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thermodynamics:
circuit bending is for lazy people. use a keyboard/midi controller and VSTs to actually have control over crazy sounds. i would hate to be gigging and not have a general idea of what my "instrument" is gonna do.

but i am a control freak, so take it for what it is.

McTaggart:
Circuit bending isn't about control at all, it's not really about the sound it makes (though that's kinda important). The most important thing is hack value. Buying something is out because you didn't do it yourself and using things that are made for making noises is out because there's no hack value in making something do what it's supposed to.

Oh, and you'll know exactly what your instrument is gonna do because you've been messing around trying stuff with it and know how to use it to make a sound you're after.

Ocarina654:
When I heard about Circuit Bending a few months ago I got all excited and wanted to get into it.
So the next time I was out of the house I stopped by a Goodwill and bought some dumb baby's electric guitar toy to see if I could get it to bend.

The thing was a piece of shit in pretty much every way possible.  Annoying sounds, very little circuitry, and bending was so very extremely limited that I eventually chucked it.
I later remembered that I had some pink batteries inside that I had forgot about.  They were new when I put them in, and pretty much still full.  Sadly, someone had already taken the trash out and those batteries were long gone...
Goodbye Pink AAs.

I'm still interested in the concept, and would love to do it, but I don't know what sort of toy to get that'd be better than what I had before.

Lexington, 125:
My friend is really into circuit bending, I've been calling him bender for the past two years.   We have 2 speak & spells, a theremin, a mini moog, drum machine & korg kaos pad.  good times are had by all.

valley_parade:
I just use my guitar to make noises. Sometimes it does sound beep/bloopy.


edit: Sam what the shit man, I need one of those.

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