hey I just got a WHOLE BUNCH of speak and spells ...........
does anyone know any particularly interesting "bends" I can do .......? I've been looking everywhere and have found a few photos and conceptual diagrams (ghazala) ..but I'm looking for more !! If anyone has any ideas or experience in bending speakn'spells I would LOVE to "rap" about it....
does anyone know any particularly interesting "bends" I can do .......? I've been looking everywhere and have found a few photos and conceptual diagrams (ghazala) ..but I'm looking for more !! If anyone has any ideas or experience in bending speakn'spells I would LOVE to "rap" about it....
speaknspells
hi casper, would you be interested in letting go of one of those speaknspells? i've been looking everywhere to find one used/cheap and have been unsuccesful. i would like to play with one and see what kind of gabber it could produce. i've been to gharza's <sp?> site and thought it looked pretty cool, one of the first projects you might want to try would be putting a NC 1/8" jack on it, so you can run into a stereo system instead of through the onboard speaker. let me know, thanks
hi casper, would you be interested in letting go of one of those speaknspells? i've been looking everywhere to find one used/cheap and have been unsuccesful. i would like to play with one and see what kind of gabber it could produce. i've been to gharza's <sp?> site and thought it looked pretty cool, one of the first projects you might want to try would be putting a NC 1/8" jack on it, so you can run into a stereo system instead of through the onboard speaker. let me know, thanks
speakn'spell variable touch pad
hey thanks for the reply.......unfortunately(and i feel like a real jerk saying this) I can't get rid of any of them. they're actually (in a way) not mine....I got someone else to pay for them....then I'm going to modify them and sell them so I need all i can get......but I'll be more than happy to share everything I've learned while experimenting....which I've done quite a bit of since I posted that last message......one neat thing I've done is make a special touch pad ......there are certain pins on the ICs (rectangular black chips with lots of pins) that are static sensitive....if you contect a body contact point to these pins you can create strange results just from touching the contact.....one particular pin controls the pitch when touched ....so I made a plate with various size contacts on it ....the larger the contact, the more your skin is touching and the lower the pitch goes... so I bought a copper plated pc board (from radio shack)....drew a bunch of different sized circles on it with a sharpy marker (all connected by small leads) and then put the plate in a etchant solution (also from radio shack)which melted away all the copper where there was no marker... It took a little trial and error but the results were very effective....I then drilled a whole through one of the circles and bolted the plate to the speakn'spell body....and connected the bolt to the static sensitive pin.......so now I have a little variable keyboard of sorts......you should be able to find speakn'spells on ebay without any trouble.......
hey thanks for the reply.......unfortunately(and i feel like a real jerk saying this) I can't get rid of any of them. they're actually (in a way) not mine....I got someone else to pay for them....then I'm going to modify them and sell them so I need all i can get......but I'll be more than happy to share everything I've learned while experimenting....which I've done quite a bit of since I posted that last message......one neat thing I've done is make a special touch pad ......there are certain pins on the ICs (rectangular black chips with lots of pins) that are static sensitive....if you contect a body contact point to these pins you can create strange results just from touching the contact.....one particular pin controls the pitch when touched ....so I made a plate with various size contacts on it ....the larger the contact, the more your skin is touching and the lower the pitch goes... so I bought a copper plated pc board (from radio shack)....drew a bunch of different sized circles on it with a sharpy marker (all connected by small leads) and then put the plate in a etchant solution (also from radio shack)which melted away all the copper where there was no marker... It took a little trial and error but the results were very effective....I then drilled a whole through one of the circles and bolted the plate to the speakn'spell body....and connected the bolt to the static sensitive pin.......so now I have a little variable keyboard of sorts......you should be able to find speakn'spells on ebay without any trouble.......
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