Music Computing starts ODM services - offers up world’s first PC-based electronic drum trigger brain for grabs

Weds December 01, 2010

AUSTIN, Texas Dec 01, 2010 -- Music Computing, Inc. today announced it will now offer ODM (product development) services to assist companies in producing computer-enhanced solutions for today’s creative professionals.

With decades of combined experience, the design team’s mission is to work with traditional music instrument companies to transform their products into modern-age solutions, which provides more features, better performance and new uses.

Services Music Computing will provide include the following:
•    Requirement management
•    Selection of appropriate key components
•    Development of hardware and software
•    Design reviews
•    Design to cost, testing, and manufacturing
•    Prototyping
•    Test concept and design of test benches
•    Reliability, approval, and customer acceptance testing
•    Quality planning and control through entire process and readiness for mass production

As a demonstration of its capabilities, Music Computing focused on the needs of the modern day drummer and embarked upon the process of designing DrumMC™, the world’s first computer-enhanced electronic drum trigger brain.  The primary targets to achieving this goal were as follows:
•    Ability run any Microsoft Windows-based VST, VSTi, DAW or other music applications
•    Ability to accept virtually any trigger pad, cymbal trigger or sensor from all manufacturers (30 trigger inputs)
•    Small footprint and weight to allow for maximum portability
•    Integrated audio to provide both stereo inputs and outputs as well as MIDI and other protocols
•    Touchscreen interface allowing control over software interfaces without need for mapping controls
•    Ability to be used as a standalone or with any existing drum trigger brain
•    Complete design encompassing hardware, software, firmware and user interfaces, ready for mass production

A video demonstrating the DrumMC and Drum MC+ in use as a Finger Drumming & Music Production Workstation, Integrated Electronic Drum VSTi Player and Sequencer, and Electronic Drum Module Replacement, can be seen at: http://www.musiccomputing.com/odm. The DrumMC line is currently available for companies on an OEM basis.