Circuit bent Casio SA-7 video model

YouTube via frostedminipete. listen to it from :18 on.
"Fresh outta' the oven and sporting a sailor-esque paint job. Up for sale on eBay soon.

Features...
Glitch button
Glitch button with variable depth knob
Glitch body contacts
Heavy distortion/feedback knob
Distortion opto theremin (w/ on/off switch)
1/8" output jack
Speaker on/off switch
White LEDs that pulse with sounds"
Circuit bent Casios on Ebay

Circuit bent friend face

YouTube via frostedminipete
"I don't know why this idea didn't cross my mind until recently. The touch contacts on my MT-55 produce awesome sounds... here's another way to achieve them :P EVERYBODY CLAP FOR JENNIE FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD SPORT.

(obviously, one person touching each contact, touch the other person for the sound...just in case anybody was still unsure)"

Vocoded Drums - Royksopp style and Drum and bass improv thingy

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Little experiment running a recording of my drums through a vocoder... Getting the drums like Royksopp's "Remind Me," then playing some dnb style rhythms. Sounds good with your bass way up! :D"

Atari Punk Dreamcast [Circuit bent] Version 2

YouTube via frostedminipete. via this auction
"Two more features than my old version including a HEAVY BASS/SAW LEAD mode and Whiney mode!"

Oberheim DX demonstration, making beats

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Awesome vintage drum machine. Commonly used in early hip hop...also, bass drum easily recognized from "Blue Monday" by New Order (they used a DMX, slightly more advanced version of the DX). This guy is currently for sale on eBay."

Circui bent Casio SA-1

YouTube via frostedminipete | November 13, 2010

Atari Punk Dreamcast [Circuit bent w/ opto theremin]

YouTube via frostedminipete
"This is my first atari punk console, housed inside a dreamcast. Photo cell is demonstrated with a strobe light in the second half of the video.

Extra features include...
-Internal speaker with on/off [under lid]
-Opto-theremin (photo cell) with on/off [under lid]
-4 Body Contacts
-Pretty blue LED
- ... uh, furby eye"

Playing megaman - airman theme on an atari punk console

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Well, trying. Obviously you can't do anything too musical with a single oscillator but hey, I tried."

Circuit Bent Hing Hon EK-001, 2 LED version

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Re-upping an old video for ebay... so many Hing Hon's on my channel..."
"Modulation knobs
[For heavy bass, overdrive/distortion, modulation, hardcore gabber sounds, glitching, frequency generation, etc...]
Pitch down knob
Modulation/Distortion opto-theremin [with on/off]
Low pass filter switch
Note sustain/hold switch
Rhythm modifier/skip switch
High pass filter/acid switch
Crazy glitch switch
Acts as a distortion/modulation box [through the mic input]
1/4" Audio output jack
2 sound pulsing blue LEDs
[New addition... RCA output jack for visuals! Plug into TV, projector, etc...]"

Circuit bent Casio SA-5

YouTube via frostedminipete | September 01, 2010

"Variable distortion knob, Glitch contacts, Distortion opto theremin, Secondary distortion switch, glitch button, & video output.

Anddd black/white/silver splatter paint."

McDonalds Filet O' Fish talking fish is a Casio SK-1

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Please tell me I'm not the only person who noticed this...
It's the "pops" rhythm setting with chords in the key of A."

Ode to the Casio SK-1 / Getting the most out of your lofi sampler

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Professionally written and composed by me DERP DERP DERP"

Casio SA 2 commission

YouTube Published on Aug 15, 2012 by frostedminipete

"I'm back in business for commissioned work! Here's the last Casio SA-2 I painted up and modded. It's got quite a bit to it, this isn't even a brief overlook. Take a look at my old videos to see what I can do - there are quite a few models I've modded before and am happy to look at new ones and there's more I'm capable of as well as better control methods. If you're interested you can message me over youtube or at george.gleixner@gmail.com"

x0xb0x and bent 626 early demo

YouTube Published on Aug 10, 2012 by frostedminipete

"Finished building a x0xb0x last night. Simple video fooling around with two patterns,"

Circuit bent modular style Roland TR-626 drum machine

YouTube Uploaded by frostedminipete on Aug 29, 2009

"Fooling around with my favorite, biggest project so far outside (mind the "outside" noises). The first section of the video is just mods applied to a single pattern repeating. The rhythm at times due to the RAM being scrambled :] but it's all one pattern until the switch at 4:14 ish

This thing took forever to finish. There's more info at the burnkit2600 website on the TR626 section and here: http://tinyurl.com/nz5ukl

Fully rehoused in custom cut and stained wood, huge patch bay (96 points including multiplexing bay and 12 patch control bay), volume knobs and kill switches, kit switches, "fill" switches and buttons, pitch down, distortions, and... the possibilities are literally endless with this thing.

You can create little squarewave melodies with it as well by replacing certain sounds with synth sounds and then changing the pitch. I didn't do much of that in this video, this was just fooling around.

Everything I've done to this machine is fully documented. You can access it on the burnkit website in a word document. I need a website of my own :P"

Circuit bent Hing Hon v2

YouTube via frostedminipete
"For sale: [this auction]

Slightly different than my other one... but mostly similar.

5 modulation knobs
[Heavy bass, distortion, overdrive, hard modulation, frequency generation, etc...]
Three modulation body contacts
Pitch knob with full range up and down
Low pass filter switch
Rhythm skip switch
Squarewave "dissection" switch
1/4" output jack
Acts as a distortion/modulation box [through the mic input]"

Circuit bent Hing Hon EK-001 squarewave synth

Part 1: Circuit bent Hing Hon EK-001 B&G LED version, 11 mods + opto theremin [full overview]

YouTube via frostedminipete. via this auction
"Probably the most amazing thing I've ever put together. I really like this thing.

Modulation knobs
Pitch down knob
Modulation/Distortion opto-theremin [with on/off]
Low pass filter switch
Blippy switch
Fuzzy switch
Crazy glitch switch
Acts as a distortion/modulation box [through the mic input]
1/4" Audio output jack
Ultra bright sound pulsing blue and green LEDs lining the front of the keyboard

**I will take commission to build one for you! Send me a message through youtube**"

Part 2: Circuit bent Hing Hon EK-001 B&G LED version, 11 mods [Opto theremin demo]


images via this auction

ZAP THE WORD NOW.

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Speak and Satan :[ Excerpt from my circuit bent speak and read video. I love this guy."

Circuit bent Speak & Read with 14 modifications

"Yep yep yep, here's the speak and spell's yellow cousin. All decked out. Alllll the fixin's. Well. Some of the fixin's.

4 Glitch Switches
Pitch down knob
Pitch up knob
Hold/Distortion loop button and switch
Musical loop button and switch
Vibrato/Pitch down body contact
Electronic Satan voice switch
Blue pulsing LED
1/4" Output jack
Speaker on/off switch
Reset Switch"

Circuit Bent Casio SA-2 / Blue n' Green / Video Mod

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Published on Aug 21, 2013 frostedminipete·126 videos

via this auction - learn how to sell on eBay here.

"Circuit Bent Casio SA-2
Speaker is still intact

Features...

Glitch button [with knob for variable strength]
Variable heavy distortion/feedback knob
Crunchy/fuzzy distortion switch
Heavy distortion/feedback opto-theremin
Hidden sound/voice selection switch
Kick drum trigger button
Snare drum trigger button
1/8" (3.55mm) output jack
RCA (aux) Video Output Jack
Speaker on/off switch
Blue power indicator LED

Also...

--Black, Blue and Green paint job--

I've built upwards of 40-50 machines for different bands, musicians and producers across the world on commission (and through eBay) over the years who would assure you that I know what I'm doing ~ check my feedback! These various instruments are being used in live performances and studio production. This keyboard is not only noisy, but made to be musical. Most of my circuit bent instruments with musicians and performers in mind... and, in this case, also for everybody else who enjoys the endless amount of glitching sounds the Casio SA series keyboards can make.

About the features!
[All are demonstrated in video below]

Glitch trigger:
On the left of the keyboard is a large knob and a button; the knob corresponds to intensity of the glitch that will result from a button press. For instance, if the knob is turned all the way to the right it will make a full connection when the button is pressed which cuts out the sound momentarily and will either result in a heavy glitch when often will continue indefinitely, or a crash (turn the keyboard off & on again). While the keyboard glitches it's also possible to modify what's happening by adjusting the knob and pressing the button again. Pressing the glitch button while the knob is not turned up fully will result in, often, a shorter glitch which does end and then brings the keyboard back to it's original status.

When playing the keyboard, playing the demo song or a rhythm, or (if the knob is turned up higher) while no sounds are happening, glitching will start (may take a few presses if no sounds are going off). Most commonly the resulting glitches are a modification of the sound coming from the keyboard at the time of the button press, but there's really no way to tell what to expect. The video I've made for this keyboard provides some examples of what you can achieve with it. Random patterns, sounds, drones, repetitive noises, mellow slowed down tones... it's essentially limitless.

[To stop glitching/if keyboard stops sounding, just turn it off and back on]

Distortion/feedback knob:
This is the knob to the right of the keyboard. When turned it causes interesting noise/feedback, and while playing the keyboard or rhythms it causes some heavy variable distortion/feedback depending on its position. This mod by itself can transform some of the cheezy sounds of this keyboard into some sort of distorted squealing monster.

Distortion opto theremin:
So on the very right of the keyboard there's a photo cell and a switch above it (bottom switch). When you engage the switch it turns the opto theremin on. The more light hitting the photo cell = the more distortion you get. Be creative with it! Wave your hand over it while you're playing the keyboard to produce sweeping distortions by changing the amount of light hitting the photo cell! A strobe light can cause some crazy pulsating distortion/modulation...

Crunchy/light distortion switch:

This is the top switch on the right of the keyboard. It does what it says and creates a different sounding distortion when engaged. Sounds heavy and very noisy if used in combination with the other distortion; pitch of this distortion slowly steps upward when a key is pressed as well. Goes great with simple rhythms.

Hidden Voices switch:
Fun mod for the SA-2. The middle switch on the right of the keyboard allows you to access 25 additional keyboard voices not included on the stock SA-2. To access them, you engage the switch and use the first 5 lowest keys on the keyboard as you would use the 1-5 buttons to select a voice. So, F = 1, F# = 2, G = 3, G# = 4, A = 5. As seen in the video, by pressing F(1) followed by A(5) while the switch is engaged selects a Jazz Organ voice. After selecting a voice you just flip the switch back. I'm not sure what to name each of the voices available with these buttons, so you can explore :P

RCA Video output:
So here's something that you generally won't find with many other bent devices. Basically, it's just a simple RCA jack on the left of the keyboard at the bottom of the speaker grate. This can be plugged into a TV, projector... anything that accepts RCA video (though I wouldn't suggest sticking it into your big expensive 60" plasma screen.. I offer no guarantees on this!) I have used this on various TVs (large and small, CRT, LCD) and on projectors; it looks pretty cool. The video demonstration doesn't do any great justice to the appearance, but shows you what it does.

The visuals that it creates are, essentially, horizontal black and white waves/lines Higher pitched sounds create lines that are thinner/closer together. Smoother preset sounds (like square and sinewave based voices) are more clear solid lines, while crunchy or distorted voices are more dotted and scraggly. Combinations of notes and other sounds cause interesting clashing wave forms and things. Would be great for live performances. It's somewhat memorizing to watch this while the machine is glitching... random visual patterns that correlate to the sound.

Other features:

Two buttons [to left of distortion knob on keyboard] added for triggering drum sounds. (Left/blue is Kick, Right/green is Snare)

A 1/8" output jack is located on the right of the keyboard for plugging into an amp/mixer/recording device/headphones/etc...

Speaker on/off switch (Left of keyboard, bottom of speaker grate) for when using output jack.

Blue power indicator LED at the top of the speaker grate.

*This keyboard runs on 4AA batteries. The battery compartment cover is included."

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EK-001 TR-606 Geosafari late night bent jam

YouTube via frostedminipete
"Couldn't sleep before exams. This EK-001 is going to Japan and it sounds... great. Really great.

Gabber gabber gabber gabber"