Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Audio from Circuit-Bent Casio SK-1

More on the modded Casio SK-1 (see a previous post).

Just letting you know that I’ve found a crude way to provide some audio of the circuit-bent synth. No player will open, no sales agent will visit your home. This piece was something I was working on to see how different circuit-shorts would sound and colour chords. I’m finding there is much to learn about recording this keyboard. Despite its overall freakiness, there are a lot of subtleties in texture that can get rail-roaded without some finesse with EQs and limiters. Like the keyboard itself, it is an ongoing learning curve.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the piece.

Also, here are some links to various other circuit-bent resources, if you are looking for some general information, more specific information, or craaaaazy information.

4 comments:

Todd Stewart said...

Like this a LOT.

The Editor said...

hey. sanka. i'll get some more stuff up when i've got it together.
fanx for the comment.

Unknown said...

dang! what am i hearing?! is that multi tracked? fx? or just one take. i dig it.

The Editor said...

oh, there's some multitracking, yeah, but no fx trickery. i hit record, and messed with the shorts and points, and did maybe 5 tracks of that.

90% of it is the casio. the kick & glitchy snare sound are samples, but everything else (from the 'hi-hat' down) is stuff generated by the SK.

thanx for the comment mans.