This is the insides of a Roland VS-840. Before laptops this used to be my primary recording deck. In many ways it has features that the industry won't let you have for under a grand. This unit's main fatal flaw is zip disks. I talked myself into thinking it was okay at the time, but a mountain of disks later. Zip disks also break and get dusty. I have been using this deck since I refurbished it, since I gave it a sip of ginger ale. I use lap tops and stuff but I'm from the days of real faders and knobs.

I found that this whole line of toys reacts to variable resistance in fun ways. I always think about zooming in on photos and seeing the pixels. Slowing down the pitch of these toys breaks the sound sample into more rudimentary and often more interesting parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrymneJ9VQ