Simulated circuit bending

A toy keyboard, a drum machine and a small FM chip, wired up in the browser: starve the supply until the chip reboots, solder a bend spot, bridge the trigger pins, and run the whole thing through tape delay, reverb and distortion. You work it from the signal path diagram rather than a wall of sliders, and every board it makes is a link you can send.

The panel drawn large on the left and the whole app small beside it, with the panel ringed in red where it sits down the right-hand side of the window: the toy board and its shared supply at the top, the chaos oscillator, noise and sampler feeding the mix bus, the bend slots beside the pedals and the tape machine, and the feedback bus running back under the whole run

Open the app → Getting started

Demos

Play one here, or open it and the board arrives set up that way.

Dubby drums A drum kit with a faulted address line and a cut bus, through a long echo, under a chip on a bent data line. open →
More dubby drum with wandering synth The kit swung at 162 bpm with its trigger lines crossed, an FM voice on a faulted address line, and three feedback loops. open →
Glitch voice The FM chip struck by the kit through the trigger patch, into a sampler loop that keeps recording over itself. open →
Aimless stalling lullaby A demo song on a flat battery with its clock jittering, a crushed kit, crackle and tape hiss. open →