Im just now bending a PSS130 and didnīt find any mention of it here so I thought Iīd drop in a few lines about it..
First off it sounds nice as is! Itīs surprisingly "warm" sounding and the tonebeep drumpatterns are pretty crisp too.. of course you need to make a lineout to really hear this baby
I found some good bends out of it by connecting pots between the synth IC and the little 6 pin IC on the power PCB.
Heres what I get by turning the pots:
(by the way, I tried taking off the little bump inside the pots that stops it from
going 360, and it seems to be working OK.. I put really wide knobs on them so I can spin them for some manual "glitch loops". Im thinking of little DC motors here..
1. The keyboardsounds do seemingly random glitching, distorting and pitch "jumping". The glitching is quite smooth and un-noisey..
2. The drumpatterns can rhytmically "pump" the overall sound (got some insane IDM/gabber outof it)
3. A static sawave sound can be pitchifted and distorted and mixed with the keyb.sounds and drumpatterns.
(Its actually a goddamn good analogue bass sound, real dirty but warm and smooth.. makes the windos shake
)
4. The different keyboardsounds give a lot of different textures, mainly in the lower frequencies, this thing is real easy on the tweeters.
5. The machine still works in "normal mode"
6. Never crashes
7. Different sounds can be recreated easily, it seems really stable
Overall it came out a quite good, especially the variety of "quality" basssounds. Also because its so stable, and "holds" the sounds well I can have long "progressive" jams.. hehee..
I would recommend big knobs for the pots, cos there is a wealth of variation in there to get your hands on..
Anyways, it may not be the craziest, glitchiest, random thing out there - quite the opposite - but its a nice sounding machine, easy to bend and built like a tank !
Im definately on the look out for itīs bigger brothers...