What's your favorite Casio?

[DryCounty]

Re: circuit bending, the "Warranty Void" website has an amazing rundown of all the circuits, etc. and ways to go about discovering their "hidden talents":

http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/ ... ments.html

I haven't tried any, but it looks exciting.

[andyg666]

sk-1

no device known to man helped me annoy my sister more in the mid-to-late 80s than the casio sk-1. i used to sample "amy is weird!" and hit the demo button... perfect...

[waitingroom]

Here is my little pink casio pt-1:





Monophonic, 4 tones, plenty of beats, and it survives arctic temperatures in my car.

[ubertar]

sk-1

no device known to man helped me annoy my sister more in the mid-to-late 80s than the casio sk-1. i used to sample "amy is weird!" and hit the demo button... perfect...

I think that's the one I got for a dollar at a thrift store. Great for circuit-bending. I did a piece on it called "peyote" that got a nice review in vital weekly.

[inverseroom]

i have a weird casio, pt-1000. you can select the waveform and the foot and the envelope. it kinda does warm bell tones and cool organs.

I would really, really like to see a picture of that.

[djgout]

Another PT-1 vote. I really enjoy monophonic!

I just recently won this auction and will more than likely start 'bending one or both of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... RK:MEWN:IT

Hey that bottom one is a PT-87, i've bent two of those beasts and the weird thing is they had different circuit boards on the inside. The one that I posted pictures of in this thread was easier to find cool bends on, the only difference on the outside is the crappy *for bending* one had a dedicated headphone out. Let me know which Rom card you get with it, I've got TV Themes and World Songs. These things kick ass.

[jx]

Shout out to my Yamaha vss200; it's a pretty rare beast (never seen another one, and i look for this shit). it's got a built in mic for sampling, but you can also sample the presets, and overlay them. the best part is it has built in effects like delay, reverse, and other crazy shit, like the effects that used to be on the old akai 3000s. it really does sound like nothing on earth...

i've also got a yamaha VA10. it's their 'vocoder' (!). you can plug a mic or anything into it and play through the onboard sounds and FX. the spring reverb setting is sweet...

[tonewoods]

CASIO RAPMAN



you can scratch it up with the turntable, make all these crazy rap sounds, lots of old school 80s cheesy hip hop beats, and the coolest thing of all-- a mic input with a "voice effector"! you can switch it around to make your voice higher or lower, and almost make yourself sound like a robot. the coolest thing to do with it is play a beat real loud, then plug in a mic and turn it on high pitch, and put the mic right up on the speaker to make it feedback.

mmm mmmmmmmmmmmm. those are some sweet casio sounds.

Check this out....

[Zeppelin4Life]

could someone explain to me what a 'bent' circuit is on a synth..thnx

[inverseroom]

could someone explain to me what a 'bent' circuit is on a synth..thnx

Circuit-bending is the practice of cracking open a home keyboard and starting to short connections all over the board while playing notes...when interesting sounds come out, you mark the connection, then add a switch, contact point, or pot to control it. Some keyboards have dozens of interesting shorts, or "bent" circuits. It's not hard to do, but you need to have patience, and I don't.

[Disasteradio]

no mention of the VL-1? I'm shocked. my first piece of casio love was the PT-50 (as seen in Gremlins, billy plays the "close encounters" (?) thing to gizmo). I'm a big fan of the Casiotone 601, but I've had two break down on me. Surely the lushest presetty thing I've played. strangely enough, no pics of casiotone 601s OR 301s, but here's a 701 pic I found:


.. could be that the US or Europe didn't get the casiotone casios.. there's only two mentions of 601s on google and two of them are mine. heh. it's a mystery!
there's a list of my crap here if anyone is interested in what casios I'm packing.

[subspaceplatform]

#1 SK-1 (just because it's classic)
#2 MT-240 (very circuit-bendable... with MIDI!!)
#3 Rapman (not as bendable, but it has some unique glitches, and yeah... the "effector"... I put in a switch on mine so I can have the whole output go through that thing)

There are SO MANY cool Casios...

[inverseroom]

#1 SK-1 (just because it's classic)
#2 MT-240 (very circuit-bendable... with MIDI!!)
#3 Rapman (not as bendable, but it has some unique glitches, and yeah... the "effector"... I put in a switch on mine so I can have the whole output go through that thing)

There are SO MANY cool Casios...

Did you find any good bends on the 240?

[subspaceplatform]

Yes, lots of bends!

[apropos of nothing]

I've had or played extensively on three or four of these puppies. SK-1, Casiotone-601, CZ-101, and plenty of the more generics.

I've also played on a Casio Midi guitar:



Which is nothing like a guitar, but hysterical nonetheless.

I'd also give my left eyetooth for a Casio FZ-1:
http://www.vintagesynth.org/casio/fz1.shtml

It's rumored that Dee-Lite recorded their entire first album on an FZ-1.