The Alesis HR-16, launched in the late 1980s with a fairly rudimentary set of sounds, gets the circuit bending treatment and is available at this auction.
Alesis HR-16 circuit bent
Alesis HR-16 circuit bent
Alesis HR-16 circuit bent
Check out this short video demo:
No doubt there’s plenty more sounds to be got out of this modded kit.
AUTHOR
Andy Merrett
Andy has been authoring at Piano & Synth Magazine for over 20 years.
He's a keen musician, has been playing piano since the age of five (that's over 45 years!), got his first 'proper' electronic keyboard (a Casio CasioTone model) in the mid '80s, and first experimented with MIDI on an Atari 8-bit before getting STs and Macs.