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. Check out this short video demo: No doubt there’s plenty more sounds to be got out of this modded kit.
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A perfect candidate for circuit bending, the Casio SK-1 is available on this auction with the Diabolical sk1 glitch. “Diabolical modified Casio SK-1 MIDI glitch synth with custom paint by Matt Ralph. Features 20pt banana jack circuit bending patch bay (cables included) and CLK/Pitch mod with bypass switch. This was […]
Check out the latest blog post over at noystoise. It details the process of circuit bending a Yamaha PSS-30 (which by all accounts is notoriously difficult to do) and building a pretty incredible piece of kit. Read about the whole experience (frustrations and all) from start to finish then check […]
If circuit bending is your thing, check out the three finalists at this year’s Moog Circuit Bending Challenge. Watch videos of Jeff Boynton, Daniel Baum and Dr Moonstien as they do some serious mods to a CX-500, Fujitone II and a ‘guitar sequencer thingumajig’. Read more
This article was first published in 2011 and as such a lot of the resources are either no longer available or have not been updated. We will endeavour to provide some newer resources in due course. If you have any suggestions, please do get in touch. Circuit bending. It sounds […]
