Squidfanny - circuit bent MEGA-SAMPLER. . . . . Demo 1

[skincage]

I've been wanting to get back to bending after a hiatus and this bodes well! I have the red brother of this guy.. Any general advice?

[squidfanny]

First rule of 'bending an X is - Don't talk about 'bending an X. Second rule is - don't talk about 'bending an X........Only joking.

Advice? Yea, you want the 19 surface mount resistors, just above the big, flat OTTO 48 chip. If your soldering skills are good then you might also find some DSP Glitch on the ESP2 chip. Precision oscillators won't work, so save yourself some time trying this mod.

Peace

[skincage]

@squidfanny Much obliged! Good to know about the precision oscillator, I was about to buy a few of those and was curious. I'll save it for my keyboards.

[skiatik]

Awesome! Bending a sample seems like a good project, maybe I'll look into it... Have you bent any other sampler?

[squidfanny]

Yea man, a couple of casio sk's, a yamaha vss and an Akai s01. . . This one's certainly the most powerful though.

[theau61]

Amazing work. This really sounds amazing. That's the first ASR that I see bent... The ASR is an amazing machine.

[oldcomforter]

Me too.

Nice.

I would imagine it would be a hard machine to mod.

Mine is gathering dust at the moment.

Just one ?: why don't you identify it as an ASRX in the title, description, and tags?

[squidfanny]

Wanna keep the machine's name a secret 'cus otherwise the second hand ebay price will sky-rocket........ see the ridiculous ebay price's for casio sk's and roland tr-505's if you don't believe me!

I once saw a crappy casio rz sampling drum machine go for 200 quid on ebay! Incredible!

[oldcomforter]

Ha!

I hear that man, I hear that.

And once one sells for $200 quid everyone thinks they can get 200 for theirs.

[hustletv]

real talk! nice mod from a PRO owner.

[MarsHottentot]

I know! They were going for 15 bucks US just two years ago. Seriously annoying!

[spunkytoofers]

here's the one!!!

how difficult is the sequencer to work on this one?

is the transwave bendable as well?  from what i understand there's only one wavetable available in rom.

[squidfanny]

The sequencer is erm 'cumbersome' for song creation, but great for loop building and re-sampling. Sadly haven't gotten any results from the synth chip yet. . . The firmware's hackable though, so there might be some more stuff to unlock on the dsp. . Time will tell......:-)

[calebfrederick]

nice dude