Songwriting and Band workshops including new equipment connections.

Today what happened today was that we used a Vocal transformer for practice for band workshops and songwriting sessions.It was interesting,cool and funny because of the noises we make and when we are singing.This was a new and an amazing experience.In our practice time,Marco,Kassana and I were trying various types of sounds such as vocoder etc.This is a new experience especially for singing.I tried playing the piano along with that but it doesn't sound good at all with instruments because of the Bad noise.We will be using and practicing in every Songwriting sass ions and Band workshop sessions.I enjoyed it a lot and we were told by Chloe that we will use it in our Easter gig in March.We made funny noises and singing,I also played the foot pedal drum,Piano and keyboard without the transformer.This is for the Funky junk Project for this term.I watched the video about a guy explaining as to how the vocal transformer works.I agreed with him as he was using many sounds like us in the class today.

https://youtu.be/fYSxt6OKyUc

https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/VT-3_OM.pdf

The first link is a video and is explained very well about the transformer.The second link is a diagram and shapeof the transformer.Things which are written.The voice transformer consists of Lead,Bass,Mega phone,Radio,Scatter,Direct,Auto perches 1 and  2 ,Vocoder and Synth.We tried all of them in the class in our individual band groups.An ampere is a red coloured extension chord to connect the microphones.

In these sessions on a Monday and Tuesday,we will be doing original songs and covers.So for these sessions it is basically a band practice on these two days.A mini brute keyboard is a very small keyboard and you can tune sounds like the voice transformer.In min brute keyboards you can use wave sounds and other songs for sound check.
https://youtu.be/Mj6cpFYuiG0

This link talks about the Minibrute keyboard which we learnt today in band workshop class today.
https://plus.google.com/117879285261463035507/posts/S8oYA9F6h2i
These are the notes as to how I am playing the original song with my band in the above link.This shows which notes I am playing.
In this following picture,It shows how a minibrute keyboard should be set when connected in order to be able to
 play.

The Voice transformer is used as a new equipment for our band for the vocalists as to in what way they want to sing and the Minibrute keyboard is like an original keyboard and piano but very small as compared to the original keyboard.For the Original Song,Kessana and Marco and Hasna who is also the pianist are the singers,Junior is the Drummer,Reece is playing the guitar and I am playing the bass sound on the Minibrute Keyboard.The singers are using the voice transformer for their voice.In the Cover,We are performing a song named pink matter ft 3000 Andre and I am the pianist,Reece is the Guitarist,Junior is the drummer,Kessana and Marco are the singers,Hasna is playing the original,bass and we aren't using the Minibrute keyboard.How we connect the equipment is that we plug it into the extension chord and we tune it as what we like them to sound as we rehearse or perform.There other wires to be connected for listening to outputs and because of those wires,The voices of the band can come out clearly,Especially the Minibrute keyboard and voice transformer.We will be having a practice gig where we will perform for our teacher and class mates next Tuesday during band workshops on 31st January and 14th March we will perform for the final assessment which is the Easter gig.We usually connect the equipments in  between other instruments on the stage.Hence,this is a new way of performing with a new equipment.
In the picture below is a paper shown of how the stage where and when we will be performing will look like with the connection of the new equipment