Q: What’s better than a Roland TR-909 drum machine?
A: A massive 9 foot TR-909.
The 9 foot 909 was created by audiovisual group RAY (Brendan McCarthy / Sam Healy / Dave Hartmann / James Rutherford). This video captures the first sound test of the 9 Foot 909.
Technical details:
A Roland TD-12 sound module is being used, along with drum triggers, to capture button presses on the 9 foot 909. These are converted to MIDI and this is used to trigger a Roland TR-8.
Here’s a test video for the ‘internals’ of the 9 foot 909:
Bad ass!!!!!!!!
the easy way to do it, for those at home: just have a person inside, holding a real 909, mimicking the incoming button pushes.
But what about latency?
Just put real 909s under each of thebuttons, with a rod connecting each big button to the corresponding small button on the 909s. No more latency!
that would do for an MVP
Haha. Fun project, but damn those boys are white. 😉
That’s the Scottish sunshine for you ; )
This reminds me a bit of the giant drum sequencer that Trent Reznor used on a recent NIN tour.
so the swing amount goes to 11
I didn’t know Mick Jagger played drum machines.
Funny but…. a total V-Drum system for triggering those bottons?
i-CubeX sensors are a better solution to build that idea… cheaper, modern and also can create, switchers and knobs to work. (and cheaper).
A 9 foot 909 is a drum machine for MC 900 Foot Jesus.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Why?
+1 for Marco. They could’ve made large functional buttons and knobs a lot cheaper with plenty of other options. Arduino, raspberry pi, livid brain, pulled apart computer/midi keyboard, or pull apart an 808 and solder wires onto the button/pot terminals. hell, even if they absolutely had to use midi drums, they couldve at least used cheap piezo pads instead of $200+ Roland PD heads that are dual trigger and velocity sensitive…
All that said, I love gimmicky stuff like this. Would be great seeing this on stage with the giant turntable J5 had at Coachella.
pull apart a 909*
It might even be possible to wire up 3 x 6″ high 7 seg displays and get a working measure/tempo counter!