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| The organizer of the event (can't remember your name, email me!) set up a bunch of tables in the basement of The Tank. He brought toys for most people to play with. I brought my TR-626 (the Latin version of the TR-505!!!). |
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| 2/3 bottle of Cherry Coke later and the 6,000 screws are taken off. The big chip in the middle seems to be the screen/keyboard/cpu chip. The medium chip in the middle was the sound chip. lots of interconnections on it were good, including high-pass filter like effects and LFO tremelo effects! really! didn't get a chance to make those permanent though. |
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| Not shy, D-Lan jumps in and helps with the fun! He had driven all the way from Northwestern Canada! What a trip! |
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| The dude on the left had gotten some parts from a friend. He had a breadboarded sawtooth oscillator. He was connecting its output to a toy voice changer. But he didn't stop there---- he put in feedback from the voice changer into the osc and the changer! Holy crap! He modded it up like crazy with about 5 - 8 pots. We couldn't even see them all. A pretty delicate number and very interesting modes of operation. The kid in there had been brought by his babysitter, who was bending along with us. Don't you wish that your babysitter did the same things to you? |
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The finished mods. Yeah, I was kinda preppy about the whole thing.
What can I say? OK, there's one red wire poking outta the side,
but it's not like my usual stuff that Joe says look like I hurt
myself making it. Blame the Media Lab :) Anyway, I ended up
mixing through 5 switches what seemed to be bits on the address bus of the
sound chip into the output. Four of the switches are just octaves apart.
The fifth switch is like the lowest of the other four, but at a different
pitch away! This makes for a nice whole step sound! YES. ooh, and
of course, you can press them all in lovely combinations together. And
the normal pitch controls still change the sound up.
Here is an audio demo of the new sound: Two Chord Blues.mp3 |
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| Just chilling in the basement. The dude in the hat is called "Robo." |
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| There's Gijs, mentor to all the benders and my homie from Eindhoven, in the middle. |
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| Robo shiftily regarding the scene. |
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| Here's where it all went done: The Tank near Times Square. |
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| I took this for Chris Cszikentmihalyi :P He's got a poster in this style in his office. |
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| Gijs checks out the 1-bit Groove Box |
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| This story can't be beat (dela-a-a-a-ncy street). |
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| He turns to avoid someone throwing change at us. |
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| f33r u5!!!!!! |
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| Gijs gets himself re-oriented. he will stay in New York another few days. More cool people will come down and experiment in The Tank's basement for the last time (it's closing due to real estate business) in the rest of the week, including Nullsleep. |
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| When they were changing light fixtures in my sister's apartment, this funny face appeared on the wall. |
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