50hz
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Post by 50hz on Oct 11, 2005 17:37:36 GMT -5
Hi, another circuit-bending newbie just arrived,
I've just spent the afternoon ripping apart a couple of toys and getting some basic pitch and kind of stuttering glitches, but it suddenly dawned on me that it might be possible to bend my battery powered Yamaha SU-10 sampler.
Has anyone bent one of these?, is it even possible to bend samplers?
I'm itching to take it apart, but although it's now pretty old and worth relatively little, it still has a few usefull features I'd hate to loose while trying to bend something that's un-bendable, if that makes sense, but if it's possible I can get it to glitch somehow, I'm gonna get it cracked open ASAP.
Anyone offer any words of encouragement?
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Post by matt on Oct 11, 2005 17:47:39 GMT -5
it probably will bend. but be prepared for the worst. don't go anywhere near the batteries.
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50hz
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Post by 50hz on Oct 11, 2005 18:20:19 GMT -5
I take it that battery powered devices are still safe to work on, even though they also run on a mains adapter? (obviously this won't be plugged in while I work on it), I read that you need to watch out for the larger capacitors, but apart from that is there anything else dodgy about devices that also have power adaptors?.
I guess if people are bending fx pedals, there me be some potential for bending the fx on the sampler, I'd like to be able to somehow glitch the sample playback as well.
Is it very easy to accidentally compromise the memory funtionality of something like this?
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Post by johningram on Oct 11, 2005 20:14:39 GMT -5
even with a mains adapter the unit is never getting full main voltage (that's what the adapter is doing), so you would never run the risk of eating full wall current. on the safe side its always better to bend on battery power alone. just never bend anything that doesn't have an adapter or transformer and be wary of bending anything that has an integrated transformer.
I've never actually had my hands on an SU-10, but by looking at the picture I don't have high hopes for it having anything useful under the hood. if you find otherwise, let us know.
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50hz
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Post by 50hz on Oct 12, 2005 5:21:55 GMT -5
^ Thanks John, will do.
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futureimage
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Post by futureimage on Oct 21, 2005 14:34:55 GMT -5
If you're not using it in any setup at the moment, I'd crack it open and experiment.
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50hz
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Post by 50hz on Mar 20, 2006 11:03:13 GMT -5
d**n, I forgot all about this place when I lost all my bookmarks. Still not had the balls to tear apart this one yet, but I've now bent a S&S by way of a kind of initiation to circuit bending. Now I have the right tools at hand I might have to get to trying this one again. Thanks for the tips though everyone.
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futureimage
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Post by futureimage on Mar 20, 2006 11:57:28 GMT -5
BTW It's not wise to bend mp3 players. I read that somewhere. Could've been Anti Theory.
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50hz
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Post by 50hz on Mar 20, 2006 12:54:09 GMT -5
^Oh it's not an MP3 player, just a basic digital sampler. I'll bare that in mind if I ever get the urge to bend my MP3 player though.
I may wait until my soldering skills are a bit more precise though before I try doing the SU-10, I'm going to do a Speak & Math next if I can get hold of one for a reasonable price I think, then maybe an Sk 1 as I hear that they have some nice bends in there.
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Post by thesemenincident on Mar 20, 2006 16:30:32 GMT -5
I saw a circuit bent ipod somewhere... boy was it ugly... and kind of useless... It was surprisingly bad because the people who made it did some other really awesome things... I can't remember the site but I believe they do Wobble Vision T.V.s as well... hmm... I have seen bent drum machines, which I assume work in a similar fashion... and SK-1's (though I'm sure the internal hardware is very different) are some of the most popular bending targets. I have tried to bend CD players myself, but without a lot of luck... I have been pretty interested in bending all kinds of media-playing devices to affect how they read data lately.
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Post by 50hz on Mar 20, 2006 19:22:19 GMT -5
^yeah, I'd like to have go at a CD player, but they seem pretty hard from what I've read.
I saw 'Nick Collins' perform using a bent CD player once (amongst a host of other weird and wonderfull hacks). He was getting some awesome sounds, he even did some scratching with a credit card reader if I remember correctly.
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Post by thesemenincident on Mar 20, 2006 19:58:30 GMT -5
hahah nifty
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futureimage
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Post by futureimage on Mar 21, 2006 2:22:32 GMT -5
I NEED to bend a TR626
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50hz
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Post by 50hz on Mar 21, 2006 7:44:47 GMT -5
So they're good for bending are they? how about the TR505's are they any good?
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Post by max eats beats on Mar 21, 2006 10:31:25 GMT -5
i want to bend a drum machine badly.
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