Demonstrating an LTC1799 based clock/pitch control on a Yamaha VSS30. Sample time can be extended by sampling at lower clock rates. This also gives crunchy bitcrusher style effects when you speed it back up to normal pitch.
The demo features sampled acid lines from a TB303, a breakbeat, some of the preset sounds and a vocal sample.

Yamaha VSS30 sampler - pitch control demo

Demo of a circuit bent Roland R8M drum machine with the 'electronic' sound card that includes several TR808 sounds. Mods consist of a 20 way external percussion grinding patchbay.

R8M Demo 1 - 808 card

Demo of a circuit bent Akai S2000 sampler playing a stereo vocal sample. All effects are created just with the circuit bent mods without any external processing

Circuit Bent Akai S2000 stereo vocal demo

Demos of a modified Korg Kaoss Pad KP1 realtime FX processor with 16 way 'bend bus' switching matrix for distortion / RAM glitching, a processing clock speed knob with a switch to select between original and new clock speed.

Korg Kaoss Pad KP1 Step Grind

A brief burst of no input self generated noise from one of our Hate Echo reclocked delay pedals.

1:24 of self generated Hate Echo noise

Demos of a modified Korg Kaoss Pad KP2 realtime FX processor with 18 way 'bend bus' switching matrix for distortion / RAM glitching, and a processing clock speed knob with a switch to select between the original and new clock speed.

KP2 DEMO3 Percussion 2

KP2 DEMO2 Percussion 1

KP2 DEMO1 acid, onboard synth sounds & self generated noise

A selection of disgustingly offensive squelchy unpleasantness from a modified Korg Poly800 synth. What better way could there be to waste 4 minutes of your life?

Modified Korg Poly800 squelch

A demo of the circuitbenders CB55 : a Boss DR55 voice board clone. The board has all four analogue sounds plus accent.
On this demo the voices are triggered by a Yamaha RM1X, via a midi to trigger interface.
This is the basic board with no mods. The controls are accent amount, tone, and volume.
More details can be found at http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forsale/CB55/CB55.html

You may hear some minor background hum/noise at some points on the demo. This is due to the idiot recording the demos cleverly touching the tone and accent pot pins with their fingers while adjusting them. Rest assured that they have been severely.punished ;-)

CB55 - Boss DR55 clone PCB

Demos of a reclocked ART multiverb LT effects processor from the 80's. The new knob controls the clock speed of the system and therefore the delay and reverb times, plus the sample rate.

ART Multiverb LT Demo 1

A quick demo of a modified Boss DR110 analogue drum machine synced to a x0xb0x via DIN-sync. There's no mixing other than the output of the DR110 plugged into the 'mix in' of the x0xb0x.. Recorded live in one take. WARNING: THIS DEMO FEATURES KICK DRUM SUB-BASS!

Boss DR110  x0xb0x demo

Demos from a circuit bent ZOOM 1201 effects unit. Mods include a 14 way RAM decimation switching matrix, a system reclocking knob, and a power switch!

Circuit Bent ZOOM 1201 Percussion Grind Demo

Circuit Bent ZOOM 1201 Self Generated Flanger Noise & Vocoder

Circuit Bent ZOOM 1201 Decimating Christina Aguilera & Disney

Demo of real-time circuit bent effects created by a Yamaha REX50. 

Mods include a 12 way RAM decimation switch matrix, with an extra switch to take the distortion based switches from mild to offensive, and a system reclocking knob.

More info at: https://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/fxmod/REX50.html

Circuit bent Yamaha REX50

Demo of reverb effects from a reclocked Zoom 1202. As the clock speed of the system is slowed down the reverbs become more and more granular, until early reflections turn into creaking washes of noise and tails decay into a huge sea of sound.

Zoom 1202 - reclocked reverbs demo

Demo of a pitch knob mod on a Roland TR505. 

TR505 pitch mod demo

Demos from a modified Danelectro Dan-echo delay pedal. Mods include a hold footswitch to grab an loop whatever is in memory, a feedback boost switch, a 100% delay switch, and a reclocking knob plus switch that controls the clock speed of the digital delay circuitry. 
Mores details can be found at http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/newsarchive/danecho.html

Circuit Bent Danelectro Dan Echo DE1 Demo1

Modified Zoom 1204 multo FX rack with LTC1799 based system reclocking knob. The knob controls the speed of the RAM processing, and therefore sets the sample playback speed for the delays, pitch shifting and reverbs, along with the sample rate of the other effects.
More info at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/fxmod/1204.html

Circuit Bent Zoom 1204 - 1960's Sex Acts Demo

Demos sounds from a circuit bent Alesis Nanoverb 2 effects processor.
Mods include a reclocking knob, a very weird RAM loop/smear switch, and a power switch!

More details at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/newsarchive/nanoverb.html

Circuit Bent Alesis Nanoverb 2 demo

Some FM modulation & external processing effects from a modified Korg Poly800 synth

Modified Korg Poly800 demo2

Some basic filter sequence demos from a modified Korg Poly800 synth

Modified Korg Poly800 demo3

Glitched and pitched auto accompaniment patterns from a bent Casio SK1  It turns out the SK1 is capable of some astonishing bass for a toy keyboard!

Casio SK1 mods at http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/synthmod/SK1.html

Casio SK1 Glitched auto accompaniment patterns

Demo sounds from a Casio SK1 reclocked using a LTC1799 Modiule.

SK1 mods at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/synthmod/SK1.html
LTC1799 modules available at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forsale/LTC/LTC.html

Casio SK1 Reclocked

Circuit Bent Alesis HR16 demo

Sounds from circuit bent Yamaha VSS series samplers

Yamaha VSS RAM decimation demo sounds

Demos from a Behringer Modulizer 1000P modified with a system speed reclocking knob and both operating systems from the Virtualizer 1000P and Modulizer 1200P mounted in the same case. 
The OS can be switched to give you both units in one.

More information at https://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/newsarchive/behringulizer.html

Behingulizer 2000 - Percussion Demo

Demos from a Behringer Modulizer 1000P modified with a system speed reclocking knob and both operating systems from the Virtualizer 1000P and Modulizer 1200P mounted in the same case. 
The OS can be switched to give you both units in one.

Audio from a 1980's Irish Catholic guide to sex

More information at https://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/newsarchive/behringulizer.html

Behingulizer 2000 - 80's Irish Catholic Sex Guide Demo

Demo of a circuit bent Peravey Deltafex multi FX rack. Mods include a RAM looping switch and 4 x loop chopping switches.
All demo sounds are created by grabbing a loop of input sound with the loop switch, and then processing it with the parameter knobs and the loop chopper switches. Unlike with many FX units, on the Deltafex the parameter knobs still have some effect when the RAM contents is forcibly looped

Circuit Bent Peavey Deltafex Demo

Two demos from a modded Yamaha RY30 with a 24 way bend bus percussion grinding switch matrix.
The RY30 is home to some of the most impressive bent sounds we've ever heard. Even after over 15 years of bending drum machines, we were very surprised by this one!

Circuit Bent Yamaha RY30 Demo2

Circuit Bent Yamaha RY30 Demo1

Akai S01 demo 1

Demo sounds for our Black Box Audio Destructor audio processor. The first section is a crushed techno loop, the second is a breakbeat, the third is a clean guitar, and the final section is what happens when you process basic synthesis waves through the box

Black Box Audio Destructor demos

Demo of a circuit bent Akai S2000 sampler. All distortion, chops and fills are created just with the circuit bent mods without any external editing.

Circuit Bent Akai S2000 break1

LTC1799 based system reclocking mod on an Alesis Microverb II. The mod adds a knob that controls the processing speed of the DSP, allowing you to adjust reverbs from short twangs to huge walls of gritty glacial noise.

As with many processors from this era, the reclocking knob does add a certain amount of high pitched whine at lower clock speeds, but this is not so noticable when the knob is moving, and can be effectively EQ'd out if the clock speed is stationary. The whine disappears around halfway round the dial.
 
We've made no attempt to remove the whine on this demo.

Reclocked Alesis Microverb II demo

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