Is it possible to circuit bend a Whammy?

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Is it possible to circuit bend a Whammy?

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I know nothing about circuit bending. But if this is possible it would be fucking ridiculous.

Anyone here skilled in the art of circuit bending?
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I'm pretty sure you can circuit bend anything. You just open the thing up and take a wire and touch it to two different solder points until you get some noises.
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Be careful you don't fry the DSP when trying the touching solder points route.

That said if you have a whammy you don't mind loosing, go nuts! (Or give it to me)
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Re: Is it possible to circuit bend a Whammy?

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not exactly circuit bending but..

http://moltenvoltage.com/molten_midi_2.html
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Re: Is it possible to circuit bend a Whammy?

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When it's DSP it's a lot harder to do. Sometimes impossible without it simply crashing (because you can't really circuit bend a modern computer).

I could bend my SPace Station, which might be similar. I did so by shorting or dropping some of the RAM address pins. Does the Whammy have an external RAM IC?
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