"Julebal i Nisseland" - on two CASIO toy keyboards

[vibeke373]

did i do it right??

[vibeke373]

did i do it right?????

[Penguindog55]

I feel sorry that 2 people dislike this.

[Penguindog55]

This video is one of my favourites and the first one I saw from you channel,when I came across it I was doing a search for casio keyboards and I was impressed with the appreciation you had for those basic keyboards.Very clever hooking an organ pedal to one of them it's like a mini organ.I just got an SA-10 off Ebay it came christmas eve,for years Id been kidding myself when I said I didn't want one but they are great fun and have some great sounds.I also have a Casio PT-87 which we had from new.

[NRJDJ]

nice done i from denmark and i have see that movie!

your version is very great! ;)

[organfairy]

@NRJDJ - I'm from Denmark too :-)

[NRJDJ]

godt at vide at jeg ikke er den eneste dansker som finder sådan nogle ting her på youtube

[organfairy]

@NRJDJ - Eller laver sådan nogle ting...

[NRJDJ]

ja! eller laver sådan nogle ting!

[NRJDJ]

hvordan fik du ideen til at lave det her?

[organfairy]

@NRJDJ - Det hele begyndte i 1986 hvor jeg for første gang hørte Ole Erling spille Julebal i Nisseland på en synthesizer. Da jeg så et par år senere købte mit første keyboard - den hvide CASIO på billedet - prøvede jeg om jeg selv kunne, og det blev endnu sjovere da jeg fik lidt flere keyboards og en pedalkasse. Da jeg så, for to år siden, blev lidt nostalgisk så syntes jeg det kunne være sjovt at vise hvordan jeg lavede musik før jeg fik råd til de "rigtige" instrumenter.

[NRJDJ]

okay så der er en god historie bag! det er jeg glad for at høre for der er nogle personer der laver den slags når de keder sig og så er det ikke sjovt! jeg har ogs selv et lille keybord der minder lidt om det du har øverst til højre! nu har jeg selv helt vildt lyst til at spille på det!

[ByrowNeius]

That was an impressive feat you pulled off there!!

Nice collection man!! GOOD DEAL!!

[polaskek]

bravooo

[freezazoid]

you know the guitar synth pedals... I want someone to run a toy keyboard through one of those and see if it sounds like an analog synth (or close). If anyone knows of any videos where someone does that let me know.

[DarkZekeX]

i imagine you could get it pretty close, cause most of those old toy keyboards are analog synths, just with alot less features than an instrument designed for professional use

[wollewolfsson]

the synth-sound you hear from a guitar synth pedal like a Electroharmonics minisynth, or bass synth pedal, like Boss SYB-3, is the sound made from the pedals internal oscillator, and that sounds like an analog keyboard synth, timbre wise. But due to pitch- and envelopefollowers somewhat 'nervous' nature, the shape of filter and pitch will be less precise than a keyboard synth, at least using a guitar. But it tracks the pitch of purer toy keyboad sounds, like flute or organ much tighter.

[malkslap]

Hi, im looking for the name of the Casio of the top left (the one with the blue stripe)

i've been looking for it for a long time and couldnt find its name yet! i would really appreciate it!

btw, great playing ;)

[organfairy]

That is the CASIO SA-3.

[lassehoei]

I got one of those lying around somewhere if you are interested

[MisterSoundminister]

i really the idea. btw, what's the top one on the right? has some funky sounds

[organfairy]

That's the SA-1.

[genesisds]

thanks!! its the casio SA, you where right!

[genesisds]

Please help, im searching for my old casio toy keyboard. It looks like the first keyboard that you play. I only remember some styles like new age (it was very easy tu play). The keyboard was black, the on/off bottom red, i remember it with only one speaker at a side. It had polyphony but not more than 3 notes i think.. any clue will be of great help, thanks!

[organfairy]

It sounds like the CASIO SA-1. However, it only has two note polyphony. There was a bigger version that had the exact same voices and rhytms but with bigger keys, two speakers, and four note polyphony. It was called the SA-20.

Have you checked some of my other CASIO videos? They are more close-up so it's easier to spot the details.

[Tyrosaurus]

Agreed. This is so cool!!!

Great choice of voices too.

Quite a collection of keyboards and organs you have.

I'm building a midi-organ myself.

Programming rhythm and acmp/arp. using midi messages.

So I'm also doing the pedal thing.

The keyboard matrices on those mini keyboards sure have a lot of diodes.

Keep up the great and varied stuff!

I wish you a merry christmas.

[organfairy]

Thanks. And you know what: Without all those little diodes all the keys would sound together :-)

[temetoeldedo]

la raja!!

[MelotronicStudio]

ADORABLE !!!!!

[garyspong]

Hey Fairy, Great video. I've been getting into old Casio keyboards lately. I now have an SA-9, MT-68, MT-205 and a new CTK-810. I also have a PT-1, but it only has one sound no matter which buttons you push. My question is this: does the keyboard you use for drums have a rhythm pattern not found on your other synths? Or do you just do that to be able separate it in the mixer for different EQ etc? Thank so much. -Gary

[organfairy]

The SA-1 and the SA-3 - the small black ones - has the same rhytms. I use the SA-3 for rhytm and bass (controlled by the pedal box). The reason I used the SA-3 for rhytm and not the SA-1 was that the rhytm tends to be a little too loud when played together with the organ sound. But bass and rhytm turned out to have the right level even if they were played on the same keyboard. So yes - it is a matter of getting the right level but I didn't use any EQ on this video.

[wollewolfsson]

Truly Cool! I hope its not impropriate to ask how you are controlling a SA from the pedals? Have you hardwired the pedals to the keyboard matrix or is there some kind of more complicated interface involved. I've got a bunch of small Casios myself, and even if I can't play tunes with my feet (either), I'm curious about all kind of different alternative ways off controling them. (er forøvrigt dansk, og håber da en dag at se dig spille til en eller anden obskur 8-bit undergrundsfestival)

[organfairy]

It is simply hardwired to the keyboard. I found out how the row-an-column matrix was designed on the SA-3 and modified the pedal box so the switches in there were doing the same. Then I added a printer plug on the SA-3. The cable to the pedal box allready had such a plug at the end. And that was it. (Det kunne sikkert være sjovt. Jeg tror bare ikke min foretrukne spillestil går så godt i spænd med det typiske synth-publikum)

[wollewolfsson]

okay, thanks for sharing. Surely thats the simple and logical way to do it. Possibly it could make sense to double the start/stop switches, and maybe even the rhythm select switch as stompbox type switches, for foot control.

(jeg deler din tvivl mht det typiske synth-publikum, men på den anden side ville et casio pop-sæt være en kitchet kontrast til de mere støj og technoprægede 8-bit eller circuit bending outfits (som jeg selv gør det i))

[organfairy]

I actually had a couple of switches on the pedal box for starting and stopping what was then my favourit drummachine. But the problem was that I used three different drum machines and four toy keyboards as rhytm makers. So it was an endless changing of cables and some of the machines didn't have the same switch sceme. Therefore I eventually removed the switches and used dedicated foot switches for each unit.

[organfairy]

Jeg puslede faktisk engang - og jeg småpusler faktisk stadig lejlighedsvis - med, ikke circuit bending, men med ny-konstruktion af instrumenter.

Jeg skal ha' taget mig sammen til at lave et par video'er hvor jeg spiller på dem.

[organfairy]

Jeg har også længe truet med at lave et spændingsstyret klokkespil (!) altså sådan en man bruger i børnehaverne som jeg vil forsyne med en række motordrevne køller. Den styrespænding man så sender til klokkespillet vil bestemme hvilken klokke der bliver ramt.

I det hele taget forsøger jeg at leve op til mit navn: Den gode fe der spiller englemusik på orgel :-)

[wollewolfsson]

ja, jeg har jo også set dine videoer med NXT'erne og de andre legoting. Fuld nørdecredit for den slags eksperimenter. Det kunne da bestemt være interessant at se og høre hvad du har lavet af selvbyg.

[organfairy]

Hedder det ikke "Nerd-credit" eller "Nørde-anerkendelse"? (Jeg er også sprognørd)

[wollewolfsson]

jo ... det må det vel strengt taget gøre, i hvert fald, hvis man er af den sprogligt puristiske skole.

[organfairy]

Og nu sker det rent faktisk. Jeg er i gang med at lave en serie video'er hvor jeg viser mine selvbyggede elektriske instrumenter. Jeg regner med at uploade den første sidst på ugen.

[wollewolfsson]

det glæder jeg mig til at se og høre.

og forøvrigt, er den lille mixer du bruger, en af de gamle Monacor ting med DIN-stik indgange til phono, tape, mic tuner ell.lign, altså mere beregnet til stereogrej end musikinstumenter, og har du i givet fald måttet gøre noget ved den for at bruge den til instrumenter.

[organfairy]

De to af instrumenterne går direkte i TAPE og CERAMIC PHONO. Men de to andre bliver først dæmpet lidt i et par små attenuatorer (man kan lige ane omridset af noget firkantet i øverste højre hjørne) så de kan gå i MICRO tilslutningerne. Men faktisk er der en del ældre instrumenter - bl.a. mange rytmeboxe - der har to udgange, hvor den ene er beregnet til at gå i en mikrofonforstærker. Ret praktisk hvis man ikke har en mixer med gain omskifter.

[wollewolfsson]

aha! på den måde... jeg har nemlig sådan én liggende (loppemarkedkøb) + en lignende Uher jeg har klunset., og man kan jo altid bruge en lille fix mixer extra. Man kunne måske ombygge den lidt så micro indgangene blev dæmpet, evt med en switch.

[organfairy]

Det bedste vil være hvis man kan lede signalet udenom mikronfonforstærkeren med den omskifter du er inde på. Det er lidt uhensigtsmæssigt hvis man først har et kraftigt signal, som man så dæmper, og så forstærker igen. Det vil i al fald give mindre støj hvis det går direkte i faderen. Jeg har en gang - med held - ombygget en discountshjemmediskoteksmixer så den nu har 4 linieindgange og én mikrofonindgang.

[Deses]

I have a working SA-3...

And this remind me my childhood. ;_;

[bobamu]

now that was great :D

[n73booster]

Dude i want those!!!!!!!!!!

[Sandbox666]

Hahahahahaha!

[KMNKeybordValt]

Too Too Cool

[89notes]

very kool .. we had a MT32 ?? i think it was .. got me into synths

[matsgull]

Dette er tøft! Jeg elsker "wah voice"-en som kommer inn ved 1:42, det er den dummeste Casio-tonen nonsinne :)

Flere videoer!

[organfairy]

Der kommer flere! Jeg vil snart lave "All that she wants" (Ace of Base) på en masse legetøjskeyboards...

[XraySmurf]

Hvor er det top fedt :D

[organfairy]

Tak. Jeg blev lige nostalgisk et øjeblik så jeg fandt de gamle maskiner frem fra skabet.

Jeg havde engang et helt system af små keyboards der stod på et spånpladestativ. Der er nogle billeder af det på min video "Looking back on a happy life" fra 0:36 til 0:55. Jeg har stadig alt udstyret, men det grimme stativ er kasseret. Jeg laver nok nogle flere mini-keyboard video'er i det nye år.