 Cool. Hi this is Sam Dean with The Verge and this is Sensory Percussion. My name is Tlalocayla Esparza. I'm the co-founder of Sun House along with my brother Tenoch. And we started this company based on this product, Sensory Percussion. How does it work? Can you kind of explain the hardware to software? This is our prototype sensor. It's a highly specialized sensor to listen specifically to the vibrations on a drum. So it works good on stage in the presence of loud sounds and it feeds our software an audio stream that it can analyze and figure out what you're doing on the drum. So if you didn't catch that, what's happening here is that the actual sound of the drums is being picked up by those clamped on microphones and being translated instantly into a digital signal which then is right now being fed into a midi processor. When you go into the studio you don't have any limits. You can put whatever sounds you want on your record but then when you try to go play it live you're limited by acoustic drums and the number of limbs you have. And so I was putting triggers on things and having pads everywhere and in the end it was just very frustrating because it's not drumming in the end. It's kind of like just driving a car, a very complicated piece of machinery. When I learned more about signal processing and machine learning I realized that there was a way to kind of more intimately bridge the worlds between acoustic and digital. So that's really what fed into this project. And you can do that with a trigger. And you can also make it so that it will control and affect on the whole drum set. I only have two drums here but. It'll be interesting to see this on a full kit too when you can have every drum interacting with each other and actually see how flexible it is when there's four different sensors going at once. If everything goes according to plan with the Kickstarter the unit should ship in January of next year.
 Cool.
 Hi this is Sam Dean with The Verge and this is Sensory Percussion.
 My name is Tlalocayla Esparza.
 I'm the co-founder of Sun House along with my brother Tenoch.
 And we started this company based on this product, Sensory Percussion.
 How does it work?
 Can you kind of explain the hardware to software?
 This is our prototype sensor.
 It's a highly specialized sensor to listen specifically to the vibrations on a drum.
 So it works good on stage in the presence of loud sounds and it feeds our software an
 audio stream that it can analyze and figure out what you're doing on the drum.
 So if you didn't catch that, what's happening here is that the actual sound of the drums
 is being picked up by those clamped on microphones and being translated instantly into a digital
 signal which then is right now being fed into a midi processor.
 When you go into the studio you don't have any limits.
 You can put whatever sounds you want on your record but then when you try to go play it
 live you're limited by acoustic drums and the number of limbs you have.
 And so I was putting triggers on things and having pads everywhere and in the end it was
 just very frustrating because it's not drumming in the end.
 It's kind of like just driving a car, a very complicated piece of machinery.
 When I learned more about signal processing and machine learning I realized that there
 was a way to kind of more intimately bridge the worlds between acoustic and digital.
 So that's really what fed into this project.
 And you can do that with a trigger.
 And you can also make it so that it will control and affect on the whole drum set.
 I only have two drums here but.
 It'll be interesting to see this on a full kit too when you can have every drum interacting
 with each other and actually see how flexible it is when there's four different sensors
 going at once.
 If everything goes according to plan with the Kickstarter the unit should ship in January
 of next year.