We never thought that we’d live to see “MIDI-Controlled”, “Fire” and “Cannon” go together in one nice, juicy Synthopia headline, but there you go.

Absolute proof that there’s still reason to wake up in the morning.

This video captures a demonstration of Rob Darman’s completely mental MIDI-controlled Fire Cannon.  The cannons are controlled by MIDI notes being sent from Steven Asaro’s Roland V-Drums. Notes are decoded using an MSA-T MIDI Decoder.

You play the drums, fire shoots out the cannon.

Anybody else want to see this beast do battle against MIDI-Controlled Tesla Coils?

Psylab and MIDI Controlled Fire Cannon Cover Michael Jackson

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Special thanks to Jeff Mission for MIDI technical support and translations via GlovePIE.