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Title: Korg DDD-1 - bending hints, please help
Post by: montgommery on July 27, 2007, 11:00:43 PM

Hi, i bougth a Korg DDD-1 and would like to bend it.
Does anybody of you have some hints where to start on that baby ?
Maybe some fotos  ?
Thanks
a lot in avance for your help.

Cheers
montgommery aka ElectroMungo

Title: Re: Korg DDD-1 - bending hints, please help
Post by: Circuitbenders on August 04, 2007, 02:18:59 PM

Bending a DDD-1 just means finding the ROM chips and shorting the pins together. I can't remember off the top of my head where the ROM chips are on a DDD-1  but i think they are around the middle of the bottom board. Take a look on the TIPS pages of the site for advice on working out which ones rae the ROM chips
http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/tips2.html

Does your's have the sampling board installed? Despite every DDD-1 i've ever seen claiming to be a 'sampling drum machine' i've never actually seen one with the sampling option on board.

Title: Re: Korg DDD-1 - bending hints, please help
Post by: montgommery on August 04, 2007, 09:09:51 PM

Hello, many thanks for your answer,
i will try to find the ROM chips and shortcut pins. Is there a danger to fry them (should i use a mega ohm resistor between the bending test probes or is a resistro not necessary ?

You mean the optional DSB-1 sampling board ? No there is no one installed in mine. I have only 3 ROM cards:  Rock1, Rock2 and Variation3 (Bass).

Would you recommend to use resistors for the bent shortcuts when using a patchbay or switches ?
For the VL-Tone i used RC-circuits with the bent shortcuts.

Cheers
arthur