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it's not that i haven't heard a ton of circuit bent sk-1's, it's that i have. they all sound like crap basically. all you get is the inability to have it reliably play back what you're intending. it is a sampler after all, there is nothing the bending can produce noise wise that it can't do with a sample. i could see bending something like a speak n' math, it doesn't produce anything useful without bending it. but all you get with a bent sk-1 is a bunch of switches you have to make sure are in the "off" position to use it reliably. i have an sk-1 and think it's a fairly cool little noisemaker. bent sk-1's are a complete waste of time though. after a while you reach the conclusion that it isn't doing anything different other than slowing the clock down and causing the sample to play back at unreliable speeds, or slowing the sample down itself and causing loop issues but they happen at irregular intervals which screws up the timing of an otherwise new tempo thing from the bend rendering it again useless. all the knobs, patch points, joysticks, switches, optical theremin diodes, etc... do is a combination of the 2 states of slowed down sample playback or screwed up timing.1 switch and one knob would cover it pretty much.
and besides you also knew this isn't the proper place for a sale and went ahead anyway?
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