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/)
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.
try limiting the battery and look for the 'brain' (an IC chip/black blob etc)
Also if there's anything in particular that really good for distortion that anyone could recommend that would be cool too.
Thanks guys :)
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
yes i have found the pitch bend. Not located the lfo
Will have a tinker around.
Thanks for the advice
you won't find an LFO in there. You'd need to build your own and use it to control the pitch.
Right.. Well that sounds a bit too advanced for me :'(
Any good links about making an lfo that you recommend?
Can anybody explain the attached picture?