Beat detection for live shows

Is there any way to connect beat detection dyrectly whith drums?
Some preasure sencetive thingy under the bass pedall for example. Did anyone try this already and if you did some tips on how would be nice.

theoretically it'd be possible to do a feed to winamp that doesn't normally get passed to avs, but hack into it with an APE (unconed's allegedly found a way to alter avs's beat detection internally, so it's probably doable)