Do you guys play noise boxes/synths/circuit bent weirdness?

[Taylor Livingston]

Of course, I can't say anything about future IE releases, but I am very interested in other devices in addition to effects pedals. I wondered how many of you forum-dwellers shared an interest in self-contained electronic music boxes, circuit bent toys, noise makers and synthesizers. Anybody have any they want to show off? Anybody else curious about entering this world?

[space6oy]

30 pages of ILFers who're into synths:
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[Taylor Livingston]

Cool. I guess I am more interested in people's standalone synth boxes, modulars, and noise makers rather than closed-format keyboards. Besides being an interest of mine, I'm curious whether there's much overlap in the audience for pedals and for crazy sound-generating boxes.

[space6oy]

i have a 25u eurorack modular and a 191j roland system 100 rig. not into random noise acts but don't mind at all creating insane walls of drone sometimes.

[skullservant]

I use Moogerfoogers now, but I've used Trogotronic oscillators, Music From Outer Space Weird Sound Generators, and other standalone noisemakers for years. I'd love to see an Iron Ether take on a noise box/oscillator!

[John]

30 pages of ILFers who're into synths:

Synth whores.

[Jwar]

I occasionally enjoy them, but they really aren't my thing. I'm not real big on bleeps and boops. Bit crushers, ugly face...stuff like that I can dig. Otherwise, it's kind of meh to me. Has to be usable.

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

30 pages of ILFers who're into synths:

Synth whores.

[mathias]

I've been doing the circuit bent toy thing for awhile. I'll take some pics or make some demo videos or something.

[elevenstrings]

I got my hands full with this crazy bass.

[Dark Barn]

I have a 2 oscillator drone synth that I dig, and I keep looking for a Grendel Drone Commander to snag on the cheaps from Ebay/craigslist. A few other novel widgets I'd like to try out are the Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano, the Pianocade (too dorky to resist) the Dewanatron Swarmatron (when I win the lottery) and a Theremin and/or ribbon controller for the synths I already have.

I think you'd make some converts if you put something on the market Taylor but by and large you'd probably be selling to a whole different market, a much smaller one at that (at least I think so?). The Polytope rules with drone synth btw, as does the Xerograph.

[Deltaphoenix]

Iron Ether modules would be interesting for sure! Are you on Muffwigglers Taylor?

[Taylor Livingston]

Yep, but only in a personal capacity right now. I've got a little modular shaping up. It does indeed include some modules nobody else has... yet.

[Deltaphoenix]

Cool. I hang out there a bit. I am very scared to get into modular, strictly for financial reasons...but I do have a few pieces of hardware (Elektron stuff, MiniBrute). My most unique synthy piece of gear is a modded Atari 2600 with SynthCart and everything it needs to make bleeps and bloops.

[Taylor Livingston]

My most unique synthy piece of gear is a modded Atari 2600 with SynthCart and everything it needs to make bleeps and bloops.

That sounds like a lot of fun. I used to have Nanoloop for my original grey Gameboy (should try to find it...) and had a lot of fun bleeping and blooping with it. I once even played a show with a bassist, me on Gameboy, a cowbell player, and experimental vocalist, in which we did a kind of chiptune-jazz cover of "Street Beater" by Quincy Jones, a.k.a. the theme from "Sanford and Son". Fun stuff!

And, I just realized I can edit people's posts since I'm a mod for this forum... must not use for evil...

As for modulars, one thing that's great from a designer's (read:madman's) perspective is that they love having tons of controls and ins and outs. I could never get away with a pedal with ten outputs but a module like that would not raise an eyebrow. So it's a whole different challenge in designing as compared to pedals.