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

deadly habit wrote: broken oxygen 8,

What did you do with that? I got one of those kicking around.

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.

lick your fingers and away you go

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!

there was a house in Lawrence Kansas where the occupants had made a technology graveyard out front.. I wish I had a picture but it was a bunch of old 303's c64's apple IIe's and they were set up like tombstones

wish I had snapped a photo

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.

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...

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.