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Re: benders

Post by FSTZ » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:43 am

GET SOME METH AND GET SOME SOLDER

GO BANANAS!
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Re: benders

Post by jsilver » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:33 am

FSTZ wrote:GET SOME METH AND GET SOME SOLDER

GO BANANAS!
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Re: benders

Post by djdickclark » Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:39 am

FSTZ wrote:GET SOME METH AND GET SOME SOLDER

GO BANANAS!
hookers and whiskey never hurt either :wink:
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Re: benders

Post by totalcult » Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:17 pm

A round-up of great resources, how-to guides, samples, VST emulations and bent music here.
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Re: benders

Post by ninjadog » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:12 pm

deadly habit wrote: broken oxygen 8,
What did you do with that? I got one of those kicking around.
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Re: benders

Post by alphacat » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:49 pm

Can't believe I'm only seeing this thread now. I hosted a couple "bending parties" at the Drum Machine Museum space here in SF some years back to teach newbs the basics while more advanced benders did their thing right alongside: the first one was sick, the second one had a bunch of whiners who were too cheap to buy parts at-cost...

Anyway-

This is the site I send prospective benders to first:

http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/circuitbend/

I don't hack shit like I used to because of the generally low-quality audio most battery-powered bent devices produce, but the best thing I ever made was a cheap $5 keyboard (that did have a little pitch knob at the back) - I wired some of the power to feed back into the osc. circuit and suddenly it sounded like a big dirty Rhodes being played through a tiny transistor radio. Bent stuff is great for little sound FX and whatnot.
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Re: benders

Post by djake » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:35 pm

lick your fingers and away you go

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Re: benders

Post by FSTZ » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:13 pm

alphacat wrote:Can't believe I'm only seeing this thread now. I hosted a couple "bending parties" at the Drum Machine Museum space here in SF some years back to teach newbs the basics while more advanced benders did their thing right alongside: the first one was sick, the second one had a bunch of whiners who were too cheap to buy parts at-cost...

Anyway-

This is the site I send prospective benders to first:

http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/circuitbend/

I don't hack shit like I used to because of the generally low-quality audio most battery-powered bent devices produce, but the best thing I ever made was a cheap $5 keyboard (that did have a little pitch knob at the back) - I wired some of the power to feed back into the osc. circuit and suddenly it sounded like a big dirty Rhodes being played through a tiny transistor radio. Bent stuff is great for little sound FX and whatnot.
that is awesome!

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Re: benders

Post by trike12 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:39 pm

Myself and a friend modified a random toy keyboard from a local toy store, we just changed some resistors and voltages and i sounded like some really weird arpegiator, circuit bending is sick! would love to get more into it, tbh we had only little idea of what we were doing.
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Re: benders

Post by alphacat » Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:02 pm

The beauty of bending is that if you don't know how the shit works - keep at it long enough and you will.

The way I always described my bending experiments was:

[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? SMOKE! Argh - shit's on fire!
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? No.
[tweak] Anything? WHOA... what the fuck was that?! I hope we can reproduce and record it...
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Re: benders

Post by alphacat » Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:05 pm

Interesting little vid here...

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/ ... -hd-video/

The sound he gets out of it at the end is pretty fuckin' cool.
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