Squidfanny - ALIEN DRUM MACHINE HR-16 (Final Vid Feb 2011)

YouTubeVia squidfanny | Mar 1, 2011 |

"Beloved Alien HR-16 Glitch Machine.
Instant Chemical Electro and Busted Beats.

Sadly I need some cash so she's getting passed on..........

Too many Mods to list, check out the ebay auction for all the details.

Also Check out Response vid to see the bolt-bay in action."

Update: the new video above. The following was posted earlier with the older video now moved below. Instead of having two posts I opted for consolidation into one new post.

via this auction
"High Resolution 16 Bit Digital Drum Machine with Assignable Outputs and MIDI. Circuit Bent with powerful Modifications and Stunning Sounds... This machine can be used 'As Stock' and functions perfectly as such...

The Mods are -
Pitch / Tempo Modulation - Thanks to new 'Precision Oscillator' Circuit. Excellent Sonic Modulation Features in the form of 2 x Silver PITCH/TEMPO Knobs on the Side of the Machine. Small Knob is Fine tune, Large knob is for DJ Effects and Bit-Stretched Digital Noise. A metal Toggle Switch is used to Dis-engage the Pitch Knobs for use with MIDI functions, and a RED and GREEN LED Light indicate Status.
* 24 x Powerful Glitch Mods - Controlled by 3 x Black/Silver Rotary Knobs and Activated by 3 x (on/off/on) Toggle Switches. A bank of LED Lights indicate which Mods are active and the Glitch Activity within the machine. All manner of Amazing Sounds to be found and played by Flicking Switches and Turning Knobs.......
* 5 x Big Round Black 'Arcade machine' style buttons - Provide momantary Glitch for Minimal and Expressive Glitching.
* Big Red Button Provides Decimated Digital Distortion for Hard-As-Nails Damage Beats.
* Syncopated Bleeps and Squarewave Synth Tones ranging from Ultra Pure Sub Bass to Barely Audiable Birdsong. Modulation is Provided by a 9 x Position Rotary Knob on the Right side of the Machine, and an On/Off/On Toggle Switch to Activate for a total of 18 x Settings.
* Comprehensive and Cool Looking Metal BOLT-BAY (Patch-Bay) with 25 x Points. Allows Access to 1000's of weird and worderful Glitch sounds, Bit-busted Beats and General Havok.... Use Included Patch Leads (or any metal object) to connect the bolts together. Bolt-Bay can be used to interface the HR-16's Digital Circuitry with other suitable Squidfanny gear such as THIS or THIS........
* Flashing Lights-O-Plenty with 41 x Old School GREEN & RED LED Lights and Cool Pulsing Light Array.
* Glitch Switches each have a Bi-Colour LED light to indicate On/Off Status.
* Rotary Switches each have 4 x Red & Green LED lights which indicate their position and allow operation in the dark.
* Pulsing Light array advances each time a drum is played.""

Previous video:

Squidfanny - ALIEN DRUM MACHINE - Alesis HR-16

YouTube via squidfanny | Mar 18, 2009 |

"46 PCM Scrambling mods, housed on 4 toggles, 4 nice rotary switches and 6 big round push buttons.....

Precision oscillator (from www.getlofi.com) allows massive pitch sweeps and fabulous digital audio sickness. Big knob for the sweeps, little knob next to it sets the maximum pitch.......

26 x BOLTBAY, allows access to all the safe sounds (this machine does NOT crash). Also useful for cross-modulating other 'bent gear (see my other HR-16 vid - cross-modulating a casio sk-5).

Oh yea - also 41 GREEN and RED LED's, which flash in time with the drum beat, and indicate which bends are active..... Flashing light circuit can also be used for external sequencing of other 'triggered' gear."