Saturday, November 24, 2012

Circuit Bent PSS-140 V2 Finished!

Well, I finally finished the YAMAHA PSS-140.  It didn't take 20 days to modify this instrument : )  I did however tend to either play with the keyboard in its mid altered state or poked around and trying different ideas out.

Th end result is what I present below.

Bent Features:
  • 8 - Data line modification, made with 8 three position switches.  Each switch is connected to the data line between the FM and CPU chip.  I also wired up 4 sets of mixed data lines.
    • Positions:  Data Line On / Data Line OFF / Swapped Data Line
  • LFO, with rate, signal strength controls and on/off switch
  • Tone control
  • Feedback/Distortion control
  • Pitch shift (for all keys above the accompaniment section) lowers the keys several octaves.
Added handles to complete the feel of the modification, adds a bit of weight and sturdiness to the keyboard.  

Where the internal speaker used to reside now is home to the data line switches, pitch, distortion and tone controls.


 LFO section.


Keyboard is useful in "normal mode", as the 100 Voices on board are quite useful, but more then that are the combinations of new sounds that this machine is now able to create.  Designed to be used a a heavy glitch keyboard, but can make some drones if you fine the right combination.




2 comments:

  1. Can you tell me how to modify de circuit?

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  2. Hi, for the FM data mod you can reference an earlier post, check under the 2011 archive. That should get you started. The LFO and tone control were other features I added. There should be some other bends inside, don't have notes handy, but you can poke around 😀

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