SUZUKI PK-37

Shortly after finishing the NTSH and NT05, I decided to start this project. I was looking for something to do that I could just slowly chip away at over the summer. I had been doing some reverse-engineering of some of my toy keyboards for fun. I started with a Casio MT-40, then moved on to the Casio SK-1 using Kicad to draw the schematics cleanly. After those, I needed a bigger challenge. I had been hanging on to this pair of Suzuki PK-37's for several years. The first one I found at the Goodwill bins probably ten or fifteen years ago. It was dirt cheap and was pretty busted up. The main-board inside was badly corroded, but I was able to get it to turn on and make some sounds. Aside from all of the hiss and noise that keyboards of this era tend to have, I really like the warm lo-fi quality of the sound and the classic home-organ features. It has some nice punchy analogue drums and a cheesy arpeggio

NTSH BACK IN STOCK

New batch of NTSH mini noise boxes for sale at my FOR SALE page. 

Get them while you can!

NTSH prior post

GLITCH CAMERAS AND HOW

 

Circuit bending digital cameras has been a love of mine over the past decade or so. I recently picked up a new camera at the thrift store, and it reminded me that I really need to do a write up on it. 

In the mid 2000's, about the same time I started circuit bending my first Casio SK-1, I was really obsessed with this key chain camera I had. It had extremely low resolution and frame rate, and no display, but it could take video clips, and if you really abused the auto white balance, you could get the camera to glitch a few frames. At the time I thought this was the greatest thing I had ever seen! A few years later, my circuit bending skills had come a long way. I was the proud owner of a pocket oscilloscope, and I was using it on just about everything I could get my hands on. My little key chain

NT05

The NT05 is a "LoFi RhythmBox"

It consists of;

-Two voices; "Sine" and "Noise"

-Two 128 step pattern banks

-Eight selectable rhythms

-Two "Pad" envelopes

-One LFO

NTSH

 

The NTSH is a mini joystick noise synth.

It consists of; 

- one white noise generator

-one square wave oscillator

-one 12db resonant LP filter

-one Sample&Hold/envelope generator