Circuit bending the MPC 1000 ?

Hi

anybody ever tried to circuit bend this thing ? is it even possible ?

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it's for sure possible... but you honestly are better off bending an old akai rack sampler that is simpler in design... easier to get particular results. some people bent i think it was an s01 and maybe an s2000 or some other ones like that... there was a video.

the thing is, the rack samplers done have a sequencer, and less stuff on board.. so you bend one of those and sequence with the mpc... but bending the mpc might render the sequencer useless or the extra stuff they do aside from holding samples might get in the way of a good audible result.

good points. yeah that would probably easier to circuit bend a MPC 60 but who would want to do that...
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probably a really good way to kill your mpc quickly. the newer the technology, the harder it usually is to circuit bend.
i think it'd be more interesting to say, add an analog filter on the master out or something.

Please don't. Circuit bending is to get more interesting results from something rather limited. The MPC is infinite. spend your time resampling through all the FX you can get circuit bent sounds. better to circuit bend some cheap casio and sample it most circuit bent stuff ends u sounding like similar chaos.

also the MPC plugs in, touching different points will most likely fry something that wont get it to switch on, the people that glitch samplers interrupt data lines with schems, as said above much better on a simpler device.

There is no way you have hit bottom on the 1000 to want to modify it.

Plus circuit bending usually sounds super wack anyway. You're better off opening a .exe file in cool edit and listening to static.

pitigrom wrote:good points. yeah that would probably easier to circuit bend a MPC 60 but who would want to do that...
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no way... an mpc60 would not be too good of an idea... they are finicky in their old age and not worth the risk.

I am talking an akai s01 or akai s20, maybe an akai x7000, an ensoniq mirage, a sequencial circuits prophet 2000... a casio sk-1, or some kind of thing like that... not an mpc with loads of extra programming in the OS like a sequencer and all that jazz... you could maybe have a side piece you have bent and you could use the mpc to sequence those bend machines potentially.....

Take Mr Debauch's advice. He's right on the money. The Casios and the Akai s20 or s01 are more suitable to bend. I started circuit-bending 10 years ago and I wouldn't even bend an MPC. Take a look at this site to see what you can do with the s01, s20, Casios, and many others.
http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/index.html

good as circuit bending for samplers:

1) open your sample in text editor.
2) change a few characters. (for starters, try cutting any character and pasting it into a different location)
3) save the file. test open in audacity, or whatever DAW, it should be a playable sample but sounds garbled and distorted.

i agree, the MPC is too complex to be circuit bended

some of you are mistaking circuit bending with purely sample altering operations though.

Go ahead and modify your MPC1000 instead.
Start off small by trying to add a USB3 port.

You could possibly get good results by targeting the address or data bus to/from the memory. Try grounding or crossing the memory bus traces to each other. This would scramble up the digital sample data being read, yet hopefully leave the sequencer and sample playback and os running untouched. You might get glitches, digital stuttering, short blocks of random samples being read from the wrong locations, random noises, could be pretty cool.

I have done similar on a sega megadrive, and not only did it replace certain game textures and sprites with random bits of other sprites, it did it only to separate layers o the character could still run around and jump and play the game, even if half the level was invisible or visually cut and pasted together all arseways. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUVh-XCQxM
I don't think its m ntiened there but I was controlling this with a circuit bent keyboard, I just wired both devices to each others circuits somewhat randomly so pressing keys on the keyboard caused the megadrive to go nuts.