parallel data paths
Hmmm. That means you have to get the data back to parallel. One could make a simple demultiplexer-multiplexer chain running from the main clock. A question is, would it affect normal operation due to signal latencies? You'd have to route the serial data through that at some point, and "in the middle" you have parallel data. I reckon it wouldn't even matter much whether you got, say, 8 lines on 16bit bus data or anything, it would still be bendable.
What do you think? Could that work? If yes, it would be possible to bend any machine which has at some point serial sound data running on a circuit board trace, which should be many.
What do you think?
edit: most drum machines/samplers/rom synths don't move around too much data inside, means you don't much likely run into speed problems with i.e. advanced high speed cmos parts or µprocs.