TR505 & Markets
Published June 10th, 2004 in Auditory Art, Technology.Tags: Auditory Art Technology
I bought a TR-505 last week. Not the greatest machine but I wanted a drum machine to bang on and they are pretty cheap and good for bending which I am starting to get into. The 505 also sounds pretty nifty through a heavy metal guitar distortion pedal 
I shouted out for help on em411 and xik (he makes great music btw) had some great advice – even doing a pin overlay from a photo I took of the 505 circuit board showing what some of the things are and good bending areas! I love em411 
(huge props to em on the recent site re-build too! very well done!)
This is the overlay:
(click for full image)
Last weekend songcarver, my girlfriend and I went to a couple of markets. We got a old nintendo (NES) and a Saturn Laser gun controller for my ever growing old computer collection. I gotta get a better digicam to take pics of this stuff. Speaking of computer stuff, the weekend prior, I got a Apple IIc with joystick and monitor stand! so cute and well designed.
Girlfriend got some vinyl stickers of Jem logos made by someone at the market with a vinyl cutter machine to use as stencils on the doll clothes she is making.
I’ll quote songcarver from his blog about what he got:
I went to an amazing couple of markets here in Melbourne the other day – People just had PILES and PILES of junk that they were selling (as well as heaps of other, nice things). But LOTS of junk. and i do mean junk. quite amazing.
I’m preparing my studio-garage to get serious – decking it out in some curtains etc. Bought the material at a ‘stall’ at said markets from a guy who had less teeth than I have ears. Great guy!
tuhtaar for now…
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Hey,
i’m a complete newbie to circuitbending. i’ve done some research on the web already and found some interesting stuff, but no schematics.
How is your project going, I love to hear some samples!
Next week i’ll own a tr 505 and start bending….
I was hoping you could provide me the overlay of the tr505 circuitry(the fulll image click is not working) this would really help me…
Thx…
Just updated the pic URL. thanks for pointing that out
I did bend it but not permanantly. just shorting some of the points with a bit of wire (you should use wire and a resistor as well though but i didn’t know that then…. didn’t blow it up though
i didn’t sample it either. i’ll have to do it again some time.
I modded it with a phono socket though so i can plug in a normal sustain pedal and use that as a kick pedal. that was fun.
i got an MPC1000 soon after though so the 505 went by the wayside a bit.
if you have a distortion pedal, be sure to play the 505 through that. sounds nice
I never owned a tr505 before but I heard the samples..pritty boring., distorting it and modding it is almost necessary…
are you sure you have to use a resistor on every wire or is it just handy when searching for bends (not frying something)
also found this:
http://burnkit2600.machinenoise.com/505_mods.html
I’m a newbee to electronics so This is a real challenge for me
In the future I’ll defenitely try the mpc1000 for unlimited drum sounds…seems the perfect drum sampler to me… but for now I’m happy with an er1,tr606 and dr550mk2
Yeah. 505 is pretty shit if you don’t mod/add effects.
resistor is handy when testing bends, yep. not sure if you use them in the final bend though. i doubt it. check elsewhere for that info. i have not done much either.
mpc is cool. your setup is nice too. learn that first