The CASIO VL-1 (VL Tone) & The ZOOM MS-70CDR = Epic Sounds 

I had one when i was 17 years old! Took it with me every where. Was given as a gift…..

Excellent! Effects and synths go together like peanut butter and chocolate!

Wow this is the da da da machine? How legendary 😀 oh and the reverb just thrusts me into the stratosphere🌍

I still have mine with the casio case. These are awesome Gems.

Can't wait till my zoom arrives monday, cheers for this vid .

That carpet really ties the room together.

One of the most versatile pedals ever... Great vid!!

i so wanted one of these when I was a kid, never could afford one at the time. loved going into Dixons and playing the demo units :) very cool to see it on your video!

That is incredible, you were not lying.

Awesome! Cannot recall the VL-1 being massively imported to Brazil, but I got the Casio MT-75, and one day I decided to put it through my bass pedal. WOW That was the day I got interested in getting more synths, grooveboxes and etc. :D

This is so awesome. I still have my old PT-1, which was the model that came after this but unfortunately, it got rid of the calculator, high/low octaves, ADSR and Guitar sounds. I still love my PT-1 cause it was/is the first instrument I ever received from my mom as a child. It led me down my musical path to the musician I am today. I also use ZOOM multi FX pedals for my basses and pairing this ZOOM unit with this keyboard is genius. Anyone thinking that pairing these two together is just pandering to nostalgia and that there are no real practical uses for these sounds is *_SORELY_* mistaken. I can hear lots of tones you played in many modern songs, especially electronic based genres like Darkwave, New Wave Revival, EBM/Industrial, Shoegaze etc. etc. that use those tones as background soundscapes. Awesome video here. Thank you for sharing... _(P.S. Anyone ever tell you your voice is a dead ringer for Malcolm McDowell's voice?)_

I definitely remember these now that I've seen one. Never had one though.

I used to hook mine up to my amp too! Had great fun in the 80s with this.

I just ordered one to plug into my 4-track. Can't wait!

I have 2 VL-tones and 2 MS-70CDRs. I can’t wait to make some magic with them. Thanks for the inspiration!

Yes Doug, YOU could make a really cool track with this👍🎚🎧🎼👽 Looking forward to it😎😉🎹

"What I'm going to do ... if your still here." I got a kick out of that one.

Was my first synth before I could afford a new Korg Poly 800. Still got it gathering dust!

Hi Doug, you probably sold me one of these in the said Hesseys 😄👍🎹 enjoying the Akai Miniak 😉👍

Thanks for the video. I just picked up one of these synths. It sounds beautiful through my Specular Tempus. I will have to pick up the Zoom at some point for all the other effects. You sound a little like Aleister Begg to me.

When I was young I remember having just moved to Peterborough when these came out. Somewhere like the large boots the chemist store or the co op department store (west gate house ) was selling them , someone wanted to look at one and either they or the assistant played the riff from ‘open your heart’ by the human league on it , and I nearly died of sheer amazement

great demo!

Thank you!!

There’s one of these sat forgotten in the corner of the office at a studio I use. Might get a zoom just to give the old Casio a bit of love :)

I really wanted one of these, but the Christmas I was hoping to get one the salesman in Dixon’s to, my mum if I was serious about music I should get a chord organ instead. No not a bontempi, but an Antoneli 24 button chord organ. Turned out the buttons were laid out like the bass on an accordion. So while I never got my Casio I did get a career for life.

I remember the effects and synthesizers available in the 1970,s. A modular Moog or Synclaviar system would only be accessable to the most famous.

One of my band buddies had one of these back when it came out and he would play Human League's "Don't You Want Me" which of course, they used on that album, and probably on that track as one of the programmed sounds is a dead ringer.

Awesome video !!!! This is incredible the spatial sounds you can make with it. I am a beginner with synth and cables and would like to know what's the others cable is use for? Connected to an amplifier? Thanks for sharing

Genial! Es tremendo lo que se puede hacer con cualquier tipo de teclado conectándolo a un pedal, procesador de efectos o incluso con un cable auxiliar a una pc y usar los efectos de cualquier software, transformándolo en un potente sintetizador. Saludos!

Inspired by this, I'm getting the Zoom pedal, so I'm also getting a David Bowie edition Stylophone to put through it!

Just found your channel and really enjoying the vids. Can't seem to find anything on the Digitakt or other Elektron gear?

This was my first synth. I leaned the 5 note Close Encounters jingle. I wish Casio would re-release this. I'm leery of buying this at 43 years old.

Mine has gone yellow like that, too.

Fantasic results.

Some of those sounds are like architecture and morality era OMD, and BOC without the tape hiss. 😅 Mine has a crackly volume slider and I haven’t played it for ages. Might have to dig it out.

I still have that Casio today...

Very clever video. That Zoom EFX Unit could even make cat sound good....hmmmm, there’s an idea...

da da da da . Synth used on a no 1 record.

So cool I had one for many years. Peace Christo 👽

do u think it is one of these on Abba Gimme Gimme (layered with strings)

Bought one in October 13, 1980 . 40 years ago, wow! FAVORITE USER PRESET ' 05050505' through my Dallas Arbiter Sound City Mark IV 120 guitar amp stack (6 EL34 tubes!).

How easy is it to sync the Zoom’s rhythmic effects to a tempo from a midi source?

I used to love the Synth dept in Hesseys I bought a Roland D10 there Oh yes and my Casio VL-1. :)

Hey man i need some help, i plugged my vl tone to a small speaker using a lineout and now it only works with the speaker plugged. I saw online something about the instrument muting after plugging it being “the standard” but thats as much as i could find. Thx in advance.

Great job. I've had three VL tones. One I lost somewhere? One from a charity shop for £1, a few years ago. and the other off eBay boxed, with case and Manuel. It was amazing at the time. Have you seen Bohemian Rhapsody played on a VL tone.?.It's amazing.. Thanx.

Can you run a SK-1 through this MS-70DR so we can hear the effects (if you have one). Maybe lay different layers down on some recorder to see how it's done? Thanks for the video. 👍👍👍

And the best thing about the VL Tone is..... there's a CALCULATOR! :D

Wow! you can basically plug a potato to that zoom pedal and it will make you good sounds. Good buy then.

Bought my Roland JX3P from Hessy's, oh and a Yamaha DX27...happy days...

will this improve drum sounds also? thx in advance !

I still have that Casio Today

And i got them both!

I had one of these.

I used to buy my bass strings from Hessey's (got 40% discount every time... ah the good old days) Curly's was better for synths and drum machines though.

Yeah had great fun with this when it was released i thought it was the bees knees. made great sounds using the ADSR function etc.. and the 1 key play function was a great feature, hours and hours of fun and still have room for it even now, and lets not forget the most famous use of this device in the song Da Da Da by Trio :D

Was that a very tiny bit of the DS9 opening I heard?!

LOL Hessey's. Spent a good deal of time dossing round there and Rushworths as my mate could actually play guitar and keyboard.

Anyone know how this compares to an Eventide Blackhole?

Very very nice from 12:15 to 14:15.

What, in your opinion, do you think is the best "crappy" casio to own? I am in love with the garbage quality keyboards - they have such a unique sound!

Hello Scouser. Did you get it at Hessy's in Liverpool? Ya kidding? Gosh, the cathedral in the Holy Land where the 4 Gods used to get instruments. Awesome.

I think the zoom track recorder have the fx filter built in as well. That device is for foot stomping guitarists man. Why it is expensive bc of the rugged quality built??

I'm newbie, I'm want to buy some cheap Casio keys, I found the Akai MPK, can I use it (Akai MPK) with the zoom ms-70cdr? Thanks

cool

you can go further by running the output of this little synth into the ext input of a synth something like a like a Bass station 2 and also run your effects chain after the BS 2 or synth with a ext input for awesome sounds....just saying.

If love to make an 80s type track with this

Hahaha, this is genius!!!

1981? I got my for christmas in 1979.

5:38 casio vl-1 + zoom ms = moog 1.

My dad has one of these

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I only say: Trio - Da Da Da! :)

Da Da Da I don’t love you you don’t love me Da Da Da! Hahhhahahahahhaha! Thanks fo that homie :)

why are you using mono? many of the effects are in stereo.

I’m still here.

can i connect the casio to the computer and record it? 🤔

I have a pt 82 and was just about to throw it in the garbage with joy because of the sounds it males but with this pedal i can raise it from the dead, too bad i dont have the dadada rhythm

Dude...that was large.

Whh didn't you output to stereo? Sounds so much better

wow that's yellow!

Da da da

Interestingly the sounds of this machine aren’t yellowed in the same way as the look.

Did i hear a bit of Gordons Gin there?

2:15 Da Da Da

Mummy nice nicotine yellow 😄👍🏻

maybe ... you can give another video ... just give only a little concert of 20 to 25 min? pls ...

I've never understood why Casio never followed it up with enhanced models. It's the only keyboard they ever made with the ADSR.

Got one for $5

im here because of trio hhahahahhaha

Is the 70 the same as the 50?

I still have my VL1 which works apart from the screen which means no programming... Shame.

You should have recorded this video in stereo and used both outputs from the Zoom pedal. It will sound way better

カシオさんはvl1の新型出さないかな～◎○

Giorgio?

Nostalgia, nothing more. Even the very decent Zoom Multistomp couldn't make this Casio sound like anything more than a toy. But good college try. :-)