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Post by matt on Aug 22, 2005 8:44:31 GMT -5
Anyone got anything interesting to share about any of the casio range? I have schems for the sk's and some of the mt range.
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jftl
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Post by jftl on Aug 25, 2005 14:22:24 GMT -5
I've poked around in a MT-260. The chip is full of bends. I will probably be doing it up with a large patch bay when I get that far. I have an SK that I'm going to do the tablebeast mod to + some other things (drumkill etc..). I have an MT-205 I didn't find much in, but I'm building a drum controller box + circuit for the 4 drum inputs. I have an SA7 that has the nomal crash touch point and push button, although I'm having trouble getting it to be reliable. I have a SK-60, MT- 68, MT-800, PT-10, PT-20, and VL-1 that are untouched.
JFTL
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Post by matt on Aug 25, 2005 15:59:07 GMT -5
have you ever tried a mt400v? I had one sitting around and started poking around but i think i broke it. I'm gonna give it a coupla weeks hope it fixes itself. That stuff seems to happen a lot.
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jftl
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Post by jftl on Aug 29, 2005 9:51:12 GMT -5
I haven't had one to poke at as of yet. One thing that helps sometimes is to discharge all the electrolytic caps you can find. I've had that resurrect a few things that went wonky on me, and sometimes that's the only way to reset a crash.
JFTL
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Post by greasebox on Sept 6, 2005 19:40:36 GMT -5
I've just started circuit bending - started with the tablebeast mod for the sk-1 and it's very nice. So far I've bent my shs-10 (work in progress cos there's an infinate amount of things you can do with it), vl-1 (added 2 types of distortion, 1 is slightly filtered), a cheap chinese keyboard (ring mod and overdrive. I've also added line outs to all my keyboards with no bending possibilites or ones that are sentimental, like my bontempi gt-509 which is absolutely beautiful. I've got a few nice other things to bend, like an MT-55 and 100, yamaha pss-6, 80 and 55, casio sa-20, 1 and 9, a PT-82 and a couple of unmarked cheapos. Anyone know if it's possible to circuit bend a Watkins Tape Echo?
M
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Post by Zodiak on Sept 20, 2005 16:55:28 GMT -5
Please don't try to bend the Watkins (WEM) tape echo, they are virually antiques!
If you want something else, then flog it on e-bay and buy an old BOSS analogue delay, they are full of chips so you should have hours of fun
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Post by iqoruvuc on Sept 23, 2005 4:39:53 GMT -5
My first attempt at bending, prior to the two I accidentally trod whilst arguing with my girlfriend, was the casio MT-140, which I obtained for £3 at a carboot sale.
My lack of understanding and components, meant i wired in a bout 8 momentary push-to-make switches. My attempt doesn't seem half as complex as Reed Ghazala's version in his book, but even so I have produced endless streams of undulating noise that boderlines on beautiful. It's the complexity of the continual stream of sound, and the way parts of it randomly alter, and come back again.
Although my most niave this machine is my favourite so far (I have only bent two other machines so far), and I would like to bend some more (perhaps the mt-240 with midi?). Only thing is that they go for too much money on ebay, especially with postage etc...but tracking them down is half the fun I suppose!
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Post by lee on Oct 3, 2006 2:57:10 GMT -5
Hi, can you explain me which type of modulation did you find in the VL-1 and where?
Thank you!
Lee
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futureimage
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Post by futureimage on Oct 4, 2006 1:08:47 GMT -5
Hi, can you explain me which type of modulation did you find in the VL-1 and where? Thank you! Lee I guess you could wire up a vactrol between the pitch preset and a small 555 LFO. That would be pretty neat actually. |
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Post by CASIOLOGIE on Oct 5, 2006 7:17:36 GMT -5
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Post by thesemenincident on Oct 13, 2006 4:45:55 GMT -5
wow! a new post!
Well, I have had little experience with Casios...
I killed my PT-10! (People weren't kidding when they said don't mess with the power supplying circuits...)
but anyways, the PT-10 has some pretty cool pitch/contact bends! It'd sound great with tons of pots and body contacts (not really anything on there in the way of glitching or anything that'd use a toggle switch though)
One of my favorite bends on there was a touch bend where I'd just mash my fingers on the board while playing a drum preset (I just removed the keys to expose the circuit... that was one of my early attempts and bending haha) and it sounded very reminiscent of a deep fryer frying... things... at least to me it did!
I miss that keyboard... It was a favorite of mine before I screwed it up.
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