electro-music.com   Dedicated to experimental electro-acoustic
and electronic music 		 
    Front Page  |  Radio
 |  Media  |  Forum  |  Wiki  |  Links
Forum with support of Syndicator RSS
 FAQFAQ   CalendarCalendar   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   LinksLinks
 RegisterRegister   ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in  Chat RoomChat Room 

 Forum index » DIY Hardware and Software » Circuit Bending
The ”Animal keyboard amazing” experiment.
Post new topic   Reply to topic Moderators: dnny, v-un-v
Page 1 of 1 [3 Posts]		 View unread posts
View new posts in the last week
Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topic
Author Message
teevee



Joined: Jan 23, 2013
Posts: 68
Location: Denmark
PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:28 pm    Post subject: The ”Animal keyboard amazing” experiment.
Subject description: The ”Animal keyboard amazing” experiment.		 Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread
Background info:
I was walking around in the trash room of the basement and I was actually not searching for anything. I was just looking around and was lucky enough to find one of these “animal keyboard amazing” which was thrown out.

Info about the keyboard/features:
Quote:
• no power switch (instrument is always on and reacts on any key/ button presses)
• red LED flashes in orange window with every sound
• 22 mini keys
• 2 voice polyphony (A keyboard matrix flaw prevents certain key combinations to be recognized, though only monophonic music can be played reliably, but unlike "My Music Center" this keyboard at least has no random behaviour. Due to all sounds but "organ" don't care about the key press duration, 2 voiced melodies can be often played by pressing 2 keys quickly in sequence instead of simultaneously.)
• 8 OBS preset animal instrument sounds {frog, puppy, cow, sheep, kitty, horse, bird, duck} (low resolution 6 bit samples without loop point)
• 2 cute, distorted OBS squarewave instrument sound presets {piano, organ} -6 OBS preset rhythms (with rhythm only monophonic play possible) {rap, pop, waltz, swing, disco, samba} Any rhythms always start with default tempo, which limits the use of the OBS selection for live performances.
• "rhythms sel. " button selects 8 rhythms in sequence. On package box stands {Rumba, bossa Nova, Trot, Disco, Soul, Cha Cha, slow, New Wave}, but in reality these include the 6 OBS rhythms. All rhythms sound very hiphop/ tribal- like and use car horn and sort-of latin percussion.
• 4 drum pad buttons {tom, gon (=gun), carhorn, whstle (=whistle)}
• monophonic sequencer of some dozen notes (2nd voice can be played live) -"demo button selects 16 demo melodies in sequence (very fast and intense, virtuously composed 2 voiced demo melodies with lots of furious instrument changes)
• 4 OBS buttons "song1.. song4" select 4 melodies of the 16.
• 8 OBS buttons select the "singing animals" demo melodies out of the 16.
• demo melodies use more samples than available to the player
• speakers is driven by a single transistor amplifier
• CPU uses a normal internal D/A converter (6 bit?) (no pulse width modulation).


Picture:
Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.

Inside pictures:
Info: This is what you see when you open the unit at first.
Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.
Info: This must be the “voice” board where the samples are hidden behind this melted plastic, which is very common for toys Smile
Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.
Info: This is what we see, when we flip the board, which get trigged by the animals and knobs.
Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.

Question:
Any experience or ideas for bending?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
PHOBoS



Joined: Jan 14, 2010
Posts: 5873
Location: Moon Base
Audio files: 709
PostPosted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:20 pm    Post subject: Re: The ”Animal keyboard amazing” experiment.
Subject description: The ”Animal keyboard amazing” experiment.		 Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread
teevee wrote:

Question:
Any experience or ideas for bending?

bending, not really Rolling Eyes . There usually isn't a whole lot you can do with those 'black blob' circuits except for adding some pitch control (potentiometer/light sensor/touch sensors).
But you can add circuits to it like a filter or sequencer. MIDI control is also an option. Cool
_________________
"My perf, it's full of holes!"
http://phobos.000space.com/
SoundCloud BandCamp MixCloud Stickney Synthyards Captain Collider Twitch YouTube
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
marmora



Joined: Sep 06, 2009
Posts: 8
Location: Chicago
PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread
Check out Signal Flow:
https://flic.kr/p/85hZdz

(more photos in his flickr stream)

http://www.signalflowonline.com/?page_id=96
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic Moderators: dnny, v-un-v
Page 1 of 1 [3 Posts]		 View unread posts
View new posts in the last week
Mark the topic unread :: View previous topic :: View next topic
 Forum index » DIY Hardware and Software » Circuit Bending
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum


Forum with support of Syndicator RSS
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
Copyright © 2003 through 2009 by electro-music.com - Conditions Of Use