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Augkit: An Augmented Drum Set System Designed For Live Performance, Mario A. Carvajal
Augkit: An Augmented Drum Set System Designed For Live Performance, Mario A. Carvajal
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Augkit is an augmented drum set system designed for live performance. Augkit consists of a drum kit, microphone, audio interface, MIDI pad controller with foot switches, set of speakers, and a computer. I designed the processing audio engine in the visual programming language Max. Max processes the audio signal in a variety of ways that include delays, flanger, reverb, and synthesis that depend on the frequency content of the signal. Foot switches and MIDI pads toggle and modify the parameters of Augkit. This approach to playing drum set proves to be very flexible and offers new aesthetic possibilities for live …