The 1 Armed Swamp Creature

Published on Feb 11, 2014 burnkit2600·52 videos

"Through the dense and murky patch cord canopy, emerges a crocodilian creature on the hunt for beats.

This is a demo of the Semi-modular moogerfooger rig, plus TR-606 DFM and Megableep square wave synth."

How to Bend TR-505 (widescreen)

YouTube Uploaded by burnkit2600 on Sep 21, 2011

"How to circuit bend a Roland TR-505 drum machine"

8-Bit Operators presents: ComputeHer - "Strangelove"

Published on Jun 8, 2014 8-Bit Operators·9 videos

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ComputeHer's Commodore64/ Nintendo cover of Depeche Mode's 'Strangelove' , video by HC Carbo, Track taken from 8-Bit Operators - Tribute to Depeche Mode: Enjoy The Science"on CD/ DL- http://www.8bitoperators.com/depechemode - ComputeHer - http://www.computeher.com
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With their internationally acclaimed series of tributes to Kraftwerk, The Beatles and Devo already established as benchmarks in the global scene, 8-Bit Operators return by popular demand, this time honoring the timeless synth-pop of Depeche Mode.

Curated by electronic music veteran Jeremy Kolosine, this inspired new collection entitled Enjoy The Science (June 10th release) features the world's leading artists in the "chiptune" and "synthpunk" movements performing highly musical, lo-bit video-game hardware re-imaginings of 15 favorite Depeche Mode tracks, spanning the band's incredible 30+ year career.

Showcasing the globe's most inventive, influential and innovative Operatives of 8-bit arrangement, programming, application & hi-tech production, 8-Bit Operators collective is addicted to the sound character delivered by various micro-chips made iconic in the late 20th century (in Nintendos, Ataris, Gameboys, Commodore 64s, Speak & Spells, etc.), and when these devices are musically re-tooled, adapted, or even "circuit-bent", brand-new creative options and sound palettes are invented.

This collection illustrates, joyously, the emotional versatility, intensity and fun of "chipmusic" especially when inspired by the rich melodies and thoughtful lyrics of Depeche Mode's Martin Gore and former member Vince Clarke.

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M-Z3R0 - circuit bent TR-505 - 5QU4R3W4V3

YouTube via manufacturedZ3R0
"Modified in a similar way to my other 505 except this one was already 'perma bent' to a minor degree when i picked it up. The drum sounds have always been slightly odd and the toms and low conga sound strange when you turn the pitch up beyond it's standard setting. Building a distortion circuit into it proved to be a major headache due to it's bizarre flaws so i took a look at www.burnkit.com and found a cool square wave injection modification there. It may not have the nasty edge of my other tr505 built into it but it has a larger range of sounds. It still sounds cool through some distortion though so at 2.59 i processed the audio in soundforge through the ohm boys vst plugin ohmicide before compiling the video. Ohmicide is the best vsti distortion out there in my opinion and gives a good example of how cool this thing would sound through some decent hardware fx.

Thanks to the guys at www.burnkit2600.com for putting the time into their site and sharing so much good info on not only the tr505 but the 626, hr16 and lots of other stuff."

Squidfanny - 'GROOVE MODULATOR' Alesis HR-16 Drum MAchine (March 2012)

YouTube Uploaded by squidfanny on Mar 19, 2012

squidfanny on eBay

"Another mind bending beat-machine, similar to my previous HR-16, but this one uses SONODROME's 555 Envelope Generator circuit to provide responsive pitch envelope with my sequencer mod.

First part of the demo using the original Alesis ROM to show off the Ring Mods, Sequencer, Pitch Mods & Envelope Generator

Second Part (3:20) Having some fun screwing around with some techno beats from the custom ROMs.

Third part tripping out with some Casio Bleeps and abstract beats.

See the response video for a more detailed excursion into the realms of twisted HR-16's.

So -
This machine's been beautifully restored, circuit bent, upgraded with a syncronized Analog Step Sequencer and custom ROMs which transform the humble 1980's Drum Machine into a furious techno acid groove machine, with audio twisting powers unlike any conventional audio device. Thus I name thee +GROOVE MODULATOR+ Bringer of twisted beats.

Thanks again to Justin (Burnkit2600) & Al (Ex-Fade) for continued help and kind assistance with this epic project :)
Also thanks to SONODROME for sharing the 555 Envelope circuit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aN6MaJHQh0 [posted here]

Long live Old-Skool...."

Circuit bent modular style Roland TR-626 drum machine

YouTube Uploaded by frostedminipete on Aug 29, 2009

"Fooling around with my favorite, biggest project so far outside (mind the "outside" noises). The first section of the video is just mods applied to a single pattern repeating. The rhythm at times due to the RAM being scrambled :] but it's all one pattern until the switch at 4:14 ish

This thing took forever to finish. There's more info at the burnkit2600 website on the TR626 section and here: http://tinyurl.com/nz5ukl

Fully rehoused in custom cut and stained wood, huge patch bay (96 points including multiplexing bay and 12 patch control bay), volume knobs and kill switches, kit switches, "fill" switches and buttons, pitch down, distortions, and... the possibilities are literally endless with this thing.

You can create little squarewave melodies with it as well by replacing certain sounds with synth sounds and then changing the pitch. I didn't do much of that in this video, this was just fooling around.

Everything I've done to this machine is fully documented. You can access it on the burnkit website in a word document. I need a website of my own :P"

TR-505: Custom Modified & Circuit Bent Drum Machine

YouTube Uploaded by burnkit2600 on Aug 8, 2011

"Heavily modified and circuit bent Roland TR-505. Mods include:
8x outputs
8x inputs
8x volume faders with LEDs
8x pitch controls
8x audio oscillators (can be mixed in with each drum)
8x 1-pole low-pass filters
6x circuit bend control knobs
Hand-built wooden case with laser-cut LED-lit acrylic control panels"

Bleep Kit Rev 1 Demo

Published on Jul 17, 2013 burnkit2600·49 videos

"This is a short demo of the Bleep Kit we put together for a workshop we held at the 2012 Blip Festival. This particular one was finished by me for a participant who had a sudden migraine attack due to many blips and bleeps. Also, my cat is not amused.

We'll have a solder-free, beginner friendly version of fun experimenters this kit available along with an instructional tutorial very soon!"

X1L3 - circuit bent TR-505 + Elektron Analog4

Published on Mar 13, 2016 manufacturedZ3R0 .

"Improvised session on one of two recent 505 commission pieces.

I work on these from time to time but not often. It all depends on if i have the time. Try me, you might catch me on a good day.

Underpinned by a bass drone from the A4 which is also feeding the 505 control voltage at its filter CV input.

Starts out with some spoken word on the external input and builds from clean to increasingly dirty manipulation of the loop.

Commission is £500. £150 deposit to secure the build. The remaining £350 payable on completion + P&P. Turn around is generally around two months give or take. It depends on how busy i am with real life stuff.

Mods include:

Global pitch
Individual pitch
Individual channel mixing
Envelope controlled square wave generators
Digital delay
Analogue resonant filter
Distortion
External audio input to fx chain
CV in to filter cutoff
5v trigger out (slaved to the cowbells as on a tr626)
3 x 5 rom glitch matrix
CNC machined aluminium, black anodized + engraved panel work

Thanks to:
http://www.burnkit2600.com/

Who provided me with a lot of insight into how to modify these a way back.

And take a look at:

http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/

Cool guys doing good stuff."

Roland TR-8 Synced to Roland TR-77

Published on Aug 28, 2014 Echo Return

"The TR-77, Roland's first product, debuted in 1972. Pre-MIDI and pre- DINSync. But if you're clever, it can play well with others.

I routed the TR-8's handclap to an individual out, and ran it to the Footswitch stop/start of the TR-77. This allows the TR-77 to start and stop on command via an audio signal, so I placed the handclap on steps 1 and 14 of the sequencer and hand-adjusted the TR-77's tempo to match.

While limited, the old Roland has a surprising amount of expressive potential. Pressing multiple buttons at a time combines beats.

X0XB0X is run through the EHX Deluxe Memory Boy

All tracks recorded into PreSonus Studio One

Roland TR-8:
http://www.roland.com/products/en/TR-8/

Roland TR-77 Service Manual:
http://www.burnkit2600.com/manuals/RO..."

Roland Tr-505 modded by exfade

YouTube Uploaded by wotatwaat on Jul 7, 2011

"This one has individual pitch, volume and mute controls. Sequencer glitch section (which outputs midi), 4 x 6 position rotary switches to control the bends, position indicated by the 7 segment LEDs.
Cheers to all the dudes and contributors over at burnkit2600 for a lot of the info on this one!"

Squidfanny - 'Rhythm Modulator' Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine (Jan 2012)

YouTube Uploaded by squidfanny on Jan 26, 2012

squidfanny on eBay

"RHYTHM MODULATOR Techno Groove Acid machine.... Built around an Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine, which has been retro-fitted with an integrated Step Sequencer, with Pitch Mods, Killer Glitch and (Slightly Dodgy) Custom ROMs with 'nuff Old Skool Beats and Bass.

Sequencer is synced to the beat of the machine and is fully patchable, for programing complex tempo synced Glitches, beat swapping & effects.
Program the sequencer to twist and modulate the sample pitch, thus adding groove and expression to loops and rhythms....All tempo synced and with realtime modulation knobs and Decay control. Cool, eh?

See later part of vid for more in-depth look at the sequencer mod.

This machine contains the original Alesis 'electronic' ROMS and also my own (Slightly dodgy) custom Rom. It still has a few bugs, mainly quiet 'clicks' at the end of the samples when pitching down. Also some noise generated from the compression process, but this IS an ongoing project...

Thanks to EX-FADE and also BURNKIT2600 for assistance with this project."

Roland TR-330 Rhythm 330

Roland Rhythm 330 up for auction via Loscha: "Quite similar to the TR-77 (Roland_TR-77-SERV.pdf I got those schematics from burnkit2600's site, thanks to him and whoever scanned them in originally).

It's a big, wooden veneer cased organ top plonker with loads of bass and great analog latiny percussion - claves and such. I've got them tuned to sustain a bit longer than manufacturer intended, but, this is changeable on the voicing board on some trimmers.

The voice board also has a "Snappy" control which goes from very mellow to quite outrageously distorted and over-rides the rest of circuit to fizziness.

I live in Melbourne, Australia. The going rate seems to be between 300-450 Australian for these. Am asking for $350 Australian. Am not a greedy man. Based on units that have sold lately on ebay and privately, it seems this is the 2nd rarest TR drum machine, after perhaps the 77. No-one had sound samples online, which is something. I'm hoping to rectify, and to eventually make a more complete recording of the patterns at all tempi, etc.

I've made a modification to the unit which was needed and unobtrusive. The Metronome switch only had one function in real life; To convert "Swing" into "Metronome". I have used some spare terminals on this as a speaker cut switch. The only way you can hear metronome is through both the speaker and the output jack, in all other patches, the Metronome Off/On switch mutes the speaker. The speaker is quite loud, and pumps a lot of air (big old oval speaker). This allows you to hear the pure sound of the unit through your amp/ effects/ compressor/ Funk-A-Duck or whatever else you have.

If anyone has the service manual or schematic, I'd be indebted if they'd email me a copy or a link to it, also.

The front of the case. The damage on the top left of the machine is that the veneer has been pushed back and has creased a little bit, over a slight dent in the wood.

Front of machine is to the left. Big Speaker in the back. Power supply regulation board to the left. Transformer to the right. In the front we have the clock and divide down board. This is almost identical to the TR77 board, as above. The switching logic is below the metal plane everything is resting on. This is made up of diodes and such attached to the multi-pole switches. No roms are used, it's all discrete logic.

The Sound Board and obverse of Sequence Logic Board. You can see the trimmers here. The one on the top left all on it's own is "Snappy". The three on their own row are all kick drum related (tune, resonance of circuit, and mix volume). The kick is very useful. It sounds like an 808, with lots of sine-boom. It doesn't have a percussive attack noise burst like a 909. The other trimmers are tune and resonance and pitch for the tuned percussion (Claves, Toms). In my sound examples, I have the decays set quite long, mostly just before the point of resonance, as I was using it for slower pieces most recently. The circuit slides out of the wooden sleeve with 4 screws on the bottom.

I'm certain that the rubber feet on bottom of unit are not original, they are "chocolate" (square, beveled) kind, not round ones as I would imagine would have been.

A few last notes:
The tempo light only triggers on the first beat of the bar. It is red. A globe in a red filtered bezel, not an LED, although you could put a 5mm UV LED in there if you wanted, I think it might fit. In fact, I'm happy to throw one in if you want to try it. I've tried to get the tempo calibrated roughly to the markings on the front panel, however, there are 2 adjusters on the clock board, you can make it go uselessly fast if you so wish. A simple turn of the trimmer.

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-AllBeats.mp3
Quickly cycling through all patterns from left to right. About 2 bars of each.

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-Transitions.mp3
Slowly turning the balance knob from left to right, on "Mambo".

http://www.loscha.com/images/TR330-MamboSwingStack.mp3
First Mambo, then Swing, then both of them stacked on top of each other. You can depress multiple buttons for combinatorial sounds.

it's got switchable line voltage around the back along with Audio out and the Start/Stop Footswitch jack -- ."

Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 #2 w/ pitch mod

Published on Sep 2, 2014 Jared Dirolf

"Demonstrating another circuit bent HR-16, this time with coarse and fine pitch controls explained by http://www.burnkit2600.com

These are real fun to play :) anywhere from little pops and glitches to all out noise madness.

This machine was custom modded for a very talented artist out of Portland, OR named Holly. She is an amazing producer/singer/songwriter:
https://soundcloud.com/amilliontinyar..."

ZONKULATOR at NorthEast Noise Fest 2019

Published on Sep 10, 2019 Bill T Miller

ZONKULATOR / Bill T Miller of Orgy Of Noise @ NorthEastNoiseFest 2019.
THANX to ALL who were there ! - MORE at http://ZONKULATOR.com

- BTM battery powered NOISE rig featuring Landscape Instruments StereoField & Burnkit2600 bleepkit ( custom built by BtM ) & Waterhed CircuitBenT voice changer & Teenage Engineering PO12 PocketOperator DrumMachine & KORG mini-kaoss pad into TASCAM DR05 recorder.

- VIDEO by Sheri Hausey & Bill T Miller. Editing by BTM & ZiggyCat at Headroom Boston. Polaroid snapshot courtesy of Sam / Pain Chain. Mega THANX to Steve Davis of +DOG+ for hosting fest.

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Blips and Bleeps Workshop!

YouTube Published on May 9, 2012 by burnkit2600

"Sign up at
blipfestival.org/2012/daytime/

Build some noise!

Sunday, May 27th 1:00pm-3:00pm
Gramercy Theatre 127 East 23rd St.
$45 (includes materials)"

Another Circuit bent Alesis HR-16 rum machine

YouTube via wotatwaat
"Nice LED's. Burnkit2600.com has info on how to do the bends"

kitchen electro jam: Moog Slim Phatty, iOS Midi Touch & bent QY10

YouTube Uploaded by burnkit2600 on Apr 28, 2011

"Sick with a cold, Miette keeps me company while I take a 1st test drive of my newly created iOS Midi Touch controller for the Moog Slim Phatty. I'm controlling the MSP arpeggiator and using it's MIDI output to play the drums on my circuit-bent Yamaha QY10. Also sloppily playing the tiny keyboard on the QY10. The audio from the QY10 is partially routed back to the Moog for processing. My bent megaphone toy offering some echo on the drums. The crappy Boss mixer & homemade stereo amp make the cats ears twitch."

MIDI Touch - Domestic Cat
iPads on eBay

TV Synth Demo!

Published on Jun 17, 2014 burnkit2600·56 videos

"Showing off my creation, the light sensitive TV Synth (aka Synthesizia 1) in its natural habitat and raw unprocessed glory.
Just a couple of play styles I've developed on top of a rugged TR-606 DFM groove."

TR-505 Bent Jam in Pink

Uploaded on Aug 9, 2011 burnkit2600·48 videos

"Jamming on one pattern. Showing off the features of this heavily modified and circuit bent Roland TR-505. Mods include:
8x outputs
8x inputs
8x volume faders with LEDs
8x pitch controls
8x audio oscillators (can be mixed in with each drum)
8x 1-pole low-pass filters
6x circuit bend control knobs
Hand-built wooden case with laser-cut LED-lit acrylic control panels"