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This sounds like a serious project that has no benefit at all over just sampling the drums into Ableton or any DAW you like and making a drum rack. Or, sample the drums into a device like the Digitakt and sequence them that way. Or, use a classic rack sampler and load in samples of the drums to have them addressable over MIDI. There are a million easier ways to have the exact same drum sounds addressable over MIDI, and since they aren't editable drum sounds, just PCM samples inside the Casio, there is no benefit to having them play on the machine itself. It's all samples either way. If your bends are affecting the drum sounds, then just sample each drum sound with a bunch of different versions, clean and glitched, and have them all sliced up. If you use something like the Digitakt you'll be able to manipulate the samples with filters, bit-reduction, glitching, overdrive, delays, etc and you'll have lots of fun. If you use long samples that are built from the same drum sound but many versions of it in the Digitakt, you can set an LFO to manipulate the sample start point and get a different version of the drum sound each time it triggers in your sequence. That would be WAY more fun than fucking around with an old Casio (I love old Casios), leave that thing alone and don't drill a bunch of holes in it to produce sounds that are mostly unusable. Feel free to prove that last bit wrong with a video of your bent Casio sounding super rad, proper line-out audio please... You said "any advice please" and that's my advice.

@Orgia Nah man I think you're applying my statement too broadly, and I didn't mean it combatively. I'm part of that "modders community" after all. You said earlier in this thread that you have never used nanoloop... so how do you know how intuitive it is versus a Volca? I would say that the NL interface is really wonderful and probably my favorite out of all my gear, but certainly the Volca interface is much simpler and more intuitive due to clear labeling and simple layout. NL interface is very minimalist, you definitely need to do some reading of the manual when first starting.

Are you thinking you would be able to mod this new handheld to use the full sequencer with multiple outs, note and parameter data that is sent out as CV, etc?

I suggested a Volca for a modular sequencer because they're inexpensive and I know that people have done simple MIDI out mods that allow you to use the nice multi-part sequencer with a modular, assuming you've got a MIDI to CV module. Not that I've done this personally, so take it with a grain of salt.

Pledged, everyone on this forum should get in on this. Complete no-brainer at the price, I was shocked by how affordable it is.

Will a mod please sticky this thread?

edit: much thanks

Is the Mono supported in the browser-based update manager already? If not, how did you update?

Gala... very nice. My anticipation grows.