I had one of these as a kid. It’s pretty much criminal to wrap up a video of this without playing the demo song with a funny sample recording. That was the best part about it.
Ill never forget me, my childhood best friend and, the victim of our constant derision, his little brother playing with my SK1 when we were kids. We were taking turns making samples when my friend made a sample that said "Aaron loves Teresa", Aaron being his little brother and Teresa being a rather unfortunate looking girl from our school. This was already a very sore subject since we'd been teasing him mercilessly about it ever since he'd been assigned a seat with her on the bus at the start of the school year. As we played the sample over and over, "Aaron loves Teresa" up and down the keyboard from the slowest low note to the chipmunk highest Aaron began to fly into an uncontrollable rage and right at the height of his seething anger I reached over and hit the "Demo" button. ....The SK1 launched into its merry little tune singing Aaron loves Teresa, loves Teresa!, loves Ter-ee-ee-sa! over and over!😅 This final act pushed Aaron over the edge into an absolute abyss of psychotic rage, he attacked us both, powered by his blinding hatred and, ripping the SK1 away, he threw it against the wall in one seamless motion All the while cussing and crying an endless stream of barely intelligible obscenity 😅....oh man the good times!
Fam, I think this is the most *you* video you've done. A topic within your interests, your humor shines through, good info & the pacing was spot on. Great work my guy, keep it up.
It was also used on the intro Elliott Smith's Pretty (Ugly Before) 7". "At the very intro it has this strange sounding melody being played and that's Aaron [Embry] on his SK-1. Which is this like kinda low budget little keyboard synthesiser thing, but it had this sampling ability - this like lo-fi - like it would sample maybe like a 3 seconds--I'm not sure how many seconds. But Aaron would go to the microphone and hum a note, and it would sample that note. And then he could play the sound of that recording--would go to the keys. And so if you listen, you can kinda hear it's a voice. But it's a synthesised version of a voice. I remember every night before that song he has to load that voicing because the keyboard wouldn't remember it." - Scott McPherson, S2E3 My Favourite Elliott Smith song podcast
Ahhhhh yes. The joys of childhood, learning how to play “Lean On Me” with fart sound samples and the Bossa Nova beats, recording it, and then playing it super fast! Then super slowwwwww. Haha omg, so many fond memories! Thank you for this 👏
This was my first keyboard. I wrote a ton of songs on it when I was a teen. Later I got a CZ-101. There is a great iPad app that mimics the SK-1. Great video.
I had one of these back in the 80's it was great as my introduction to sampling. I then met Carlos Alomar from David Bowie's band ...he is an avid keyboard player as well as guitarist.
Had one of these when I was at school. Closest we could get to real samplers (which were a very big thing at the time). Ended up selling it to a school-friend to put the money towards a Casio SK-200, which I sold to a teacher so I could buy something else (Yamaha DX-100 maybe). Years later still have the DX-100 somewhere, and a home studio based around Cubase. To be honest, I'm not sure how to use it as a sampler, but have never needed to.
My first keyboard was a Casio VL-1 with built in calculator, which I got for Xmas in 1982. You could even do crude ADSR on it by switching to calculator mode, typing in the parameters, them back to keyboard mode. Very clunky.
Got one from the Sharper Image store. Thought it would make me a rock star. Not quite, but I did have a blast playing with this many nights when I was supposed to be doing homework. Wish I had not sold it.
I have several from thrift stores and a SK5 I put different sounds on the SK 1 and tape down 2 keys which creates a loop that shifts. The SK 5 has trigger pads. I also have a tascam cassette 4 trk so ... Fun City
I miss the days when i could find cool things like this at any thrift store for like 2 bucks. I still have one that is MIDI-fied that i pretty much only use for weird samples
"How cool is The Casio SK_1 ? " So cool it can stop global warming. I've got one myself and i love the simplicity. Turn it on. Chose a sound among a few. Ad a beat if you want or just play around with the one finger chord and a beat. Like when i play guitar i just want to plug it in and play. Not using half of my life searching for the perfect tone. What i love most with my little friend Sk-1 is the freedom of not have so much choise.
Jazz Organ is where's it at. Then you record onto your trusty GE 3-5194A tape recorder. (It has recording and variable playback speed with no pitch control. It's so nice.)
@@JoshIsMakingMusic I normally do my brass patches either in my Xpander or DX7 then through the S950 and actually one of each of these is usually the active sample in my S950. There's actually another version that I have saved in wave format from years ago that I ran through my rather broken Realistic tape recorder. That was the best sounding tape recorder (in the lofi warbling nonsense way.)
The microphone in these are notorious for the most farts sampled by kids ever. If you had one when you were a kid and didnt fart into the sampler then you missed out on a great part of an 80s childhood.
I had a lot of fun with my SK 1 back in the day. I’d put a deposit on a Korg monopoly, but bottled it and the store agreed I could shift my deposit to buying an sk 1
I ALSO had one of these as a kid. It was the OG fart sampler. These days I use Studio One Pro 6 and my controller/synth is a Yamaha EX5 along with lots of VST instruments. Those are amazing!
I had one of these as a kid. I tortured my family with it. EDIT: I posted what's up there ^ before you started talking to your friend. Subscribed. Peace!❤☮
The reason why I would get one is ... 'sound, sound, sound' 🙃That Lo Fi Sound is until today not possible to get with 'Lo Fi effects' only old or crappy samplers and tapes can make that sound.
That's what's funny about samplers like that. One of their major shortcomings -- low audio fidelity -- has become a prized feature. It's like how a lot of modern photographers try to replicate the failings of old cameras to get that "film" look. The things that used to be bad about older tech have become the things people find desirable.
Hello I'm trying to find a power supply for this synth after buying a deceptive one listed for casio sk-1 that doesnt even match the voltage, what power supply did you use?
Casio= toy keyboard... 🤔,... I agree to disagree.. ive got the sk-2 and psr 443.. believe me.. its not only the tech,its the artist that plays it. 😊. Anyway. Great video and keep doing your magic 😉👍🏼
This was made for kids and as a kid back then, I had a TON of fun with it every day just with the sampling mic. Your imagination was the only thing stopping you from making some of the wildest sounds.
i had and still got one of these, (it mostly works but has switch issues now) not sure but think it was the first 'cheap' keyboard with sampling facility?
