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YouTube via ripe909 | December 27, 2010 | Turn up your volume for this one. It picks up a little at 3:12. "check out and comment on the audio track on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/ripe909/plastik...
A live acid jam for the Plastikman remix competition. TB-303 for lead, revolution for bass. The usual x0x suspects for percussion
"An everlasting work in progress, bends so far: -8 individual volume controls -51 headerpins patchbay including synth sounds, sequencer glitches and drum rhytm glitches. -6 patchable toggleswitches -1 global pitchcontrol -lcd spotlight and colourchanging led(not on the video)"
The unit has 8 sound FX with a pitch control. I increased the pitch to an extreme high! This is switchable (not used in this vid)
The rest of the bends and controls manipulate the units Pitch shift effect, I used this effect on its own for the first 4 and half minutes to show the bends added make it produce some weird sounds without anything going through the inputs.
From about 4:30 onwards I put my Yamaha PSS-30 unbent drums through it.
The Pots/Knobs produce feedback effects aswell as messing the sound of the pitch warps, the switches can alter the effect in extreme or very subtle ways. The momentary button is for a feedback hold.
The bends works much better on drums. I hope the video is ok and shows what this unit can do to normal unbent drums."