the first post! (and 3 stuff at once!)

hi!
i've decided to open a blog again after years, this time to show off my DIY and circuit-bent stuff. most of the gear i'll show here, are designed by my father, Metin Tuncer. that's why they have that über-cool retro-futuristic %100 oldschool design-language. i made some stuff too, basically modifying and circuit-bending things. well, this is the end of the intro-speech, let the pictures tell their story by now!


circuit-bent delay pedal sound generator

this is a circuit-bent delay pedal, which generates some strange sounds with some short-circuits made by those colorful buttons! it generates even weirder sounds with low-voltage batteries :). it's really meant to be a DIY delay pedal to have use in my guitar rig but since it generates the weirdest sounds i've heard, (and lower my signal in my guitar rig) i decided to make it a crazy noise generator tool on it's own.



MIDI controller made from a game-pad!
did you know that the analog sticks in your gamepads are basically two potentiometers? i was messing around with max/msp's "hid" (human interface device) object as a friend recommended, i found out that a cheap gamepad can give you 127 values for 4 parameters. thats the X and Y pots of the two analog sticks. when i learned about this, i decided to wire some big pots and nice candy-like buttons so i can use a cheap gamepad as a midi controller. it was very useful since i was lacking a MIDI hardware and sticking around with ableton live, so i was in need of one BAD those days. you can make yourself a max/msp patch which converts your hid's data to midi or you can use software like junXion, which is created to do so! it's a very easy project even if you have little experience with soldering, so go ahead and make one for yourself!


smallest optical theremin i have!

this optical theremin is one of the lots of optical theremin's i requested from my father. the pot like things are nothing, just decorative (to cover two holes made by mistake). it outputs square signal and is kinda cool. this is the smallest theremin my father made and i used it in stage too! i'll show other theremins made by my father here later, such as: bigger theremins with antenna and square to sine wave convertors, polyphonic theremins (actually it's just two theremins in 1 case :)

that's all for the first post.. gonna add sound samples soon..
i'll show my 8-bit music lab in the next post.. c ya till then!