Casio PT-100 keyboard (NOT circuit-bent!)

Here I give a quick (and quite amateurish -- I am not a good keyboard player by any means!) demonstration of my Casio PT-100 keyboard. It is ALL ORIGINAL and NOT modified or "circuit bent" in any way, unlike almost all the other Casio keyboards you'll find shown on YouTube!

From the late '80, the PT-100 was one of the last and most advanced Casio keyboards to use exclusively multi-pulse squarewave sounds... *not* FM synthesis or digital samples! It also features Casio Chord with percussion accompaniment, which also makes some very nice retro-style synthesized electronic sounds, especially the "zizz" sound of the hi-hat cymbal.

I just wish they made a bigger keyboard with the same electronics, because I really like its sounds (both keyboard voices and percussion / accomaniment), but especially with Casio Chord enabled, it doesn't give you very many keys to play the melody on.

p.s. The snippet of melody I keep repeating is from Louise Tucker's "Dancing By Moonlight", which itself is based on some classical composer's melody, the identity of which is unknown to me.

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[gflatify]

circuit bend the keyboard

[vwestlife]

@gflatify No.

[Mr1p0d]

That keyboard has an FM chip inside just by the number of voices

[vwestlife]

@Mr1p0d Nope! The PT-100 was one of Casio's last and most advanced multipulse squarewave based keyboards. As the "TableHooters" web site explains, "These instruments synthesize their main voice from 2 layered multipulse squarewaves with different digital envelopes followed by simple analogue filters. (Casio called this principle Consonant-Vowel synthesis.) The results can be very different from average videogame squarewave sounds and permit high quality timbres."

[corganb]

did this come out before or after the SK1?

[vwestlife]

@corganb I think they both were around the same time... mid to late '80s.

[gflatify]

@vwestlife you're right. circuit bending is lame.

[TheToploaderwasher]

Circuit Bending could lead to damage to the keyboard! D:

[coldll]

just got this today!! quite excited :)

[DementedAugmented]

found this in the trash down the street...fun stuff

[blublahx]

Please do not ever circuit bend that keyboard..

[vintagerosenz]

I HAVE ONE OF THESE! Mum kept it from the 80's! I played with it a lot as a child. I think it's so funny!

[DTGninja]

I have one, I don't really like it very much though. I got it at a yard sale for about $5 . The keys are very small and the sounds aren't that useful (in my opinion). However, it's probably a good first keyboard for kids, since it's cheap and small.

[ccricers]

Wow, that was my first keyboard. I rocked the hell out of the samba beat. In retrospect it was pretty cool that it was capable of playing back many chord layouts.

[drasco61084]

aw i have this same one. i learned keyboard on it as well when i was younger but i burned it when i plugged in the AC adapter at too high voltage one time :/ just flipped the switch and POP from the speaker.. doesn't work anymore. If anyone has one of these in good condition and ever wants to sell it post on ebay or amazon i'd like to know.. please. no outrageous prices i'm not made of money but i'd pay 20-40 if i don't get a good keyboard (or find the problem in mine) by then.