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Casio keyboards from the 1980s and 1990s are occasionally used by ambitious sound designers who use circuit bending, a process in which a person rewires the circuitry in innovative ways in an attempt to increase functionality, to extend the keyboard's sound palettes. The following list includes some of the instruments' basic specifications and ...
The Casio CTK-2080 has pressure-sensitive features, LC display, 400 different tones that can be altered by various effects settings, a metronome, and 110 built-in songs. The keyboard also supports both MIDI and USB ports, allowing connection to computers, as well as other instruments. [1] [2] The keyboard can also digitally sample external sounds.
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.
Demonstration: Most keyboards come with demo songs showcasing various sounds and effects. These can be used by salespeople, for self-learning with lighted keys highlighting the correct notes, or simply for enjoyment. Velocity sensitivity (or touch sensitivity) allows keyboards to mimic the sound variations caused by how hard a key is pressed ...
To the present day Casio's response to clearance requests for the "rock" preset has been an acknowledgement that the song “uses a sound file taken from a Casio MT-40”, and no fee. [9] The preset is accessed by pressing the "synchro" button and then the "D" bass button (second from left) while the MT-40 rhythm slider is in the "rock ...
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 ...
Casio CZ-1. The CZ-1 synthesizer is most advanced in the CZ series. It doubled the memory, was multitimbral, also stored splits and layers as "Operation Memories", and added velocity and aftertouch sensitivity to the keyboard, along with programming parameters to control how velocity and aftertouch pressure would affect the sound.
Casio VL-Tone VL-1. The VL-1 was the first instrument of Casio's VL-Tone product line, and is sometimes referred to as the VL-Tone. It combined a calculator, a monophonic synthesizer, and sequencer. [1] Released in 1981, [2] it was the first commercial digital synthesizer, [3] selling for $69.95. [4]