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Circuitbenders Forum => Circuitbending discussion => BENDING TIPS => Topic started by: eugene1277 on December 01, 2014, 07:06:25 PM

Title: help for beginner please....
Post by: eugene1277 on December 01, 2014, 07:06:25 PM: Hi guys.

Complete noob here. so please forgive me sounding a bit stupid...

I have purchased my first toy to bend... Perhaps it's a bit much for an absolute beginner but i was the only thing i could find in the charity shops..

Basically i've opened it up and got to the PCB..

I have a loop running then i start touching solder points with the small alligator clips i have waiting to find some weird sounds..

Now after playing around for half hour i'm yet to find anything really happening..

When i play around with the smaller board in the pic i just tend to get notes being triggered, which kind of makes sense as thats where the keys are..

I havent found any weird distorted sounds or effects as of yet..... Has this keyboard even got the capability of creating those kind of sounds...??

Is this just a case of more trial and error or is there somewhere specific on the board i should be looking???

As i say complete noob here, so please forgive me sounding a bit stupid... But any advice would be much appreciated...

I've attached photos of the boards etc...

Thanks :)

EDIT: i cant seem to upload pics of it.. Keeps timing out :/

Its a Cyber piano like this one in the link http://majormusicbargains.com/musical-keyboards/m-z3r0-circuit-bent-kawasaki-cyber-piano/ (http://majormusicbargains.com/musical-keyboards/m-z3r0-circuit-bent-kawasaki-cyber-piano/)
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: Circuitbenders on December 02, 2014, 03:08:30 AM: I've just assigned a bit more space to the attachments allocation on the server, so you should be able to upload pictures now, although they need to be under 100K each/

What keyboard is it? Unfortunately not everything will do anything decent.
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: wax+wire on December 02, 2014, 07:23:57 AM: try limiting the battery and look for the 'brain' (an IC chip/black blob etc)
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: eugene1277 on December 02, 2014, 09:03:01 AM: Also if there's anything in particular that really good for distortion that anyone could recommend that would be cool too.

Thanks guys :)
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: Circuitbenders on December 02, 2014, 09:50:17 PM: well, there will probably be a pitch resistor in there by the sound of it, but i've never modded that particular model before.
It looks like theres a pitch LFO built into that as well
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: eugene1277 on December 11, 2014, 10:27:12 PM: yes i have found the pitch bend. Not located the lfo

Will have a tinker around.

Thanks for the advice
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: Circuitbenders on December 12, 2014, 02:07:58 AM: you won't find an LFO in there. You'd need to build your own and use it to control the pitch.
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: eugene1277 on December 14, 2014, 03:07:13 PM: Right.. Well that sounds a bit too advanced for me :'(

Any good links about making an lfo that you recommend?
Title: Re: help for beginner please....
Post by: eugene1277 on February 17, 2015, 04:26:06 PM: Can anybody explain the attached picture?