Analogue Bus » Circuit Bent http://www.analoguebus.com/blog Comments, musings, news from the Analogue Bus artificers Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Finished my fraken triwave! http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/finished-my-fraken-triwave/ http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/finished-my-fraken-triwave/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:31:58 +0000 bryan http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/finished-my-fraken-triwave/ Will try to explain this beast later right now we will just settle for a picture of it resting in the modular


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]]> http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/finished-my-fraken-triwave/feed/ 2586 New bent Talking Teacher! http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-bent-talking-teacher/ http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-bent-talking-teacher/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:26:35 +0000 bryan http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/?p=170 Well I decided to grab another talking teacher off Ebay and bend it. This time I was aiming for a cleaner job and also to add a bunch of mods to it. That sounds like no big deal until you open the case to these suckers, there is ZERO room inside one. So I went about adding my standard 10 bends when I stumbled on a new one diagnosing a problem. The Talking Teacher (henceforth called TT) has an amazingly cool hold button, but it goes beyond the normal hold and allows “stutters” and random memory accesses. So I added a button on the right side so as you are hitting things you can add a glitch “hold”. Also to super expand it across the top back is going to be a single row of the female pin headers. It will have tiny Krynar wires running down it into a hole and the soldered to every pin in the system (that’s worth it) this combined with another female header on top which has 3 pots glued to it, 5 buttons, and a dipswitch/pot combo. It will allow you to module style connect up bends thus vastly expanding it. The dipswitch/pot combo is for a 10 step sequencer.

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]]> http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/11/08/new-bent-talking-teacher/feed/ 2810 Main circuit bending project: Yamaha PSS 170 http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/24/main-circuit-bending-project-yamaha-pss-170/ http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/24/main-circuit-bending-project-yamaha-pss-170/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:27:41 +0000 bryan http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/24/main-circuit-bending-project-yamaha-pss-170/ This one is taking a bit of time for some reason. Its not that tough of a bend just cut the 8 data lines between the main CPU and the Yamaha FM synth processor.

Mods added:

  1. MIDI retrofit using a HighlyLiquid UMR kit.
  2. 16 body contacts
  3. 10 banana jacks and a set of 15 stackable banana patch cables
  4. 8 Data bus glitch switches
  5. 8 chrome inset red LEDs that line up with the data lines from the CPU to the FM processor. It is nice for debugging (sorta) and a really cool effect.
  6. (Attempting) pitch bend knob
  7. (Attempting) rotary tune selector
  8. (Attempting) loop system with rotary loop start/end rotary knobs and a loop speed pot

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]]> http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/24/main-circuit-bending-project-yamaha-pss-170/feed/ 2918 We have gotten into circuit bending….oh dear hide the toys and the dog http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/22/we-have-gotten-into-circuit-bending-oh-dear-hide-the-toys-and-the-dog/ http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/22/we-have-gotten-into-circuit-bending-oh-dear-hide-the-toys-and-the-dog/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:36:22 +0000 bryan http://www.analoguebus.com/blog/2009/08/22/we-have-gotten-into-circuit-bending-oh-dear-hide-the-toys-and-the-dog/ Once again a bunch of crappy shots and will go back and explain tonight…..

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