RARE & HARD BENT : Super Speak & Spell (french), Super Dictée Magique, Texas Instrument 1991
REV.1 = 2007 - REV.2 = 2009
continous
medium beep
Fat
Disto
Crispy
Disto
continous
medium beep
Say
"trouve
le mot"
& loop error sound
restart
and
say "bonjour choisi une activite"
Say
an hazardous
letter
Play
a short
glitch loop
Play
a medium
glitch loop
Play
a glitch seems near a
loop
Play
a glitch
near loop, micro loop at the end
Play
a ong
glitch "L" with psychedelic bass beetween
short
speaking
Play
a good
micro loop
Play
a good
glitch
medium organic
Play
a good
glitch speed organic
Change
the glitch loops
But where is the pitch on this French Super Speack & Spell ?
This French Super Speak & Spell have a ceramic resonator clock ( the blue blob 3.07Mhz G1S with 3 legs ).
Does it's means you can't hack the general pitch like in a Speak & Spell from the 70ies and 80ies ?
In 2006... I was thinking "no you can't... it's unbendable ! ", but since I've heard of LTC... I'm quite sure that...
But it's hard, I'm working closely on it, I put some tips when I'll win this fucking bent ! If you are a beginer bender try to hack something easier because you're going to waste your time here...
Actually I'm reading the service manual of the processor of this toy, and the manual of the oscillator then I put a LTC circuit oscillator from GetLoFi instead of the bad blue blob, but it's not so easy as I was thinking.
Without a correct Voltage Regulator you will burn your LTC with the voltage of the Super Speak and Spell !
You can buy LTC even soldered on a PCB and ask to get a correct voltage regulator for free on GetLoFi
( Note that LTC are 2.5mm large ! So it's really hard to solder ! )
At this time I don't know how to connect the LTC to the processor of the Texas Super Speak & Spell, I try a lot of stuff, and I've just broken the ceramic resonator when I try to put it away ! >:(
I need to read more to hack it !
I waste a lot of time to get the service manual of the Speech Processor of this Super Speak & Spell from Texa Instrument.
In this manual of 206 pages you can untersdand a lot of stuff !
If you really need and want it, Just click on the following icon* :
Take care, cause at this time I did'nt find the correct way to replace the three point of the ceramic resonator by the output and ground (I also don't verify if the LTC is working or not). I ask some oscillitor builder from Max if he know the solution of my problem , he tell me to solder a capacitor, I try it but it doesn't work anymore. It seems to be harder than I expected.
Now I'm working on another project (Midispeak 2 from highly Liquid), and waiting some news and help, Circuit Master is on the Super Speak & Spell 's bending playground.
Some sources : Technical sheet of the LTC
http://www.murata.com
( Chap 5, page 28 *.PDF) http://www.token.com.tw
( page 6 *.PDF)
http://www.oscilent.com (*.PDF)
This stuff is my first bent.
I have search Glitch during 2 complete days but I'm sure that you can find another interesting thing on it. I'm sharing my research because I want you to find quickly different cool stuff to make a data-glitch_bank on Super Speak&Spell.
Can you send me an Email of your research ? earslicker(@ntispam)free.fr or contact me on myspace http://myspace.com/earslicker
BEFORE
AFTER
There are four loopers on this shit. You have 2 potentiometer to select betwen those 4 loopers, you can combinate then. When you press a button on the matrix during a loop is playing, it change it or just made a "Fill in". When you turn the distos potentiometer from dist A to disto B you have a cool cutoff effect. I've just finished this stuff so I must learn how to use it. At this time ; sounds and loops are so glitch and amazing... Listen a first recording here :
