TOY #7 CASIO SK-1 Sampling Keyboard 1986 | HQ DEMO 

When I first saw this in my local Walmart, I bought it immediately. On the demo unit on display in the store, I sampled in, "F*#k you, Kid" as I was leaving. A kid walked up to it a second or two later and touched a key. When it said, "F*#k You, Kid" he started cracking up!! Pretty sure he bought one immediately as well...now I gotta go look on the internet and try to find another one of these. I would loooooove to get my hands on one again...Ol Sarge...

A rare video where the synthesizing on SK-1 is shown.

Best demo of the capabilities of SK-1 I've ever seen.

It's a shame so many people butcher these instruments in the name of circuit bending. It's cool as it is, bend the uncool ones.

Had too much fun with this thing back then. Sample some silly grunting -> press the keys to hear silly grunting -> play the demo with the grunting filling in for an instrument -> laugh like an idiot til head hurts.

i just discovered that these things can do granular synthesis (as you show) and it blew my mind. also just discovered: if you have it in solo mode and press the sample loop button in the middle of a pitch glide, it does this awesome glitch where it glides up from a rock bottom pitch that you can't otherwise access, it has a very satisfying bit crushed crunch down at the bottom and the exaggerated acceleration of the loop over that long pitch distance is quite dramatic, good material for some sort of dirty tension build. and the distance between the keys you're gliding between determines how long it takes to rise from rock bottom, the further the distance the quicker it rises oddly. somebody else try it and tell me i'm not crazy lol

This was my first musical instrument as a child. For $15 you could buy cassettes of sampled sounds and feed em into the SK1

Damn I miss this keyboard. Started with a vl tone, then SK-1 back in the day. Now have a TE OP-1 because it brings me back to both of those in many ways.

Need to hear that demo button again! Was waiting for you to press it... Miss mine now lol

Although the sampling was fun, my favorite sadly abandoned functionality and which to me is one of the best ever, was to be able to record note by note, be able to delete that note in case you entered it wrong, then with only two keys, play the whole perfectly recorded song in the time you wanted, so it could be rearranged to perfection. Why the H* did Casio remove these features and why the H* didn't other companies made them til today? I am having to redo this wonderful stuff by creating my own little virtual synth now.

the grainy sounds you hear in the video were done with the sampling option, not with the harmonic synthesizing. They are extremely short samples which were looped.

Best SK1 video ever.

I love mine. I literally do not tire of it.

This instrument is a legend of the 80s ...

Loved this baby! Had it from 86 until I was like 24?! 17 years and a key broke off and never saw it since! :) Fun to play with! :)

This was my second electronic keyboard/synthesizer (the first was a secondhand spinet organ from a church auction). If I had the first idea what you could do with it, I wouldn't have mistreated mine the way I did.

I love the vocal bit!!!

One of my favorite instruments of all time.

My most popular samples back in the day were burps.

I bought mine in 1989 off the Home Shopping Club. It still works!

These toy vids are awesome, please keep them up! A lot of Christmas gift ideas on this channel haha.

I had no idea this had porta bend! I've only had SK-5 and its younger siblings. great video, thanks

Whoa, how did you get that sound at 1:24? It's so hard and bubbly. It sounded like the previous sound pitched down. Tell me your secrets!

I took a risk and got one of these from the old junk market in Coney Island for $10. It works perfectly. I still annoy everybody with it. The pipe organ sound is nice and loud. 4 key poly play is pretty good for a toy keyboard of that size from it's time.

Radio Shack had an almost exact duplicate to this way back when. It was fun too.

4:57 damn that's nice

How did you manage to get that sound at 0:58?

I love the way how you "ok, lets cut music and get back to synth noodling" @4:12

I want one like that. I like the organ sound effect and other sounds.

It's a wonderful machine.

You have the most amazing demo's, thank you so much for taking the time to upload these! A question: Are you planning on getting a Mellotron M4000D? I'd love to see you do a demo of that beauty!

This toy-keyboard RULEZ big time. :)

Your Demo Shows Useful This Keyboard Still Is.

I found my SK-1 at a flea market ( $5. ) I already have LOTS of effect pedals ( I have played guitar in " Bar Bands" since the late 1960s ) . I already knew what a Mellotron is , and was immediately drawn to this keyboard when I saw the model name , as it lay in a cardboard box amongst other miscellania .My point to all this is , get some kind ( ANY kind ) of effect pedal (s) and have BIG FUN !!!

Homestar Runner?

I had gotten one of these for my sister back in 86. She didn't do much with it, however. About a year later I messed around with it a bit and had some rather nice sequencing abilities. Entered in notes and chords and then she could play with that by tapping the beat, so figured out I had to set things up for her and she would play with it. But, sadly, it couldn't save anything, so power it off, and everything is gone, including any sample.

Cool demo! Mine is very noisy, like a humming noise coming from the output. Did you experience that, any tips? Thanks!

Beatiful!! I'd proof it ten years ago! There's a standard full keyboard version?

hace casi un añ mi tia me dio ese piano, y recien hace poco pude conseguirle pilas xq no tengo un transformador para el aparato, la verdad no sabia q tenia tanta variedad de sonidos

Haaaa got is one when i was..... Mhhhh a long time ago... What a souvenir the first rhythm pattern

Wow, that's awesome that you can make custom instruments! I wonder how many people recorded a rude word into the keyboard and made a song out of it.

@The7thINFANTRY thanks! Well, I am not planning buying a Mellotron. But it's a great instrument. :-)

Honestly, I kinda wish that I owned this. At most for subtle Homerstar medias, I have a keyboard kinda like this one, but it's not a Casio SK-1. But on a plus, its music demo is the music Keyboard Strong Bad plays when he's angry.

Got one of these yesterday at Goodwill for $2.99. My sister got one for Christmas in 1986, and I would mess around with it.

Damn this one looks like more fun then my big one

Some of the sounds you were sampling then playing back made it sound as if the keyboard had been circuit bend, when in fact it hasn't been, that's a good thing in my book as I don't exactly like circuit bending too much. I've not used one of these before, but I find them very interesting indeed.

awesome demo!

Thanks!

Really very interested in making songs with this thing but I have no idea where to start. new to all this stuff. I have a 2015 iMac with Adobe audition and audacity. Ryan gosling's character in Terrance malick's "song to song" used this keyboard quite a few times & I love the sound along with the music they created with it in the film, just have no idea how they did it. Any advice would be appreciated.

This thing has soul

A Casio SK-1.

i had this keyboard when i was a kid :(

I got one of these when I was like 5 and most of the keys broke off. It has a lot of advanced features for a little toy keyboard. I still have the keyboard and the manual. I wish I could get the keys replaced though.

"What's your name, what's your sign?! I've got almost the same nerves..."

I figured it out through the external output

I would love to know how you made those awesome titles!

@alexriesenbeck Same here - I had no idea it could do that.

I’m trying to sample in on this keyboard 🎹. For the life of me no luck yet. Is there a certain chain of commands to follow from line in and directions please help me if you can thanks

Hi, I got a question, that sound on 4.30 is that just a preset? Or did you tweak around with it to get that? Thanks !

Hey great vid. How did you get the sound at 1:24?

intro music kicks arse

@WillCommentForFood this is simply a second clap recording.

High quality sampling of a low quality toy keyboard ?

AnalogAudio1 - What is the beat at the beginning of this video? What device is making that sound?

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?

Ive downloaded the manual and tried countless times with the synthesizing but i cannot get a cool 8-bit sound. Any tips? :)

How do you get that 'tape moving text' effect in the beginning?

Its a nice peice of kit but for this sort of thing i use the yamaha vss-30 now thats awesome!

great !!!

3:40 is just beautiful, that is all.

what is the machine in the intro?

what camera did you record this with ? i like how it looks

What are you sampling from?

Hello, Do You know Casio S-one ? Thank You.

Mon clavier portable casio DM100 il avait un mode sampling aussi

Just found one of these at a carboot for £5, hoping it works so I can have some fun with it

I need one

Predator at 44 seconds

How do you do that? I have a Sk-1 and i dunno how

I have that same one and I'm using it right now poop as the sample word XD

How did you get the audio from the keyboard?

i recently bought the sk-1. 3 of the keys don't work. do you know how i can fix them?

but how to make the short loops though?! I tried this so many times but it seems that my loop points are always slow... how do i change this so I can make the loop points shorter and make similar synth sounds??

Mines not sampling, i hold sample forever but it never works

Which charger should I use for this keyboard?

I got My Casio SK-1 sampling keyboard from my late Sister who passed away at Age 58 from COPD.I need to get an AD5 Adapter for it.If i get it and audio cable to connect from it to my PC,i'll be able to make my own music.nSW Music And Media

What do I need to record this into a DAW?

Midway, it sounded like the Akira soundtrack...bitchin

Do you collect synths or just a dealer?

Is this MIDI?

hey, how many AA batteries does it need?

Sounds like rubber bands I had this keyboard too and I did a sneeze and Nancy had one sounds like the Dremel or disappointed sounds like he said Dad did you say dad sir

I'd like to see an SK-8...it's a much better machine.

read the manual, then be creative ;-)

Make a video with a tutorial :D

I have that

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Wish there was more of a focus on the sampling. Customizable envelopes, low/high pass filters, LFOs... the Chord, rhythm, and tone crap is pretty worthless. I'm disappointed in this thing, but I bought it at Goodwill for $5 so it could be worse.

the sk-2 is kinda underwhelming

Aw! I miss having mine! I was hoping to hear the Demo Sing ~ "Toy Symphony"!