# 26

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This is a speak and spell clone. It's called an alphabet learning center. I opened 'er up and added in some nice bends for you. It's got one potentiometer which controls the pitch; it can be pitched up, and down, until the tones, voices, and various other sounds decay into blips, and squeals, and patterns. There is a second bend, which is potentiometer controlled, but I didn't want to lose the original sound of the toy, so I added a switch to turn it on and off. It distorts the sounds, makes the voice more robot like, perhaps. You'll love it, I'm sure. I also added in a 1/4" out put jack, for your sampling, amplifying, plugging needs. Takes 4 AA batteries.

#17 update

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This is an older one, which I already added a pitch knob to. I opened it back up and added some functionality in the form of another knob which fades in a tone, and also distorts the tones that the instrument plays when you press buttons. It already had an 1/8" output. Take a look at the video for an example of what it can do.

#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.

22, or “Super”

This here is a very unique item, which I have named "super", only cause it was the most available word for gluing. It is super though. I did construct it, if my memory serves, from a radio, and a voice changer, plus some knobs, and switches, and audio jacks.

You have a switch that turns on the whole thing-a-ma-jig, located on the left of the machine, below the first audio jack, which just happens to be an input. There are also two more switches. Both have different effects when switched on, or off, or even vice versa. In the right top corner you will find the second audio jack (both are 1/8th inch, by the way) and that one can be used as your output, but I'm not the boss of you, so you go ahead and do whatever feels right with it.

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.

This piece can generate it's own tones, distort them, and you can pitch them up and down. It can also have other signals fed through it, as evidenced in the videos I will post links to. In all seriousness, it is a good little sound maker, which can be sampled from, or played through your other synths, or played straight.