Casio VL-Tone

Here is the VL-Tone VL-1 in action.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• casio
• vl-tone
• vl-1
• retro
• calculator
• 80s
• analogue
• synth
• synthesizer
• vintage

[amigaknight]

is this polyphonic?

[analoguecrazy4]

no, the VL-Tone is monophonic.

[SMARTEARMIN]

how did you get the reverb?

[izvarin]

i keep hearing its preset tunes... here and there...

[Jay1967]

I had one if these in the 80's.. Think I ended up using it as a cricket bat?! That was the preset they didn't tell you about!!

[BernardMortsell]

Just gotta love this crazy calculator-gone-syntheziser. There's a pretty good Android app with ll the factory presets and rhytms. And of course the demo song... Look for VL-Tone on the Android market, or go to market.android.com/details?id=­com.skrivarna.vltone.android

[bowmoneydrums]

is the output stereo or mono?

[arig]

had one of these back in 80, tro dadada for sure

[RappyMcRapperson]

RED HOT SHIZZ!!

[MisterKidEgo]

lol is that the keyboard they used for making music for Nintendo games back in the days?

[jimbothefonzo]

I love the guitar. sounds just like one.

[1986uno45s]

@shadowpuppet48 Not as standard as the VL-1 only has power in and mini audio jack out. It is probably possible to retrofit a MIDI kit to it though with some work.

[1986uno45s]

2.20: Human League - "The things that dreams are made of"! Sounds amazingly like the bass sound used for that track on "Dare". I thought it was only "Get Carter" that used the VL-1, but maybe the bassline on "Things that dreams are made of" also used it too?

[Pr0perB01]

trio da da da ...human league kraftwerk lol awesome little synth

[Pr0perB01]

haahahah ive got 1 of those classic...used on many tracks

[Robotique69]

Gush, to tap in some random numbers is LOW. There IS a system for what the numbers do in each step, like what waveform, envelope and LFO's (pitch and amplitude) there should be. Learn your product before demoing it, please! ;-)

[ThePollyRhythmz]

after watching this, i realize how pong and drawn out my vltone video is.

[keyboardprince]

it was this that started it for me the v l tone

[NumanFanlfc]

I like the Get Carter bit lol

[fpscreatorfan]

Yeah...lol

[bruceyover]

You must have a big pocket

[fpscreatorfan]

I have this. Its a pocket piano

[Reorte]

That's brought back some memories. We used to have one of those when I was a kid, spent ages making a dreadful noise with it. Unfortunately I've no idea where it has got to. I didn't know about the programmable part - that was "that button that doesn't seem to do anything".

[shadowpuppet48]

stupid question cos its old but is there any way you can connect it to a computer?

[the80slord4]

A Yamaha PSS-480.

[Lachlant1984]

What's that keyboard to the right of the VL-1?

[miguelpinheirolost]

oh, ok, sorry :D