Fun Years SK-1 style keyboard

Fun Years Keyboard

A lucky thrift store find, this ordinary-looking children’s keyboard had SK-1-esque sampling capabilities! It had a tiny condenser mic built into its body, could record samples up to 10 seconds, and play them back at varying speeds and pitches a la SK-1. I did my usual clock-speed alteration on it, and found another interesting bend that added tremolo to all playback. I also installed a 1/4" input for line-level signals (making a line-level converter is really easy .) The interesting thing about the bends is that you could actually sample with the bends activated and then turn them off for playback, which left really strange noisy artifacts on the samples, which added a whole new functionality to the instrument as a distortion device.  Click here for Sound.