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bent keyboard featuring the SHIVER

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this is a toy keyboard called "my music maker" ( see photo at the bottom of this page ) that i sat down with and decided to use to make a PARASITE tutorial and ended up going a little overboard. you can see some of the bending process HERE

this original toy has no controls what so ever. you just plug in a battery and the keys are the "on" switch. the first couple of keys played in the first sample represent the only sound it made, and the board is just a black blob, a single transistor, a couple caps and resistor or two. not much to work with. so i added a bend to control the pitch. some touch contacts, a sustain and wet nasty bend toggle, power switches, output jack and the SHIVER. the results were just ok, the modulation range was pretty weak, i wasn't that impressed and then i realized that i fucked up. the pot range for the pitch was 1M but the shiver is only 200k. i should have used a QUIVER. so i gave it some thought and played around with it and the starve pot was the coolest thing about it other then the percussion. so i took a toggle and made the shiver switchable so you can have it modulate the pitch or starve pot. now its working the way i had intended. the 95% of the modulation you hear it the samples is the shiver starving the power to the keyboard and its effect on the pitch and sound.

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the knobs starting from the bottom left up are, main pitch pot, shiver rate pot, shiver shape pot ( tri to sine), shiver depth pot, toggle bend switch that adds a nasty wet sloppy analog sound to the main sound that is actually really cool, then two touch contacts that work with the starve pot on the right, as you turn the starve pot down and you touch one of the two contacts it produces a synth drum pattern and the starve pot slowly changes the patterns in a way that will allow you to recreate the same changes later so you can possible make drum patterns. one contact is higher pitch and the other is lower. and then the toggle on the far right is a sustain that will make each note played last a lot longer but it does end abruptly, you can re-strike the keys and get a constant tone though. on the far left is a 1/4" output jack and then on the back are two NES power switches and a bright blue LED. the one nearest the LED is the main power and the other is the shiver power. in the second to last photo you can see the toggle to mod the starve that i added last minute

the finish ended up kind of baby / sky blue and matte black. i found some old star stickers and decided to use them. after finishing everything i did a few clear coats to protect all.

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these samples are just me hitting record and messing around in an attempt the show you the full range of options. most are from one single pass that i just cut up into roughly 2 minute segments and a couple are from before i added the starve modulation and show of the percussion sounds a little. no effects or editing was done to anything at all. people that make samples with tons of reverb or delay are fucking morons that are trying to hide or exaggerate their results.

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bent toy keyboard
single 9V battery operation ( included )
extensively tested before shipping
one ¼” out jack ( mono )
NES power switch - blue led
SHIVER parasite inside

please feel free to contact me if you have any questions

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