If you have a piece of kit you especially loathe and you consider vastly overrated then this is the thread for you!
I'll start things off with the Casio VL1 which, and lets be generous here, is a piece of crap. I completely fail to see the magic with the VL1. There is nothing you could do on a VL1 that you couldn't do better on a million other cheap machines. So its got an ADSR and a calculator, WOW! Neither of these things is exactly incredible. My phone has more music making power than a VL1 AND it makes phonecalls! It probably cost less as well.
But what about that fantastic cheesy percussion you say. Well isn't this what the sampler was created for is my reply. Its not like the VL1 is analogue or has any kind of magic feel to the percussion you'd want to preserve.
What i don't understand is that people are still are trying incredibly hard to circuitbend these things and cram mods into them when realistically even the best modded VL-1's aren't anything very special and don't produce any sounds you couldn't produce a lot better and with more versatility on other machines more easily and cheaper.
So you can do some exciting things like distorting the sounds and making some feedback noises. Well ok, but for less money you could get a yamaha pss and make a noise like an old woman drowning in a washing machine in a car compactor. Take your pick.
Now the Roland TR606........................ Just don't get me started on the goddamn 606.