I like how this keyboard has 24 samples, of which 10 are for beats, and two are for internal-use-only notification sounds. And out of the 12 remaining available samples, someone in charge went like "Okay, we got our bases covered with piano, vibraphone, trumpet, flute and pipe organ and two bongos. We also got chorus, which sounds a bit weird but oh well... But what for the rest? Harp? Violin? Maybe guitar, saxophone, cello, clarinet, pan flute or harmonica? Hm, I don't know. I'm stomped. You know what, let's put 'dog', 'surf', 'lion' and 'laser gun' and call it a day."
Actually this instrument is really important in Colombia in Cartagena and some cities a nearby. This is the base of the “picoteo” and is a technique in a genre called Champeta. Champeta is an urban genre from north coast of our country and it comes from African/Caribbean rhythms mixed with the resources of the djs in that region. There are some videos talking about that of yt
I remember playing with one of these as a kid - if you sampled the shortest of sound - like flicking your fingernail on the mic and set it to loop, you could get some basic static waveforms out of it
Greetings from Venezuela, this sampler is used in a musical genre called champeta in Colombia, you can search for videos on how it is used in Colombia.
I had a large Casio made around the same time and I believe the built-in beats were reused, being exactly the same Also, "let's behave normal:" a good reminder for us all
There was a point when they started using pcm sounds when they basically refused the same chips every time, so all the keyboards sound the same. It's really sad, the older ones are great actually
"I'm at the point where I don't want to continue with the video" Finally we are in agreement. The SK1 and SK5 were great little keyboards for the time and for the price. I wish I still had both of them as *I* had fun with them. Sure, technology has advanced, but the SKs had a charm of their own.
Fun fact, in the northern region of Colombia there is a rhythm called champeta, and as the first DJs somehow had access to the piano, those sounds that are fixed on the piano became the hallmark of this genre. I think Casio has no idea what those samplers mean culturally to several million people in my region.
Still have my SK-2100 and Korg DSS-1 which came year after that in 1986 with a price tag of 3.5k which was "affordable" at the time compared to tens of thousands.
This is not a bad keyboard, you’re just not using it to its full potential if you’re only using the onboard mic and speaker. Line-in for sampling, line-out for playback (through pedals etc) and it can really punch above its weight class.
You sir, deserve an ass load of more subscribers. Watched this during my morning poop and it really made the daily poopoo experience very tolerable. You just got your self a god damn sub friend!
This toy begs to be circuit bent. Also you may enjoy some Simon the magpie videos on this topic, because he's experimented with similar keyboards before. :)
Hey, stop crapping on my favorite childhood toy! Could have been better but it was one of the few kid "kid" keyboards that had sampling, should have been a requirement on all keyboards.
Your sense of humor is fantastic, you're so effortlessly funny at every moment lol! Also the musical bit at the end was brilliant, I'm a huge fan of Koyaanisqatsi lol
Yeah, the ending reminded me of those lo-fi flourishes and fanfares you would here in old film documentaries from the 60s and 70s... who knew they had a Casio SK-5😎
The speakers are terrible and very bad, I changed them for a more modern one that Apple uses and it sounds much better, but that was just a personal modification. The machine sounds much better through the headphone output, it is actually much more acceptable for electronic music. I use this thing a lot with Roland SP-404 mk2 and the sampler FX, I also use the SK5 sampler which is for playing bass and lo-fi things. Thanks
This is a nice kind of comedy which is very rare on youtube. I guess you watched Van Kooten, Flying Circus etc. You could easily do a collab with The Bradge, he is great at improvising songs and hilarious comedy. He had live improvisation streams with Het Marc Show before the police asked him to take down his channels.
It's not a quality sampling keyboard, but you should not use batteries and should plug it in an amp, so the quality would improve a lot. I had an SK5 in the 90s and I guess it's not from 1985. It must be from 1988.
This a great little keyboard. Missing the historical significance of the sampling capability. Your creativeity fails you. Sampling into it, add some midulation dly/reverb efx. Then sample that into a sampler... Its awsome. Sounds weird and tape analog quality.
How many note polyphony did this beast have? I had a similar era rebadge (realistic) sampling keyboard (concertmate-500 that was a rebadged Casio SK-1) that had 4 note, unless you were using the 'beats' then it went down to 1... It only allowed a single 2.3 ish second sample, but it did have FM synthesis - but had a suprisingly awkward interface to set up using button and key presses...
It was a crappy sub $100 toy keyboard when it came out in the 80s... And it's a crappy overinflated toy keyboard now 20 years from now people are going to be making videos like these about the cat synth
You sir,.. im lost for words....😑... Hartstikke leuk,maar ik hoop dat je er nu wel achter gekomen bent,dat je een juweeltje in handen hebt. I have the same keyboard. Going to try to revive it to the modern standards. I will let you know when i do.😉 And yeah,... The whole idea behind it,that it would sample sounds .. 😂
Yeah, the damn things are way overpriced now. (I want to get one for my son who grew up with it and was on it all the time by at least age 2.) They're going for more than I paid for the RS version around '86 or '87. And, good gods, that dog thing sucked! (In that vein, why the hell would the mfgr take up that much space for a novelty dog sound?) What was the purpose of this video? Using low batteries? Recording the tiny (and tinny) speaker instead of using a line out? Ignoring the things you can do to the samples and how you can use them (which was the best part of it -- I've used one that way to good effect on stage -- although it's a bitch to get the loop timing.)? Again: Why?
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Please make cutaways to a random angle in the room a regular feature
It's wild how Casio quality can vary so wildly among their products
I liked the ending remembering how cheap sampling keyboards could turn us all into Phillip Glass. :)
Indeed! With the video combined it’s crazy :) A great ending for this video!
Very Koyaanisposy.
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
You mean 4 33"? (Silence)
"Let's behave normal."
*_proceeds not to behave normal_*
I like how this keyboard has 24 samples, of which 10 are for beats, and two are for internal-use-only notification sounds. And out of the 12 remaining available samples, someone in charge went like "Okay, we got our bases covered with piano, vibraphone, trumpet, flute and pipe organ and two bongos. We also got chorus, which sounds a bit weird but oh well... But what for the rest? Harp? Violin? Maybe guitar, saxophone, cello, clarinet, pan flute or harmonica? Hm, I don't know. I'm stomped. You know what, let's put 'dog', 'surf', 'lion' and 'laser gun' and call it a day."
Actually this instrument is really important in Colombia in Cartagena and some cities a nearby. This is the base of the “picoteo” and is a technique in a genre called Champeta.
Champeta is an urban genre from north coast of our country and it comes from African/Caribbean rhythms mixed with the resources of the djs in that region. There are some videos talking about that of yt
I remember playing with one of these as a kid - if you sampled the shortest of sound - like flicking your fingernail on the mic and set it to loop, you could get some basic static waveforms out of it
I like how you switched to your wall everytime, it’s a very calming yet interesting view
Greetings from Venezuela, this sampler is used in a musical genre called champeta in Colombia, you can search for videos on how it is used in Colombia.
PLEASE NEVER CHANGE!
The ceiling camera view could be used as an album cover art. 😊😊
The last Philip Glass like performance is brilliant! The Koyaanisqatsi-inspired footage too. :D
Yeah purring like a kitty 😺
Bang on 😂 by the way I like koyaanisqatsi
Quatsi gang stand up!
Thank you, Posy. I laughed my ass off through this one
bike horn insanity is the most entertaining thing this casio can do. Shame to see a bad casio tho
It has polyphony so it's better than whatever Casio I had as a child.
The chaos in this video is really something else, and I love it, I'm here for it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. 😂
Had one... Back in 80s with Fairlight music everywhere this was your bedroom dream to sound like the art of noise 😂
I had a large Casio made around the same time and I believe the built-in beats were reused, being exactly the same
Also, "let's behave normal:" a good reminder for us all
There was a point when they started using pcm sounds when they basically refused the same chips every time, so all the keyboards sound the same. It's really sad, the older ones are great actually
I still have my SK-1. Nice keyboard, more than a toy, a keyboard with good technology for that time.
Loses samples on power off....gave mine away in exchange for errr, services rendered
@@rachelar that is the bad part. Can't save the samples.
The 3rd camera that looks at the wall with the sunset pics lol.
The sound you made by recording the horn at the end kind of reminds me of the flutes in the intro to Cbat by Hudson Mohawke.
"I'm at the point where I don't want to continue with the video" Finally we are in agreement. The SK1 and SK5 were great little keyboards for the time and for the price. I wish I still had both of them as *I* had fun with them. Sure, technology has advanced, but the SKs had a charm of their own.
Fun fact, in the northern region of Colombia there is a rhythm called champeta, and as the first DJs somehow had access to the piano, those sounds that are fixed on the piano became the hallmark of this genre. I think Casio has no idea what those samplers mean culturally to several million people in my region.
I liked the vacant ceiling camera. The dog noise was ok.
the trumpet and organ sound actually really good, id love to hear them in a full piece
I loved my sk-10. The sampling part was way ahead of its time. Other keyboards that sampled were thousands.
Still have my SK-2100 and Korg DSS-1 which came year after that in 1986 with a price tag of 3.5k which was "affordable" at the time compared to tens of thousands.
@@HenritheHorseDid you get the sample card fitted to your DDD-1, I was just looking at one of those and g to they look pretty cool.
'hey that sounds like Koyaanisqatsi'
'hey that also LOOKS like Koyaanisqatsi!'
It was brilliant to us kids that where lucky enough to get one ❤
This is my favorite video.
One of the best videos on the platform
Posy your videos are so delightful I think I’m going to have to have a bit of a lie down
This is Gene's keyboard from Bob's Burgers!
Da ding ding
This is not a bad keyboard, you’re just not using it to its full potential if you’re only using the onboard mic and speaker. Line-in for sampling, line-out for playback (through pedals etc) and it can really punch above its weight class.
dude doesn't know how to use it and puts out a bad review.... i've had it a couple hours and i'm in love 😂
@@CarlosMongeLunaI’ve had mine since 1996; it’s taken a lot of abuse but it’s still mangling samples the way I like it!
I adore the chaos of this video, thank you Posy
Piano and vibraphone kinda sound like a japanese train station while chorus sounds like a german train station ^^
You sir, deserve an ass load of more subscribers. Watched this during my morning poop and it really made the daily poopoo experience very tolerable. You just got your self a god damn sub friend!
This toy begs to be circuit bent. Also you may enjoy some Simon the magpie videos on this topic, because he's experimented with similar keyboards before. :)
I love my SK1, SK200 and SK60 keyboards. They are just fun makers. So advence for their time.
6:03 Serious Sam liked it
BEST BEGINNING OF A VIDEO EVER!!l
edit: I think coffee went out of my nose I laughed so hard.
I have an SK-1, and a FZ-1. Both 80's Casio sampling keyboards. They are quite different ;)
Hey, stop crapping on my favorite childhood toy! Could have been better but it was one of the few kid "kid" keyboards that had sampling, should have been a requirement on all keyboards.
Your sense of humor is fantastic, you're so effortlessly funny at every moment lol! Also the musical bit at the end was brilliant, I'm a huge fan of Koyaanisqatsi lol
I had an SK-1, which I remember enjoying quite a bit. It was good for making prank calls. Nice Koyaanisqatsi reference!
Just what is needed to make your latest clown-core release. It shouldn't be too underestimated.
Press Numpad 0 for a funny at any time. In case you get bored.
Yeah, the ending reminded me of those lo-fi flourishes and fanfares you would here in old film documentaries from the 60s and 70s... who knew they had a Casio SK-5😎
Sad that the sk5 and sk1s prices are going up because of hipsters using them once and never again and going back to their op1s
My ears are bleeding
The speakers are terrible and very bad, I changed them for a more modern one that Apple uses and it sounds much better, but that was just a personal modification.
The machine sounds much better through the headphone output, it is actually much more acceptable for electronic music.
I use this thing a lot with Roland SP-404 mk2 and the sampler FX, I also use the SK5 sampler which is for playing bass and lo-fi things.
Thanks
Disco 2's laser sounds just like straight from Win XP's pinball game :D
oh god i love your videos
Strong koyaanisqatsi vibes at the end
another banger
I have it. I do enjoy using it once in a while (yes even the weird sounds). But damn this boffo is HILARIOUS 😂 thanks for the laugh! Subscribed !
Angry Posy
the horn sample was sick lol
This is a nice kind of comedy which is very rare on youtube. I guess you watched Van Kooten, Flying Circus etc. You could easily do a collab with The Bradge, he is great at improvising songs and hilarious comedy. He had live improvisation streams with Het Marc Show before the police asked him to take down his channels.
the dog sound reminds me of Pink eye on my leg - Ween
It's not a quality sampling keyboard, but you should not use batteries and should plug it in an amp, so the quality would improve a lot. I had an SK5 in the 90s and I guess it's not from 1985. It must be from 1988.
I have an exact same t-shirt from Uniqlo. I’ve even put it on today before seeing it in this video.
The casio sk8 is an awesome 8bit mono sampler.
This a great little keyboard. Missing the historical significance of the sampling capability. Your creativeity fails you. Sampling into it, add some midulation dly/reverb efx. Then sample that into a sampler... Its awsome. Sounds weird and tape analog quality.
How many note polyphony did this beast have? I had a similar era rebadge (realistic) sampling keyboard (concertmate-500 that was a rebadged Casio SK-1) that had 4 note, unless you were using the 'beats' then it went down to 1... It only allowed a single 2.3 ish second sample, but it did have FM synthesis - but had a suprisingly awkward interface to set up using button and key presses...
I play this thing a lot, and it is full polyphonic, which is actually pretty wild. You can play presets and cords at the same time
My grandma has a very similar one, just its a little newer or fancier maybe, similar design though
I used to have this keyboard as a kid. It was shit back then too.
You are awesome! 🤣 Please… more! 😂
1:57 interesting.. ascending dog sounds like closing a jacket zipper
I had an SA-1? keyboard as a kid with the awful demo of Wake Me Up by Wham!
It was a crappy sub $100 toy keyboard when it came out in the 80s... And it's a crappy overinflated toy keyboard now
20 years from now people are going to be making videos like these about the cat synth
2:20 is it me or is that a caddicarus reference
5:22 that got me laughing hard
Screw the SK-5, I wanna know more about the 📯📯📯
4:41
You're welcome viewer..
❤
You sir,.. im lost for words....😑... Hartstikke leuk,maar ik hoop dat je er nu wel achter gekomen bent,dat je een juweeltje in handen hebt.
I have the same keyboard. Going to try to revive it to the modern standards.
I will let you know when i do.😉 And yeah,... The whole idea behind it,that it would sample sounds .. 😂
Dogs in the dock.
put an audio visualizer on your tv, or at just a window of whatever program you record your audio with. 👽
And one of them is dog.
goooood ... Jim Carey?
It can't be that bad!
Fixed sounds?
Oh cheesus, yeah, It's a cr*ppy keyboard.
Make it stop!
0:00 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 😂
L take these things can cook
Yeah, the damn things are way overpriced now. (I want to get one for my son who grew up with it and was on it all the time by at least age 2.) They're going for more than I paid for the RS version around '86 or '87. And, good gods, that dog thing sucked! (In that vein, why the hell would the mfgr take up that much space for a novelty dog sound?)
What was the purpose of this video? Using low batteries? Recording the tiny (and tinny) speaker instead of using a line out? Ignoring the things you can do to the samples and how you can use them (which was the best part of it -- I've used one that way to good effect on stage -- although it's a bitch to get the loop timing.)? Again: Why?