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The original Casiotone line was abbreviated to CT in the mid-1980s but has continued to feature full-sized keys. MT and PT lines typically feature mini keys and the VL line features push-button keys. Most Casio keyboards feature automated accompaniment sections which may include drums, bass, chords and harmonies.
The name "Casiotone" disappeared from Casio's keyboard catalog when more accurate synthesis technologies became prevalent, but the brand was reused for new models launched in 2019. The first Casiotone keyboards used a sound synthesis technique known as vowel-consonant synthesis to approximate the sounds of other instruments (albeit not very ...
The Casio Casiotone MT-40 is an electronic keyboard, formerly produced by Casio and originally developed for the consumer market. It was released in 1981, with the MT-41 gray version joining it in 1983.
Casio was established as Kashio Seisakujo in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio [] (1917–1993), an engineer specializing in fabrication technology. [1] Kashio's first major product was the yubiwa pipe, a finger ring that would hold a cigarette, allowing the wearer to smoke the cigarette down to its nub while also leaving the wearer's hands free. [6]
The LCD. The VL-1 featured a small LCD display capable of displaying 8 characters. This was primarily used for the calculator function, but also displayed notes played. The VL-1 also had changeable tone and balance, basic tempo settings and a real-time monophonic music sequencer, which could play back up to 99 notes.
Casio's 1981 Casiotone MT-40, [2] the first electronic keyboard to include Okuda's backing tracks. Okuda joined Casio in April 1980, immediately upon graduation from music college. Her first assignment was to develop six two-bar rhythm and bass preset backing tracks which would be used in the Casiotone Casio MT-40 and Casio's other ...
The CT-630 was a non-programmable home keyboard variant of the HT-3000. It had 61 full-size keys, stereo speakers, MIDI THRU, 1/4" stereo output jacks, volume pedal jack, sustain pedal jack and a 3-point splittable keyboard. It included the "Ending" and "Auto Harmonize" features but did not have any pitch bending capability, even through MIDI.
The Casio SK-1 is a small sampling keyboard made by Casio in 1985. [1] [2] It has 32 small sized piano keys, four-note polyphony, with a sampling bit depth of 8 bit PCM and a sample rate of 9.38 kHz for 1.4 seconds, a built-in microphone and line level and microphone inputs for sampling, and an internal speaker and line out.