how pacemaker and sonodrome device can work

I thought I was pretty straight forward with my thoughts about using sonodrome devices with the pacemaker but some people did ask for a clearer description, the picture above this should be all you need.

So instead of plugging the Pacemaker straight into a amp, you plug the line out into the input of a your Sonodrome box. The Sonodrome box can be anything you want to build, I really want to build a Flanger Effect box on my first go, something I love playing with when djing but is sadly lacking from the pacemaker right now. Once you attach the output of the Sonodrome box to the Amp your away pretty much. I know you can buy effect peddles which do the same thing but there usually so heavy, made for bands, use external power and look like crap. What I would build would be unfussy, simple and small enough to throw in the bag alongside the pacemaker for live events.

A couple words of warning however.

The Sonodrome box, needs to deliver totally clean sound when not in use, because un/plugging it mid set would be a nightmare. So no amplification at 0 I guess. The Box should aid that feeling of movement, so big fat buttons and the like. They also need to be pretty solid when mounted, as there expected to get quite a lot of abuse.

There’s also some advantages to this type of setup, like taking a 3.5inch stereo jack on the input but having a selectable 5.5inch jack or even a XLR on the output. The projects seem pretty straight easy to follow. The one idea which really interests me a lot is the wiimote one. With bluetooth and a few selectable effects it should be straight forward to farm all the changes to the accelerometers on a wiimote instead. Although I can kind of imagine how it would work, I have no idea how much work it would take, maybe I’d be better asking someone to build it for me and paying them instead. Any takers?

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  • http://www.sonodrome.co.uk/ kat

    Hey Ian, a stand alone wiimote device could get expensive, but if you want to use that sort of thing with Ableton Live we’ve already written software that will do it for you… it’s not on the website at the minute but we can send it to you via email if want, we’re on kat@sonodrome.co.uk or jim@sonodrome.co.uk. Cheers! Kat

  • http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/ Ian Forrester

    How you doing Kat, so I wasn’t think the Wiimote would be a standalone device. It would be like a more advanced version of the other box. So maybe a box which supports a couple of filter effects which are controlled via the wiimote would be perfect.

    Currently here are all the effects on the pacemaker – http://www.youtube.com/pacemaker01#p/c/14A23ABA1FC6020F/7/paNEY4707ic
    There’s quite a few but the control system isn’t gestured enough for a live performance. Using a Sonodrome box with or without a wiimote would be nice upgrade.

    I don’t use alberton, its maybe a little too much control than I actually need. But don’t worry we can discuss later

  • http://www.sonodrome.co.uk/ kat

    Hey Ian, a stand alone wiimote device could get expensive, but if you want to use that sort of thing with Ableton Live we've already written software that will do it for you… it's not on the website at the minute but we can send it to you via email if want, we're on kat@sonodrome.co.uk or jim@sonodrome.co.uk. Cheers! Kat

  • http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/ Ian Forrester

    How you doing Kat, so I wasn't think the Wiimote would be a standalone device. It would be like a more advanced version of the other box. So maybe a box which supports a couple of filter effects which are controlled via the wiimote would be perfect.

    Currently here are all the effects on the pacemaker – http://www.youtube.com/pacemaker01#p/c/14A23ABA…
    There's quite a few but the control system isn't gestured enough for a live performance. Using a Sonodrome box with or without a wiimote would be nice upgrade.

    I don't use alberton, its maybe a little too much control than I actually need. But don't worry we can discuss later