my own diy drum set
man,,, you're good,,, i try to figure it out on my project,,, I get it now,,,
thanks a lot Mr. cool,,,
genious!!! i am going to make my own Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
Excellent work. You are a craftsman! Have you made any more electronic music things? You should check out Make Magazine. You seem like a DIY person.
Excellent.
BRILLIANT!! TRULY
It's Awesome
Congratulations!!!
Hey Bro', Nice drumkit. I'm building one myself but can't seem to find a reasonably priced source of that 1/8" rubber. Where'd U get yours ? Also, where would one get the aluminum sheet/plate ? Thanx.
Using the keyboard's sustain pedal is interesting! So, if my original eletric hihat pedal is broken, i can simply replace it with sustain pedal?
Thank you very much for this greatest video Ande
Yeah I'd like to build one too, it's great!
Awesome!
Put Together very Nicely, ....I have an alesis hr-16 which i am trying to trigger. it has these hard buttons , which press a rubber conductor across a printed copper grid on the circuit board (soft rubber switch ) I like the sounds of this machine. i emailed alesis tech, why alesis didnt use these sounds on a kit. no answer yet. Maybe you have an idea about it, if you have looked at the hr-16.
really great job! Good luck! ;)
@WeakEndProductions thanks :) I'm thinking of making one for my college project. I also have to make the drum module myself (ie. designing the circuitry and programming) and do a detailed write up about it for my final year. I'm studying Industrial Electronics and I really like music so I thought that I should do something similar.
Thanks and keep up the great videos! :)
You just made my freakin day. Great unit.
very very good work !!!
Awesome
Forget the NaaSayers bro. You did it.
Nice! I make it... thanks
The db connector you wired inside the drum machine , were they the wires from the piezos going into that connector only ? How did you know where to put the wires from the piezos into the db inside the drum machine. For it to be able to work with the db cord .
Tell me if you understand my question ?
amazing!!
What kind of output is needed for the piezoelectric transducer? And how do you connect them??
Sorry if this is not the correct terms, I'm new to these cables and electronics, but any help would be appreciated.. I'm really lost haha :)
Holly Crap!!!!!! Your Smart!!!!
Perfect man! Congrates:)
@WeakEndProductions thanks for the help! Helps alot with my understanding of these stuff :) Another question though, where can I get all these things, especially the piezoelectric transducer? Sorry if I'm bugging you but I'm just curious.
THANKS HEAPS!!!
Cool! Even If I doesn't have enough budget to but electronic drums because is pricey (except the low-ranged series)!! Can you show me about home-made electronic arranger keyboard. Thanks!!!
Exelent !!! thank you very very mach
I have a dream to make my own midi controller that looks like a Mallet-Kat. I cannot afford the real thing, but I can afford some sensors and an Arduino!
amazing!
Very Intelligent!!
@WeakEndProductions can you make it like a normal set or does it have to be like this?
If we short the to wires it will trigger or not?
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Great design! Thank you for posting this. I have a question with the wire connections in the board to that db25 pin. Is there a reference or do you have a detailed explanation of linking or soldering the piezo pickup wires to that db 25 back plate, e.g. what wire to what pin. Great video presentation also.
Tried Alesis Performance Pad which should have used more foam between the plates because if was triggering several plates. Still, I prefer toms with mesh heads with a foam cone in the middle, which I think is much more sensitive to velocity.