Why Cheap Casios Make Great First Synths 

This. Plus a good chance to practice your soldering skills by putting a 3.5 or 1/4 jack output in.

So true, some reverb really transforms basic keyboards

The truest insight i saw this year

Any tips for good beginner pedals?

@@itsJoel59 Zoom Multistomp MS-70CDR

is any of that music of yours on the internet? sounds interesting!

@@Guacamole1000 unfortunately, no. I still have the 4 track cassettes but no longer have a cassette 4 track. Lost previously transferred files when I lost a hard drive. Hoping to get them transferred again soon. Some of my later work which is primarily using a Korg Esx & Roland JX305 can be found on Bandcamp. Same username as here. It’s mostly wandering techy abstract & broken beat inspired rhythm experiments from the mid-late 00’s

​@@intuitivecat just looked it up! Sounds great! Some of your songs give me the Bomberman Hero vibe which is my fave video game soundtrack!

Maybe your Casio was the MT 67

Lol I paid £110 for my Juno 6 which I sold for £300 The real killer was back in the day is I sold my CS15 for £50 an SH101 for £50 another one for £80 a Poly800 for £100 with a Siel EX80 expander and had my Vox Continental Stolen. And turned down Gary Numan's oberhiem OB8 for £650.

Sell me that Casio please 🤣

@@chrisbogan402 which one, the HT-6000? No chance, as to replace it it would cost me a lot more than the £50 I bought it for! You can still pick up the HT3000 for ok money.

@@fatkev1983 I’m just hoping to find a keyboard like that soon 🤞🏽🙏🏾

And being advertised as “synthesisers” when they’re not.

Actually found one at a used store that I cleaned up turns out they're going for $100+

True. I had a Casio mini keyboard, and fried something in it by doing that.

The later Yamaha PSR kb’s have pretty good sound, and USB audio in & out, as well as MIDI. I like the feel on the keys of Casio’s CTK/CTX series more, though, even if the sounds aren’t quite as good (and the USB is only MIDI without audio). Last summer I picked up one of the Casio CGPs and it makes a nice 88key controller. To me the feel is similar to the more expensive Yamaha MX88 (or MODX8), and much better than Roland or Korg entry level kbs, but of course the CGP has just a few hundred (actually nice, but non programmable) presets, rather than being a synth. It’s just a ROMpler in the truest sense.

I picked up a 1987 Casio HT-6000 for $300 au on the weekend. Not sure about this one, it’s uses traditional analog subtractive synthesis with a twist (not VA). It’s got 4 DCOs per voice - with 64 waveforms, sounds very PPG on a good day.with your standard wave forms to ring modulation using dco-based oscillators. And that’s 4 DCO’s for all 8 voices! This can be split at set amounts of split. And of course, 8 vintage analog 24db low-pass resonant VCFs (per voice, eight voices). A pretty decent 5 octave keyboard, fully programmable drum machine based on the famous Casio RZ-1 (but extended - patterns and fills can be saved written and recalled, programmed (with the keys and saved) last, not leastOh, And last but not least, it’s got speakers!!!! This is amazing because it seriously made me do a double take and I found it twice before I clicked - it was up on eBay for 8 days at 300au). Know how to identify? It’s the only Casio with a Alpha Junko/Waldorf Microwave front spin dial jog spin thing. …, oh, and an analog BBD chorus - which sounds, pretty much just like the Roland Junos. Dreams can come true - and synth nerds have been sleeping on this for a while. Oh, and it’s got speakers, made me do a double take (it was up on eBay for 8 days at 300au). My serial no is 12. Good luck!

The Microbrute is fun and educational. Some of its features are surprisingly difficult to achieve on other synths though, because it's so dirty and misbehaves a lot. I thought I would get rid of my Microbrute after upgrading, but I'm keeping it around for the things only it can do. It's just so good at nasty, broken, glitchy sounds...

@@ToyKeeper indeed. Got a Hydrasynth and a bunch of Behringers under my belt (Neutron being the best of all

@@mescaLEO I upgraded to a Pro 3, and hope to get a Hydrasynth at some point too. It seems like the Microbrute will probably stick around though, since it's too cheap to sell, too small to use much space, and too much fun to let go of. Plus, I got the red version and it's really pretty.

Which power supply do you bring

@@shaneo2351 The CT-460 just happens to use the same power was guitar pedals (center negative 9v) so I brought my OneSpot I had laying around. Just make sure you use the correct voltage and polarity and you're golden.

Nice- my friend is borrowing my MT-68, it is fun. Hope all is well, say hi to the mrs. for me!

I'm wearing a ca53w right now lol

Casio MT-70!

sold mine for 300 euro's, yeah def not cheap. But it's a quality synth tbh just really cumbersome.

Not familiar with that model, but $200 is a bit steep

@@JAdeWii_ WK-200 was $89 with the stand and stool. I decided not to get it. I went back to the store to check it out. The SA-75 was $10.

practice practice practice. I don't have any courses yet, but there's lots of good keyboard learning videos on youtube already!

Take piano lessons. You’ll learn finger dexterity and after working through a book or two, you’ll be writing the best songs you’ve ever written.