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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Impress dudes with a Concertmate!

While searching for something completely unrelated I spotted a band that uses quite a few Concertmate keyboards called Concertmate as well as other consumer synths like the Casio PT-1 and SA-6 during their improvisational scessions. Nothing really circuit bent from what I can tell, but they do have some nice Concertmate and other Synth Porn shots. The reason why I bring up Concertmate is because they made knockoffs for most of the Casio keyboards that are sought after nowadays, like the SK-1, SK-5, PT-1, etc. So for bending purposes Concertmate brand will be comparable. However I read somewhere that there are differences with bends, but I can't confirm that. Also, Blogger seems to be broken AGAIN, so I have to be a nasty "Hot-Linker" to images. Oh well, I think I'm switching to WordPress anyways here shortly.

posted by Master @ 3/15/2006 10:26:00 AM  

3 Comments:

  • At 3/15/2006 01:42:46 PM, David said…

    Most of those Concertmate keyboards are Radio Shack branded Casios, not just knockoffs :)

     

  • At 3/20/2006 06:09:42 PM, inductive said…

    This is kinda offtopic. But I realy did look pretty hard for the answer on my own and i just bought some convermate 460 (cheap!) and something else i forgot the number of. Anyway, I have a casiotone mt220, and I've managed to read a few comments on the net about how great it is to bend.

    I have only found 5 even somewhat neat bends so far. I have been looking every night now for about an hour for new bends. I am up to night like 12. I havn't broken anything hehe, but does anyone happen to have inside pics of one or something? I havn't realy progressed beyone random point to point connections. I dont know anything about electronics (working on that... kinda) so I just randomly stick resistors places. That doesn't seem to do anything hehe. I bent a roland dr550 with a big breakout box and all as my first project. This second project is making me feel stupid :)

    Any help would be great. Oh yeah, I picked up a master system for 2$ at goodwill a few days ago. I think the controllers might be usable? It came with 4 for whatever reason.

     

  • At 4/13/2006 05:26:08 PM, Anonymous said…

    Hi
    First of all, excuse me for my (bad) english, I'm french...
    I also have the project to bend a concertmate 460 and i'm searching for websites or persons who did that on this toy-keyboard...I've found nobody yet... pictures and help would be great !

     

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