Twiki Locks to a Bent Tr505

Circuit bent machines began spontaneously making music, looked over by the ghost of Twiki...

Gear:
Bent tr505
Samples of bent gear loaded into a disting.
Mfb 522
Ground hum and that fucking annoying noise you get if you forget to use the USB adapter with a beat step pro.

Thanks for listening!

Midiwidget syncs Bent Beats

An experiment using my Midiwidget to trigger and sync bent gear, made entirely with circuit bent gear.

For the percussive elements I used a circuit bent Tr505 and Hot Music drum toy. The Midiwidget also triggers a home made Lo-fi sampler which is CV controlled through a Belcat analog delay with a Doepfer A101.9 Universal Vactrol Module.

Square wave broken chords from a Gameboy runnning LSDJ.

Reverb is from ehx holy grail.

Only 3 mins long coz thats about all my ears could stand!

Thanks for listening/looking...

The Midiwidget with 8x RCA cables running out to various devices.

Circuit Bent Toys rehoused in black boxes and the Belcat Delay. 

The bent Tr505. The Midiwidget turns on and off bends between points on its ROM chip.

The Hot Music drum toy which I had to re-house to fit all the connections I wanted. It features dirty kick, snare and ride samples with lots of aliasing...

New circuit bent beard music on Soundcloud

Gear Used...

Bent gear: Casio sa5 and Roland tr505.

Analog gear: doepfer eurorack modular system and an mfb522.

Other gear: Ehx holy grail, memory man, v256 and an oboe.

Recorded Portsmouth 2015.

Thanks for listening... :)

Circuit Bent Tr505

A new machine enters the fold– a circuit bent Tr505!

Pitch pot added using circuitbenders.uk LTC1799 circuit. I kept the original crystal and used a DPDT switch to flick between original pitch, and variable pitch. I also added an input so I can control the pitch via cv using my DOEPFER A-101-9. Nice!

24 Bends were added to the ROM chip using a schematic here avoiding the power and gnd pins.

There are tons more bends possible with this machine (just look online) but I'm super happy with my mods  as I use it solely triggered via MIDI, and wanted to create new timbres which the pitch and rom bends do nicely.

Expect new tracks soon...