The Maker Movement

Exploring the LittleBits Synth Kits

Keyboard: The pitch changes with each key pressed. From left to right = low to high pitch

Sequencer: The nobs on the sequencer control volume of pitch on the keyboard.

White noise: Usually used for drum kits as they are unpitched. When switched on it sounds lite white noise or can be turned off to go back to normal keyboard sound.

Filter: The keyboard becomes obsolete. It sounds like your tuning a radio or TV.

Delay: Reverb/echoe heard. More prominent on white noise sound.

Envelope: The nob determines the attach and delay of the note.

A second oscillator: This adds vibrations to the vibrations of sound. It affects the pitch by breaking the sound up.

"Technology has allowed us to invent our own prototype because the price of production has reduced"- J. Humberstone

Mark Hatch talks about the natural human desire to make things.

We then proceeded to experiment with our own synthesisers and produced two note chords from touching fruits and connecting to a piano/keyboard midi.

It would be interesting to see real life examples of how this is being used in an everyday music classroom so I could brainstorm my own ideas from a model.