This machine uses a varriant of the AHL basic sound chip, which was uses on many of the companys full-sized kiddie units, of CTK and LK series varieties, between 2008-2017. If you were not aware, it was also used in the first gen casitone revival units from 2019 ad well.
I’m surprised and impressed. I never expected to see a video of someone treating one of these Casio keyboards seriously. I always considered them toys.
Brilliant analysis of this tiny instrument. I’m a grade 8 pianist but couldn’t play this keyboard anything like you do. I have a Casio CT-S500 but, having watched this, I need to buy one of these now for fun! Casio rocks.
I use my daughter’s SA-46 all the time for transcribing stuff on the couch. The octave and metronome keys has me really considering getting one of these!
Thanks Keen On Keys. I've found your videos so persuasive I bought an SA-50 and a PSS A-50. I wonder if you had thought of putting the Medeli MK37 (also known as the Visionkey-1 in the UK) to the Keen On Keys test?
Compared to Kurzweil KP-10 this is the same layout, same chassis, different colours names and speaker-grill design, and the Kurz has a wider LCD. Very mysterious. I did not like SA-46 sounds but this would be welcome as another compact sketch-pad to have lying around. Good vid, thank you.
I used to have a yamaha in the $225 range . They have built in mixer so you can record five banks, cords and melodies and cords and make complete music . It also had drum pads at the bottom to make your own percussions. All i had to do was program it , record and play. Can make as many tracks you wanted. The only problem was they only had cassette records back than. But with digital converter it may be a nice hobby for today.
Great video and demo tracks Keen On Keys. I wonder if that new Thai made chip uses Casio's AiX Sound Source? I am inclined to think not as they omitted to put the AiX logo all over the box and keys as the marketing guys normally do. I'd have to disagree with you over the orchestral stab on the 50 vs 46 it's all personal taste I guess. I think it depends on what you're using it for, the 46 is better if you only have one toy keyboard, having that bottom end makes it stand out more as a solo sound, but I'd be more inclined to use the cheesy lo-fi 50 version in a mix as I'd probably end up rolling off those lower frequencies on the 46. As a collector of old 80s Casiotone cheese machines, not having either keyboard is a glaring omission. Thank you for pointing this out. I'd better snap up a new 46 before it becomes unavailable. Cheers.
6:15 I recognize that song: These Boots Are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra. That is one of the only songs I recognized from this vid, and I’m kinda proud I got it.
Seems a bit barebones compared to the PSS-A50 for barely any more. The SA-80/81 do have Layer and Sustain, but I take it you know that and just haven't covered it because it's basically the same instrument otherwise. For €18 more that's not too bad. I'd still pick the PSS A-50 though as it's the same price roughly for much more features.
I have several of the Casıo SA-46 & SA-47. One of them completely died on me, might be the power on button, not really sure. If you buy a used one that some kid was banging around on then there ıs a very good chance that many of the BLACK keys will just fall off at some stage, it happened to 2 of mine and it's very difficult to repair them. The black keys only have a very small narrow bit of plastic holding them in place and that acts as the main support as well. When they break you've got to find some better more flexible plastic and glue it in place with good quality superglue.
i'd rather see a re-release of the SK-1 with onboard memory. it's still desirable and surely samplers are a breeze to manufacture these days. there's a volca and a pocket operator in the market but i'm not impressed with their form factors; if i recall the volca doesn't have a mic and neither have a pure synth function. casio needs to get weird again.
I'm looking exactly for this. A cheap-ish portable dirty sampler. I really dislike Volca's form factor and the pocket operators are artificially limited in connectivity which kills the deal for me, and I also do not like the form factor. An SK-1 revival would be the dream.
Nice little keyboard!!! Do you know how to make cheap looper? With this drumkit it would be possible to build drummachine! I'm enchanted with reggae bass in mt-40 on Manudigital channel but it's hard to get such convenient and good sounding keyboard... All best
He seems to be a great keyboard player, but if you don't like you can play precisely enough with mini leys, then you can sample about 2 or 3 octaves of those sounds that you like and put them into a sampler inside a DAW and just play those sounds by playing your MIDI controller that's controlling the DAW's sampler, and you can correct the MIDI performance, you can hard quantize some of the sounds (especially the drums and probably the bass too) if you want to sound similar to this ending music of this video.
If Yamaha and Casio were really smart, they'd consult with Keen On Keys before designing their latest and greatest musical toys. I've had the SA46, gave it to a friend to get them started but for this form factor, I'm sticking with the F30 and A50 for my couch jam sessions. Haha WOW that ending jam was magic....
@@keyhoarder Hi, sorry, just seeing this. Idk why I don't get notifications!? Thanks for the conversation It's funny cause we come at it from 2 different angles then, I guess... Cause for me, if I could only have one it would be the F30. I have way too much fun looping and sampling my ideas and the arrangements and patterns and fills and am having way more fun with those even tho the A50 is a better midi keyboard. In my honest opinion the A50 is probably the worst Yamaha has ever produced. I get that it is amazing for the money but it has lots of issues and granted none of them are that important but it can be a problem if you try and use it live. Most of the sounds are not normalized and the volumes are all over the place. The way you have to completely go all the way around the Effects because there is no Back button. Little things like that and whereas the F30 is basically a mini arranger. It's very powerful in that arena for it's size and cost. Well hopefully I don't have to part with either right now, they really are awesome low budget music makers. I stopped by your channel and subbed, you are having way too much fun, I love that HaHa. Keep on Jam'n 🎹
@@ifxman thanks, well i agree about PSS A50 flaws. I think they could normalize the volumes just by the software update. And i found that there is a big difference in quality of some tones, some of them sound nice (like piano and 2 fat leads) and some of them are dated like from 90s Yamaha PSR budget models.
Some of these sounds are like straight from a Square - Enix made game OST. Not bad for a budget keyboard. Pretty impressed with some of these sounds. A lot better than what I had as a kid.
Oh wow! It's a world of difference from the SA-46. I was impressed by the tones all the way through. For a small keyboard that you can take everywhere, it is great. Who knows, may be Casio will remake some MT models, or better yet, SK. I can't wait to see Yamaha's new PSS keyboards, if they continue with this range. Really nice video? Best channel on RUclips.
Wow, I'm so surprised how good this keyboard sounds. I was expecting to hear tinny, low-fi tones / voices but this shocked me. 20 or so years ago you'd have to pay 10 times the cost for some of those pad and synth sounds. Brilliant demo, very impressed.
Lots of the sounds give me nostalgia for Music on the Gamye Boy Advace in the early 2000's. Great sound for a toy keyboard and finally something that doesnt sound atrocious like lots of other contemporary toy keyboards
Hello Keen On Keys. I started watching all your videos a month ago and finally finished. You're like the AMSR of synth education channels and that's a good thing. Looking forward to many more. I grew up with a Casio SK1 and have had a SK8 for over 2 decades now. I ended up circuit bending it but the original functions are all still working. Do you have any plans on doing that series? Keep up the fun and informative videos.
indeed. love my behemoth of a casiotone. it's big and heavy, but the retro sounds that come out of it are SO good, especially out of the super lo-fi included speakers. plus also, the auto-harmonize function is so groovy, it's fun to play around with it. for a seemingly low-tier keyboard, it had some pretty cool stuff about it. also, when the batteries start to run low, it has some fun glitchy behaviours. maybe not the best idea to be starving it for long, but i certainly am not bothered when the batteries begin to run low as i am recording due to the neat sounds that happen.
@@jasonb.9790 which casiotone you have? you can also do this trick using low voltage adapter. Most casiotones are 7,5 or 9v, i would try this with regulated universal adapter 3-12v.
@@keyhoarder i cannot remember the one i have, and i am currently too far to check, but i do know that it is 9v input. however the jack is kind of loose, so every so often it doesn't make good contact, thus it relies on the batteries, which i haven't changed in forever, and so finally the thing happens haha. thank you for the suggestion though :)
These little keyboards totally make me feel nostalgic. It's a lovely little thing. I am curious if people that don't feel that nostalgia actually buy them?
i think ill buy it. i was gonna get the pss f-30 over this. but the size is really portable. i wont need to buy an extra bag that costs half the price of pss f-30 anymore xD
I love the SA series. I try to use my SA-46 as much as possible in my own music because it's a great tool for placing limitations on yourself to spark creativity. Looks like the SA-50 is a great upgrade!
I do a similar thing here, that’s why I like using tapes and physical media whenever possible. It’s always so cool to place limitations and use mixed reality artwork in my pieces! I’d recommend trying to make an album on tape using overdubs, it’s a lot of fun and can lead to some “happy accidents” in a manner of speaking.
I appreciate how much info you put into this. I haven't had a keyboard since I was a kid and I've been looking for something to get me back into it. I have no idea what I'm looking at most of the time when I look at a listing on a website.
Fantastic video, this little Casio is extremely usable in all applications… that’s what I think is great. Anyone could afford, and make use of this for whatever needed. Education purposes, fun in the studio, compact for travel, just all around fun. Great little gadget
Another great video, your wonderful performance perfectly demonstrated the Sound quality of this little new keyboard I enjoy every video of your channel, keep going.
Very comprehensive review. I can play the guitar, but i don't know how to play the keyboard. Im planning to purchase either this or Yamaha's F30 for my daughter. May i ask which is generally better between the two? Thank you!
Excellent review as always, and it looks like Casio did actually make some notable improvements to the SA-46 rather than just repackage it. They also included a couple of things that I wished for when I reviewed the bigger brother SA-76 on my channel. No sign of an SA-76 successor yet though - we can but hope!
so glad they're making semi-good beginners keyboards again, like they had in the 80s. for a while, the only toy keyboards you had were monophonic things with the worst sounds you've ever heard in your life.
Why they don't want to release a proper synth for a few bucks. If somebody wants to cheaply go where no man has gone before, just connect a midi keyboard for few bucks to the 10 years old phone and ducktape it together. You get a wireless touchscreen-synth-seq-sampler-studio-compas-aftertouch-motionsense-touchresponse-swupgradable-thermometer-online-karaokeprompt thing, operating for hours on it's own battery. And in the shop near is a 21th century Casiotone with medieval samples for (astonishing) 60 Euro. Keen, is it still fun?
Yeah why and how would you buy this thing even if it's cheap when you can save up and buy a real keyboard or synthesizer from quarter Roland or Lisa's the thing anymore the time
There's no such thing as a proper synth for "a few bucks", when was the last time you came across a REAL synth for only a few dollars? If you want a decent synthesizer from casio, your best bet is the CZ series
Another great and honest review. The hollow string samples kinda sound like the background music from an old RPG game. I remember those lo-fi sounds from older model Casio keyboards. Great demo as well.
I have to say, you pull out the most you could from this keyboard and made many people buy it. In the end it really is a decent keyboard with many improvements.
'The illusion is perfect.' You know how to give me a chuckle, sir. Great video. Thank you.
This machine uses a varriant of the AHL basic sound chip, which was uses on many of the companys full-sized kiddie units, of CTK and LK series varieties, between 2008-2017. If you were not aware, it was also used in the first gen casitone revival units from 2019 ad well.
Love the final performance on this one.
Love that Casiotone is back. Picked up the CT-S1 for a cheap but decent living room keyboard. Sounds, feels and looks great for the price!
Yeah the CTS1 is surprisingly good
Casiotone is literally just a name
Mellotron alike choir tone is my favorite. And the song at the end of video is superb.
I’m surprised and impressed. I never expected to see a video of someone treating one of these Casio keyboards seriously. I always considered them toys.
wow that final performance.. did not expect that :D great song. loved it.. almost made me buy something I dont need lol :)
Looks like a toy, but you demo it like a professional instrument.
Funny enough it’s kind of not a toy, and believe it or not many lofi Musicians use these
It kind of is. I was hoping if would have touch response
Because he plays so good. Everything he plays sounds good even if sound quality is low.
that song at the end is some top shelf shit, i appreciate a person who loves casios and yamahas as much as i do so thank you.
Brilliant analysis of this tiny instrument. I’m a grade 8 pianist but couldn’t play this keyboard anything like you do. I have a Casio CT-S500 but, having watched this, I need to buy one of these now for fun! Casio rocks.
Happy about the new version, but I still wait for little Casio with MIDI functionality 👍
I loved the Pet Shop Boysian song at the end !
I use my daughter’s SA-46 all the time for transcribing stuff on the couch. The octave and metronome keys has me really considering getting one of these!
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Thanks Keen On Keys. I've found your videos so persuasive I bought an SA-50 and a PSS A-50. I wonder if you had thought of putting the Medeli MK37 (also known as the Visionkey-1 in the UK) to the Keen On Keys test?
Compared to Kurzweil KP-10 this is the same layout, same chassis, different colours names and speaker-grill design, and the Kurz has a wider LCD. Very mysterious.
I did not like SA-46 sounds but this would be welcome as another compact sketch-pad to have lying around. Good vid, thank you.
Did Casio saw this Video? Now SA-80 has a Sustain Function and Dual (Layering) functions. :o
It also has 4 different types of Reverb.
brilliant video as always, thanks!
Excellent review 👏👌♥️🙏🏻👍
I used to have a yamaha in the $225 range . They have built in mixer so you can record five banks, cords and melodies and cords and make complete music . It also had drum pads at the bottom to make your own percussions.
All i had to do was program it , record and play.
Can make as many tracks you wanted.
The only problem was they only had cassette records back than. But with digital converter it may be a nice hobby for today.
The sound is fantastic, but I've realized why I'm always partial to Casiotone. Their designs are impeccable most of the time.
I just bougyt the cheap little Yamaha pss-a50 and I love it to death, especially the arpeggiator.
It almost sounds like an early 90's workstation keyboard, like an M1 type device
i want one now. cool tunes man
Wow this sounds really clean.
Now I gotta go down to my basement and take a new look at the Casiotone my grandma gave me 45 years ago!
Excellent review 👍👌
Great sound!!
Great outro!
is like the casio VL tone I saved up my pocket money to buy second hand in the early 80s.
Cute. I'll have to buy one for all my students.
well slice me nice with that synth base!
It’s come so far since the days of my SA4 keyboard. Surprised at the comment criticising the synth capabilities because it has some good pad sounds?
good job on this video
really great! oddly Roland sounding?? but i love this, thank you for making this video
Its always tempting to play blue Monday when you trigger a synth bass patch.
Great video and demo tracks Keen On Keys. I wonder if that new Thai made chip uses Casio's AiX Sound Source? I am inclined to think not as they omitted to put the AiX logo all over the box and keys as the marketing guys normally do. I'd have to disagree with you over the orchestral stab on the 50 vs 46 it's all personal taste I guess. I think it depends on what you're using it for, the 46 is better if you only have one toy keyboard, having that bottom end makes it stand out more as a solo sound, but I'd be more inclined to use the cheesy lo-fi 50 version in a mix as I'd probably end up rolling off those lower frequencies on the 46. As a collector of old 80s Casiotone cheese machines, not having either keyboard is a glaring omission. Thank you for pointing this out. I'd better snap up a new 46 before it becomes unavailable. Cheers.
So, I'm thinkin' that the thing is labelled Casiotone 'cuz there are already Casios SA-50 and SA-51. They're watches.
wake up babe, new Keen of Keys video dropped
Man, children's pianos have come a REALLY long way since I was a lad; despite costing roughly the same.
Still pretty neat!
That ending song is hardcore. LOVE IT! Can I listen to it elsewhere?
6:15 I recognize that song: These Boots Are Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra. That is one of the only songs I recognized from this vid, and I’m kinda proud I got it.
wow pretty good for the price certainly a lot better than thir older cheapo's
I wish it had a recorder like the Yamaha PSS A50.
Seems a bit barebones compared to the PSS-A50 for barely any more. The SA-80/81 do have Layer and Sustain, but I take it you know that and just haven't covered it because it's basically the same instrument otherwise. For €18 more that's not too bad. I'd still pick the PSS A-50 though as it's the same price roughly for much more features.
I have several of the Casıo SA-46 & SA-47. One of them completely died on me, might be the power on button, not really sure. If you buy a used one that some kid was banging around on then there ıs a very good chance that many of the BLACK keys will just fall off at some stage, it happened to 2 of mine and it's very difficult to repair them. The black keys only have a very small narrow bit of plastic holding them in place and that acts as the main support as well. When they break you've got to find some better more flexible plastic and glue it in place with good quality superglue.
I need two ✌️
The sa47 has an Harmonium button. AFAIK it was made for Indian market
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Nice vid! What tune were you playing on the grand piano?
I have the SA-76 and SA-46 (I got that one when I was 4 lol)
Time to get this and learn the RuneScape soundtrack
7:17 this sounds like a boom whacker
5:58 - "Celesta" tone
i'd rather see a re-release of the SK-1 with onboard memory. it's still desirable and surely samplers are a breeze to manufacture these days. there's a volca and a pocket operator in the market but i'm not impressed with their form factors; if i recall the volca doesn't have a mic and neither have a pure synth function. casio needs to get weird again.
I'm looking exactly for this. A cheap-ish portable dirty sampler. I really dislike Volca's form factor and the pocket operators are artificially limited in connectivity which kills the deal for me, and I also do not like the form factor. An SK-1 revival would be the dream.
So it is a, no need to buy if you already have the previous version?
If this had midi it would be a nice little all in one.
Or if Casio had a sort of tone studio program like BOSS does. Changing parameters would've been a nice touch.
the illusion is perfect!! 🤣
That piano+strings patch wouldn't sound out of place in a JRPG.
Nice little keyboard!!!
Do you know how to make cheap looper? With this drumkit it would be possible to build drummachine!
I'm enchanted with reggae bass in mt-40 on Manudigital channel but it's hard to get such convenient and good sounding keyboard...
All best
Im between this and the harmony 32 for my 6yo. any suggestion?
I might not want this because I like the "lo-fi" sounds of the 46
But is it For the Painfully Alone?
God-Tier keyboard…..
You should design a toy keyboard for the big brands man
Seems like MIDI over USB would be too easy to do these days, but they omitted it anyways.
I am, as ever, amazed by your ability to play mini keys so well!
It's really easy, you just do the same stuff on a normal piano but make sure your hands are smaller.
@@leafsoup ah, so I have to wear those tiny plastic hands on my fingers
He seems to be a great keyboard player, but if you don't like you can play precisely enough with mini leys, then you can sample about 2 or 3 octaves of those sounds that you like and put them into a sampler inside a DAW and just play those sounds by playing your MIDI controller that's controlling the DAW's sampler, and you can correct the MIDI performance, you can hard quantize some of the sounds (especially the drums and probably the bass too) if you want to sound similar to this ending music of this video.
If Yamaha and Casio were really smart, they'd consult with Keen On Keys before designing their latest and greatest musical toys. I've had the SA46, gave it to a friend to get them started but for this form factor, I'm sticking with the F30 and A50 for my couch jam sessions. Haha
WOW that ending jam was magic....
I have also PSS a50. Sold f30 to a friend, but would definitely buy its sucessor if they improve it with touch response.
@@keyhoarder Hi, sorry, just seeing this. Idk why I don't get notifications!? Thanks for the conversation
It's funny cause we come at it from 2 different angles then, I guess... Cause for me, if I could only have one it would be the F30. I have way too much fun looping and sampling my ideas and the arrangements and patterns and fills and am having way more fun with those even tho the A50 is a better midi keyboard.
In my honest opinion the A50 is probably the worst Yamaha has ever produced. I get that it is amazing for the money but it has lots of issues and granted none of them are that important but it can be a problem if you try and use it live. Most of the sounds are not normalized and the volumes are all over the place. The way you have to completely go all the way around the Effects because there is no Back button. Little things like that and whereas the F30 is basically a mini arranger. It's very powerful in that arena for it's size and cost.
Well hopefully I don't have to part with either right now, they really are awesome low budget music makers.
I stopped by your channel and subbed, you are having way too much fun, I love that HaHa.
Keep on Jam'n 🎹
@@ifxman thanks, well i agree about PSS A50 flaws. I think they could normalize the volumes just by the software update. And i found that there is a big difference in quality of some tones, some of them sound nice (like piano and 2 fat leads) and some of them are dated like from 90s Yamaha PSR budget models.
I like how it does not limit an absolute beginner with polyphony like the really crummy 80s toy keyboards did. Cool vid thanks 😀
i have a casio toy keyboard from the 80s, and it has 8 voice polyphony 😊 they're not crummy they're wonderful
Fantastic sounds from what is essentially a toy piano.
Some of these sounds are like straight from a Square - Enix made game OST. Not bad for a budget keyboard. Pretty impressed with some of these sounds. A lot better than what I had as a kid.
You are so right! That’s what I was picturing too 😅
As a kid? Dude, this was better than what I had as a young adult 😮
@@lucyferabyss1886 young adult? I had a X5D by then.
@@Nightingale1887 Lmfao imagine your folks actualy supporting your career in the arts enough to make money.
@@lucyferabyss1886 actually working and bringing around shit loads of newspapers made that happen.
Oh wow! It's a world of difference from the SA-46. I was impressed by the tones all the way through. For a small keyboard that you can take everywhere, it is great. Who knows, may be Casio will remake some MT models, or better yet, SK. I can't wait to see Yamaha's new PSS keyboards, if they continue with this range. Really nice video? Best channel on RUclips.
Wow, I'm so surprised how good this keyboard sounds. I was expecting to hear tinny, low-fi tones / voices but this shocked me. 20 or so years ago you'd have to pay 10 times the cost for some of those pad and synth sounds. Brilliant demo, very impressed.
Lots of the sounds give me nostalgia for Music on the Gamye Boy Advace in the early 2000's. Great sound for a toy keyboard and finally something that doesnt sound atrocious like lots of other contemporary toy keyboards
They should make a cheaper competitor to Teenage Engineering’s cool but grossly overpriced OP-1.
Prince could have recorded a dozen hits with just this machine.
I just wish they'd bring back the CZ synthesizers.
Hello Keen On Keys. I started watching all your videos a month ago and finally finished. You're like the AMSR of synth education channels and that's a good thing. Looking forward to many more.
I grew up with a Casio SK1 and have had a SK8 for over 2 decades now. I ended up circuit bending it but the original functions are all still working. Do you have any plans on doing that series? Keep up the fun and informative videos.
Thanks! I have a few SK models and will certainly feature some of these in future videos.
The Casiotone label makes me feel warm and nostalgic. Sounds really nice as well, especially the piano tones.
Also the colour scheme. Reminds me of my white casiotone Mt 65. But sadly doesn't have any of the great tones of it.
@@keyhoarderist Okay
indeed. love my behemoth of a casiotone. it's big and heavy, but the retro sounds that come out of it are SO good, especially out of the super lo-fi included speakers. plus also, the auto-harmonize function is so groovy, it's fun to play around with it. for a seemingly low-tier keyboard, it had some pretty cool stuff about it. also, when the batteries start to run low, it has some fun glitchy behaviours. maybe not the best idea to be starving it for long, but i certainly am not bothered when the batteries begin to run low as i am recording due to the neat sounds that happen.
@@jasonb.9790 which casiotone you have? you can also do this trick using low voltage adapter. Most casiotones are 7,5 or 9v, i would try this with regulated universal adapter 3-12v.
@@keyhoarder i cannot remember the one i have, and i am currently too far to check, but i do know that it is 9v input. however the jack is kind of loose, so every so often it doesn't make good contact, thus it relies on the batteries, which i haven't changed in forever, and so finally the thing happens haha. thank you for the suggestion though :)
I had no interest in this keyboard whatsoever, but after this video, now I want one to add to my collection. Geeezz
Me too 😂
Totally.
These little keyboards totally make me feel nostalgic. It's a lovely little thing. I am curious if people that don't feel that nostalgia actually buy them?
I'd never seen one before this video popped up and I'm thinking of buying one to keep in my little car because I work away from home a lot 🎹🙂
I never owned a casiotone and I’m considering buying one while watching this. Seems like a great little thing to carry around.
i think ill buy it. i was gonna get the pss f-30 over this. but the size is really portable. i wont need to buy an extra bag that costs half the price of pss f-30 anymore xD
Listening to that finale made me feel like I was playing some weird hybrid of Bejeweled, Runescape, and Banjo Kazooie. Amazing review and skills!!
I really like the sounds on this, reminds me of a SNES
Thanks for the review we cannot get this model here in the US but I heard from a reliable source we will be getting them before Christmas......
I love the SA series. I try to use my SA-46 as much as possible in my own music because it's a great tool for placing limitations on yourself to spark creativity. Looks like the SA-50 is a great upgrade!
That's an awesome attitude and a great idea.
nice!
I do a similar thing here, that’s why I like using tapes and physical media whenever possible. It’s always so cool to place limitations and use mixed reality artwork in my pieces! I’d recommend trying to make an album on tape using overdubs, it’s a lot of fun and can lead to some “happy accidents” in a manner of speaking.
I appreciate how much info you put into this. I haven't had a keyboard since I was a kid and I've been looking for something to get me back into it. I have no idea what I'm looking at most of the time when I look at a listing on a website.
Get a Casio CTS-400 and be happy.
This is not your 80s Casio, that is for sure. lol
Wow. :)
You must be classically trained, you play SO good everything sounds good, even if sound quality is low. A true gift! Thanks for sharing, Sir Keen.
Can't over how great these videos are! The songs with the instruments at the end are just mind blowing....
Keep up the amazing work!
Fantastic video, this little Casio is extremely usable in all applications… that’s what I think is great. Anyone could afford, and make use of this for whatever needed. Education purposes, fun in the studio, compact for travel, just all around fun. Great little gadget
Another great video, your wonderful performance perfectly demonstrated the Sound quality of this little new keyboard
I enjoy every video of your channel, keep going.
The song frickin slaps!
Very comprehensive review. I can play the guitar, but i don't know how to play the keyboard. Im planning to purchase either this or Yamaha's F30 for my daughter. May i ask which is generally better between the two? Thank you!
Casio should revive the VL-1, but in a more serious package - a mini workstation akin to Teenage Engineering OP1, only MUCH cheaper.
VL1 is far from workstation unless you are working on Da Da Da... :-D
@@mikolasstrajt3874 it meant keep the form factor (and the nostalgia factor) and fill it with smarts. OP1 is hardly bigger than the original VL1.
Excellent review as always, and it looks like Casio did actually make some notable improvements to the SA-46 rather than just repackage it. They also included a couple of things that I wished for when I reviewed the bigger brother SA-76 on my channel. No sign of an SA-76 successor yet though - we can but hope!
so glad they're making semi-good beginners keyboards again, like they had in the 80s. for a while, the only toy keyboards you had were monophonic things with the worst sounds you've ever heard in your life.
Why they don't want to release a proper synth for a few bucks. If somebody wants to cheaply go where no man has gone before, just connect a midi keyboard for few bucks to the 10 years old phone and ducktape it together. You get a wireless touchscreen-synth-seq-sampler-studio-compas-aftertouch-motionsense-touchresponse-swupgradable-thermometer-online-karaokeprompt thing, operating for hours on it's own battery. And in the shop near is a 21th century Casiotone with medieval samples for (astonishing) 60 Euro. Keen, is it still fun?
Yes, and if it's just because of your comments.
Yeah why and how would you buy this thing even if it's cheap when you can save up and buy a real keyboard or synthesizer from quarter Roland or Lisa's the thing anymore the time
I think you guys might not be the target for this keyboard. (I'm not either, but I know when a comment is necessary to be made)
There's no such thing as a proper synth for "a few bucks", when was the last time you came across a REAL synth for only a few dollars? If you want a decent synthesizer from casio, your best bet is the CZ series
@@Am71919 Behringer synths are quite cheap and punch way above their weight. The crave is a beast of a synth :)
Another great and honest review. The hollow string samples kinda sound like the background music from an old RPG game.
I remember those lo-fi sounds from older model Casio keyboards. Great demo as well.
I have to say, you pull out the most you could from this keyboard and made many people buy it. In the end it really is a decent keyboard with many improvements.
Not sure if this is intentional or if it is a direct reference, but 8:12 sounds like an OG Final Fantasy jam