I might end up JUST doing the clock mod. I hate making leads off of SMD stuff. I'll definitely put it up when finished (ugly pictures and all). I've been putting LTC1799's in almost everything I own these days, I'll have to put together a demo of my otherwise unbent pieces: Electribes EA-1, ER-1, EM-1 and now this sampler. I love that it's tempo independent for midi.
Amazing how low you can clock it down. I had the clock crystal down to the Kilohertz range and it was still sampling.
I don't know why more old school samplers didn't do that: Sample at a relatively low rate and then use pitch shifting to effectively increase your sampling time with a quality trade off. You get a lot more time and for grit, it's pretty useful. I know that a lot of manufacturers were trying to get as high quality samples as possible, but it's still interesting.