Do not try and bend the circuit, that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no circuit. then you will see it is not the circuit that bends, it is only yourself.
the older the toy , the better the chance for more bend points . newer toys use black blob single chip - not may points to experiment with . older toys may offer many more individual ic chips , which in turn offers many more points at which to test for bends .
@@hassroek a few comments below this he explains that he's Swedish, but that his accent when he's speaking English is a portmanteau of the accents of the various English-speaking places he's lived (also his accent still seems to retain the sing-song-ness of Swedish; spoken Norwegian has similar qualities, but is more nasal and Germanic sounding imo)
Aaaagggh! You should’ve put the potentiometer in reverse so dialling up would increase pitch. Makes me sad this isn’t the case. Brilliant video though! Very interesting.
I just learned the term "circuit bending" last night, in the middle of the night when I was half asleep. This video is brilliant! I absolutely love how and well-thought-out this video was, and how systematically it teaches how to wreak chaos. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing your extensive knowledge. This is how mankind has risen to our current lofty heights; standing on the shoulders of giants.
I did this with a Casio keyboard about 30-35 years ago. I found a couple of spots that gave me a very musical vibrato and tremolo, and also a few spots that kicked in squawks and squeals and even a frequency divider.
How hard & expensive would it be to add a variable speed oscillating circuit to the pitch resistors, so it’d behave like a tremolo - (like an LFO that can be toggled on/off and even go into audio-rate range, maybe even with a depth and speed knob) This video is my first foray into this world of circuit bending so I’m a complete noob.
I'm here after watching the circuit bent bible video. thanks for teaching me what circuit bending is AND how to do it. One Question though; What would you say your accent is from?? I keep hearing a lot of people on youtube with it but I've never met anyone with it or heard it in movies.
Andrew Miller Ha, me too. I was all, "wtf is circuit bending? It looks awesome." This video answered my questions quite well and in an enjoyable fashion.
No idea. I'm Swedish but I don't have a typical Swedish accent. I've lived in the states and Britain, I've studied for many years at an English speaking university with plenty of accents around, I've consumed so much English speaking culture from all over, and that all somewhat made it into the way I speak. So the long and short of it, I don't know.
Have you not heard the Muppet Swedish Chef? Actually he doesn't sound too similar, but he is basically doing with electronics what the Swedish Chef did with food items. lol. Bork! Bork! Bork!
I'm sad that I can't do something like that. And I wonder, it's probably possible to achieve "kid's toy with a low battery" sound, bc it's the most glitchy thing and I love it
That's a popular circuit bending technique! In fact, undervolt and overvolt are features of the SID Station, which is used in a lot of today's pop music.
Yep, just cut the cable to the battery and solder a variable resistor (potentiometer with the middle lug connected to either of the outer two) in between Please take out the batteries first ;)
One suggestion, since a POT is basically a short when it''s at its lowest setting, it's always a good idea to have a low value resistor in series with any POTs you put in a circuit to avoid overcurrent. Also 555s, VCOs and PLLs make for some easy ways to add/alter sounds on a keyboard like this. Cheers.
lol. i've got exactly the same "keyboard". i added a jack socket, so i could send it to my guitar fx pedal. after that, the built in speaker worked as a microphone, so i installed a switch, to switch the microphone/spekaer on and off. when the speaker is turned on, and the "keyboard" is connected to an old distorting guitar amp, you can play the thing with some pretty nice/harsh feedback. perfect for electropunkish/industrial thingies. ah yeah, and i soldered in a 10 M Ohm poti for the pitch. at the lowest pitch, the "keyboard" crashes :D
Reality rupture you would attach one leg of the low value resistior to one side of the alligator clips to limit the current. Then you can use the other leg of the resistior to test connections
Reality rupture what i mean by avoid frying it i mean if you accidently connected the terminal that is used for the battery to a connection that is sensetive to the microcontroller or to that amplifier used for the speaker (the thing with several resistiors, caps and transistors) it will just release all its energy into the part (dump a lot of its amperage). What can happen if you do this is that you burn the components or microcontroller's inside (the ladder not being that common) because you added too much energy to the wrong place. The reason its called 'frying' is that if you poke the wrong terminal of the microcontroller or speaker amplifier then it could cause the thing to get really hot (or sometimes catch fire) to the point it could be able to fry some food on it.
Nothing thats the risk you can crash the software on the die or you can kill the mcu die by frying its internal mos transistors so dont connect them directly to the battery you cant fix a fried mcu die
ahh I`ve been thinking about giving circuit bending a try for about maybeee....10 years and it seems I`ll finally get on with doing exactly that. Thanks a lot for the video it was more than helpful. When I initially discovered the soothing (and I say it unironically) sounds of those bent circuits I instantly got hooked but back than (around 2008/9) there wasn`t exactly a wide selection of videos on how to do it, in fact there were none whatsoever the best thing I was able to find at the time was some proper engineering schematics which ofc were absolutely incomprehensible for me and it all seemed waaaaay too complicated for me. Many, many thanks to you sir.
Hey there I'm trying to figure out how to wire the switched audio jack or which kind to even use. Any tips on which jack you used and/or how to wire it properly?
LOVE IT!!! The animal sounds pitch bending was awesome.... I so want to give this a go, but I don't think I'll be breaking into my Access Virus C any time soon!
About to start my first bend on a Yamaha PSS 130. I'm going to be self-taught learning from UA-cam videos and I'll definitely not plug it in. I got some batteries for it.. I'm looking forward to this. Something that's new to me.
I am 15, Swedish, I've had it since I was 3 years to about 5. I have given it to my little brother, he still has it. I could if it has a "Made in ..." inprint on it.
Hej! Jo, den har "made in", men som 99% av dylika saker är den gjord i Kina. Verkar vara en Keyboard som tillvekats i stort antal för all olika butiker ska kunna sälja under sitt eget namn.
Hi! I could really use some help with pointing me in the right direction. I have a toy that I wanna tweak, but not circut bend. I wanna change the sound designated to the buttons to a custom sound. Is it possible to change out the sounds in the hardware?
A custom sound? Yeah, you’re going to need to completely rewire that whole thing, hook up a separate device that can play back the sound from memory (unless you want to generate the sound through circuitry), and then you’d need to rewire the buttons to trigger that device instead of the toy’s internal circuitry. If you’re lucky you may be able to tap into the internal amplifier for the speaker, and use the internal batteries, but it’s going to be one heck of a hack. If you don’t know where to start you have a pretty steep uphill climb ahead of you.
Sometimes you just need a project like this to make your day. No real use but it does get one motivated. I tend to strip thinks and record or do something really simple when I get that itch but don't want to commit to a long build.
Sorry guys but I would have to disagree... No real use??? This is our future happening before ur eyes... I can see all kinds of musicians and artists using these skills and have IRL Y0!!!
Hey, i know you prolly aint gonna answer since its an old video but if i have a keyboard that runs on battery and mains, can i use it or is it dangerous
Subb Par Productions you can make one by buying a rotary switch or whatever switch you have, and also buy 2 headphone jacks. connect the ground to the switch from the circuit board, and then connect one of the switchs out put to the headphone jack1, and the plug the other switches output to headphone jack2. Now the switch will choose which headphone jack will complete the circuit
Thank you for the prompt response but I still would like to be able to buy one that automatically switches when something is put into the Jack, do you know of anywhere that is selling these currently?
If you want to both record and hear what you're playing, you should be able to just plug in a 3.5mm splitter cable right? Or is there some reason why that wouldn't work? I want to know please thanks. So if I am right then given that you have a 3.5mm splitter cable, there would never be a good reason not to use a switched jack. Your demonstration actually sounded great and much better than the vast majority of circuit bending demos I have heard.
Oh, absolutely, if your recording solution doesn't have an audio passthrough, or even if it does, you can absolutely still use a 3.5mm splitter. Cheers, glad you liked it! :)
Well generally they don’t run on mains power directly, it’s transformed down to a lower DC voltage within the device. I never said that you shouldn’t do it, but you should know what you’re doing before you start as it could kill you if you screw up.
I was thinking that in this video you just gonna make some cool music by playing this instruments maybe with video montage, but this... if you are such a pro why u just can't build your own sythesizer huh??
man i had a danolectro chorus pedal that made crazy pitch bending squeals when it was almost out of power, for about 2-3 minutes. I wish i would have kept it to learn how to make it do that all the time
Cant i put a jack in the speaker wires like you did and then use a aux from the piano jack i made into my computer microphone jack to record? I have a simple piano, most stuff does not work but the keys work np so i wanted to give it a better use to record when i want
"Circuit bending isn't about bending circuits"
Tab closed
Aw, bye bye!
Just kidding I watched the whole thing
Yay!
The trick to circuit bending is not bending the circuit itself, but rather bending the purpose of the circuit.
Do not try and bend the circuit, that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no circuit. then you will see it is not the circuit that bends, it is only yourself.
the older the toy , the better the chance for more bend points . newer toys use black blob single chip - not may points to experiment with . older toys may offer many more individual ic chips , which in turn offers many more points at which to test for bends .
When i first saw the black blob i was sad
Avatar: the last circuit bender.
Everything changed when the ESD attacked
"Attach a knob if you feel like sprucing up the shaft."
lmaooo
Oh god
Thats what she said.
“And get ready to fire this baby up, from here on out I don’t think there is a need for words”
AHHAHAHAHAHAAAA
About that "decent" keyboard, my son plays the "slow rock" demo 24/7. So the only true circuit bend this demonic device is worth is 400V through it
Daniel, The Last Circuitbender.
My man
I see ur a man of cuture as well *bearded monocle smiley*
Double Dare Fan *cough* *cough* LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
@@FrezzyYT yeah, he takes it to whole another level...
Gene from bobs burgers would die for a board like this
I wanted to leave the same comment, but thought "nah, no one would get it"
Where are you based dude? :D
Very Swedish accent (source: I'm Swedish)
All your base are belong to us
not so swedish, sounds more norwegian lol
@@hassroek He said he was in Stockholm in the widowmaker video though.
@@hassroek a few comments below this he explains that he's Swedish, but that his accent when he's speaking English is a portmanteau of the accents of the various English-speaking places he's lived (also his accent still seems to retain the sing-song-ness of Swedish; spoken Norwegian has similar qualities, but is more nasal and Germanic sounding imo)
Aaaagggh! You should’ve put the potentiometer in reverse so dialling up would increase pitch. Makes me sad this isn’t the case. Brilliant video though! Very interesting.
YESSS!! i was also slightly annoyed by the "Down-tune by tuning Up" method! glad im not the only one xD
12:19 *keyboard noises*
...
*Screams* FEEL GOOD
YES!!! I can't believe someone else heard this
@@bigrig5552 you are not alone
Yeah
Same, lol
You could even hear Ha ha ha ha ha!
Let's see if she chooches alright. :D
RetromagneticDesigns corntact!
RetromagneticDesigns 7200 rip ems
Dave Anderson But the case is most probably not even PA6 GF30. Bah.
Funny thing, that reference, since uncle bumblefuck would tear him a new one for selling his soul to advertisers.
This is great. Actually taking the time to go into the pros and cons of using a switched audio jack at 8:00 was super helpful information. Thanks bud!
"How to break your kids toy."
how to breake your sibling`s toy*
OR "Make yours kids toys really cool."
"How to break your kids."
*_KAAAARRRRRRENNN_*
alright. but where's the samples pack?
Haha! I got a full library only $99.99 and you'll need the floppy disk drive adapter!
UA-cammp3
12:18 EVIL LAUGH
I just learned the term "circuit bending" last night, in the middle of the night when I was half asleep. This video is brilliant! I absolutely love how and well-thought-out this video was, and how systematically it teaches how to wreak chaos. Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing your extensive knowledge. This is how mankind has risen to our current lofty heights; standing on the shoulders of giants.
I did this with a Casio keyboard about 30-35 years ago. I found a couple of spots that gave me a very musical vibrato and tremolo, and also a few spots that kicked in squawks and squeals and even a frequency divider.
How hard & expensive would it be to add a variable speed oscillating circuit to the pitch resistors, so it’d behave like a tremolo - (like an LFO that can be toggled on/off and even go into audio-rate range, maybe even with a depth and speed knob) This video is my first foray into this world of circuit bending so I’m a complete noob.
I'm here after watching the circuit bent bible video. thanks for teaching me what circuit bending is AND how to do it.
One Question though; What would you say your accent is from?? I keep hearing a lot of people on youtube with it but I've never met anyone with it or heard it in movies.
Andrew Miller
Ha, me too. I was all, "wtf is circuit bending? It looks awesome."
This video answered my questions quite well and in an enjoyable fashion.
No idea. I'm Swedish but I don't have a typical Swedish accent. I've lived in the states and Britain, I've studied for many years at an English speaking university with plenty of accents around, I've consumed so much English speaking culture from all over, and that all somewhat made it into the way I speak. So the long and short of it, I don't know.
its swedish I think
GET TO THA CHOPPA NOW!!!
Have you not heard the Muppet Swedish Chef? Actually he doesn't sound too similar, but he is basically doing with electronics what the Swedish Chef did with food items. lol. Bork! Bork! Bork!
I'm sad that I can't do something like that. And I wonder, it's probably possible to achieve "kid's toy with a low battery" sound, bc it's the most glitchy thing and I love it
That's a popular circuit bending technique! In fact, undervolt and overvolt are features of the SID Station, which is used in a lot of today's pop music.
Yep, just cut the cable to the battery and solder a variable resistor (potentiometer with the middle lug connected to either of the outer two) in between
Please take out the batteries first ;)
I like the low
That Moog sound everyone is looking for : ) Anyways, great vid. Thanks for sharing!
One suggestion, since a POT is basically a short when it''s at its lowest setting, it's always a good idea to have a low value resistor in series with any POTs you put in a circuit to avoid overcurrent. Also 555s, VCOs and PLLs make for some easy ways to add/alter sounds on a keyboard like this. Cheers.
Reality rupture a POT is probably a potentiometer.
not all are shorts at lowest setting
lol. i've got exactly the same "keyboard". i added a jack socket, so i could send it to my guitar fx pedal. after that, the built in speaker worked as a microphone, so i installed a switch, to switch the microphone/spekaer on and off. when the speaker is turned on, and the "keyboard" is connected to an old distorting guitar amp, you can play the thing with some pretty nice/harsh feedback. perfect for electropunkish/industrial thingies.
ah yeah, and i soldered in a 10 M Ohm poti for the pitch. at the lowest pitch, the "keyboard" crashes :D
"Chooch"
AvE Gang
Skookum as frig
AvE yuh
So how are the people who *do* make and sell circuit bent devices with mains power doing it? Do they have electronic engineering degrees?
OMG! Synchronicity. I bought an old Yamaha last week.
Go To 7:50 For Audio Jack
This is an ART!!! Science go stick it Yo!!!
Help the thing I’m trying to circuit bend doesn’t have a pitch resister
fridge dj
Personally, I love the crusty and distorted noises that came from that modified toy!
How can you approach this Circuit Bending for digital daw?
"my first keyboard." it's like it's begging to be circuit bent.
You can add 100R~10K resistor in-line to prevent frying the circuit.
Where would you add ?
Reality rupture you would attach one leg of the low value resistior to one side of the alligator clips to limit the current. Then you can use the other leg of the resistior to test connections
Reality rupture one sec mem me show you a pic
Reality rupture what i mean by avoid frying it i mean if you accidently connected the terminal that is used for the battery to a connection that is sensetive to the microcontroller or to that amplifier used for the speaker (the thing with several resistiors, caps and transistors) it will just release all its energy into the part (dump a lot of its amperage). What can happen if you do this is that you burn the components or microcontroller's inside (the ladder not being that common) because you added too much energy to the wrong place. The reason its called 'frying' is that if you poke the wrong terminal of the microcontroller or speaker amplifier then it could cause the thing to get really hot (or sometimes catch fire) to the point it could be able to fry some food on it.
8 months later, still no answer.
Now the question is: How did he die?
Because that could be a clue for not following the suggestion :)
no use of the damp finger method?
You should make a kit for circuit bending
Not including a *Soldering iron
thejordanstv What's a soutering iron?
@@bunsvensen6179 ;)
"you're a circuit bender, Harry"
0:10
I genuinely enjoy listening to GDGA1, I should be able to handle the rest of this video.
Small criticism: You don't quite have the melody from Super Mario Bros. correct
I've finally guy a soldering kit, and as long as I spend a bit more time at Goodwill and learning about electronics, I could do some circuit bending.
I would recommend taking a beginners electronics course online at a place like Udemy for instance. 🙂
Music producer: the last circuit bender
What do you do when you fry a circuit completely?
Nothing thats the risk you can crash the software on the die or you can kill the mcu die by frying its internal mos transistors so dont connect them directly to the battery you cant fix a fried mcu die
ahh I`ve been thinking about giving circuit bending a try for about maybeee....10 years and it seems I`ll finally get on with doing exactly that. Thanks a lot for the video it was more than helpful. When I initially discovered the soothing (and I say it unironically) sounds of those bent circuits I instantly got hooked but back than (around 2008/9) there wasn`t exactly a wide selection of videos on how to do it, in fact there were none whatsoever the best thing I was able to find at the time was some proper engineering schematics which ofc were absolutely incomprehensible for me and it all seemed waaaaay too complicated for me. Many, many thanks to you sir.
making fridge dj 101
Hey there I'm trying to figure out how to wire the switched audio jack or which kind to even use. Any tips on which jack you used and/or how to wire it properly?
Great Video, Soldering Iron looks nice too.
LOVE IT!!! The animal sounds pitch bending was awesome.... I so want to give this a go, but I don't think I'll be breaking into my Access Virus C any time soon!
Don't do it bro lol
Holy shit what
About to start my first bend on a Yamaha PSS 130. I'm going to be self-taught learning from UA-cam videos and I'll definitely not plug it in. I got some batteries for it.. I'm looking forward to this. Something that's new to me.
I'VE HAD THAT KEYBOARD AS A KID!!!!!
I'm curious, how old are you? How long ago was that? Where are you from? Trying to understand how old this keyboard is, and where it may be from.
I am 15, Swedish, I've had it since I was 3 years to about 5. I have given it to my little brother, he still has it. I could if it has a "Made in ..." inprint on it.
Hej! Jo, den har "made in", men som 99% av dylika saker är den gjord i Kina. Verkar vara en Keyboard som tillvekats i stort antal för all olika butiker ska kunna sälja under sitt eget namn.
Tyckte väl att din engelska lät svensk
På min står det TOP-TOY A/S tror det är danskt
So sick!! I suck at circuit bending but this video gave me alot of inspiration
This was a great video
4:36: Oh shit, it's gonna blow
😂😂😂
0:25 Dear god what have you done!?!?!?!
Uh-oh... Did somebody say "chooch?" I hope nobody tells Uncle Bumblefuck!
Why? He’s a good bloke! We had a honest race to ten thousand subscribers once, which I won, but then his popularity exploded 😄
Been years since I bent anything. Never used Caps in my bends, going to have a play today with a Casio MT-31 🎉
Hi! I could really use some help with pointing me in the right direction. I have a toy that I wanna tweak, but not circut bend. I wanna change the sound designated to the buttons to a custom sound. Is it possible to change out the sounds in the hardware?
A custom sound? Yeah, you’re going to need to completely rewire that whole thing, hook up a separate device that can play back the sound from memory (unless you want to generate the sound through circuitry), and then you’d need to rewire the buttons to trigger that device instead of the toy’s internal circuitry. If you’re lucky you may be able to tap into the internal amplifier for the speaker, and use the internal batteries, but it’s going to be one heck of a hack. If you don’t know where to start you have a pretty steep uphill climb ahead of you.
Sometimes you just need a project like this to make your day. No real use but it does get one motivated.
I tend to strip thinks and record or do something really simple when I get that itch but don't want to commit to a long build.
yep, im with you on that one. I sometimes need to just make a tiny fuzz pedal and BANG im back to fucking with everything I had left on the shelf.
Sorry guys but I would have to disagree... No real use??? This is our future happening before ur eyes... I can see all kinds of musicians and artists using these skills and have IRL Y0!!!
12:18 FEELS GOOD
Put death grips samples on it
0:54-0:57 omg, they teach children Phonk music since the very birth xD
Love the result!
This is so neat! now I want to do this, but don't have components.
Hey, i know you prolly aint gonna answer since its an old video but if i have a keyboard that runs on battery and mains, can i use it or is it dangerous
Hey great video! Where do you buy your switchable 1/8” jacks from? I can’t seem to find any online :/
Subb Par Productions you can make one by buying a rotary switch or whatever switch you have, and also buy 2 headphone jacks. connect the ground to the switch from the circuit board, and then connect one of the switchs out put to the headphone jack1, and the plug the other switches output to headphone jack2. Now the switch will choose which headphone jack will complete the circuit
Thank you for the prompt response but I still would like to be able to buy one that automatically switches when something is put into the Jack, do you know of anywhere that is selling these currently?
Subb Par Productions i have no clue where to get one
That keyboard is skookum as frig!
Yah eh? After doing the jazz hands on the confuser, it turns out that the hive mind is good for something after all! (Stuff AvE could have said.)
This introduction to circuit bending fucken rules, makes me want to tinker with my nephews toys
circuit bending compilation here ua-cam.com/video/EWtzzqQNMqg/v-deo.html
I have used external pc-speakers in the past, as a circuit bent instrument, and man, was that a lot of fun!
Please explain:)
I beat up the neighbors kids and stole their Godzilla toy... Help
Bro I’m going to destroy my brothers little toys once I learn how to do this myself >:)
I was at my friends house and he had one of these laying around, that is the only reason that I am watching this 😂
If you want to both record and hear what you're playing, you should be able to just plug in a 3.5mm splitter cable right? Or is there some reason why that wouldn't work? I want to know please thanks.
So if I am right then given that you have a 3.5mm splitter cable, there would never be a good reason not to use a switched jack.
Your demonstration actually sounded great and much better than the vast majority of circuit bending demos I have heard.
Oh, absolutely, if your recording solution doesn't have an audio passthrough, or even if it does, you can absolutely still use a 3.5mm splitter.
Cheers, glad you liked it! :)
You could substitute the switched jack for a switch and a jack, so you can choose.
1:05 That's how they created Skibidi
Just ordered my own TS-100 :))
9:35 среди всего прочего есть советские радиодетали.
Thanks! And hello from Russiaa! =)
se puede poner en un teclado común? no de juguete??
How do you know where to circuit bend in any device
I saw that someone circuit bended a camera and wanted to find out how I can do it
Um…I wanna buy one of these from you, Sir.
This video is about welding only!
Haha :P got that exact music toy.
If you're not supposed to circuit bend devices that run on mains power, then how do people circuit bend effects pedals???
Well generally they don’t run on mains power directly, it’s transformed down to a lower DC voltage within the device. I never said that you shouldn’t do it, but you should know what you’re doing before you start as it could kill you if you screw up.
.....i need this for my rack set up...
11:00 and that kids, is how Phonk came to be
Yeees push the red button
Super helpful, thanks!
Is Mario the only song you know?
Nope, but I figured playing the same song would give a reasonable comparison. I am not a musician though, I never claimed to be :)
In fact he also played the entertainer in the very same video
12:18 that evil maniacal laugh lol
I've already got a soldering iron. Cool video tho👍😎❤️made me laugh numerous times!
Grab a fistful of components and see what sticks Scrubs fan I see.
Not really, no. But if you make a living saying stuff you’re bound to eventually say things that sounds like references from other places 🙂
Chooch? I sense someone is an AvE fan.
I was thinking that in this video you just gonna make some cool music by playing this instruments maybe with video montage, but this... if you are such a pro why u just can't build your own sythesizer huh??
Who says I'm not planning to?
@@SwitchAndLever ...
Gabe the dog tribute at 12:14
Thank you for the tutorial! I know someone who has the things I need, and I wanna circuit bend my cat piano :)
Can you explain how you soldered the 3.5mm socket. Which pins did you connect to the wires? Thank you!
Mario theme
man
i had a danolectro chorus pedal that made crazy pitch bending squeals when it was almost out of power, for about 2-3 minutes. I wish i would have kept it to learn how to make it do that all the time
Dubstep machine
Cant i put a jack in the speaker wires like you did and then use a aux from the piano jack i made into my computer microphone jack to record?
I have a simple piano, most stuff does not work but the keys work np so i wanted to give it a better use to record when i want
You sure this video wasnt sponsored by nintendo? How many times did u play super mario hahahaha