#25

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This is a new one I cooked up. It's a nice little keyboard which makes some crazy sounds.

I added two potentiometers, one distorts the tones which emanate from the speaker area when you press a key. The other slowly fades in a tone, and distorts the original tone. Really, words will never adequately describe the sounds this thing can make, which is why I made a video for you. But really, the only way you're ever going to truly know what kind of sounds this truly wonderful machine can make, is to buy it.

I also added a 1/4" output jack for all your outputting needs. We all have different outputting needs, so I added the most ubiquitous connector. You're welcome.

#19 update

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I added another knob to this one which fades in a tone. You can pitch a note played on the keyboard down, until it is playing a constant sound, maybe a singular tone, maybe a glitched out stream of tones, and squeaks and squeals. You can then fade in the tone controlled by he second knob to combine the two. It really creates a lot of possibilities.

#24

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I made this instrument from the amp that's in these pc speakers. It's a pretty good noise maker. It has pretty good range, and can do some interesting things, as evidenced in the videos.

You can feed other signals into it, and have it modulate the sound. This is done by using the green 1/8" jack and cable that used to be the pc peakers input.

You can feed the signal from the instrument out into your amp in two ways. One, through the 1/8" jack on the front, which used to be the headphone jack. The sound fed through this jack is not what you'll hear from the built in speaker, though. I use this method to apply an interesting vibrato effect to my little keyboard.

The second method to feed the signal out is through a 1/4" jack I added to the top of the instrument. This signal is the exact same as heard from the internal speaker.

This instrument is powered by an a/c adapter, which is included.

#23(puff)

This here is a very unique item, which I have named "puff", only cause its housed in a power puff girls tin.

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You have a switch that turns on the whole thing-a-ma-jig, located on the top of the machine.

Now the interesting part: the knobs. Those knobs are really where the whole thing comes together. Without them, this thing would only be mildly amusing, instead of super... amusing. Turn 'em any which way, and you'll be pitched up, down, right, left, and through dimensions you are too afraid to even question the existence of. Just make sure that once you feel a moderate amount of resistance, you quit turning the knob, cause you might break it (out of pure excitement, not cause they're faulty knobs.

In all seriousness, it is a good little sound maker, which can be sampled from, or played through your other synths, or played straight.

I have included pictures of how one might want to change the batteries, should that ever be an issue.

#17, my first guitar

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I bought this guitar, and it was non-functional, a rare occurrence with thrift store purchases, so I opened 'er up, and located my problem. Some one had failed to properly secure the lead from a capacitor. I fixed that, and it works awesome now. I wired up a pitch bend, and called it a day.

I guess I'm on #16?

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I finished this synth I began a while ago. It is based off of this voice changer that one may purchase at wal-mart for six buckaroos. It is circuit bent of course. Originally it came with a mic and maybe three or four different voice settings, like "alien", "monster", and such like. I took the speaker out, wired that to two fourth inch jacks, took the switch, which changed the voice setting, out and rewired that to a six position rotary switch, and added in two potentiometers, or variable resistors, to change the effects. It produces its own audio signal which can be altered by turning the potentiometers, flipping toggle switches, or by switching which voice setting its on.

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13's got a sound sample.

#13

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I did it again everyone! Meet #13 (to the left). Of all the things I have made, I like this one most.

I still am no good at describing these things, but I'll give it my best shot.

It generates a simple tone, which is then controlled by eight potentiometers (knobs), and four toggle switches. Five of the potentiometers control pitch; three pitch it up, and two pitch it down.

It is necessary to have all those pots for pitch, as precise control comes into play when the tone is fed into the modulation circuit.

The tone generation circuit has three switches which control it. All three need to be on, but only one can affect the sound, that being the middle one, if my memory serves me. When switched off it deactivates the tone, but in a pleasant way.

It has a separate circuit that the tone is fed into to modulate the sound further. This circuit has one switch, top middle, to turn it on, and three pots, which add different distortion, and generally do insane things. I got five commas in that last sentence.

This really can produce a lot of sounds and I am super proud of it. It also has an input into the sound modulation circuit, and an out put, to your favorite computer, or amp, or tv. Both are rca.

It also features a 1" x 1" likeness of its maker above the top middle knob.

Audio. Its long cause I was just goofing on it, had no real plan, but it gets good nearer the end, so listen to the whole of it:



You really need to see a video, as that would demonstrate how you can control it like a theremin.

Video:

Look for this when I can convince my friend to bring his camera to my house, or I travel over to his. Worst case scenario, it will be next Sunday before I can get it done.

Sorry once more, or bend 8

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I had to go out and get a new soldering iron before I could finish my latest project. Another reason it took me longer than expected was I had to make a case for it. It was the voice box out of a doll, but the original box portion was too small to add anything, so I put it all into Ernie's (from sesame street) voice box.

Any way, it works pretty well, and makes some cool sounds. It has a switch to activate the voice, a switch to activate the bend, and a potentiometer to control the bend. You flip the voice switch then flip the bend switch, then turn the knob. Pretty simple. It also has an 1/8" output, for sampling, amplifying, or hiding tiny ball bearings.

The bend usually crashes the circuit, so I included a push button switch to reset the device. It's the weird thing at the end of the yellow wires.

Bend7

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I bent this one up quick. I think it was supposed to emulate the style of popular mp3 players. It played one song.

Well I bent it up, and now it does some pretty neat stuff. I found the pitch bends in it, but I didn't really want to waste a pot, so I put a capacitor in the pitch bend circuit. When you flip the switch to activate the bend then press play, it plays super fast, maybe too fast to hear, but as you continue to press the play button, the capacitor charges, and the pitch gets lower and lower, until it breaks down entirely.

You can either flip the on/off switch to drain the capacitor, or just wait a minute, or two. All in all I think it is a pretty cool little bend.

What I added:

1)Bend activation switch
2)1/8" output, for amplifying, or sampling