Category: Circuit Bent

If you like circuit bent music then I can thoroughly recommend Plastic Planet by the Modified Toy Orchestra. I ordered this a while back as I loved their first album and I’ve seen them live, which is completely amazing I have to say. I’d forgottent that I’d ordered it, and then as you can see from the pictures above, it arrived together with a note saying sorry, and a variety of bits and pieces as extras.

The ablum itself is great and as for the packaging, well, it’s a work of art in my view.

There’s a whole bunch of great posts from little-scale on circuit bending. You can find them here.

I like the idea of this app, in fact I’m all for circuit bent stuff on iOS. Here’s what the app has to say for itself.

Transform your phone into a circuit bent Speak and Spell!

Play the kit’s pads and enjoy the glitchy sounds, or modify it to the max in real time with the multiple effects!

Features:

• 8 Pads, and an assignable ribbon controller.
• 3 Audio effects:
• Pitch Bend, Low Pass Filter, Bit Crusher.
• The effects can be assigned to Ribbon Controller and both axis of the device’s Accelerometer.
• Midi IN: trigger the sounds externally
• Midi OUT: control other synths with FDP’s pads!

The app is priced at $0.99.

Via GetLoFi.

Saxy Bastard – Circuit bent toy saxophone, 2 loops, pitch + range switch, audio out socket, piezo replaced with a 70mm full range speaker.

Texas Instruments Speak & Read circuit bent to the max by A.S.M.O.

Pitch + CV input
Short loop + loop advance
Long loop + loop advance
Long loop randomize
Glitch x 3
Distortion push button
Distortion / loop glitch
Tone x 2 with volume controls + on/off push button
Voltage death / ring mod effect
Distortion / loop glitch
Blue LED
1/4 audio out jack