CASIO SK-1 - the real sound of the SK-1

[1200com]

Haha I was just taken back 24 years into the past! :)

[herbalinguist]

Nice to see... I still have my original SK-1 that I got new as a kid... Mine will probably stay in the collection forever...

[NGMITBE]

Can this sampler be connected to a laptop to use with programs like ableton?

[sagjig2]

The song you're playing in the beginning sounds like the Pinball Dreams menu song.

[PHAEDRIDER]

dont firget the fkute

[1899lpv]

Phoque...I'll stick to my Emu2,Yamaha Dx7, memory Moog and the Casio wk-200...

[stinkyfishermen]

does it need an amp or built in speaker?

[beyblader17]

i have the same keyboard and it doesnt sound anything like that lmao

[xerfes]

Can you tell more about the drums that are in this video?

[GORFF987]

I have !

[aywinehouse]

僕も昔持ってました。初めて買ったキーボードでした。サンプラー­機能が画期的でしたね。

[westcoasthaze]

Is that sampled form Soviets Candy girl?

Sounds like the exact same tune

[PHAEDRIDER]

and dont forget my all time favorite" flute" preset

[stormsirens2]

can I find this on eBay?

and also if it were bought new how much would it have been anyways?

[Freedomcall82]

the casios from the 1980s had such great simple sounds the drums too. my first keyboard i had was a casio HT i think it was so badly used the keys came off from use. then the circuit board wound up not working so i had no more power alas i finally got rid of it a couple of years ago. i miss the ht models

[Hobbyist56]

Omg homestarrunner theme song uses this beat!

[exitmusicforthefilms]

i like it... 8^D

[Slashe50]

When the drums came in, I half expected Homestar Runner to run onto the screen and start prancing about like an idiot.

[KurtWoloch]

@Slashe50 I expected something else... this rhythm actually has been used by a commercial Austrian group for a well-known song... see: EAV - Burli

[matkovicha]

Our school is full of these. (at least 20)

[anheyyeah]

howed you get it to sound so good mine sounds awful

[deantallhat]

What a great keyboard - no frills, but a really good sound. The sampler crunches sounds in a really good way, particularly drum loops etc - anything sampled sounds really funky and groovy, even if the original sound didn't.

[ATOMICROOSTER85]

I have have a Casio sk-100 sale if anyone is interested

[ClandestineMonarchy]

YIHA! rocking hard! :-) Ideal keyboard for hip religiious gatherings.

[Zawicki1]

1:33 HOMESTAR THEME XD

1:50 EGGS THEME! (Also from Homestar)

[1pelavacas]

hey bro my sk doesnt even last that long new batteries and it plays juz for 10 seconds and it slowly fades away.. wat the fuck is wrong wit this shit meng

[DONTSAYHELLA]

thank you

[triclops8]

hey guakingo,

I did tons of stuff with the sk-1 and a fostex 4-track in the past too!you´re totally right,that were wonderful days!that, what people nowadays are fighting hard for feeding the next trend up with artificial retro sounds, had has its normal charming of simplicity that days.I´m missing it.

[djhenrikb]

Great! I have a SK-5 and a RZ1.

[Guakingo]

I work with a notebook running Cubase and a bunch of VSTis, but somehow I miss the days when I did stuff with a SK-1 and a Fostex 4-track. That little thing was just brilliant, no other piece of gear has probably ever done as much to stimulate people´s creativity

[mipmipmipmipmip]

I had one, no idea what happened to it :( We also had the VL-1at home... Should have been more forward-minded and kept them safely :p

[contact1araya]

I had me one of these. I used to sample the click the button made when you released and then loop it.....It emmulated a killer distorted electric guitar

[Max0Inq]

Imagination of people who gave names for first synthesized tones was limitless.

[pertencoacristo]

very coll... funny

[hogantmwnn]

Wasn't there and old commerical for this where some kid gets a sample of a dog barking, then jams out . I've wanted one ever since.

[MorfGworfmim]

When you were inverting the chords in the first half, you got some really full sounds out of it :D

[ninehunid]

my cousin had one of these when we were younger.. i wanted one sooo bad.. he had the sk-1, the rapman, and one of the ram cart casios..

[arnoldex1]

hujowe

[senhorlampada]

Lucky kid! :D

Guess he let it all go...

While you should have it :D

[d28864]

i love this old lil keyboard! sadly mine stopped working :( a search proved someone else has the same problem as me. even when the keyboard is switched to off, the power stays on and no sound comes out of it. speaker is fine so i know it's not that. i wish i knew what was wrong lol and i too used to burp into it as a kid. the mic sampling was the best part

[Jotschi1987]

hey da burli! ^^

[brainman214]

i have one of those and intend to do music on it and post to my profile pages.great Sound! My Late sis gave the one i have to me before she passed away.Thanks for sharing! Brainy

[RockBand2Freak78]

Awesome! But I prefer Yamaha or Roland.

[THESonicMMM]

I've been without mine for a while now. Good video, but some of the SK's power was in it's piano sound... not heard here.

[korgds10]

That thing is a beast. a must have!

[Basementstatus]

mines broken... no sound unless i hang it upside down.. any ideaS?

[cy3nceFR1CTiON]

play it upside down

[Keijz74]

and enjoy the sound.

[Keijz74]

and attach seperate speakers

[Inuyasha44320]

could be a broken trace on the circuit board, just a thought,

[beepbeeprustrust]

some kind of loose thingamajig. open it up, mess around with the ciruitry until you get sound and solder it.

[shadyalien]

Broken speaker wire.

[funkyVibes]

holy crap ! that thing makes a great great sound

[BlueOceanBelow]

I'll never circuit bend my SK-1. It stays uncorrupted! :)

[nc17atnce101]

I love those songs patterns and seq's it's awesome to hear such great music!

[aarowsmith]

The Postal Service Pop music meets Nintendo Video Game' sound thing-a- jigger keyboard thingy'...........Donkey Kong anyone?

[Walktrougher]

Cool. I want that keyboard now : D.

[raydeen2k]

SK-1 Brass Ensemble is still my favorite patch on any synth anywhere.

[skrpirate]

man I found one of these at the goodwill for 3.00 bucks and can't stop playing it its awesome.I trying to figure out what every thing does.

[timoulete76]

beautiful song lol

Old school stuff héhé the best

[squeakD]

Holy crap.., an SK-1 that has NOT been circuit bent! Great vid man :)

[lolzorone]

i got one :O

[Lachlant1984]

It's not very easy to find a video of an SK-1 that hasn't been Circuit Bent/modified, this saddens me greatly, even though I never owned an SK-1. There are some videos of standard SK-1's that haven't been modded, but be careful what you look for on YouTube!

[Filosofen88]

Is it just me, or is this tiny little toy keyboard having a really awesome sound?

[vdj1994]

wher can i get one.which store has them

[GrillLoc]

Pretty cheap on Ebay

[scott93257]

Into the DPM SP.. Paying no attention I sort of forgot to take the SP off that sound...Thinking I was getting ready to play a piano and string patch,... The people were in the moment of wanting slow songs so they could do their worship...I started to play and guess what came out of the speakers in front of hundreds of people....Yep you guessed it A belch on each key and I had pressed at least 7 keys...

[oimeloimel]

have you sold that on ebay? i bought one with a retrosound sticker on it... about 4 hours ago^^

[retrosound72]

this SK is not from me

I have my SK-1here

[basslabmechanic87]

This is the Foundation. EPS sampler owner I personally know has had this board. I had the sk-1 in 1988 and sk-5 in 1990. I made more than 100 recordings with the SK-1.

[Plazman]

I used to have one of these. I must have put in 50,000 hours on it. I remember the sampling time was 1.4 seconds, so I'd try to sample rhythms at the right tempo so they looped cleanly. The SK1 and SK4 were amazing bargains for the time. You could create some pretty interesting stuff.

[Dodexas]

I love synthesis!

[scott93257]

I used to have one of those little SK's I loved it. It was my first sampling keyboard. I left it by the swimming pool one day because my nephew wanted to play with it.... I looked oiut the window in horror...YEp he dropped it in the pool and my poor little SK was bobbing on the water for a minute and then sunk like the titanic.. Surprisingly I got it to work again. I took it apart, blow dried it, and let it set out for a bit... Then hit it with some electronic spray.. Worked like a champ.

[HoweGavin]

yeah, water fucks up expensive electronics, but for some reason pieces of crap (like my cell phone, or those old digipet toys or whatever they were called) just dry off and work perfectly fine

[scott93257]

Undoubtedly so true...

[ikilledtango22]

i know right?

[cripfripp]

what kind of cord do you use to plug it into an amp? thanks.

[retrosound72]

a simple audio cord with adapter

[unfunkit]

i just bought this from a friend for $15, greaaaat buy

[illDiology]

Every kid in my neighborhood had one of these things! My favorite part was annoying people with the "Ho, ho, ho ..." sample!

[Lachlant1984]

When you talk about "The real sound of the SK-1" do you mean the sound the keyboard is supposed to make when it hasn't been Circuit Bent? I assume that's what you mean.

[retrosound72]

I mean the "real sound of the SK-1" to my april fool vid :)

[yararu]

This thing reminds me of old things.

[mnw615]

We had one of these when we were kids! We used to think it was the funniest thing in the world when we were kids because we would burp into the microphone and then play it back in the demo.

[theryanfawcett]

Didn't we all...

[scott93257]

OH hell yeah....that was funny...I used to do the same exact thing... Now here I am almost 37 years old...Unfortunately I don't have my SK anymore but I still belch into the mic and sample it with my mint Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000...Still funny as hell...I guess some just never grow up eh? LOL

[freqazoidiac]

MAN-THE BURP SAMPLE! Probably the first thing my cousin and I did with this back in 1987..and then Sample the Beastie Boys first LP all to hell. ** One trick I used in the early dawn of the 90's..to get a LONG sample.. i used a break beat LP and spun it as fast as Icould on the record player (1200) and sample the FAST flying beats..then onplayback, you could cull a HUGE but awesomely degraded BEAT. With skill , you can get a seamless loop, you just playback on the lower keys.

[scott93257]

Oh absolutely...I think that was one of the best times I ever had with the SK...could do some pretty cool stuff with it like you were saying as far as looping and stuff..

I did something in church one time : I had a Peavey DPM SP with the DPM SX sample expander with SCSI and I had my own cubicle up in the corner from where I played keys...I had a mic plugged in to my SX sampler and accidentally belched...Well the SX was armed and it captured the sample. Without thinking I dumped the sample

[djgantman]

I had an Sk-1 when I was 6 years old! LOL! This was back in 1986! Good keyboard sounds and it had a sampler!! All it needed was midi.

[PhilRyanBob]

its sounds like homestarrunner

[tkwtube01]

It is Homestar Runner - the Brothers Chaps use this keyboard, along with some others, for their cartoons.

[Neutrikk]

From the smallest toy to the biggest beast of analog. You are a dedicated collector. Good, informative vid again. Keep going!

[retrosound72]

the little SK-1 is a funny key

thanks :)

[Lachlant1984]

It really does sound like a SNES game, those old Casio Keyboards are cool.  Too Bad I was technically a baby when these units came out.

[sykick64]

Sounds like that from a kids toy.. ahh those were indeed the days...

[Mainsail76]

My sister also had one of these, and I think I played it more than her! Of course, she had a piano, so she played that most of the time. A few years back, my mom was getting rid of some things, and she asked if I wanted this little Casio, and I said no! I kick myself for that now. What was I thinking? The sample at 2:58 was always my favorite.

[gettinmoney031]

i got it rite now buy it from me perfect condition

[Inuyasha44320]

dammit, i got to fix the broken keys on mine and put it back togheter, thanx alot dood, ... mabey i make them outta wood or something LOL

[fucksalottasluts]

my sister had one of these growing up and i must say that it was one of the most entertaining toys we had over the years. (especially the human voice sound!and the sample feature) Also a friend of mine picked one up and was showing it to me as a joke and i showed him how hilarious the sample feature could be and he's actually using it as a crude sampler for recording trax in his home studio. Great machine would love to find another one at a yard sale or something.

[kolakube123]

Hey, I like it. Not too dissimilar to a Super Nintendo :]