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Originally Posted by W-W-Int  you seem to have missed my point as did chrisso...
the bend does nothing FOR the sk-1, it just takes what's already there and makes it random. random is only useful if you don't really know what you're doing and need to find a happy accident. here's the thing with circuit bent stuff, you have switches and knobs, they affect the operation of the device granted. the issue is the more you place jacks and swicthes and knobs on it the more you are just cluttering it up for the sake of adding eyesore/eyecandy (pick your poison) for making it LOOK like there's more potential. 1 switch and 1 "body contact" are all you need. every time you throw the switch it randomly affects the machine the same as if there were 20 switches hooked into the machine at different contact points on the circuit board. simply because all they are doing is interupting the current between the clock and the porcessor and the processor reacts "randomly" to this depending on how far along in whatever it's doing is going.
the body contact is useful for variable resistance on the other part of the circuit that affects pitch. get something clear before you leap into reed ghazala land of psuedo science here, on the sk-1 the only points of interest to bend all affect the outcome similarly and equally randomly as far as what the result will be in relation to cpu current interuption, and equally (depending on resistance used) as far as pitch control.
sorry i have had extreme amounts of experience with circuit bent sk-1's trying to get them to function again after someone went too far. you only really need 2 bends on one to achieve the gamut of randomization bending them achieves. all the extras are just like the paint job, there for show only.
so anyway you have a bent sk-1 and you want xx amount of money for it. okay good luck selling it talk to you on other topics in future, just having a conversation about bent sk-1's as this is a discussion board. |
..I'm not looking to argue for the sake of it and am really interested in your input..
But
please have a listen to the samples and tell me if you honestly believe that it could all be achieved with only two bends-as you suggest.
(BTW The SK1 has been sold...)
I have no clue what is actually,physically happening when I flick a switch or patch a lead...It maybe current interuption..as you describe..or it may just as likely be magic elf's as far as I know...Its not a huge concern to me....But what I
do know is that the various switches effect the sound in
different ways..consistantly. And when switches/patch points are combined that in turn affects the sound again-differently.
The bends are not actually all random either but I totally disagree with you about the value of randomness-I make music and use various tools to do it,one or two of which happen to have random sound generating/processing abilities. To say randomness is useful 'only if you don't know what you're doing'..is just silly and by that definition would have to include Stockhausen (arguably the father of modern electronic music) as one of those without a clue.
I've been using these SK's for a while and I know how each switch will effect the sound..and honestly..they
don't do the same thing.
I would be very keen to get your input once you've had a listen to the samples..as I originally suggested..then at least we can discuss this from the same point of reference.
BTW-Well done to the 3 of you that made it to number 4..!!
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