YAMAHA VSS-200 + CASIO SK-1 Sampling Keyboards

vintage gear demo by RetroSound

Back to the 80`s!

Some people wished that:
The funny Demo Songs of the Casio SK-1 and Yamaha VSS-200 Sampling Keyboards.

So many memories... :)

Casio SK-1 (1985):
5 PCM tones: piano, brass ensemble, trumpet, synth drums, human voice
3 additive synth tones: flute, pipe organ, jazz organ

Yamaha VSS-200 (1988):
4 voices, 8-bit sampling, 100 FM tones, 9 DSP effects: loop, u-turn, reverse, FM, AM, fuzz, echo, level and pitch

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[BaumDerProllige]

cool ich wusste garnicht , das du früher auch toy reviews gemacht hast ... Ich kann auch ein Casio SK-1 (und SK-8) mein Eigen nennen. Weisst ja , das ich normalerweise immer alls sofort umbaue was mir in die Pfoten gerät , aber beim SK-1 kann ich mich irgendwie nicht überwinden , das Teil ist zuu Kultig!

[retrosound72]

@BaumDerProllige Ja, das ist aus den Anfangszeiten. SK-1, VL-1 und VSS-200 habe ich aber immer noch hier. Wie du schon sagst, ist einfach Kult!

[matthehat]

ah thanks! god this reminds me so much of my childhood

[retrosound72]

thanks for rating :)

[VisionnerzBN]

Cool video! When I was young, my uncle got me a keyboard for my birthday and I've interested in them ever since. I remember it looked just like the SK-1, but I'm not sure if it was one. The difference I notice was that on the front top right it had a little door or window that opened up.

[retrosound72]

The Casio SK-8?

thanks

[DIGITALSCREAMS]

I used to play one of these on the back seat of a car....must have been mid 80's.

Ran on batteries...

What do kids have now - mind numbing game machines...

[synthezer]

I love this its like an 80's TV show theme maybe a game show or possibly about a family that adopts a girl robot from another planet in a fur coat that drives a talking spaceship and solves crimes that were committed on game shows while the little brother plays Atari and Nintendo and the older sister in high school keeps trying to date college guys.

[mutetus]

I have this keyboard, but I have no idea how to use the sampler.

[perryhall1991]

i want to find music like the yamaha demo song.

[sagjig2]

Soo glad I kept my VSS-200.

Freakin love that thing.

[radishfest]

@Alterstateresearcher close! the one the vss-200 uses (YM2413) was used in the master system. the genesis used a nicer yamaha chip :@)

[Alterstateresearcher]

The tone of the vss is better then the sk-1 in my opinion. Reminds me of the Sega Genesis, ....wonder if yamaha used the same chipset from the vss in the Sega Genesis.

[luiswega]

awsome

[Machi3n]

haha nostalgic, my nana bought me a vss from a charity shop when i was little

[simpsons2170]

this a song from megaman, id bet money on that.