I had one of these as a kid. It’s pretty much criminal to wrap up a video of this without playing the demo song with a funny sample recording. That was the best part about it.
Ill never forget me, my childhood best friend and, the victim of our constant derision, his little brother playing with my SK1 when we were kids. We were taking turns making samples when my friend made a sample that said "Aaron loves Teresa", Aaron being his little brother and Teresa being a rather unfortunate looking girl from our school. This was already a very sore subject since we'd been teasing him mercilessly about it ever since he'd been assigned a seat with her on the bus at the start of the school year. As we played the sample over and over, "Aaron loves Teresa" up and down the keyboard from the slowest low note to the chipmunk highest Aaron began to fly into an uncontrollable rage and right at the height of his seething anger I reached over and hit the "Demo" button. ....The SK1 launched into its merry little tune singing Aaron loves Teresa, loves Teresa!, loves Ter-ee-ee-sa! over and over!😅 This final act pushed Aaron over the edge into an absolute abyss of psychotic rage, he attacked us both, powered by his blinding hatred and, ripping the SK1 away, he threw it against the wall in one seamless motion All the while cussing and crying an endless stream of barely intelligible obscenity 😅....oh man the good times!
Fam, I think this is the most *you* video you've done. A topic within your interests, your humor shines through, good info & the pacing was spot on. Great work my guy, keep it up.
Got one from the Sharper Image store. Thought it would make me a rock star. Not quite, but I did have a blast playing with this many nights when I was supposed to be doing homework. Wish I had not sold it.
It was also used on the intro Elliott Smith's Pretty (Ugly Before) 7". "At the very intro it has this strange sounding melody being played and that's Aaron [Embry] on his SK-1. Which is this like kinda low budget little keyboard synthesiser thing, but it had this sampling ability - this like lo-fi - like it would sample maybe like a 3 seconds--I'm not sure how many seconds. But Aaron would go to the microphone and hum a note, and it would sample that note. And then he could play the sound of that recording--would go to the keys. And so if you listen, you can kinda hear it's a voice. But it's a synthesised version of a voice. I remember every night before that song he has to load that voicing because the keyboard wouldn't remember it." - Scott McPherson, S2E3 My Favourite Elliott Smith song podcast
I had one of these back in the 80's it was great as my introduction to sampling. I then met Carlos Alomar from David Bowie's band ...he is an avid keyboard player as well as guitarist.
Had one of these when I was at school. Closest we could get to real samplers (which were a very big thing at the time). Ended up selling it to a school-friend to put the money towards a Casio SK-200, which I sold to a teacher so I could buy something else (Yamaha DX-100 maybe). Years later still have the DX-100 somewhere, and a home studio based around Cubase. To be honest, I'm not sure how to use it as a sampler, but have never needed to.
Ahhhhh yes. The joys of childhood, learning how to play “Lean On Me” with fart sound samples and the Bossa Nova beats, recording it, and then playing it super fast! Then super slowwwwww. Haha omg, so many fond memories! Thank you for this 👏
This was my first keyboard. I wrote a ton of songs on it when I was a teen. Later I got a CZ-101. There is a great iPad app that mimics the SK-1. Great video.
My first keyboard was a Casio VL-1 with built in calculator, which I got for Xmas in 1982. You could even do crude ADSR on it by switching to calculator mode, typing in the parameters, them back to keyboard mode. Very clunky.
I miss the days when i could find cool things like this at any thrift store for like 2 bucks. I still have one that is MIDI-fied that i pretty much only use for weird samples
The microphone in these are notorious for the most farts sampled by kids ever. If you had one when you were a kid and didnt fart into the sampler then you missed out on a great part of an 80s childhood.
I had a lot of fun with my SK 1 back in the day. I’d put a deposit on a Korg monopoly, but bottled it and the store agreed I could shift my deposit to buying an sk 1
Jazz Organ is where's it at. Then you record onto your trusty GE 3-5194A tape recorder. (It has recording and variable playback speed with no pitch control. It's so nice.)
@@JoshIsMakingMusic I normally do my brass patches either in my Xpander or DX7 then through the S950 and actually one of each of these is usually the active sample in my S950. There's actually another version that I have saved in wave format from years ago that I ran through my rather broken Realistic tape recorder. That was the best sounding tape recorder (in the lofi warbling nonsense way.)
"How cool is The Casio SK_1 ? " So cool it can stop global warming. I've got one myself and i love the simplicity. Turn it on. Chose a sound among a few. Ad a beat if you want or just play around with the one finger chord and a beat. Like when i play guitar i just want to plug it in and play. Not using half of my life searching for the perfect tone. What i love most with my little friend Sk-1 is the freedom of not have so much choise.
I had one of these as a kid. I tortured my family with it. EDIT: I posted what's up there ^ before you started talking to your friend. Subscribed. Peace!❤☮
i had and still got one of these, (it mostly works but has switch issues now) not sure but think it was the first 'cheap' keyboard with sampling facility?
The reason why I would get one is ... 'sound, sound, sound' 🙃That Lo Fi Sound is until today not possible to get with 'Lo Fi effects' only old or crappy samplers and tapes can make that sound.
That's what's funny about samplers like that. One of their major shortcomings -- low audio fidelity -- has become a prized feature. It's like how a lot of modern photographers try to replicate the failings of old cameras to get that "film" look. The things that used to be bad about older tech have become the things people find desirable.
I ALSO had one of these as a kid. It was the OG fart sampler. These days I use Studio One Pro 6 and my controller/synth is a Yamaha EX5 along with lots of VST instruments. Those are amazing!
Casio= toy keyboard... 🤔,... I agree to disagree.. ive got the sk-2 and psr 443.. believe me.. its not only the tech,its the artist that plays it. 😊. Anyway. Great video and keep doing your magic 😉👍🏼
This was made for kids and as a kid back then, I had a TON of fun with it every day just with the sampling mic. Your imagination was the only thing stopping you from making some of the wildest sounds.
Hello I'm trying to find a power supply for this synth after buying a deceptive one listed for casio sk-1 that doesnt even match the voltage, what power supply did you use?
I had one of these as a kid. It’s pretty much criminal to wrap up a video of this without playing the demo song with a funny sample recording. That was the best part about it.
I will someday atone for my sins.
I'm going to agree here. There should be just a video playing a burp or fart sound with the demo songs.
Ill never forget me, my childhood best friend and, the victim of our constant derision, his little brother playing with my SK1 when we were kids. We were taking turns making samples when my friend made a sample that said "Aaron loves Teresa", Aaron being his little brother and Teresa being a rather unfortunate looking girl from our school. This was already a very sore subject since we'd been teasing him mercilessly about it ever since he'd been assigned a seat with her on the bus at the start of the school year. As we played the sample over and over, "Aaron loves Teresa" up and down the keyboard from the slowest low note to the chipmunk highest Aaron began to fly into an uncontrollable rage and right at the height of his seething anger I reached over and hit the "Demo" button. ....The SK1 launched into its merry little tune singing Aaron loves Teresa, loves Teresa!, loves Ter-ee-ee-sa! over and over!😅 This final act pushed Aaron over the edge into an absolute abyss of psychotic rage, he attacked us both, powered by his blinding hatred and, ripping the SK1 away, he threw it against the wall in one seamless motion All the while cussing and crying an endless stream of barely intelligible obscenity 😅....oh man the good times!
I found one in a Goodwill for $10. it has a holographic Bulbasaur sticker on the front.
"ephemeral"
That's when I thumbs-upped! LOL!
Looked up this video to learn more about my SK-1 that i just picked up at a thrift store for $4!!
Fam, I think this is the most *you* video you've done.
A topic within your interests, your humor shines through, good info & the pacing was spot on.
Great work my guy, keep it up.
Thanks so much! I was really proud of how this video came out. Now I just gotta figure out a way to work my cat into the videos too...
Fabulous thing. It was polyphonic! Heck, even the legendary Minimoog was only monophonic. The SK-1 taught me all about chords.
Completely transported me back to being 10 again! LOVED this thing!
Thriller, Rick Rubin, Slash and this toy are what got me into music
Got one from the Sharper Image store. Thought it would make me a rock star. Not quite, but I did have a blast playing with this many nights when I was supposed to be doing homework. Wish I had not sold it.
It was also used on the intro Elliott Smith's Pretty (Ugly Before) 7".
"At the very intro it has this strange sounding melody being played and that's Aaron [Embry] on his SK-1. Which is this like kinda low budget little keyboard synthesiser thing, but it had this sampling ability - this like lo-fi - like it would sample maybe like a 3 seconds--I'm not sure how many seconds. But Aaron would go to the microphone and hum a note, and it would sample that note. And then he could play the sound of that recording--would go to the keys. And so if you listen, you can kinda hear it's a voice. But it's a synthesised version of a voice. I remember every night before that song he has to load that voicing because the keyboard wouldn't remember it." - Scott McPherson, S2E3 My Favourite Elliott Smith song podcast
I had one of these back in the 80's it was great as my introduction to sampling. I then met Carlos Alomar from David Bowie's band ...he is an avid keyboard player as well as guitarist.
Had one of these when I was at school. Closest we could get to real samplers (which were a very big thing at the time). Ended up selling it to a school-friend to put the money towards a Casio SK-200, which I sold to a teacher so I could buy something else (Yamaha DX-100 maybe). Years later still have the DX-100 somewhere, and a home studio based around Cubase. To be honest, I'm not sure how to use it as a sampler, but have never needed to.
Ahhhhh yes. The joys of childhood, learning how to play “Lean On Me” with fart sound samples and the Bossa Nova beats, recording it, and then playing it super fast! Then super slowwwwww. Haha omg, so many fond memories! Thank you for this 👏
Sounds great running through the output jack!
Epic! I got one in 1985, on my 15th birthday! And, I still have it.
Wow no joke those patches are amazing!! I gotta find one of these now...
Great video! That was a really smooth jam at the end, too. It’s nice to get an organ sound from a keyboard that apparently is smaller than an organ.
3:58 This bit was so great! hahaha I love your channel!
I think the vocal sample at 1:51 is used in Droopy Likes Your Face by C418, neat
I noticed this too
cool never understood the envelope filter before thanks sounds great on the brass I got an sk-1 rebranded as realistic concertmate-
500
I love this video! So entertaining and it's fun to hear you talk about an older, more niche instrument 😊
Thank you! 😁
I had this as a kid and I loved it!
This was my first keyboard. I wrote a ton of songs on it when I was a teen. Later I got a CZ-101. There is a great iPad app that mimics the SK-1. Great video.
What app?
keep it
@@alehandrosimplicano6228 SK-51
This is Beautiful
Couldnt resist to nod my head to this!
I bought one of these new in 1985, had a lot of fun with it. :)
I picked one up today at a swap meet for $40. Very fun little device.
My reason for wanting a sk1 is Gene Belcher is my spirit animal....I want to get one and paint it blue and the buttons red and yellow
I have a Bass Station 2 , MK2 for Albeton - and now this.
My sk1 is how I make people love, hate, love and then HATE me on, car rides
Great video - thanks man !!
Glad you liked it!
My first keyboard was a Casio VL-1 with built in calculator, which I got for Xmas in 1982. You could even do crude ADSR on it by switching to calculator mode, typing in the parameters, them back to keyboard mode. Very clunky.
Very cool! Sounds clunky, but I didn't know it had any kind of ADSR, that's rad.
CoolStuff !!!*CASIO FOREVER !!!
thank you
Excellent review of this amazing piece of retro tech!!
How do you transpose/tune the entire keyboard up/down an octave?
Dig the Pack 👍 🌟
Thank you! 😁
I miss the days when i could find cool things like this at any thrift store for like 2 bucks.
I still have one that is MIDI-fied that i pretty much only use for weird samples
A MIDI SK-1 sounds sick. And I'd love to find one at a thrift shop for two bucks, haha.
@JoshIsMakingMusic it's pretty cool but I rarely use it these days. For my lofi needs today I have a Bastl Microgranny 2.5. Basically a sk1 but better
Just got mine from a thrift for $4.05! It’s what prompted me to look up this video
@@Frankenstein_420 dope!!!
Flute #1 always and forever.
The microphone in these are notorious for the most farts sampled by kids ever. If you had one when you were a kid and didnt fart into the sampler then you missed out on a great part of an 80s childhood.
Prices of these are going up here in Europe. Just managed to get one, but for €125 😅
why does it sound so good????
I had a lot of fun with my SK 1 back in the day. I’d put a deposit on a Korg monopoly, but bottled it and the store agreed I could shift my deposit to buying an sk 1
As an 11 year old in 1985, I always wanted an SK-1.
I was younger at the time and you best believe i sampled my farts into it.
Jazz Organ is where's it at. Then you record onto your trusty GE 3-5194A tape recorder. (It has recording and variable playback speed with no pitch control. It's so nice.)
We're in the presence of a master!
I'm maybe most taken with the brass sample. The little keyboard sounds so huge!
@@JoshIsMakingMusic I normally do my brass patches either in my Xpander or DX7 then through the S950 and actually one of each of these is usually the active sample in my S950.
There's actually another version that I have saved in wave format from years ago that I ran through my rather broken Realistic tape recorder. That was the best sounding tape recorder (in the lofi warbling nonsense way.)
"How cool is The Casio SK_1 ? "
So cool it can stop global warming.
I've got one myself and i love the simplicity. Turn it on. Chose a sound among a few. Ad a beat if you want or just play around with the one finger chord and a beat. Like when i play guitar i just want to plug it in and play. Not using half of my life searching for the perfect tone.
What i love most with my little friend Sk-1 is the freedom of not have so much choise.
I had one of these as a kid. I tortured my family with it.
EDIT: I posted what's up there ^ before you started talking to your friend. Subscribed.
Peace!❤☮
i had and still got one of these, (it mostly works but has switch issues now) not sure but think it was the first 'cheap' keyboard with sampling facility?
there’s a free Sk-1 plugin too
Yoooo love that price.
great video! I've had one of these since I was a kid but I can't find the adaptor for it, so I was wondering; what are you using for yours?
My SK1 works with a standard boss style 9volt for pedals
The reason why I would get one is ... 'sound, sound, sound' 🙃That Lo Fi Sound is until today not possible to get with 'Lo Fi effects' only old or crappy samplers and tapes can make that sound.
That's what's funny about samplers like that. One of their major shortcomings -- low audio fidelity -- has become a prized feature. It's like how a lot of modern photographers try to replicate the failings of old cameras to get that "film" look. The things that used to be bad about older tech have become the things people find desirable.
@@JoshIsMakingMusic did you checked the Liven LoFi 12bit Sampler yet? A new sampler that can record 4 seconds with that sound.
I ALSO had one of these as a kid. It was the OG fart sampler. These days I use Studio One Pro 6 and my controller/synth is a Yamaha EX5 along with lots of VST instruments. Those are amazing!
Awesome video. Is this the keyboard Gene Belcher uses?
BEEFSQUATCH!
Casio= toy keyboard... 🤔,... I agree to disagree.. ive got the sk-2 and psr 443.. believe me.. its not only the tech,its the artist that plays it. 😊. Anyway. Great video and keep doing your magic 😉👍🏼
This was made for kids and as a kid back then, I had a TON of fun with it every day just with the sampling mic. Your imagination was the only thing stopping you from making some of the wildest sounds.
This will sound weird, but can we be friends? This is a great video that captures the essence of these instruments.
Hello I'm trying to find a power supply for this synth after buying a deceptive one listed for casio sk-1 that doesnt even match the voltage, what power supply did you use?
I've got some unbranded power adapters and use one of those, I think the SK-1 uses 7.5 volts?
@@JoshIsMakingMusic yea i bought an 7.5v one and it came 7.0v, i can try buying another unbranded one but there sketchy
Just found one for 20 bucks. I think I'll try sampling vintage synths or even access virus I have see what happens
does this think have outs to sample into mpc ?
It does have a single output! I don't have an MPC but I've sampled it into a 404 and OP-1.
I found this exact keyboard in the box with the manual on the side of the road today
I was given a casio sk1 and vl tone 1 by my grandparents
That's a great couple of gifts!
Why have portamento when you are not going anywhere?
Didn’t Phil Elverum use this on 11 old songs?
how can i plug it in the pc and use it for recordings?
I used an 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch adapter to plug it into my audio interface.
What was played at 2:30?
It's the Song Of Storms from The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time!
I got 9ne for $18
beautiful nb pride flag on the sp-404
جميل جميل جميل چوخ گوزل
You look like seth Rogen
Your MacBook pro has attitude.👨💻🎹
Thank you for your video I just pulled my sk1 out-of-the-box and put some batteries in it and it still works I'm the original owner of it 1985
I had one of these as a teenager. I have SK5 on my iPad now. Nostalgia plus easy integration into my setup.