I love Casio. They tried their best and they failed more often than not, but their failures were almost always interesting. I'll take "interesting" over "decent but predictable" every day.
Have you seen the bad gear on the Casio xw-pd1? It's great. That one was fun for me, because excluding some turntables and a mixer, it was my first piece of gear
I love how Roland made the 808 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in Rap. I love how Roland made the 909 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in House. I love how Roland made the 303 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in Acid House.
I love how Casio made the 'waw' voice to sound completely unrealistic. It was, it flopped, and it appeared on every Casio keyboard for about 15 years and no one knows why.
Casio keyboards are kinda like that free synth VST you downloaded 5 years ago with 500 presets. Most of the presets are really corny but some are definitely diamonds in the rough.
... and this is why I have over 1,500+ vsts in my collection spread over 3 laptops. I do have other gear, but, like casio, they serve one function - if I can remember why.
Casio employee 1: "Phat bass and sizzling highs have been done....how about we abandon that for pokey mids?" Casio employee 2: "Interesting. But we need a cool hook too. I'm thinking with the aesthetic of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air". Casio employee 1: 🤩
Hey Alex! I'd love to see another video with both of you guys making something... On behalf of the whole internet (bold call I know but...) Please do it!!!
This was the first musical instrument I ever got at age 8. Probably the reason I'm still making music at 41. I haven't though about this scrappy lil dude in decades, and then I saw it featured on Bad Gear and had a nostalgia overload!!! My god the memories. Thanks AudioPilz!
Aaaaaaaaah this is the first keyboard I ever had! My parents got it for me when I was little and I make Rap Music now at 26, so this one's special to me. Thanks for covering it!
"Starting point for a later synth addiction" isn't that in the small print of every Casiotone there has ever been? Mine started with the VL-1, then a CZ-1000 in '86. You just about summed up Casio in 7 words. Excellent as always, Florian.
I only ever knew of the Rapman as a consolation prize given away on Nickelodeon game shows of the 90s like Legends of the Hidden Temple, Nick Arcade, and Double Dare. This is honestly my first time actually seeing one. It's about everything I expected it would be lol
Still have mine and now passed it on to my toddler :) I think this was my very first musical instrument growing up. Somehow as a kid these sounds never got old...
Basically the "Earthbound Indie RPG soundtrack" instrument. Would probably be a killer 5€ Kontakt Instrument or VST effect. (...I'd actually pay money for a good plugin of this, it sounds so charming)
I'm pretty sure all the Casio SA have the same tonebank as the rapman, you can probably find them for really cheap but each have some quirkys (same series, same sounds, but some have way less polyphony). I got the SA-21 for very cheap and its really fun ngl, someone sampled all the tones of the SA-1 but I couldn't find the link
Units like this should be in every studio. You'd be shocked to learn how many major albums have sounds from "home user" gear, or even as far as beating on trash cans, just to get that weird sound they were looking for! Pro gear isn't what makes an album great. Talent makes an album great.
I love this video, and I love that snare sound. No qualifiers or jokes, I seriously love the snap of that silly little keyboard, especially when you'd thickened and processed it. Crunchy overdriven cheap keyboards will always have a special place in my heart.
Your videos always cheer me up when I'm in a tight spot. I've probably rewatched the entire bad gear playlist 3 or 4 times at this point and I only found your channel a few months ago. Love your work!
@@AudioPilz That would be rad 🤣. I could see it being used in a meme. Someone mentions something basic that pisses them off, smash cut to a pic of James with clean audio of that.
I had this and a Casio sk1!!!! Must have been about 11 or 12(now 40) And they are basically what fuelled me to getting into DJing sampling , scratching and producing, became pretty proficient at them all
Spent an entire paycheck from my first job on an SK-1 right when they first came out. Thirty-seven-ish keyboards later, i can still remember the hauntingly beautiful sound of sampling a simple acoustic, bowed string into the onboard mic and then playing it back from low on the keyboard in all it's crunchy 8-bit glory through my parents' big hi-fi stereo system.
Yesss, I have this one. Bout to give it to a young buddy of mine, so, nice timing. A nice reminder to sample it before it's gone. I quite like the beats and the vocoder sound.
I had a little Casio keyboard in the 90s, green accents. I loved that thing I really wish I still had it! I'm sure I could overpay for one now if I worked out what it was. But it wouldnt be mine.
It is merely a matter of time until there is a video about that harmonica on this channel where he apologizes in advance for not being very good before styling on you for ten minutes extracting tasty jams from it.
@@AudioPilz well, my first one (in the 90s) was a yamaha psr, not sure if 300 or which one... it was not much better than a Casio I guess, but enough to learn a few things and provide the bass and drums for my first recordings on a 2-deck compact stereo :) edit: no it wasn´t the 300 :) more along the lines of a psr 19... still looking for the right one :)
as a kid we had one, definitely brought an interest in music to the table and was pretty fun to bring on any long trips in the car. pissed off the parents when you went ham on the scratch wheel though lol. i didnt know it was so expensive actually, probably would have treated it a bit nicer, but that damn thing was a tank.
YES I loved seeing the Rapman get the treatment. You were spot on with the future synth addict toddler remark, I've had this thing since I was 4, sincerely it can still inspire me!
When I started out making my own music aged 13 my first instrument was a turquoise Casio SA-9, which has most of the same sounds as this plus some extras. Those crunchy sounds still have a special place in my heart, even if a lot of them are too weird and/or obnoxiously midrange-y to be of much actual use. I actually bought an SA-20 a couple of years ago too so I could have the same sound set with (slightly) bigger keys and four voice polyphony instead of the duophony of the SA-9. Being able to actually play proper chords makes it a lot more useful. Fun fact (which I assume also works on the Rapman): the volume adjustment actually affects the envelope of the sound rather than the gain, so percussive sounds have a shorter decay the lower you set the volume, and sounds with obvious loop points also loop faster.
I have to say that every time i am impressed with the obvious amount of work you put on every episode. Video shooting and editing, "bad gear" exploring AND a new tune recorded, orcestrated and mixed. Do you ever sleep? :)
I remember the old Casio keyboards where you could record sounds with a mic. Everyone made fart sounds and played them as notes in the store where they demo'd them in the 80's. The watches, keyboards, they're all cute but I've never seen anyone use a Casio Keyboard live. But AudioPilz you are of course amazing on them.
Holy Crapman! how did I miss this masterpiece ?!?!? this is at the top of my favs now. I keep thinking I have seen all of them, but then out of nowhere, this shows up. This one kills it, especially the 70 Miles an hour house jam . and the guitar effects really makes it insane. I (and the other millions of loyalist) would love to see a follow up on this with a circuit bent version. They are out there and insane. Circuit Bending Fool on RUclips has one that is INSANE! I sent him a message to send you one for review . maybe you can do a side channel "bent gear".
The intro was Casiocore at its finest! 😊 I thought, ok... this is going to be a whole cheese factory after the intro. But then the Jams hit and i was like: 😲😲😲😲😲😱😱😱😱😱 How many fairies did you have to kill to get enough fairy dust to sprinkle on the Rapman for these jams? 😂
nice fresh episode, breaking apart from the usual suspects. couldn't tell you what model, but the first digital keyboard i ever played was my brother's Casio, to this day i can beat box the lofi waltz rhythm for some reason, imbedded in my head.
@@AudioPilz My first keyboard was a Casio RTK- 432, I pushed this thing far but oddly, no matter what, everyone always said about the music I produced with it, "It sounds like gaming music". I never then and still don't know what they meant by that.
I have the concertmate version of this keyboard. It's Identical. I found it at Goodwill for 2 dollars a while back in mint condition. It looks nice beside my Casio SK 1.
"We can all agree that there are enough weird guys on social media sowing the seeds of controversy" hahaha well said. Wish the knuckdraggers on gearspace would get the memo too though. Another fun vid
Seriously though - how is the vibraphone voice so head-and-shoulders above the others, quality-wise? Secret vibraphone lover on the development team, maybe?
fabulous episode! truly inspiring stuff in the original spirit of the channel- taking bad gear and showing how to make it useful in context. thanks for this!
Surprisingly musical enough beyond its limitations and was polished beyond belief in the finale track, where 'musicians' with a fair amount hardware & DAW would procrastinate for hours and still not achieve the same result from a dinky Casio keyboard. I actually downloaded a load of the samples from a few sites a week or 2 ago and enjoyed jamming & processing them. I'd put this in a 'Limbo Gear' slot where it's not good, certainly not bad and definitely has a more than a handful use cases.
WOW!! By far one of my fav bits of bad gear and also I love all the music you made with it!!!!!!! Also great outro speech. Keep up the awesome work my dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great review! I'm constantly amazed at how you can get a jam out of just about anything. I'd suggest the Casio CZ-101, except that it's actually good gear......and classic gear at that.
Wow lol, this is the second video that’s been suggested to me by RUclips about this keyboard. I had this when I was a kid and remember not really understanding it, even then i found it cheesy. 25 years later I am now inspired so dig it out and finally make a song with! Haha. Nice video, I’m off to watch some more of your content now.
The presets on this Casio are actually quite charming, didn't expect that. An early Yamaha (I had the PSR-3, but there's a lot of them I guess) has to follow next hahah. Especially with Beach House using them (if I'm not mistaken) Hey, Jam 2 kind of reminded me of Scarface! (Push it to the limit?)
I had one when I was a kid.. best thing about them is the microphone and built-in speaker.. if you stick the microphone up to the speaker while one of the preset beats is playing it distorts and sounds kind of funky
I love this channel! There's always something that makes me laugh my head off. I'd never heard of this keyboard before, awesome! You've actually encouraged me to wonna buy many machines now, not sure that was your intention? Lol, cheers!
"...are almost there, but not quite..." Remember, this is Casio. They've made a business of producing fundamentally excellent hardware, and somehow screwing it up.
I found a rapman years ago abandoned and doomed to go in the trash. But i took care of it and i love it, there is something magic with this little keyboard...
The Casiotone MT40 was used in the song Under Mi Sleng Teng, which is widely regarded as the song that started dancehall reggae. It's a great song and I cannot imagine a "real" keyboard substituting the Casiotone. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend checking it out.
i read long time ago in an interview that the kids of Jan Hammer had the rap man . JAN HAMMER said about the casio rap man: “” i would have killed to have some of these sounds before the fairlight came out”” !!!! Keyboard France magazine tested it when the rap man was issued and said in conclusion that it was impossible to resist to this instrument! I love mine nearly as much as some very expensive gears. thanks for the videos they are great. Cheers , philippe
As I said so many times before, you can make music out of Grandma's bad hearing aid and probably make the next summer-hit-wave out of a couple of PC fans and an abused vibrator with your mad skillz. That said however, I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to get the Casio Rapman. Your creation however reminds me of Anders Enger Jensen's attempt with B. Meowsic (also a toy keyboard for kids of all ages), so well done Mr AudioPilz, I'm going to put that hit of yours on repeat a few times now. :)
Okay, since I´ve been around for a short while now, I gotta say I love this format... It shows that even the cheapest toy can have a niche of some way... Thanks for that :) I guess it´s true what they say: "It´s not so much about the gear as it is about your creativity..."
nice job - I loved the POG jam my little Rapman is fun, had to get one when I saw it on eBay about 10 years ago :-) like the SK-1, MT-400V, HT-3000 and later "pro" gear like the CZ-1, FZ-1, VZ-1, and the PG-380 MIDI guitar they really nailed the Rapman - I love how they called it the RAP-1 like there was going to be a series of them
I've often been attracted to the Rapman and its bigger brother, the Roland DJ70. That last track sounded so good, Florian...you can squeeze some bangers out of these little plastic boxes for sure. Ausgezeichnete Arbeit!
Nice exactly the right image for the (bad) snare sound topic. Much love for your way of seeing/hearing the world. Btw.: ... if someone can really romanticize something, then a Viennese.
Funny and insightful at the same time, I heard the intro and thought, you could never do that with the keyboard alone. Then I realized, that One no longer had to go to a physical studio to make this thing sound as good. Could be done in a small bedroom.
I have all these presets burnt into my head and didnt even realise it. I owned one when i was 9 right about the same time as Vanilla Ice and MC hammer dropped lol. I turned 40 last week so added nostalgic maybe the Casio Rapman made me who i am today lol = ) Salute AudioPilz
I love casio . Weirder the better. Great show 👏 😎 I put all my casios through the Alesis nanoverb on reverb or chorus . Sounds like a different creature altogether .
Nice work on the house track! Limitation=inspiration. The gamelan on this sounds very dramatic with the TM Pro in Kontakt. I gotta release my Crap Keys sample set soon :)
as many have already commented i'm just simply stunned by the seemingly effortless artistry of your @5:42 second guitar effects jam and gorgeous @6:52 finale 😳😳😳...pls do the VL-1! (i have a mint one and am big fan of its da-da-da credo)
The sounds are from the SA series tonebank Casio keyboard line that came shortly AFTER the "Tone Bank" mark 1 series which featured 210 layered sound combos and midi.. The SA/CA series did NOT have ANY pro features like midi but DID feature slightly improved samples to the original Casio Tone bank series from the mid to late 1980s. The Rapman and VA10 were products of the second gen Tonebank series but with more FUN less PRO features. The SK60 was the LAST fun based Sampler from Casio that also used those SA tonebank sounds(second gen).
Bonus thoughts: 1) My wife judges gear based on its true measure of greatness: its cuteness. 2) Adam Neely’s attitude or delivery bothers me. That probably means it reminds me too much of my own. 😓😜🤣
Casio keyboards are like that cousin of yours who's always down to drink, but never adds much to conversations. I have a WTK240 that's part-decoration/place to stack pizza boxes. The sounds available aren't anything special, but there's a synth bass on there that's actually handy here and there.
I love Casio. They tried their best and they failed more often than not, but their failures were almost always interesting. I'll take "interesting" over "decent but predictable" every day.
I wholeheartedly agree!
I remember the Casio Rapman having a feature in Keyboard Magazine
At least you never have to shell out a month's salary for their failures. Can't say that for Korg, Akai or Roland...
Have you seen the bad gear on the Casio xw-pd1? It's great. That one was fun for me, because excluding some turntables and a mixer, it was my first piece of gear
I spoke so soon :)
I love how Roland made the 808 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in Rap.
I love how Roland made the 909 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in House.
I love how Roland made the 303 to sound realistic, It didn’t, flopped, and got used in Acid House.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!
I love how Casio made the 'waw' voice to sound completely unrealistic. It was, it flopped, and it appeared on every Casio keyboard for about 15 years and no one knows why.
The line between "cheesey toy" and "timeless classic/expensive Reverb listing" is a single underground hit
totally agree ! give it to DM they will sell million copies!!
True words!
Casio keyboards are kinda like that free synth VST you downloaded 5 years ago with 500 presets. Most of the presets are really corny but some are definitely diamonds in the rough.
True! Worth it for the metal guitar alone!
... and this is why I have over 1,500+ vsts in my collection spread over 3 laptops. I do have other gear, but, like casio, they serve one function - if I can remember why.
@@audiocoffee sounds like it's time for a VST spreadsheet :)
@@adc_ax hell yeah!
@@audiocoffee consider making that number 250 times less
If you can squeeze out those tracks from a Casio Rapman than you can conquer the world. AudioPilz is the King of Bad Gear.
Hey Anthony, thank you so much!!!
Casio employee 1: "Phat bass and sizzling highs have been done....how about we abandon that for pokey mids?"
Casio employee 2: "Interesting. But we need a cool hook too. I'm thinking with the aesthetic of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air".
Casio employee 1: 🤩
Casio C-suite: PROFIT!!! ;)
Hey Alex! I'd love to see another video with both of you guys making something... On behalf of the whole internet (bold call I know but...) Please do it!!!
This was the first musical instrument I ever got at age 8. Probably the reason I'm still making music at 41. I haven't though about this scrappy lil dude in decades, and then I saw it featured on Bad Gear and had a nostalgia overload!!! My god the memories. Thanks AudioPilz!
Thanks for watching!
Aaaaaaaaah this is the first keyboard I ever had! My parents got it for me when I was little and I make Rap Music now at 26, so this one's special to me. Thanks for covering it!
I just finished the video, I'm literally the toddler who grew up to have a synth addiction
Thanks for watching!
7:28
We need "Cute Gear" spinoff series showing all the most adorable looking gear regardless if they're good or bad... mostly bad though
Thanks! That would be a great spin-off!
@@AudioPilz Korg's Monotron and Kaossilator minis would fit this criteria I think
@@glidelas207Kaossilator mini was my first piece of gear. 🥲
Nsx-39 immediately popped into my mind
Why not a spinoff called Good Gear?
"Starting point for a later synth addiction" isn't that in the small print of every Casiotone there has ever been? Mine started with the VL-1, then a CZ-1000 in '86. You just about summed up Casio in 7 words. Excellent as always, Florian.
Thank you so much!
Gateway drug, eh?
Holy fucking shit - the amount of sound you get out of any piece of gear is amazing.
Thank you for your work and generally existing.
Thanks for watching!!!
I only ever knew of the Rapman as a consolation prize given away on Nickelodeon game shows of the 90s like Legends of the Hidden Temple, Nick Arcade, and Double Dare. This is honestly my first time actually seeing one. It's about everything I expected it would be lol
The Rapman certainly delivers;)
Still have mine and now passed it on to my toddler :) I think this was my very first musical instrument growing up. Somehow as a kid these sounds never got old...
You're a good parent!
Basically the "Earthbound Indie RPG soundtrack" instrument. Would probably be a killer 5€ Kontakt Instrument or VST effect.
(...I'd actually pay money for a good plugin of this, it sounds so charming)
Shameless plug;): I uploaded some multisamples (not all of them) to Patreon
Bro.....it's only $80 used.
@@mindexpansionpuzzles more expensive than you! 0_0
I'm pretty sure all the Casio SA have the same tonebank as the rapman, you can probably find them for really cheap but each have some quirkys (same series, same sounds, but some have way less polyphony). I got the SA-21 for very cheap and its really fun ngl, someone sampled all the tones of the SA-1 but I couldn't find the link
@@gabrielferraz7586 It has some of the same but some of the samples are unique to it.
Ideal unit for Trap-producers due to its 3-voices polyphony.
True that, Roger!
I mean the Waw sound is actually the main sound in Sicko Mode by Travis Scott
@@soundbytelex I listened to all 3 parts of Sicko Mode and I'm convinced too that the RAP-1 was used.
@TELEX that definitely came to mind. Is that true or does it "just sound like it"?
"rapman waw" preset from kontakt, they likely sampled each note of the preset and turned it into a sample library
@@JgHaverty
Units like this should be in every studio. You'd be shocked to learn how many major albums have sounds from "home user" gear, or even as far as beating on trash cans, just to get that weird sound they were looking for!
Pro gear isn't what makes an album great. Talent makes an album great.
I love this video, and I love that snare sound. No qualifiers or jokes, I seriously love the snap of that silly little keyboard, especially when you'd thickened and processed it. Crunchy overdriven cheap keyboards will always have a special place in my heart.
Thanks! Processed toy keyboards ftw!!!
Same here 😊😎🎯✌✌👌🏼
oh ja 😎🤘
I remember seeing the commercial for this synth back in the day. Casio really had a big campaign around it.
AFAIK they were even selling it at Sears
fun fact native instruments sampled this device for its "kontakt factory" library
there's an entire section based on it which includes the rapman wah
Wow, didn't know that. I have to check it out. Thanks for posting
Your videos always cheer me up when I'm in a tight spot. I've probably rewatched the entire bad gear playlist 3 or 4 times at this point and I only found your channel a few months ago. Love your work!
Happy to hear that, thanks!!!
I'd love to see a whole album or EP made with this thing. It's just quirky enough to fill a niche on some weird corner of the internet.
Isn't that called CasioCore?
That's basically what a lot of hypnogagic pop is, not necessarily this model but that genre typically uses cheesy sounding Casio gear
The "first 100 words" book image killed me (8:22). Thank you for you videos AudioPilz
Thanks for watching!!!
"You can't change the snare sound"
*Cue Lars*
"Saaaaaaiiiinntttt anga round my snnaaarrrrraahhh."
I have to get a "clean" sample of that one!;)
@@AudioPilz That would be rad 🤣. I could see it being used in a meme. Someone mentions something basic that pisses them off, smash cut to a pic of James with clean audio of that.
this is so good, the references, the jokes, the memes, the gear, THE JAMS, all of it!
Thank you!!!
I am a Marcos Carvalho subscriber! Great videos, sir!
I had this and a Casio sk1!!!! Must have been about 11 or 12(now 40) And they are basically what fuelled me to getting into DJing sampling , scratching and producing, became pretty proficient at them all
The ultimate gateway drug!
Spent an entire paycheck from my first job on an SK-1 right when they first came out. Thirty-seven-ish keyboards later, i can still remember the hauntingly beautiful sound of sampling a simple acoustic, bowed string into the onboard mic and then playing it back from low on the keyboard in all it's crunchy 8-bit glory through my parents' big hi-fi stereo system.
This was great. It's a strange little box of tricks but I was impressed with what you managed to coax out of it. That house track was awesome.
Thank you!
Yesss, I have this one. Bout to give it to a young buddy of mine, so, nice timing. A nice reminder to sample it before it's gone. I quite like the beats and the vocoder sound.
The vocoder sound is super phat!
hey man i grew up with this keyboard... you're really coming at my heart right now 😂
I had a little Casio keyboard in the 90s, green accents. I loved that thing I really wish I still had it! I'm sure I could overpay for one now if I worked out what it was. But it wouldnt be mine.
It was a Casio PT-10 and I could get one for £15.. hmmm...
Get it!!!
@@AudioPilz 😆
THIS IS BRINGING BACK TO CHILDHOOD OMG. It alll started here. I just sent this to my brother like OMFG these songs and sounds!!
Yeah, instant flashback (and I didn't even have one;)
Had to cop this immediately when it dropped. I was 8...and after all this time...nothing compares! 🎤😎🫱💿🎹
Nice!!!
When I was 12 years old, I would have loved to own a synth like this! Definitely more fun than the harmonica I had.
Agreed! Every kid needs a Casio!
It is merely a matter of time until there is a video about that harmonica on this channel where he apologizes in advance for not being very good before styling on you for ten minutes extracting tasty jams from it.
@@AudioPilz well, my first one (in the 90s) was a yamaha psr, not sure if 300 or which one... it was not much better than a Casio I guess, but
enough to learn a few things and provide the bass and drums for my first recordings on a 2-deck compact stereo :)
edit: no it wasn´t the 300 :) more along the lines of a psr 19... still looking for the right one :)
as a kid we had one, definitely brought an interest in music to the table and was pretty fun to bring on any long trips in the car. pissed off the parents when you went ham on the scratch wheel though lol. i didnt know it was so expensive actually, probably would have treated it a bit nicer, but that damn thing was a tank.
It's a REAL stretch to call this a "Synth" ! 😂
YES I loved seeing the Rapman get the treatment. You were spot on with the future synth addict toddler remark, I've had this thing since I was 4, sincerely it can still inspire me!
Great starting point!
Your editing is second to none! .... And yes! The Rapman was a toy like no other!
Thank you so much!
AUGH AUDIO YOUR JAMS ARE ALWAYS SO AMAZING!! I swear you could turn lead into gold from audio alone!
Thank you so much!
On the scale of amateur to professional gear this thing is one tier above an interactive book that makes animal sounds
...or one of that talking Bibles
@@AudioPilz - preferably Look Mum No Computer's circuit bent talking Bible 😁
That's why it's so awesome! Totally rad!
... you're supposed to use this thing TOGETHER with the animal sounds book. It was a "system"
@@GizzyDillespee I consider the Rapman to be the DAW, the animal sound books are the plug-ins and sample-packs
When I started out making my own music aged 13 my first instrument was a turquoise Casio SA-9, which has most of the same sounds as this plus some extras. Those crunchy sounds still have a special place in my heart, even if a lot of them are too weird and/or obnoxiously midrange-y to be of much actual use. I actually bought an SA-20 a couple of years ago too so I could have the same sound set with (slightly) bigger keys and four voice polyphony instead of the duophony of the SA-9. Being able to actually play proper chords makes it a lot more useful.
Fun fact (which I assume also works on the Rapman): the volume adjustment actually affects the envelope of the sound rather than the gain, so percussive sounds have a shorter decay the lower you set the volume, and sounds with obvious loop points also loop faster.
There's an actual envelope on these things???😂😂😂
The lighter and cigarette ring *immediately* went up on my Twitter, captioned:
"The night belongs to me." Thanks for that ;-)
Thanks! I REALLY want one of these lighters!
Your ability to use the WORST gear and make the BEST jams never ceases to amaze me! It’s truly a gift. Salute
Thank you!!!
@@AudioPilz you’re most welcome
I have to say that every time i am impressed with the obvious amount of work you put on every episode. Video shooting and editing, "bad gear" exploring AND a new tune recorded, orcestrated and mixed. Do you ever sleep? :)
Thank you! I lead a very health lifestyle and I interact with people in real life;)
The snare drums on this machine sounded incredible. Very nostalgic of Sonic video games and those lofi samples.
Love it.
I think it really worked well in the final track❤️
I remember the old Casio keyboards where you could record sounds with a mic. Everyone made fart sounds and played them as notes in the store where they demo'd them in the 80's. The watches, keyboards, they're all cute but I've never seen anyone use a Casio Keyboard live. But AudioPilz you are of course amazing on them.
Holy Crapman! how did I miss this masterpiece ?!?!? this is at the top of my favs now. I keep thinking I have seen all of them, but then out of nowhere, this shows up. This one kills it, especially the 70 Miles an hour house jam . and the guitar effects really makes it insane. I (and the other millions of loyalist) would love to see a follow up on this with a circuit bent version. They are out there and insane. Circuit Bending Fool on RUclips has one that is INSANE! I sent him a message to send you one for review . maybe you can do a side channel "bent gear".
Thank you so much!!!
The intro was Casiocore at its finest! 😊
I thought, ok... this is going to be a whole cheese factory after the intro. But then the Jams hit and i was like:
😲😲😲😲😲😱😱😱😱😱
How many fairies did you have to kill to get enough fairy dust to sprinkle on the Rapman for these jams? 😂
Thanks! I used a Moog Filter, completely fairy-free;)
That finale proves the old adage that it doesn't matter how good gear is, it's the person using it.
@@eddievanheinous666 Yep! I definitely agree with that! :)
nice fresh episode, breaking apart from the usual suspects. couldn't tell you what model, but the first digital keyboard i ever played was my brother's Casio, to this day i can beat box the lofi waltz rhythm for some reason, imbedded in my head.
Thanks! Nothing wrong with a little lofi waltz!
You know I was expecting a lot for ya but you still managed to blow me away.👍🏼
Thank you!!!
I don't know what is more surprising, Finally ripping on a Casio, or actually making it sound good in the end. Heavy processing applied of course.
The substance is there on most Casios I would say
@@AudioPilz My first keyboard was a Casio RTK- 432, I pushed this thing far but oddly, no matter what, everyone always said about the music I produced with it, "It sounds like gaming music". I never then and still don't know what they meant by that.
I have the concertmate version of this keyboard. It's Identical. I found it at Goodwill for 2 dollars a while back in mint condition. It looks nice beside my Casio SK 1.
You gotta sample the Rapman into the SK1 and then pitch the SK1 with the Rapman!
@@AudioPilz LMAO good idea!
That suprisingly optimistic 70 mph cruise control deep and dubby house construct was awesome!!
"We can all agree that there are enough weird guys on social media sowing the seeds of controversy" hahaha well said. Wish the knuckdraggers on gearspace would get the memo too though. Another fun vid
Thank you!!!
Jesus. You make the coolest videos from the weirdest stuff. Pure wizardry.
Thanks!
Seriously though - how is the vibraphone voice so head-and-shoulders above the others, quality-wise? Secret vibraphone lover on the development team, maybe?
I'd say a vibraphone is pretty easy to fake
I wish they made those still today.
Agreed!!!
I would absolutely love to see what Eno would do with this thing. And indeed I would pay $ to hear a Rapman rendition of "Sombre Reptiles."
Maybe his DX-7 would eat it for breakfast. Literally;)
fabulous episode! truly inspiring stuff in the original spirit of the channel- taking bad gear and showing how to make it useful in context. thanks for this!
Thank you!!!
Surprisingly musical enough beyond its limitations and was polished beyond belief in the finale track, where 'musicians' with a fair amount hardware & DAW would procrastinate for hours and still not achieve the same result from a dinky Casio keyboard. I actually downloaded a load of the samples from a few sites a week or 2 ago and enjoyed jamming & processing them. I'd put this in a 'Limbo Gear' slot where it's not good, certainly not bad and definitely has a more than a handful use cases.
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WOW!! By far one of my fav bits of bad gear and also I love all the music you made with it!!!!!!! Also great outro speech. Keep up the awesome work my dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
Great review! I'm constantly amazed at how you can get a jam out of just about anything.
I'd suggest the Casio CZ-101, except that it's actually good gear......and classic gear at that.
Thanks! Great suggestion!
You must have the most advanced special effects on the internet. I was almost convinced by what I heard, that this toy is a musical instrument. Bravo.
Thank you!!!
It’s time Bad Gear reviewed the Italian anti-classic Siel DK-80. I had one, it’s broken now. It was a piece of truly bad gear.
daft punk filter on the dk80 , i only ever see them broken round here . Parts are unobtainable
Totally neglected the classic Italian synths until now. Great suggestion, thanks!
Wow lol, this is the second video that’s been suggested to me by RUclips about this keyboard. I had this when I was a kid and remember not really understanding it, even then i found it cheesy. 25 years later I am now inspired so dig it out and finally make a song with! Haha. Nice video, I’m off to watch some more of your content now.
Hey, thanks for watching!
The presets on this Casio are actually quite charming, didn't expect that.
An early Yamaha (I had the PSR-3, but there's a lot of them I guess) has to follow next hahah.
Especially with Beach House using them (if I'm not mistaken)
Hey, Jam 2 kind of reminded me of Scarface! (Push it to the limit?)
I LOVE the Scarface soundtrack❤️❤️❤️
I had one when I was a kid.. best thing about them is the microphone and built-in speaker.. if you stick the microphone up to the speaker while one of the preset beats is playing it distorts and sounds kind of funky
I should have tried that!
One can only imagine this in the hands of Beethoven . it sounds so majestic.
dumdumdumDUMMMMMMMM!!!
@@AudioPilz hahahaHaaaaH!!
I love this channel! There's always something that makes me laugh my head off. I'd never heard of this keyboard before, awesome!
You've actually encouraged me to wonna buy many machines now, not sure that was your intention? Lol, cheers!
Thank you so much!!! Happy to hear that!
"...are almost there, but not quite..."
Remember, this is Casio. They've made a business of producing fundamentally excellent hardware, and somehow screwing it up.
So true!
I found a rapman years ago abandoned and doomed to go in the trash. But i took care of it and i love it, there is something magic with this little keyboard...
Great find!
haha, saw my comment, nice. Excellent video :3 you gave this keyboard a good treatment :3
Thank you!!!
I really like when you do gear that most people would never think of using. Shows what we are all missing by chasing after popular and trendy gear.
All that is the popular and trendy gear of tomorrow;)
The Casiotone MT40 was used in the song Under Mi Sleng Teng, which is widely regarded as the song that started dancehall reggae. It's a great song and I cannot imagine a "real" keyboard substituting the Casiotone. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend checking it out.
True, I missed that one! Thanks for posting!
i found the Keen on Keys review of the MT40 and it's history...pretty amazing!
PIlz, we love you, and everyone loves an early 90s cheesefest.
Thank you so much❤️❤️❤️
That snare is pure gold. Jus waiting to be used in a drum n bass track.
Absolutely! Works great in the mix (kind of;)
I want a Casio Watch Synth to become a reality!! In elementary school I walked into class with that Casio watch and felt like a real BOSS!!
Isn't there a crowdfunding campaign?
i read long time ago in an interview that the kids of Jan Hammer had the rap man . JAN HAMMER said about the casio rap man: “” i would have killed to have some of these sounds before the fairlight came out”” !!!! Keyboard France magazine tested it when the rap man was issued and said in conclusion that it was impossible to resist to this instrument! I love mine nearly as much as some very expensive gears.
thanks for the videos they are great. Cheers , philippe
Thank you!!!
As I said so many times before, you can make music out of Grandma's bad hearing aid and probably make the next summer-hit-wave out of a couple of PC fans and an abused vibrator with your mad skillz. That said however, I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to get the Casio Rapman. Your creation however reminds me of Anders Enger Jensen's attempt with B. Meowsic (also a toy keyboard for kids of all ages), so well done Mr AudioPilz, I'm going to put that hit of yours on repeat a few times now. :)
Thank you so much!!!!
This is my fave bad gear showcase! What a groove synth!!
Thanks! Fun little keyboard ❤️❤️❤️
Okay, since I´ve been around for a short while now, I gotta say I love this format... It shows that even the cheapest toy can have a niche of some way... Thanks for that :)
I guess it´s true what they say: "It´s not so much about the gear as it is about your creativity..."
Thanks! Stick around!!!
nice job - I loved the POG jam
my little Rapman is fun, had to get one when I saw it on eBay about 10 years ago :-)
like the SK-1, MT-400V, HT-3000 and later "pro" gear like the CZ-1, FZ-1, VZ-1, and the PG-380 MIDI guitar they really nailed the Rapman - I love how they called it the RAP-1 like there was going to be a series of them
Thank you!!!
Best intro tune version ever.
And nice little sneaky inclusion of the Fairlight. GG!
Thank you!!!
The last song was really good! Wouldn't mind listening to a full a version!
Thanks! Shameless plug: full version (as always) on Patreon
Almost spit up my oatmeal when the intro began. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I've often been attracted to the Rapman and its bigger brother, the Roland DJ70. That last track sounded so good, Florian...you can squeeze some bangers out of these little plastic boxes for sure. Ausgezeichnete Arbeit!
Besten Dank! Der DJ70 kommt auch noch dran;)
Nice exactly the right image for the (bad) snare sound topic. Much love for your way of seeing/hearing the world.
Btw.: ... if someone can really romanticize something, then a Viennese.
Thanks! Agreed on all accounts! 😂
That was fun! Please do an episode about the Rapman's big brother, the Roland DJ-70!
Thanks! Great idea, I have to find one of these!
This may be your finest work yet.
Thank you!!!
Funny and insightful at the same time, I heard the intro and thought, you could never do that with the keyboard alone. Then I realized, that One no longer had to go to a physical studio to make this thing sound as good. Could be done in a small bedroom.
Thanks! This one is great sample fodder!
I think the intro should've mentioned the Casio MT-40, which birthed a whole sub-genre by itself (sleng teng)
So true, that one is a legend!
I have all these presets burnt into my head and didnt even realise it. I owned one when i was 9 right about the same time as Vanilla Ice and MC hammer dropped lol. I turned 40 last week so added nostalgic maybe the Casio Rapman made me who i am today lol = ) Salute AudioPilz
We're the same age, I feel you!!!
Great conclusion
Thank you!!!
Thanks for not being another hater! This show does have good vibes.
Thank you so much! You got the message!
I love casio . Weirder the better.
Great show 👏 😎 I put all my casios through the Alesis nanoverb on reverb or chorus .
Sounds like a different creature altogether .
Thank you!!!
I can't believe you made it sound that good.
Thank you!!!
You need to do AudioPilz Bad Gear merchandise. I'd wear that t-shirt!
Working on it, shipping to US is an issue though
Nice work on the house track! Limitation=inspiration. The gamelan on this sounds very dramatic with the TM Pro in Kontakt. I gotta release my Crap Keys sample set soon :)
Nice! Keep me posted!
It reminds me of McDonald's happy meal. Absolutely love what you did with the effects!
Thank you! I'll have a Quarterpounder;)
Jam 1 was a beautiful tune that would fit perfect in a 90's JRPG. The finale was also gave me super hype 90's vibes.
Thank you!!!
as many have already commented i'm just simply stunned by the seemingly effortless artistry of your @5:42 second guitar effects jam and gorgeous @6:52 finale 😳😳😳...pls do the VL-1! (i have a mint one and am big fan of its da-da-da credo)
Thank you!!! Great suggestion!
The sounds are from the SA series tonebank Casio keyboard line that came shortly AFTER the "Tone Bank" mark 1 series which featured 210 layered sound combos and midi.. The SA/CA series did NOT have ANY pro features like midi but DID feature slightly improved samples to the original Casio Tone bank series from the mid to late 1980s. The Rapman and VA10 were products of the second gen Tonebank series but with more FUN less PRO features. The SK60 was the LAST fun based Sampler from Casio that also used those SA tonebank sounds(second gen).
There's a universe of weird Casio stuff out there!
If anyone was going to make Casio Rapman sound palatable, it was going to be you, Florian! Nicely done. 😊
Bonus thoughts: 1) My wife judges gear based on its true measure of greatness: its cuteness. 2) Adam Neely’s attitude or delivery bothers me. That probably means it reminds me too much of my own. 😓😜🤣
Thank you!!!
Casio keyboards are like that cousin of yours who's always down to drink, but never adds much to conversations.
I have a WTK240 that's part-decoration/place to stack pizza boxes.
The sounds available aren't anything special, but there's a synth bass on there that's actually handy here and there.
I'd put my pizza boxes on that one too!