Marking the two year anniversary of the release of the Circuit Bending
For Beginners video, Bent-Tronics.com has now made it available for
free. The 30 minute video is presented on YouTube in four parts.
Enjoy!

Found this Muson toy Synthesizer in the storage shed. Fired it up and it is in proper working order. Unfortunately it’s missing one of the sequencer plugs and currently only plays 9 of the 10 notes. This prompted me to open it up and try to determine the resistor value of the missing plug.

The 1978 Muson Synth toy. Perfect working condition, but missing one of the sequencer step plugs.

I poked around and found several interesting bends so I’ve decided to build a new custom case for this. I’m currently in process of removing all the control components that are mounted directly to the board and will move them to a new control panel.

Rewiring the controls and probing for bends.

More images here.
More to come…

Dragged these out of the attic a couple weeks ago and have just tested them. Unfortunately, they are DOA. I’ll see if I can bring them back. Anyone have schematics or any other info on these?

Check this killer “music video”

Voltage from Bam Studio on Vimeo.

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.

From BAM STUDIOS

The electronics are complete and I’m finalizing the case construction and control panel layout. Hope to have it making noise within a week. It’s been on hold waiting for components to arrive so I’m looking forward to getting this one playable ASAP.  Check back soon.