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Midi Standard
Midi Standard
Musical instrument digital interface also known as MIDI is the protocol that connects your instruments to communicate with your computer. It's also standardised so all devices will work with each other. An example of this is using a piano that is USBed into a computer to control a piece of external hardware like a synth or a drum machine.
Midi History
Midi History
The history of midi goes all the way back to the early 80s where a lot of digital hardware started to become the new norm. With companies like Roland and Yamaha having their own standards they found that their devices wouldn't work together which is why they needed a standard that could be adopted by everyone which is why midi became a thing. This is where Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi proposed the idea of a standard instrument language to the other major manufacturers in 1981.
synthesizers
synthesizers
The main thing to remember when using a synthesizer is that there is a oscillator this drives the waveform set this could be a sign wave, saw wave, square wave, triangle wave or pink/white noise and thus can be merlipated by ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release) with the Attack being the time it takes for the applied note to fade in to its peak Decay being the time for it to go to the sustain and the sustain being its normalized amplitude and the release being how long it takes to fade out once the key has been released. Then there is the effects section on the amp which adds effects like filter distortion and pitch bend which can be added to the mix of the sound before it leaves vir a line jack.
Drum machine
Drum machine
In the early 1930s, Henry Cowell and Léon Theremin invented the hard-to-use Rhythmicon and this was the first commercially available drum machine. Drum machines have two ways of making their sounds, there are generally 2 types the first one is by using synths to produce more electric synthetic sounding percussion sounds or samples of a real drum machine. We will be using a drum machine that uses samples to produce its sequence of sounds. Drum machines also sometimes have clocks built in to allow the sequencer to process its steps allowing you to dille in the BPM
TD 3
TD 3
The TD 3 has a terrible on board sequencer so we decided to pair it with arpeggiata we connected with a 5 pin midi cable to ablation and a mono line in to the mixing desk
RD 8
RD 8
The RD 8 drum machine is a 16 beat sequenced drum machine that plays its beat out of its balenced line jack into the desk with it also acking as the clock for Abalton using Midi
Juno
Juno
The Juno was has a lot of customisability and allows for a stereo output to the mixing desk we also ran this through ablation using its USB connection
Model D
Model D
The model D is our bass synth and we pluged used a midi input from abaltion so we could record in some cords and have then qonitized and looping with the rest of preformace. this also was feed back to the desk using a ballanced line jack
RC 300
RC 300
The RC 300 only has an XLR input for a mic (sure SM58) and a line output to the mixing desk meaning we had to set the tempo of this device
Mixing Desk
Mixing Desk
The Alan and heath mix wizzard 16 2 mixing desk was taking all our effects and synths in as line in inputs with most of the synths being balenced inputs and the effects being unbalenced
Distortion Pedle
Distortion Pedle
The distortion pedle is just an effect and was used on the send channels with an unbalenced line out of the desk and into the pedle and then an unbalanced line out the pedle and back to the desk not interfacing with any softwhere
Lexicon Reverb
Lexicon Reverb
The lexicon reverb is built into the desk that we are using and is set up on a send this reverb is the red dile on the desk aboth the level lights this would be wired the same way as the distoration pedle but internal raver than external
Blog Posts - Rehearsal
Blog Posts - Rehearsal
reflection of the final performance
reflection of the final performance
I personly feel that the chose of notes and sounds that we used for our live performace was good but we could do with more time and comunication as as a team we dident perform as well as posible mainly things being cued incorrly and fades would start before the instrament was playing witch can make for an out of team feel to the performace
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