For years I had a DDD-1 and finally sold it when the backlight whine got too annoying. After playing around with other drum machines, soft synths and groove boxes I realized I loved that machine and needed to get it again.
When I decided I needed one again and started looking around, I happened to see the Exfade website with some schematics for how to bend the DDD-1. I loved what I heard and immediately went to my local Daddy's Junky Music (music store chain here in the States) and picked up a DDD-1. (possibly even the same unit I had sold)
I replaced the battery and found an easier way to mod the DDD-1 than I had seen elsewhere. I limited myself to a 8x2 rca grid to keep things simple and to focus my efforts on finding the best bend points.
I'm not that into glitch sounds anymore, so I focused in on getting bends that were musical and beautiful to my ears.
I had such fun and luck with this first mod and had a bunch of offers for it:
Circuit Bent Korg DDD1that I went I've got my hands on a bunch of DDD-1's and DDD-5's to tear up and mod.
Luckily most people aren't trading cards that much anymore so I've got a bunch of sound cards for the DDD series that respond beautifully to the bends. I've also got a Korg DRM-1 on the way which is like the rack version of the DDD plus a few options.
Anyway. The lastest DDD-1 to arrive from Ebay had 4 cards and the sampling option. Not bad for $90 shipped!
Now I'm wondering if I could bend a DDD-1 and still have the sample card in it. I'm worried to try because the card is so rare. Anybody tried it yet?
Anyway, I'm really enjoying reading everyone's posts so far, thanks for reading mine.