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Title: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 06, 2011, 07:05:12 PM

Hi all , pleased to have found this place. I started doing a bit of bending after reading Nicolas Collins book "Handmade Electronic Music". Quite pleased with early results. Here's a link to Youtube of my second bend which I'm pretty pleased with. Also made some music with it using some of the effects onto looping pedal then playing my cigar box guitar over it. You can hear it on the jukebox at the bottom of my website, it's called "While Giants Sleep". I'll be calling in here regularly now I know where the other UK crackpots hang out!

http://www.smojomusic.co.uk/ (http://www.smojomusic.co.uk/)

http://www.youtube.com/smojomusic#p/u/9/j6KJD_SkTEk (http://www.youtube.com/smojomusic#p/u/9/j6KJD_SkTEk)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: Circuitbenders on July 07, 2011, 12:10:47 PM

I'm really liking that track with the harmonica and the slide stuff on the next one, and thats a particularly sinister gritty lofi breathing noise you've got on the fourth one

Have you ever heard The Young Gods acoustic album 'Knock On Wood'? From your stuff i reckon you'd really like it. A 90% electronic band doing acoustic versions of their songs with loopers and a few bent toys thrown in.  :)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 07, 2011, 02:13:32 PM

Thanks Paul. Got into cigar box guitars a few years ago and that led me into electronics making amps and stuff and eventually circuit bending. The breathing noise was the pitch bent sound of the accelerator on the toy car and the ticking was the indicator slowed down. Hoping to combine the two passions into something unique.

No not heard of the band but will check it out. Always looking for new stuff to listen to.

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: Bogus Noise on July 07, 2011, 03:34:11 PM

Good work! Light sensors are always fun.

I love those driving toys actually, I've done one of the other versions and they're surprisingly playable! Something about the big and chunky controls lends itself really well to playing bizarre rhythmic stuff. It also happens to be my first and only (so far) paint job.


Circuit Bent VTech Baby Driver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9jEj3CzI8#)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 08, 2011, 07:39:52 PM

Yeah the big box makes the thing more like a console and you can use both hands easy. By the way I was trying to embed a Youtube vid on here but couldn't find how to do it. Can you point me in the right direction please.

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: Bogus Noise on July 08, 2011, 10:15:33 PM

Code: [Select]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9jEj3CzI8#]Circuit Bent VTech Baby Driver[/url]
I put it in a BB code link, using the text above. Though if you get stuck, you can just quote my post to read how it was typed :)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 12, 2011, 08:00:11 PM

Quote from: Bogus Noise on July 08, 2011, 10:15:33 PM

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[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9jEj3CzI8#]Circuit Bent VTech Baby Driver[/url]
I put it in a BB code link, using the text above. Though if you get stuck, you can just quote my post to read how it was typed :)

Thanks - I tried to embed some vids using your suggestion but it just shows up as links. They're in the discussions - synths forum under my new drone box/synth. Any idea what I'm doing wrong please?

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: Bogus Noise on July 12, 2011, 08:22:51 PM

Ah yeah, when you get the link from the 'Share' button on YouTube, click the 'Long link' checkbox. You want the link that looks like the lower of these two:

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http://youtu.be/YG_GQ7zDGLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG_GQ7zDGLc
Additionally - while I was previewing this post, it turns out that just pasting the long link automatically embeds the video. No need to use the url tags. (Good work crustypaul, hadn't noticed that!)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 13, 2011, 09:23:48 AM

So here goes (which I tried before and it worked on my blogspot but not on here). I clicked the SHARE button then below that I clicked the Embed button which gave me a longer code. Copy and Paste it in here and this is the result. It's frustrating, it should be dead simple.

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/j6KJD_SkTEk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I noticed when doing the same on my blogspot I had to change the view to Edit HTML before I could paste it. I wondered if there was a button here that would show the whole message in HTML and maybe I should be doing it that way but I can't find that option. Computers huh? I have a love/hate relationship with 'em.

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: Circuitbenders on July 13, 2011, 10:13:21 AM

Circuit bent toy - is this the road to madness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KJD_SkTEk#)

just put in the youtube link and don't bother with all the embedding nonsense. Theres a plugin on the forum that sorts it out.

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 13, 2011, 07:13:07 PM

Thanks Paul but how come it doesn't work for me? Let's try again with this one.

The Pulsillator Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJHC_sIB_4#)

Title: Re: newbie here - one of my first bent toys
Post by: smojo on July 13, 2011, 07:14:04 PM

Bu**er me it did!