Circuit Bent Sound

nowiknowforever · Post by **nowiknowforever** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:29 pm

Hello,
I have a question that I thought would have been answered already but the search brought up no results.

I am wondering if anyone has figured out/knows how to get the sort of circuit bent sound in Live from a talking sample (like an mp3). An example can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSpEJBp9HIQ. I pretty much just want to turn a sample into tiny little bits and bytes that sound like computer noises. Terribly explanation, I know...

coreyappleby · Post by **coreyappleby** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:11 am

You could try Crazy Ivan:

http://www.smartelectronix.com/~bram/plugins.php?id=7

mazmith · Post by **mazmith** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:36 am

try playing with the global time and transpose on samples loaded into impulse. it works well with some of the preset electronic kits, but better with custom kits made of random noises or even recordings of toys.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:52 am

coreyappleby wrote:You could try Crazy Ivan:

http://www.smartelectronix.com/~bram/plugins.php?id=7

Crazy Ivan is the devil's plaything, that plug is insane.

bit reducer, distortion, saturator, slicer...

michaellpenman · Post by **michaellpenman** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:20 pm

You can make these easy buy getting old toys and learning some basic electronics.

mazmith · Post by **mazmith** » Mon May 18, 2009 1:40 pm

michael does speak the truth

michaellpenman · Post by **michaellpenman** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:21 pm

nice how long did that take???
i made one with a old toy keyboard and some thumb taks

mazmith · Post by **mazmith** » Thu May 21, 2009 2:06 pm

nice. this took about a day or two. i went to radio shack and bought the project box, toggle switches and wires. drilled the holes, tested different circuit points, soldered the ones i liked and made sure that the keys worked unaffected when switches toggled off. the red button on the front is my new on/off cause, i got the keyboard for christmas 89' (lol) and it started draining the batteries regardless of the on/off position of the original power switch. i don't dare plug it in, cause i'll probably shock myself.

i then taped off the controls and sprayed the whole thing blue, then sprayed some yellow paint. having the 1/8in line output is definitely a plus for recording. i load these sounds as one shots into impulse racks for the most part. great loops with the built in drum beats. good results overall with this. most of the time, when i try to bend stuff, it sounds alright and then the toy/keys shit the bed on me

kraze · Post by **kraze** » Thu May 21, 2009 3:16 pm

Well, it seems like the op isn't really asking about circuit bending, but how to achieve a very very lo-fi sound.

Use a redux and turn the knobs until the sound is on the verge of being too extreme and then slap a tube distortion and a few beat repeats on it.

If you want some vibe to the sound you could also layer in noises from some plug-in underneath and mix it in. I'd suggest Mr Alias for that. http://www.thepiz.org/mralias2/

mazmith · Post by **mazmith** » Thu May 21, 2009 6:39 pm

yeah, a bit OT, automating stretch and transpose in impulse, with a bit of redux and saturator is my favorite.

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Sun May 24, 2009 10:00 am

coreyappleby wrote:You could try Crazy Ivan:

http://www.smartelectronix.com/~bram/plugins.php?id=7

WTF? Where be that thar plugin?

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