Skatik | A Hacked and Bent Casio SK-5

  Skatik is a collection of instruments, sound effects, percussion kits and looped digital freak-outs sourced from a heavily circuit bent Casio SK-5. It has been recorded, programmed and formatted as an Ableton Live Pack, Kontakt Instrument and Logic Library. The most interesting on-board sounds have been multi-sampled and then recorded in circuit bent variations. The system sampling engine was exploited for it’s lo-fi specification (8bit/9khz) and then under-powered to create exceptionally textured sound effects and percussion kits. At one point during the modifications we unlocked a mysterious tweak that caused the internal SK-5 sequences to re-arrange themselves randomly and loop irregularly. These bizarre tonal oddities have been meticulously looped and programmed into three large instruments for endless experimentation. Skatik features • A complete circuit bent Casio SK-5 synthesizer emulation.• Hundreds of high quality samples.• Ableton Live Racks with precise incremental contro