I Circuit Bent My Most Precious Keyboard | Casio VA-10

[@dessiplaer]

Extremely coooool and interesting video. I am amazed at the great sounds you are coaxing out of these inexpensive instruments!

[@johnnswildyears]

All of those digital artifacts are making me itch!

[@TinyFirefly]

Such cool sounds like always, love your work 👌

[@jayfunk5988]

Crazy and well done ❤

[@vlorschbuug]

WOOHOO new magpie video

[@PeteJohnson1471]

Awesome Simon, You make the craziest shit, and your vids always bring me joy ;-)

[@bitegoatie]

What a treasure trove of appalling delights! The Casio is, as Casios very often are, pure plasticky genius. Your bends have added extra mind-bend, and that all goes to the good. The beats, in particular, take on unlikely heft and depth. The samples you played from lead ROMpler instruments hold their shape and integrity very well (no doubt a few must suck, but then in the normal clocking there are some weak sounds) which tells us Casio put in some solid work on the those little snippets of sound and their mapping and integration. The changes from your bend to pitch and pitch shifting and delay were lovely, but those effects were more predictable. Best of all, you achieved this without breaking the normal set-up of the keyboard and engine. Thanks for the update.

[@RadonX9]

6:10 beautiful ❤️

[@CasioChaosTheory]

Simon, you're far more brave than I am, plus far better with electronics than I can ever hope to be. I wouldn't risk modding my VA-10 for fear of wrecking it, but damn, you got some amazing results out of yours 👍 BTW, I see you got yourself a GZ-5! See if you can mod it to fit real pitch and modulation wheels. As standard they're just switches!

[@christopherquattromusic]

yes. a thousand times yes

[@flibflob2785]

This seems like you could make some really cool dark ambient, dungeon synth, industrial sorta stuff with it

[@echodelta9]

I got a Casio where the fine tuning pot was damaged by a careless screwdriver. After hacking it to work I came up with a true pitch bender. A stiff metal leaf spring sticking up with the tuning slug connected in the middle inside of an added coil. No dead zone or slop, vibrato is best done the same as bending one way but with a wiggle. It doesn't send midi but sounds linear and more human. Finished it off with a pair of "Leslie" effect boxes hacked inside and breath volume control.

[@DizzyScribbles88]

I use to have that same Digitech vocal processor but I had to double rack space one, studio vocalist, way back in 1998 got some great vocal sounds too.

[@TerrificVermont]

Fantastic! I own a VA10 and have always wondered what a circuit bent version would sound like. Lemme know if you'd be willing to bend mine, now that you've found success with yours! Cheers!

[@ned_interrobang]

i have one also! if you short out some of the pins on the effects chip, you get some interesting results sometimes! found some looping effects that way!

[@ned_interrobang]

i also added an internal feedback circuit, so i can flip a switch and dial in the amount from output back through the input!

[@MirlitronOne]

Great sounds!

Some pretty amazing angel choirs in there.

[@CashMattock]

0:32 Casio GZ-5

[@CashMattock]

There’s a mod I always wanted to do to this board if you care to know. Just haven’t got around to it. I think you could pull it off…

[@808v1]

fantastic!!

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Yeah I wanna join the band...possible name: Mikupie Mutations? This mod was a success as evidenced by your albeit brief, explorations. Looking forward to hearing more.

[@NicStage]

This is like top five successful successes.

[@miserirken]

11:23 Hello, Gaster.

[@jeffreylewis4767]

Is there a basis for a pedal here? Can you get the chips that do this, because it sounds like a multi- effect to me.

[@TradieTrev]

Perfect mod!

[@Han_Moz]

dude, put me on your band! i promise you'll regret it

[@kjbeats57]

You’re hired

[@Han_Moz]

@@kjbeats57 HELL YEAH Now I'm both a marketing genius and a band member 😩🙏🏼

[@CashMattock]

12:14 sign me up bro!

[@emptyvesselnz]

why this isn't a feature on every piece of digital hardware (and plugin tbh) I have no idea, tempted to dig into my Alesis Quadraverb and see if I can find the clock crystal and mod it. This was really beautiful.

[@Luap-ls3ix]

a synth manufacturer would make a fortune if they recreated this and sold it

[@T0B1_N01C]

wow, that thing is insanely cool I want this

[@reggiep75]

So much digital wriggle, right there!

[@BatmanWangChung]

Suh dude

[@JohnWess83]

Nice

[@wyatt3951]

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[@shafimchowdhury237]

Okay 🙂

[@michaels8607]

Simon...I have NO experience to even start circuit bending. Do you think it's easier to just have someone try to bend it or try it myself?

[@vlorschbuug]

i'm not simon but you should just try it yourself

[@michaels8607]

@@vlorschbuug I thought about it,yet I have no electrical tools, no workbench, no parts, no soldering iron, never soldered except I think I tried decades ago, and i would need to study first.. Can you circuit bend gear you plug in or should it be battery powered??

[@vlorschbuug]

@@michaels8607 battery powered is usually safer i think

[@michaels8607]

@@vlorschbuug That's what I heard too...

[@PUNKNONYMOUS]

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[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Ha!

[@dEadnAstyrEcords]

Blastoff

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[@Arithryka]

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[@nullbyt]

What's with the burned components above the crystal?

[@nullbyt]

Oh maybe it's just black from the exterior case rubbing on them

[@DetroitMicroSound]

See if you can eliminate that stupid sound it plays, when switching sounds, etc.