MC-3A Electronic Keyboard
The MC-3A electronic keyboard is a digital
square wave instrument. I don't know exactly how old it is
but my guess is that it's roughly from the 1990's. It has
12 chromatic sounds:
01- Piano
02- Saxophone
03- Pipe Organ
04- Guitar
05- Trumpet
06- Violin
07- Harpsichord
08- Jazz Organ
09- Synth
10- Cowbell
11- Oboe
12- Clarinet
The vibrato button has
no settings, it's on or off. I've sampled the sounds
with and without vibrato. Additionally, it has rhythm
styles, a bass and 5 percussion sounds: kick, conga,
snare, cymbal and hi-hat.
The bass and
percussion sounds are included in the set but
not the rhythm styles. All these do not
sound like the acoustic instruments they're named
after but more like the Sid chip, 80's and early 90's
video games. Very good retro sounds for chip music (or
chiptune).
Samples
recorded through the keyboard's line out at 24
bits / 44.1 khz and then converted to 16 bits.
All the notes are sampled for the sounds without
sustain (piano, guitar, harpsichord, cowbell,
bass), the others have 4 notes per octave.
689 samples, 127 MB
16 bits, 44.1 kHz
- wav
- sfz
- Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 (full version,
not the Player)
Single
dry instruments:
- Clarinet
- Harpsichord
- Jazz Organ
- Piano vibrato
- Pipe Organ vibrato
- Saxophone
- Violin vibrato
MIDI file of a Bach piece from an anonymous source
with the Cowbell (vib) and Harpsichord (vib) from
the MC3A and the Melodic Honk 01 instrument
(currently unavailable):
- Bach Trio
