Circuit Bending

Casio MT-52

German Version

The MT-52 offers a great variety of patterns, consisting of dynamic analog drums, a phat square wave bass and minimal chord sequences. The drum and the bass sequences are really very well programmed and sound very modern for an over 20-year-old keyboard. Since I like the novel sound, as well as the components' volume levels in relation to one another, I built in the following basic functions:

• Mute switch for bass and chords
• Mute switch for nearly all singular drum sounds
• Additional "tempo fine" controller
• Altered bass drum cutoff frequency
• Sustain values of bass and chord sounds can be altered by switch

I often use this one, so I've got 3 sound examples for you: the first one is pure MT-52, the others are taken from sessions with my Casio live project Monomal & Muttermahl.

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