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Bad Gear - Casio Trackformer XW-PD1 (The Millenium Falcon Thing)
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2021
- Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Casio Trackformer XW-PD1. How did Casio get away with this copyright-defying Millenium Falcon Thing?
Oh my I have this thing simply because I knew that it would be a cult classic in 2033.
Exactly my thoughts;)
uhahaha
Knowing you, you would probably circuit bend this thing and make it worth twice its original cost :)
Yes, but what sort of beings will inhabit that cult?!
I've been thinking the same thing lol
"He also has a nice video on how to change the break pads on a 1991 toyota previa"
That right there sent me over the edge haha
Thanks!
I had a 1993 Previa for a bit in in the mid-'00s... No, I won't buy a Casio Trackformer XW-PD1.
I can't say for sure but I do believe that Bad Gear has made quarantine more bearable for all of us
Very happy to hear that. Thanks!
Yes, one of my favorite discoveries!
I do believe, too
Totally !!!
Not the videos but the gear.
Way more enjoyment out of the gear he smears than the trust fund attitude towards the gear itself
Putting "han" for the clap and a "solo" button on it were the most special of special touches.
"han" was a coincidence ;)
Missed that!
With the newly dated sounds, call this the Millenial Falcon
Lol, why didn't I think of that?
ahahahaha
This comment needs all the upvotes.
Underrated MacGuyver of composing. This guy could somehow make amazing music out of a snorkel and a walkie-talkie carved out of potatoes
Thanks!
Have you seen his Whoopee Cushion episode?
@@dvilbooking I literally have not.. but sounds like I need to!
He's the operator with his (Casio) pocket calculator
Nothing wrong with some good ole Kraftwerk ;)
Now is time on Sprockets when we dance
Be me. Inventor of Casiocore.
Love my genre but it isn't taking off the way I hoped it would. Those Vaporwave nerds made it look so easy.
Come up with plan.
Start RUclips channel reviewing "Bad Gear". Make it entertaining and fill it with memes.
Spend a year building a solid following.
Now is the time to strike. Start reviewing Casio products, sneak in Casiocore as a "forgotten genre".
The kids love it ironically at first, but they soon start getting into it. Want to buy their own products.
Start selling off the stockpile of Casio gear I've been amassing for decades.
MFW I'm rich from selling plastic synth toys and my musical genre is now respected.
Cool story!
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone will always be the first I think of.
@@JC20XX casiotone for the painfully alone.... That is beautifully brutal, i love it
Phase 1: Colect old junk
Phase 2:
Phase 3: Profit!
@@AngryBulldogg listen to Answering Machine Music to see just how fitting it is.
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I just paused a relationship advice video to watch this, I guess I now understand my real priorities.
lol, made my day!
Bad Gear is certainly a relationship!
I can’t explain why, but I think this might be my fave episode I’ve seen thus far. Bad Gear or not, I’m being introduced to a world of electronic audio gear I never knew existed, and in a MOST entertaining way. Plus, each episode is squeezed into ten minutes or less, which is my bar when it comes to RUclips. Awesome!!
Thank you so much!
As a self taught hardware reverse engineer and a professional software developer, don't underestimate the power of a passionate nerd in a basement vs corperate coders. Code is closer to ab artform than to an engineering skill, and to really squeeze the maximum out of a tiny groovebox CPU you sometimes have to break the rules of what is acceptable in a corperate environment.
You certainly got a point there
That's why there's no such thing as a coding underground in Japan ☹️
As a standalone instrument, it looks like hell to use. As an instrument backed up by a DAW, it looks like it could actually be fun and useful.
Partly. I can't put my finger on it but something is strange about the sounds
@@AudioPilz they're flat and lifeless.
hearing 3 seconds from the intro tune -> gets a mild stroke because of the crappy sound -> enjoys the rest of the review as always :D
We had worse ones but thanks!
@@AudioPilz I had worse brain cramps too
Casio came a long way from the Salsa Swing Polka patterns
True! So many zero years genres I should listen to again ;)
The intro was so good we had to rewatch it twice. Genuinely explosive laugh. My partner (non muso) came running in shouting "Oi you watching bad gear without me!". You've made it in our house hold.
That is a truly heartwarming comment! Thanks to you both!
Phase Distorted CZ-101 Leftover Casioplextro Corehouse is oddly relaxing. i can’t say for sure but i do believe this could this be the future of synthwave and/or vaporwave.
Let's hope so!
Finally some real Casiocore.
Everything is Casiocore ;)
Holy crap, I've been waiting for this! I got one of these for $99 and it wasn't worth that. Lol at when you referenced that dude's instruction video & his breakpad video. BTW, Just found your channel and I have been catching up. Your editing, jokes, music, and delivery are all top notch. Thank you!
Thank you so much!
That value knob is truly the most unhinged design decision I have ever seen. Truly psychotic.
I think those knobs were cheap
“Decided to pull the trigger on this one after juggling with my GAS and received delivery of the beast yesterday. It has opened up an insane amount of sonic capabilities for sound design and workflow.” Public Domain.
Yeah, this should be a copy/paste template
You neeed to give us a video editing masterclass, that opening sequence was awesome!
Thanks! Editing was easy, filming the unit in the right angle was the difficult thing
Which editing software do you use? DaVinci?
"i've got a bad feeling about this..." -- thanks for this, and for all of your videos. i knew the xw-pd1 was an inevitable entry into the Bad Gear hall of infamy. such a missed opportunity from casio! yes, it's an anomalous design, but it is so shiny and candy-like and has so many fun features, with just a little more love and attention from casio it could have become a cult classic. the lack of clock sync with other gear is my biggest gripe (would love to use the circular seq. layout with other stuff!), this could likely have been added as a firmware update but the device was swiftly abandoned by casio so it is forever alone in its cute little red shell. as you mentioned, it's hard to even find any information or evidence of its very existence. there was a rapid, mass online sell-off of these units a few years ago, i purchased TWO (!) from guitar center for $99 USD each.
Nice, two of them! How do you sync them? ;)
@@AudioPilz i use The Force.
@@YoullNeverHaveMe these were not the grove boxes you were looking for!
I had a CZ-101 for years, the ring modulator gave it a special touch.
Classic!
Just noticed a book by Marquis de Sade on a shelf behind you and now I understand the idea behind Bad Gear much better :D
Kafka makes sense, too;)
I'm can't say for sure, but I do believe... that this was my favorite episode yet.
I laughed embarrassingly loud in the beginning with the Trackformer landing in the Death Star, and it just kept getting better.
Thank you!
"...comes with two equally useless manuals." Ah, that's where Korg that idea from!
I will give Casio their due, their latest batch of sort of-arranger-synth-workstation thingies have the most brilliant acoustic instrument sounds- they really are excellent. Alas, they're trapped in a Casio sort of-arranger-synth- workstation thingy.
Anyway, may the 4/4s be with you.
True, Korg did that, too!
I’ma throw Adobe under that same bus. A reference manual is supposed to give a rundown of functions and parameter limits, NOT endless tutorials that bury the needed info in the text. Do you ever see sidebars (traditionally where tips are located) in Adobe manuals? NO! IMHO it may be that manuals are given less effort these days because they are not worked on by a real instructional designer before publication.
Yamaha are worse. They basically just state the obvious, with such gems like "Resonance - controls the resonance"
Wow, how would I have known..? 😒😒
Seller: I’ll never sell this crap, no matter how much I lie in the description
AudioPilz: Halli Hallo!
That guy was actually super smooth and honest;)
Ah man... The pain your put yourself thru for these vids. Here is a massive hug! 🤗
Usually, it's not so bad. This one was tough, tho
When the XW-PD1 was green lit by management, they probably handicapped it with an inadequate budget. When the engineers demo'ed the prototype to the "suits" they were underwhelmed, but they gave the go-ahead to release it anyway. Casio could have improved it in the product support/firmware area, which was the way Novation was able to rescue the troublesome Circuit groove box (it was initially released while it was still in "beta test mode") and turn it into a best seller. But I guess there was no extra money allocated for the product support of the XW-PD1. My heart goes out to those early users who paid $399 US for this thing...
Agreed! Did anyone actually buy it for 399?
Apparently, when the Trackformers were being finished, Casio management was deciding to shut down most of their recently restarted synth business. Too bad, as the Falcon here sounds great on paper. If this thing was just a beta prototype I'd still be psyched for the release version.
Another great episode Florian. I'd never heard of this Casio, strangely I now have the urge to seek one out.
Thanks! A word of warning: don't do it, it's a nightmare
@@AudioPilz haha, I've got one of these suckers. actually love it. have used the sampler a fair bit and have banks of pads saved with FX assigned to them for eternal audio I feed it.. I do however focus and enjoy what it CAN do, rather than what it cannot. there's a fair bit you can do with it. but then I'm a bit of a hobbyist in this stuff if I'm honest. picked mine up cheap in Australia. will hold onto it.
Never even heard of this device. I'm still impressed how you got it to sound better, than "Da, da, da!"
Thanks!
I’m so glad you’ve put some more modern day background ambience to my favorite scene from Star Wars Episode IV and a half, that X-mas special. I’ll bet Casio would have been better off to call it Red V and that by itself would have sold double for Casio. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
"the traumatising abyss that is the settings menu" lol!
We all know that all too well ;)
Yes, it's friday. Time for Bad Gear! Even if the gears are bad, the video's are terrific! I always look forward to friday late in the afternoon for a new Bad Gear episode!
Thank you so much!
Always wondered how that thing sounded... Great vid!
Thanks!
Your timing for uploads is always *perfect* for me. Sailing into the weekend with a new audiopilz upload. Thanks for your very enjoyable videos!
Thank god it's Friday!
Great video, i have had one of these for a while and had a similar first impression.
I have made lots of casio videos as I've always had a knack of finding what the gear does really well but it's taken me years with this one.
I've only just started to find what the xw pd1's strengths are.
It is great but like all casio gear, not in any normal way and certainly not in the way they were advertised.
First off, forget pretty much any of the on-board instruments other than the drums.
Forget trying to use it live like you might be able to with another machine like this.
I'm finding that it can be used really well as a hardware version of the stutter edit or glitch vst.
It's a fantastic effects processor!
Even using just the drums alone, which are decent, some really out there music can be made really easily once effects are dropped in and out in the right places.
The omission of midi clock is a shame but it is actually really, really cool.
Just not in the way casio had hoped.
But that's true of nearly all their gear.
Nice, left a sub!!!
Yesssss, this is the one I’ve been waiting for!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Not easy to find. Thanks!
Spot on review as always, Florian. When the XW-PD1 was first released, there was a lot of of excitement about it as it seemed to offer so much and have so much potential as a super little box of tricks. BUT, it was crippled right from the start by Casio when they could so easily have got it so right. The UI is not intuitive and the User Manual should be re-named as the Useless Manual. And whoever at Casio thought that releasing a groovebox/ sequencer/ drum machine/ sampler unit WITHOUT any way of MIDI clock syncing it to other devices, well, they should be publicly flogged by every disgruntled PD1 owner brandishing MIDI cables to beat the "WE NEED MIDI CLOCK" message into that person. Despite the XW name, it can't even sync with its bigger siblings, the XW-P1 and XW-G1, both that DO have MIDI clock. Such a glaring and catastrophic omission.
I'm a huge Casio fan and love many of their quirky and oddball devices, as well as many of their excellent synths. But the XW-PD1 is something that I've still yet to find a use for, despite really wanting to like it. It could, and should, have been so much better, and I'm sure a simple firmware update could unleash some more of its potential as well as address some of its flaws. That's unlikely to happen as Casio very sadly appeared to have completely abandoned it. A real shame, as it's well made and still has potential in the right hands.
For what it's worth, search on RUclips for "Spydamonkey on Casio XW-PD1". He shows what this box of tricks can do as a standalone unit with a pretty impressive video. Truth be told, it was his video that sold the PD1 to me. A shame I don't have the ability to use it the way he can!
May I borrow the "useless manual"? ;)
@@AudioPilz - I can't say for sure but I do believe that the traumatising abyss that is the XW-PD1 "Useless Manual" should not be inflicted on anyone.
Please steal it from me so I don't have to suffer alone!
Wow, the level of effort in creating that montage of Casio footage is top shelf. 👌
Thanks!
I can't say for sure but I do believe that this review was exactly what I needed today. Thank you kind sir.
Thanks for watching!
This was my most awaited episode in this channel. However, now I hate you because you put that Star wars holidays special scene in the background, it brings me dark memories.
Happy new year BTW
Thanks! Holiday Special is not bad, people are too sober
Enabling the freeze function stops updating of the sounds recorded to the sequence stop keys.
1. Press the SLICE selector button.
2. While holding down the FUNCTION selector button, press the SLICE button. This enables the FREEZE function.
3. Hold down any one of the sequence step keys. The sounds recorded when the freeze function is enabled are played in a loop.
Thanks for the clarification
That xmas special background is so perfect for this weird gadget! 😂
The forbidden VHS ;)
If you don't mind, I'm going to use "Traumatizing Abyss" every time I have trouble with a complex electronic instrument.
Feel free!
Prepare the menu-diving submersible...
Seeing anything presented with The Star Wars Holiday Special tells me everything I need to know about it.
The Holiday Special ain't so bad, we're just too sober
Your older videos like this one still hold up really well. :) Great job on the consistency. One of these appeared for sale cheaply near me and if it only had a built in Mic I thought it might be great for the kids. Anyway this video was great for seeing what it can do.
Thank you so much!!!
You finally shown some love to Casio, still hoping to see Electron grooveboxes in Bad Gear series.
I'll have to find a good story for that. A VERY good story😂
You know... seeing that thing land in the Death Star kinda made me want one. 😆
Death Stars make everything look cool - except planets
I think the biggest problem in design actually comes from a small R&D team working on the same project for very long periods of time. Menu-ing and beat building can seem (and actually be) very convoluted to someone who has never played that specific instrument, but for the person who built it from the ground up it makes a lot of sense.
Casio (and every other major company) likes to cut costs and skip out on product testing which leads to a lot of what we have today where things are either reasonably priced, but difficult to use and updated frequently; or high quality out the door but really expensive because they've taken the time (and money) to do it right.
True! I wouldn't mind getting stuff in beta-phase (mostly) as long as it gets better over time
Was waiting for the too-late-for Psych Trance Zoom ARQ AR-48 reference, was NOT disappointed
The AR-48 is the more advanced instrument, I would say (whicht doesn't mean much;)
@@AudioPilz You got some sounds out of that one.
These openings are always funny, but this was really side slitting hilarious!
Thank you so much!!!
All your videos have a phrase or two that makes me laugh. 'The traumatising abyss of the effects menu'. :)
Thanks! A little Nietzsche ;)
I do a little internal shudder every time I hear an SK-1. You see, this was my keyboard as a kid. And I hated it. Coolest thing about it was the sampler. I hear those high perc loops and I cringe. Way too familiar and there's trauma there. Haha. Why do I wish I still had it?
We all have some kind of gear PTSD (I have about 1000 different kinds of;)
Cheers Florian, the considerable contrast between the excellence of the video and the egregiousness of the gear is particularly piquant with this one. Top work. :)
Thanks!
Hey, you got the Millennium Falcon 😀. Great to see it made for a great episode
It was not easy to find ;)
@@AudioPilz I guess I better not suggest Kawai products, in that case 🥴
Did you ever thinked about a "Bad gear album", were every Music at the end of the video were in the album and recreate it into full length songs?
Working on it! I'm still a little limited by this 24h/day design flaw ;)
@@AudioPilz versuch doch mal den ''übermensch schlafrythmus'' :D (glaube 6 mal am tag 20 minuten schlafen)
Ey, die Vinyl würde ich glatt kaufen. Auf dem Cover aber ein paar von den witzigen Zwischenbildern! So quietschbunt..
Freeze functions means, push this Button if you put it in a refrigerator it turns on the heat to let the electronics survive even in lowerst temperatures!
I assumed that, Thanks!
Thanks for the shout-out! You can buy me a beer anytime :)
Hey, nice to have you around! Next time we're on the same continent
....finally you did the Falcon. We all knew this would happen some day
It's a rare beast. Thanks for watching!
@@AudioPilz Always looking Forward to your Videos friday night. Florian, bester Mann. ;) Keep it Up.
The XW-PD 1 is extremely capable but even more extremely difficult to use. You don't need to invest much money but ages of time into this thing to make good use of it. Love lots of Casio gear though, most of all the FZ-1 (FZ-10m / FZ-20m). Their relatively new workstation MZX-500 seems absolutely amazing, a friend of mine owns it and likes it a lot.
There's a universe of Casio gear out there to explore! Certainly not their last instrument on this channel!
I liked the number of drum sounds and was ready to use it just as a drum machine... but... it DOES NOT HAVE MIDI CLOCK! It transmits and I (think) receives start/stop, but not clock, so it drifts apart after a couple bars. It truly is bad gear.
Yeah, I should have mentioned the midi clock issue, thanks for pointing out
Wow that truly is the worst gear.
I can say for sure that I do believe this channel is awesome!
Thank you!!!
So much classic Casio tech flashing before my eyes in this video, and I owned most of it at one time or another. Can't tell you how many keyboards/synths, watches and calculators I've owned of theirs over the years, and I even happen to be wearing one of my Casio G-Shocks today. But with all of that I don't think I have never seen the XW-PD1 before, and based on your review that's probably a good thing! 😁
Thanks again for another entertaining video!
Thanks!
Huh, who would have known that Moby actually has a really nice book collection.
Thanks!
Great video! Now I can’t wait for the B*******r clone of this.
Ultraformer!
Its things like this that made a lot of people turn away from hardware. Only now is the industry recovering from some of these bad decisions.
Yeah, some manufacturers really raised the bar
1:50 that's a dope little footwork loop ngl
Yeah, a diamond in the rough!
As someone who generally dislikes Casio, the design of this thing surprises me. The sound quality and performance, however, did not XD
So much potential wasted
Casio has good synths, you just have to find them
CZ1000 💗
@@blahblah606 the cz rack module tho
@@AudioPilz Brother, this thing was so close to good, so close. It looks great on my shelf, though!
Nailed it. With so many ppl that have dsp/embedded system programming experience these days, these companies should take any product that doesn't sell well and just hand over the source and development tools. I can think of a dozen pieces of gear that I've had where all they needed was a little extra polish on the UI, stability fixes, etc. Most extreme example: the BKE "Beat Thang": best build quality of any drum machine I've ever used - amazing pads, amazing battery life, amazing specifications, crazy potential but DAMN the firmware was shite - and they released it in that state knowing full well. Shame.
Thanks! Beat Thang is on my list!
Word of warning: using the two top encoders on the Beat Thang kind of feels like you're tweaking a set of rubberized robot nipples. Made me feel... dirty.
True, but also they could surely use their resources better in the first place. It's like they don't even believe in investing in their own project, maybe for some weird institutional/bureaucratic reasons, like movies that are made as a tax write-off. The potential is there that it could have been profitable if they were more committed. On the one pole, there is Korg who are in touch with what casual users want and trust their engineers. Casio since the 90s at least are towards the other pole of that continuum.
@@voltijuice8576
In the case of publicly traded companies, the shareholders won't let them invest beyond what's necessary to make what they (the shareholders) think is a minimally viable product. Some rich mother of 3 with enough shares to have a say in the company and zero knowledge of the electronic music scene probably saw this thing, decided it functioned well enough for her kids to play with it, and then told Casio to stop development and immediately take it to production on threat of suing if they didn't (in the US, shareholders get to sue the company they own shares in if they believe the company is not working in the best interests of its shareholders. Doesn't have to be a US company, it applies as long as the shareholder is a US citizen).
this is one of those rare episodes where I think that the gear is not only bad but hella garbage. I admire your dedication to bad gear. I would not even touch that thing :D
I agree, this one was tough
“Traumatising abyss” ....love it
Thanks! We all know it...
Oh my god, best use of "what a piece of junk!" _ever_.
So. Fitting.
4:52 "you could buy 2 of them to play midi badminton" XD
I can say for sure I do believe in you and in your channel :D
Thanks !! Incredible episode :p
Thank you so much!
Just over a minute in... already laugh water through my nose at the Skywalker randomly thrown in soundbite... I thought I was safe to take a drink. Then you go on to mention a high end Casio product and I expect the CZ to get name checked. Nope... instead the HT6000. Made me happy... I've got one of these bad boys and love it! Even with the shit wheel and small screen set up.
Happy to hear that! Never go for the obvious (except when it's obvious;)
There is veeeeery little content on RUclips for the HT-6000.
Do you have any tracks or demos you've done online anywhere?
@@kenzieprice6745 are you asking me? If so, no. I've only had my HT6000 for about 6 months. Never heard of it before then... it was offered as part of a bundled deal with a Roland U20, EMU ESI32 and the HT6000 - £170 for the lot. The U20 had some dud keys (clean solved it) and the esi32 back-light was dead (new OLED installed) and the HT6000 was in full working order.
The first video I watched and probably the best video I've found is ruclips.net/video/uL_xIE34epY/видео.html
Really good to get an understanding of its workflow, limitations and quirks.
That video got me really excited to get the HT6000 home. Then I started looking at what prices they go for normally. The seller told me he knew it was worth more but had to thin his collection and he had bought it for £50 a couple years back so never lost any money on it.
Easily my favourite bang for buck purchase for audio gear.
@@fatkev1983 Yes. I have one too and Casio put a crazy amount of engineering into it but it is completely under the radar even with CZ/FZ/VZ fans. It is basically the pinnacle of their consonant vowel synthesis they were developing.
It is confusing and a lot of work however but I'd really like to see all the owners in one community sharing what they make with it so we can see the potential of it.
D* Fine score by the way!
Be on the lookout for the HT-700/3000. Very inspiring. Don't consider them inferior. The sound is much different and I reach for it more.
@@kenzieprice6745 the guy I bought it from has a CZ1. He only wanted one high end Casio in the collection and he preferred the more prestigious CZ. To be fair, I've always liked the FZ and VZ but haven't found a decent one at a reasonable price.
I like your idea of a community. Handy to share patch settings too. We'd be the weirdo kids in the otherwise CZ heavy Casio scene. Have you got any recordings using your Casios? Would love to hear it if you have.
Yeah, I had started looking for an HT3000. But the HT700 is provably easier to justify as I'm trying to cut back on full size synths. Modules and racks with different MIDI controller and thru boxes is how I'm expanding my collection. But if an HT comes my way again, cheaply, you can rest assured I'm buying it.
Side note... I've also got a Casio DG20. Had it for over a decade. Was shocked to see what they sell for now. Its not even that good an instrument.. but can be a fun midi controller to be fair and has high novelty factor.
I can’t say for sure, but I do believe I want to buy one of these. It’s so weird and funky looking. It’s a mIllenium falcon/programable toilet seat and I think it would make a damn fine midi controller
...without a midi out;)
I thought it had usb MIDI?
Boy, a radiocasette synth sounds like such a Casio thing to do it's amazing it doesn't really exist
I want that one, too!
But it does exist, the Casio KX101
drink when Florian says "what is more"
That's what they taught me in English class ;)
@@AudioPilz well you say it with a very distinguished and distinctive tone
@@AudioPilz love your videos!
BEST INTRO AS OF YET!!! LMFAO. Keep up the good work mate.
Thank you!
Usually I accelerate the normal yt videos but I thinking of watching your channel on 0x75 setting 😀 greate episode
Thanks! People watching at x1.5 were an inspiration for this channel ;)
Now you have to do the XW synth series. I actually bought an XW P1 D:
Those are on my list ;)
Those are actually really good. I have both the P1 and the G1 and they're a much better product than the PD1 and get used a lot in my music. I've still yet to find a use for my PD1, other than as a pseudo Star Wars ornament!
@@CasioChaosTheory I don't hate my p1. I wish it was just a controller/sequencer. I really wish I hadn't bought it for full price. I really don't think it was worth $500 😭 that's almost a digitakt.
@@koalemos1679 - I hear you! I waited for the prices to come down, got my P1 for 300 GBP (new) and my G1 for 175 GBP (used). For their time they offered a lot of great features for the price, but since then a whole load of other newer synths have come out. The XW's do still have some great features and some excellent sounds, though for sure the UI is not the easiest or most intuitive to understand.
@@CasioChaosTheory a g1 for under $200 is kinda dope.
it's like the zoom ARQ but with none of the redeeming qualities
has a circular sequencer-based groovebox ever worked out for anyone?
The futureretro stuff is actually really nice!
Take a look at Loopseque iPad app.
I remember that dudes videos. This thing was my first groovebox. They ran a sale at Guitar Center for $100 usd.
They were super cheap for a while but they're gonna be super expensive in 2030;)
Well put, about mega vs independent software dev at the end. Shoutouts to JJ (guy's a genius).
JJ is great (but AFAIK he had some inside information)
I was looking for places where I could install a guitar strap.
Duct tape, my friend, duct tape...
@@AudioPilz Ha! But so very true.
Vac-U-Lock!
@@voltijuice8576 Not that kind of strap, ha.
Realy, try the vz1, it was they're most professional synth, totaly incomprehensible it gives the dx7 a run for it's money, a total rabit hole.
Oh, looks like another private life-defying contraption. Thanks for posting!
Vz1 gives the korg opsix a run... And the fz1 is was about eight years ahead of akai
@@ashleywhiteman2684 I love the sound of my FZ1 (nice filter and very crunchy) but you'll have to be a master of menujumping/buttonpressing to create (for example) a drumkit bank.
@@peterpiper0815 there's tools for the atari st, steinberg avalon and more
I have said on other posts it's not the gear it's the user, you have just shown that as you have created some good grooves, however I must acknowledge that some gear just wastes potential and R&D costs and this seem a prime example of that.
However as usual you work wonders and I love your humorous approach. 👌😀
Maybe it should be called track-deformer?
I did like that sax style sound, kind of retro Yello ...the race....chika ah, chika ahhh etc.
Maybe if they had painted blue and white It could have had a R2-D2 meets the crusher appeal. 😂
Track-Deformer - good one!
I have a bunch of the old Casio gear. The CZ, VZ, and FZ series was their high end in the 80's and still awesome today. On the low end, the SK series samplers are super fun, bendable, and now easy to add MIDI/CV inputs. The keyboard versions of the XW-PD1... the XW-P1 and XW-G1 are very capable, speakerless synths today.
Yeah, they have several diamonds in the rough
you should check out the 😎Yamaha QY-10😎 if you like 👉 way too early 90's, smooth jazzy walkman house groove, big lcd screens and knobs are for losers - synths 🙏
Got one of these, it's a freaking NIGHTMARE (and I would have to take a week off to make the episode because of the learning curve)
Haha! A friend had one of these, I never got my head around it.
finally casio! hopefully next casio product is a casio cz i really want to see what you can get out of that digital 80s synth lol
More Casio to come!
Not since Abba has the english language been so mangled. Wonderful, keep it up!
I was defeated, you won the war ;)
You had me at Circular Sequencer.
Lol
It's so close to being good. The sequencer isn't horrible. It looks great on my shelf. Such a shame we can't access the excellent XW synth engine. Casio botched this so badly. Eternally hoping for custom firmware 🤞 Hi five for the end jams!
Thanks! I would love to have a version of this that actually works;)
Very well researched. I believe everything you've said in this video as fact. However, being an experimental artist, all the information you gave here only makes me want to GET ONE.
Thanks! This thing is gonna be soooooo rare in 2030;)
i own : fz1 , vz,1 , ht 6000 , cz 1 , sk 1 , pt 50 and a few casio tones. each one had something great to offer at their time. the xwpd1 is just depressing. somehow you made it work. the casio core track at the end rocks!!
Thanks! Yeah, it's truly sad
You need to put up conent for them! They have little to show for on RUclips!
Traumatising abyss of the settings menu. Nice turn of phrase
Thanks! We all know it
unmatched genre naming game.
If there's one thing I know ;)
If you ever feel the need to break your usual habits and produce something different look no further than any Bad Gear episode 😉
OMG you made a better demo with this piece of junk than any of the Roland-paid influencers was achieving with an MC-707 they were allowed to keep for free
Thank you!!! Unfortunately, Roland doesn't want to talk to me. Hard to tell why;)
LOL
Gonna need a whole video on the SID BEATS collections. Are collections 1 & 2 in another Casio product? Do more follow 8? We need to know!
They are equally distributed over the preset list. Not so bad;)
I can't say for sure but I do believe you have crossed the threshold into the brilliant heights of meta-self-referential memeage XD I sincerely hope Alex & Magpie catch on & start saying it!!
Man you memejams are still good, even if you struggle with the gear. RIP these underpowered spaceship inspired grooveboxes.
Very interesting comments re: business & grooveboxes tho, very insightful. I feel like Roland, Korg & Akai et al sometimes only skate by with a pass by the skin of their teeth, sometimes only with desperately kludged-together firmware updates & were it not for those timely releases, their products may have died - some of them have. Maybe Casio just didn't want to compete in the market, who knows.
Geert van Schlänger - I can't shay for shure but I do believe