Circuit Bent Speak and Spell Vintage Synth
A lot of circuit bending stuff today, wonder if it is a sign…
iCircuit: Designing and experimenting with circuits on iPad
iCircuit is the premier iPad and iPhone app for designing and experimenting with circuits. Its advanced simulation engine can handle both analog and digital circuits and features realtime always-on analysis. It is the perfect companion to students, hobbyists, and engineers.
You use it as you would any CAD program: you add elements, connect them together, and set their properties.
But iCircuit is unlike other CAD programs because it is always simulating. It’s just like working with the real circuit. You do not stop to take a measurement or spend a lot of time configuring reports. Instead, you just play with the circuit as you normally would, with the power on!
There are over 30 elements you can use to build your circuits. The app has everything from simple resistors, to switches, to MOSFETS, to digital gates.
The app features a multimeter that you use to probe around the circuit to instantly read voltages and currents. If you want to see how a value changes over time, then you can add values to the built-in oscilloscope. The scope can simultaneously track many signals over time and features a touch interface to control the total time displayed and stacked and unstacked modes to easily compare signals.
Supported elements include:
* Signal generators, Voltage sources, and Current sources
* Resistors, Capacitors, and inductors
* Manual SPST/SPDT Switches, and SPST/SPDT relays
* Diodes, BJ Transistors, and MOSFETs
* Speakers, Buzzers, and LEDs
* ADCs, and DACs
* Logic gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR
* JK and D Flip-flops
* Because iCircuit is a very CPU intensive application, it is recommended that you only use it on newer generation hardware including: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPads. However, it will still function on the older hardware.
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Moog circuit bending contest
Moog Music has announced a new circuit bending contest:
Moog Music was born when a young Bob Moog, who considered himself a geeky, socially awkward kid with a passion for electronics and music started tinkering with electronic circuitry. As a boy, Moog built small radios, amps and three note organs in his basement workshop with his father & the rest is history. In celebration of this creative curiosity, Moog and Moogfest 2010 are sponsoring a circuit bending challenge, to honor all those that lick and stick, modify signals and jump traces.
Finalists get a free pass to Moogfest. Grand prize is a pedalboard of Moogerfoogers. Contest details below.
Note: Entries are due by midnight, Eastern time, on Monday October 18th, 2010.
How to Enter:
- Procure a battery-powered sound-making device
- Bend it by any means necessary.
- Document the bend process and outcome with video with audio (required). The better you document, the better we can judge. All videos must be uploaded by midnight eastern time on Monday October 18th, 2010.
- Upload the video to YouTube and tag with “moog circuit bending competition 2010” and “Moogfest 2010”.
- Send an email with the subject Moog Circuit Bending Challenge 2010 to info@moogmusic.com with the YouTube links to your entry.
Finals:
The top 3 contestants will be chosen as finalists on Friday, October 22, 2010 and win weekend passes to Moogfest 2010 as well as a Moog merch package. At Moogfest the 3 finalists will be given a workstation in the Moogaplex, the same toy and the same bag of tools (which includes a soldering iron, wire, switches, potentiometers of varying degrees, resistors, capacitors, heat shrink, bread boards, diodes, plus more surprises). Each finalist will have from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 30 & Sunday, October 31 to bend the toy at their workstations. Grand prize winner will be chosen by a Moog Music Engineer at 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 31.
Grand Prize:
Grand Prize winner receives a Moog Pedal Board which includes one of each Moogerfooger (MF-101 Low Pass Filter, MF-102 Ring Mod, MF-103 Phaser, MF-104Z Analog Delay, MF-105M Midi MuRF, MF-107 ) and a Multi-Pedal (MP-201).
Circuit bent Pokemon
This you must see 
Circuit bending using a Super Nintendo coupled with a Bliptronic 5000.
Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill
Tone Manufacture has released a Kontakt version of Error Tone, a glitchy and circuit bent sound sample library previously released as a Reason ReFill.
We’ve been working late into the night to bring you our first Kontakt library and we’ve made sure that it uses Kontakt’s effects, modulators and script programming to their full potential.
All of our Kontakt libraries will include custom Performance Views to let you get straight to tweaking the most important controls and lots of lovely modulation wheel automation.
Error Tone for Kontakt features
- 32 instrument patches, from distorted drones to delicate mallet tones.
- 30 drum and instrument loop patches.
- 200+ singles hits, from tweeter shredding glitches to low end rumbles.
- 8 patches with the single hits mapped across the keyboard for ease of use.
- 46 REX2 loops.
- Includes mod wheel automation and custom Performance Views to allow easy access to the most important controls.
- 600+ Mb of content.
- 24 bit / 48khz high quality audio.
Error Tone is now available to purchase in Kontakt, Reason Refill or Wav / REX2 formats, for the introductory price of £19.99 GBP until August 11, 2010 (regular price £29.99 GBP).
More information: Tone Manufacture / Error Tone
Perhaps some dance lessons would be in place
Music is one thing, stage performance something else
If this was one of the best performances at Bent Festival I do not dare imagine the rest
Folktek glitch machines
In a world of laptop based software studios and vintage synthesizers it’s good to know that someone is still trying to make real world physical instruments for the future. The guys over at Folktek make beautifully handcrafted mystery- noise- and bleep- instruments.
Wouldn’t you like one of these?
See it in action:
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