commisioned by a musician/sound designer running an award winning film and tv studio in los angeles. this is spunkytoofer’s flagship circuit bent yamaha tg33 model. it has every possible circuit bend available for the AWM2 waveforms via the 12 knobs on top. these twelve knobs are based on spunkytoofers color wheel patching system. there are more estoeric bends that go beyond waveform bending into total chance including FM circuit bending. these type of bends are available near the vector control joystick via rotary switches. there are several manufacture production runs from yamaha of the tg33 which make the esoteric bends inaccesible by more straight forward circuit bending. i’ve developed a circuit which gets the same result on all production models for consistent results in the fm/esoteric circuit bends. running in conjunction with these bends is a freeze selector which sustains the current sound (provided it has a sustainable envelope) in addition the crystal oscillator has been replaced with an ultra stable ltc1799 oscillator for precision analog control over pitch and sample rate. the oscillator has been tuned specifically in maximum range for stable performance.. it has been tuned also to be able to glitch in the lowest extremes. in the lower sample rate ranges aleatoric responses and chaotic glitches occur.
this tg33 had a complete capacitor replacement and filter caps have been modified for a little more high end frequency content to pass through the outputs.
for previous models and demonstrations with videos and sounds click here
the flagship model can be commisioned by request. contact info can be found under the about link section or instruments link section of this website
“The key device I like to use is the circuit-bent Boss delay pedal that’s been wired into a Speak And Math box. You can record into it, create a loop, divide it, cut it down or glitch it. A lot of the stuff we did on the Florence record that wasn’t drums, piano or strings was done with that. We had her singing through it and would take chunks out, which then became musical parts. I love how it lets you create synth-like sounds that have a more organic sound to them. I like sounds to have texture, grain and character, so they can contrast against other sounds that might be clean and pristine in a mix.”
short exerpt culled from an older audio technology magazine from australia:
“there was hardly any guitar on the first album, it was all drums, piano, and circuit bent keyboard, midi strings and a lot of the sound came from Florence singing through an AKG D19 mic through this here…….”
a hidden aspect is a touch interface from the switches which are intiated/anchored by various contacts and parts such as the led bezels and acorn nuts. with the touch interface you can either control by touch one pedal or cross modulate one from the other. completed today. documentation to follow and upload to to this post.
for diy information on how to add touch sensitivity to your projects refer to the previous post or at the original publish for getlofi.com
Fortune Cookies: Series of chaotic speech synths based on the Vtech Talking Whiz Kid circuit. Each one in the series is unique and an exploration into different interfaces. The Whiz Kid when circuit bent is what I consider bends under the category of glitch stream. A device is bent into streaming a series of endless/random flow of glitches and further bends will determine the course of it’s flow or interruption of flow.
In this particular version I’m using touch sensitivity to interact with the glitch streams. It’s a pretty simple concept you can apply to any touch based project so long as your components are metal to the touch and electrically isolated from the enclosure you’re using. This works for switches but this can also work very well for momentary buttons. If you find the right connections you can add an expressive touch sensitivity to your trigger and switches.
Strip a good amount of stranded wire and wrap the wire around the component’s base on the underside of the non conductive enclosure, then tighten the component down. If components have hardware such as washers it’s pretty easy just to thread the wire in between the washer and component (given it is thin yet sturdy enough) and then just tighten the component down to the enclosure making sure the wire is making contact with the metal casing of your component. Use a multimeter or other means to check the continuity of your your wire to the touchable part of your component.
post will be updated with more info. for previous details on past nanosynth designs click here. this was more of a personal project but am still open for commisions based on this design. if you are interested in commisioning just drop me an email.
