Chapter 3: Digital Instruments
VAB |
VAB TITLE |
Type of VAB |
Description of VAB |
Lab Requirements |
|
Explore |
Students measure the frequency range of their hearing. |
Do your cilia still sway? Email your data (age in years, months, frequency range (state if different in either ear) to Mr. R. | ||
|
Explore & Annotate |
Simulate a guitar string using a digital physical model. |
How do the blocks physically model the acoustics of a real vibrating string? Be able to tell me what each section of this sheet is doing to help physically model the guitar string. Be able to hear and see how the envelopes differ for these instruments on the lab portion of a test. | ||
|
Explore |
Process your voice using digital echo. Process music with digital echo. Process your voice and music using the digital recursive echo generator. |
Hear the recursive delays create echo's. Be able to explain how echoes are created digitally. | ||
|
3.4 |
Explore |
Process your voice and music using the digital flanger. |
What happens to the sound of your voice? To the sound of music? | |
| 3.4A | Voice Changer | Design & Build | Create a worksheet that duplicates the functions of a toy bullhorn with voice effects. Choose to modulate a voice to become either robot-like, Darth Vader-like, or chipmunk-like. | You may use any of the
VAB blocks and trick's you've picked up on so far. "A+" grades will be given
to any worksheet capable of generating more than one sound effect by using
switches and buttons. Email
completed sheets to Mr. R |
|
3.5 |
D&B |
Students test the speaker they have constructed. |
Grade will be based on: 1) Frequency range (lowest to highest) 2) Amplitude of sound at around 400 Hertz 3) Quality of construction 4) Innovation beyond the given Gosney template 5) Ability to function as a microphone |