About
This is a simple modular syntheizer that i made with html. Please feel free to adjust the different oscillators and lfo's to achieve a sound that you like! Feel free to record it and sample it for your music as you please. Have a nice time with this unit. About circuit bending: Circuit bending is very simple. Circuit bending is taking apart any electronic device and modifying it to suit your needs. Now, this can be applied to a wide variety of things, and yes, there is an infinite amount of possibilities that you can do. But to keep it simple, I will provide a few examples. A few examples of circuit bending would be taking a Casio MT240, an inexpensive, you know, mass-produced keyboard, Casio MT240 or something, and then modifying that to be a more musical synthesizer where you can change the pitch and you can alter the drum rhythms. You can modify something intelligently or you can just kind of start hooking up the wires in random places to get sound effects, and it's not that difficult. I'm not saying that random sound effects aren't intelligent, but when it comes down to it, there are people who know what they're doing when they're circuit bending and there are people who do not. You do not have to know what you're doing to take a screwdriver and take something apart and start crossing the wires and make it glitch out. That's not, that doesn't take a whole lot of effort. I wouldn't exactly call that circuit bending at that point. At that point, you're just experimenting. When you're circuit bending, that's when you start popping your wires into switches and knobs and potentiometers and all that good stuff. And you start adjusting the amount of voltage that is flowing between those circuits randomly. Then I would say at that point, you are circuit bending. So, sure, you could call it circuit bending if you are just moving the wires around and modifying things a little bit. Sure, I'll give you that credit. But circuit bending has evolved now to be an art form where people like to make things musical or not musical. Or there's a, you know, the chaos is easy with the synthesizers and the circuit bent toys, but controlling some of that chaos to incorporate it into your music is not. So it is a constant challenge not to hurt your eardrums while you are, and not annoy yourself with the noise and the repetitive noises while you're trying to come up with new rhythms and stuff. So you have to take a break every now and then when you're circuit bending because not all the noises you're producing when you're experimenting are going to be musical and pleasing to the ear. That all being said, circuit bending is something I've been into for a while and if you are interested in having one of your devices modified, please email me. Thank you.
Notes:
Oscillator 1 & 2:
Frequency: 20 to 2000 Hz
Volume: 0 to 1
Detune: -100 to 100 cents
Waveform: sine, sawtooth, square, triangle (selection)
LFO 1 (Pitch Modulation):
Rate: 0 to 40 Hz
Depth: 0 to 800 Hz
Target: Osc 1, Osc 2, or Both (selection)
LFO 2 (Amplitude Modulation):
Rate: 0 to 40 Hz
Depth: 0 to 1
Target: Osc 1, Osc 2, or Both (selection)
Modulation & Mixing:
Modulation Type: Mix, Ring Modulation, or AM (selection)
Mix Balance: 0 to 1
Effects:
Filter Cutoff: 20 to 20,000 Hz
Filter Resonance (Q): 0.1 to 30
Delay Time: 0 to 1 second
Delay Feedback: 0 to 0.9
Delay Mix: 0 to 1
Distortion: 0 to 100
Master Volume: 0 to 1
The filter cutoff range covers the full human hearing spectrum (20Hz to 20kHz)
Download and modify my code to achieve your desired sound or connectivity (add your own midi for example to the file or something, or a keyboard or keyboard functionality; for example you could program this easily to use the mouse as a pitch or modulation controller as well if you wish to advance this html synthesizer even further.