Yes, that time has come where I try to sell you something from my blog. I’ve had this 90% finished for a long time, finally got the push to finish and release it. This is the result of months laboring over a hot soldering iron, days of manual editing, and 3rd degree burns. The cost is $10.

Over 1400 samples of circuitbent toys
Standard 16 bit, 44.1 kHz WAV files.
Contents:
Ass Intruder – A toy gun only labeled intruder. Pitch controls were added.
Casio SA-10 – a small toy keyboard with a tendency to glitch aggressively.
Casio SA-20 – a larger version of the SA-10, similar but different glitches.
Casio SK-1 – One of the first affordable sampling keyboards, extremely lo-fi, but loads of fun to play. Various glitches, drones and noises resulting from extensive short circuiting of the main ICs.
Fisher Price Keyboard – A very sweet lo-fi electric piano, which when modified was one of the most terrifying beasts I’ve ever heard. This one was sampled with every combination of bend as well as the original clean sound.
Furby – Random vocal glitches and garbled speech from this hideous little robot.
Little Talking Scholar – Loads of garbled alien speech, some glitchy sounds and some beeps.
Mystery Meat Machine – Various animal sounds came from this unlabeled toy, clock speed and distortion controls were added. Named such because the sounds it made were of animals that go into hot dogs and other delights.
Phonics A-Z – Low frequency tones, distortion, robot breaths and detuned noises.
Playschool KidKeys – Just some distorted, detuned drum sounds for you.
Sax-A-Boom – A noisy SOB, I only got a few samples from it before it self destructed.
V-Tech Smart Start Elite – More glitchy speech, noises and some tones
TI Speak & Math – A classic target for circuitbenders, highly ‘bendable’, and very easy to coax new sounds out of.
TI Speak & Spell – Needs no introduction, just have a listen
Talking Smart Start Scholar – Another one from V-tech, but very different sounds from the others.
Coleco Talking Teacher – This one is by far the most fun to play because of the looping switches added. There are 276 samples in this set! Good thing I edited this one in Pro Tools, otherwise I’d be working on it for days.
Toy Park Keys – a little toy with a pitch control, just 11 samples in this set, what I thought were most useful.
Yamaha DD50 Drum machine – I made 228 samples of this piece of junk, all percussion sounds.
Pictures of some of the toys here: Bent Gallery
Demos of this sample collection can be found in this post: http://www.audiogeekzine.com/?p=349
Only $10 (download)
You will receive an email after payment with the download link.
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Hi, any chance of doing 48khz? I ask as it’s always better to down-sample than to up it. You could also charge a bit more!?
thx, Lee
Congrats on the release of the CD! Can’t wait to hear….
Lee – Since I began sampling these, I’ve sold a few of them. Some others have stopped working due to the volatile nature of this sort of intentional malfunctioning.
So no, I’m not going to do 48kHz samples, or 24 bits.
I think at this price there is very little to complain about.
Hi Jon,
It was never a complaint man.
I was merely suggesting that 48k (IMHO) is a better start point. I did also mention you could charge more for your efforts!
I also want to state that I think it’s a great product you’ve released here. My comment wasn’t meant to be anything less.
Cheers, Lee
P:S I’ll purchase a copy next week
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Jon
I put a link to this over at Synthtopia.
It sounds like an interesting library. You may want to put up a MP3 demo of what some of the samples sound like to give people a better idea of variety of samples.
Sounds interesting! I placed my order, and posted a blog entry about it.
“AudioGeekZine has released a new sample collection of circuit bent toys called Toys Breaking. A whopping 1400 samples can be downloaded for the paltry price of $5…”
Jon,
Made my payment through paypal. Looking forward to your samples. Sounds very NIN.
just bought the sample pack.. worked great.. good job man.. !
Hey, Im trying to purchase this but the Paypal is not working?
OK, I bought it, but never recieved a link? its been almost 12 hrs?? Is this a scam?
Just got the link THANKS JON!
Everyone chillax for real.
I have 2 jobs, I also require at least 30 minutes of sleep or else gin to keep me going.
seriously though, calm down, LMAO.
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Hi, Can I ask what samples do the set have of the speak and Spell, Is it only the internal packs or does it contain the modules as well.
@ John wells
This is not a complete sampling of an original Speak & Spell.