Circuit Bending stuff (was Re: Devi Ever)

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 12:08 AM -0500 12/26/08, Jeff Duke wrote:
>I ran across this blog, looks very interesting! 
>http://www.getlofi.com/ sI did a little circut bending back in the 
>"day".

Suhweet!  Thanks for the pointer, Jeff!  Looks like lotsa good stuff there.

>Tip: Only circut bend things when they on on battery power! No ac Mech!! 
>:)

Yeah, I'm lucky that power (100-120v) usually doesn't bother me too 
much, although I won't be sticking a fork into an outlet anytime 
soon.  I've gotten little jolts from those before and shrugged 'em 
off.  240v though: I've gotten one good whack with that in my life 
(from an appliance that was improperly grounded) and I *won't* be 
repeating that experience.  Regardless, batteries are all good.

Haven't actually bent a whole lotta things myself (mostly just 
destroyed a couple of portable keyboards) but I've got a couple of 
functioning bent instruments I picked up second-hand.

For one, quite a while back I found a Glitchdesk ( 
http://glitchdesk.com/glitchdesk/bw/ ) with a pre-configured Roland 
TR-626 and Casio SK-1.  The Casio is quite unstable (almost 
unusable), which was a bit of a disappointment because that's the 
primary reason I got the setup.  However, the Roland drum-machine 
more than makes up for it.  I'd only pulled sounds like that out of 
Reaktor previously.

And while I was away, I had a bent Boss PS-2 come in from Spunky 
Toofers ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JAxrVAcks ).  Haven't had 
a chance to run it through it's paces yet, though.  Should be good.

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