MUA 402 Spring 2008

Mitsuru Kitade

My project is construction of an electronic kit and multi-track recording using this kit.
My electronic kit is a “25-tone mini organ.”

This kit includes:

This was fairly easy to build, and this kit was also very cheap. The only tricky part was to make sure all of 32 different resistors are in right places. It took around 2 hours to build.

Using a probe (bottom of the picture), I can touch each of 25 pins on a board to make sounds. Here is the sound of this organ. I tried to play Db dorian scale.

kit_original.mp3

No wonder this kit cost only $8!

Anyway, obviously I had a little problem with recordings because this sounded so cheap, and each sound was totally out of tune.
So I separated this into each pitch and adjusted their pitches.

kit_adjusted.mp3

And then, I arranged them and added wah-wah effect.

kit_arranged.mp3

kit_wahwah.mp3

Finally, I could use this kit’s sounds for my music. This is kind of techno music I made, using sounds from my synthesizer and this kit.

8 bucks