Roland System 100m

Spotted in Wunjo Keys, Denmark street London. One of my favourite synth shops in the whole world... (second only to Schneiders Buero, Berlin!)

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...

Organ Monkey Teeth

Two new tracks on soundcloud: Organ Monkey's Teeth Parts 1 and 2...

In case you're interested...

Both tracks were recorded and mixed in my small home studio in Portsmouth.

OMT part 1 was mostly made with doepfer a100, circuit bent barbie and a microbrute.

Bass 2xa110 vco> a106.1 ms20 copy. The settings on the filter lead to a notch around 100k which the kick fitted into snuggly.

Snare from circuit bent barbie– I sent noise from an am radio into it and then modulated it with a doepfer a100 system. The different timbres are created when I manually adjust settings.

Kick from a100, again no presets here!

Lead from a100 and the barbie again FM cross modulating each other.

Flute from mtron sent out into my mixer and back into logic. (I know it's software but I will never be able to afford a real mellotron!)

Reverb EHX hoy grail, delay EHX memory man.

OMT part 2 was made with circuit bent instruments and a small doepfer a100 system.

Bass a100 recorded through marshal amp with a low signal noise ratio in an attempt to not Freak out our neighbours (hence amp hum!)

Kick and snare also from Doepfer patches - no presets here!

Kick patch used sine and triangle from an a110>a131vca modulated with a145 adsr and a145 lfo (pitch)

Snare patch used the same crappy am radio  fitted with line out as a noise source into a bit crusher > also with an a110> vca modulated with adsr

Vocals processed through circuit bent voice changer and home made distortion box.

Lead from bent casio sa 5 into doepfer wasp filter being swept with foot controller.

Cow bell is a percussive noise from the a100 sent through a high hat with a piezo driver and picked up again with a piezo Mike.

Delay from ehx mm and reverb ehx holy grail.

All tracks run through mackie mixer and arranged in logic.

All in all, one of those sessions where the studio turns into a chaos of wires and possibilities- fun!

Thanks for listening... :)

 

 
 

DEATH / Transmission / LIFE : MYTHOS

Neal Beard and his Machines have their track 'Rikane Delmarre is Dead' included on a new compilation from Necktar.

The themes of this, their 7th compilation, is Death / Transmission / Life : Mythos.

(Beetween 15 and 17 hours of music by sound pioneers from all around the earth) Stay tuned §:)

Download or stream here

More info on their website here

Spirochetes must die: two new tracks on Soundcloud

Spirochetes Must Die: part 1 was made using Doepfer a100 system controlled by hands and feet, with additional midi sequencing.

Drums Korg ER1 and tip tops 808 snare and kick clones sequenced with an a190-1.

The envelope of the noise(s) was synchronised to the midi clock and modulated using logic x's new midi fx (lfo) sent to cv2 of the a190-1.

Timing goes way out at one point, not sure why, but I kind of like when things like that happen!

Also used an ehx electric mistress and a holy grail.




Spirochetes Must Die: part 2 was made using an a155 which I've just bought secondhand. My idea was to try and make a sequence that felt random but regular, by combining the a155 with an a160, a161 and an a151. This section also uses a circuit bent Casio SK1 midi triggered using Highly Liquid's retrofit.

The second pulsing section (and outro) was made using the a100 and guitar (sent through a behringer harmoniser and big muff.)

Reverb again from an ehx holy grail and delay from ehx MM.

New Circuit Bent Track

A new track has just gone up on soundcloud...

Blue Argos is made entirely with circuit bent/ lo-fi gear namely;

a circuit bent blue Argos/Chad Valley type toy keyboard with a recorded sequence looped by a midi trigger, a circuit bent casio sa5 for the drone, a modded casio VL1 midi triggered using Highly Liquid's Midi Retrofit and drums from a tr505 (modding in progress!)

Circuit Bent Modular Fusion

Another new track up on soundcloud...



All the modular and circuit bent voices, and their modulations, were synchronised with a midi clock from a Doepfer A190.

There's quite a lot of low end activity, so for your stereo enjoyement, I would recommend a decent set of speakers, or headphones!