drumbeam (innovative MIDI drumpad) by afk-audio

[afkaudio]

Dear DJ Tech Tools community,

I'm Simon, part of afk-audio, and audio technology start-up from Dresden, Germany.

We're currently finishing the development of our innovative MIDI drum pad, drumbeam. It's dedicated to DJs, live and hybrid artists, producers and drummers alike. We're planning to ship the device in early 2025 following a crowdfunding campaign.

drumbeam is a bar-shaped MIDI device which looks great due to its RGB lightguides on front and back, offers vast customization opportunities via an app, and a realistic, versatile playing feel due to its innovative continuous sensoring.

You can change the number and size of pads displayed by the LEDs - and therefore sounds available to play - at the click of a button.

The pads are velocity sensitive and can additionally - opposed to most drum pads currently on the market - be used to modulate CC values by varying the hit position within an individual pad. This way, you can seemlessly change between samples - e.g. from open to closed hihat or snare to rimshot. Alternatively, you can modulate values such as the decay or filter cutoff of a sound for a more expressive playing experience.

Here's a short video illustrating some of the current functions of drumbeam:



As offering great quality and meeting musicians' needs are very important for us as a company, we want to encorporate feedback into the final stages of our development process.

Therfore, it would be amazing if you could take ~ 5 minutes to fill out the questions in the following form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...15v8Q/viewform

If you want to stay tuned on all features and know first about the launch date and price, feel free to follow us on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/afk.audio/

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Thank you very much in advance!

Cheers,
Simon

[afkaudio]

hello guys,

we've reached the crowdfunding goal in only 2 hours! a higher funding however helps us to have more space for improvements and developing further features.

we're giving a big discount during the crowdfunding - 20 % off for single units, and even more if you're pre-ordering two or more drumbeams.

shipments are expected for march 2025!

get more info and pre-order it here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...ronic-drumming