Comments on: WTPA bendable sampler

By: YokoBeatdown

YokoBeatdown — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:51:14 +0000

I fixed that temporarily Nov 16, 2011

By: MattyBoJangles

MattyBoJangles — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:35:09 +0000

c’mon guys. Reed Ghazala designs circuits to bend. He designs and builds them to theory, then has his way with them. That’s what this guy is doing. I just got mine in the mail, and I will do the same, without all of the painstaking work that it took to design, test, edit, test, edit, test, and finally, put this out. Don’t hate, participate!

By: mr x

mr x — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:40:22 +0000

bought one thanks for the above video adam
going to put it all together and post back!

By: adam

adam — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:42:02 +0000

video of said sampler in action…

http://www.vimeo.com/5248566

By: squidfanny

squidfanny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:06:23 +0000

I’ve been waiting for someone to make a kit like this for some time now, and this one seems perfect.
I’ve seen casio sk’s sell for more than $75 on ebay, so this kit is really a very reasonable price.

Circuit bending is great fun and very satisfying, but learning how the technology actually works will be a very useful in circuit bending.

Yep, I’m sold.

By: aztraph

aztraph — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:43:06 +0000

to ken: what better way to bend than to use something designed to. and knowing what you want allows you to tailor the circuit to your needs.

now that i think about it, what would be better than a server designed to be hacked, if you designed it, imagine all the practice you could get cracking it and then writing new software to protect it. that’s a pretty good idea too, good job.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:34:39 +0000

A circuit designed to be bent? Isn’t that kind of like a server designed to be hacked?

By: nick

nick — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:42:51 +0000

@sidthetaff $75 steep? i was personally surprised at how inexpensive it was. do you even know what it does? what kind of kits do you buy or use for price reference?

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:27:34 +0000

A-hey

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:27:02 +0000

I tried building stuff on acid. It all blew up.

It was a stupid experiment. -but the _colors_, children the _colors!_

By: aztraph

aztraph — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:09:27 +0000

ok, i have always been down on circuit benders that don’t know about the electronics that they torture. today I eat those words, I looked through the pages on this guy, and even though i still don’t think it’s music, this project has immense potential. This gentleman understands electronics and has proven that to me(in all honesty, he’s more advanced than i am), I only hope that he posts videos or samples from someone who is equally accomplished in music as he is in electronics, that would shut me up for good on this point. wait and see.

By: drykorn

drykorn — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:55:57 +0000

if you take the time to look at his website, you’ll find the videos. they’re old though and shows older revisions of the board, but you can clearly see it’s not from a vcr.

http://narrat1ve.com/images/WTPA_095_vs_The_Knife.mpg

http://www.narrat1ve.com/images/WTPA.mp4

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:34:50 +0000

For all I know, that circuit board could’ve just come out of the guy’s neighbour’s old VCR. Without a video or at least a freakin’ audio sample, what’s the point?

By: amk

amk — Mon, 04 May 2009 06:13:23 +0000

@andrew,

yeah that’s pretty damned awful. i guess circuit bending *could* be a psychedelic and spiritual experience … with the right amount of lsd.

the less popular wikipedia articles are quite vulnerable to weirdo interpretations.

By: sarsface

sarsface — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:46:57 +0000

@andrew lol, seriously.