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CASIO SK-1 SAMPLING ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD -BOXED
The keyboard is used but in excellent condition for its age and fully working. Please see manufacturers specification listed below.No power supply as I always used it with batteries.Printed copy of manual and service manual included.Will be very well packed in its box inside another box and sent by Royal Mail 2nd class parcel post.
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This keyboard from 1985 was the first affordable home instrument that could record and playback samples. It also includes an additive synthesizer that can generate Hammond- like organ drawbar sounds by mixing sine waves. The rhythms are made from very recognisable semi- metallic blip percussion.
All sounds can be combined with 13 preset volume envelopes. Also the portamento (glide tones) button is really fantastic, because it can make the instrument howl like a theremin when switched into a monophonic mode. The SK-1 has cheesy single finger accompaniments and great digital blip rhythms. The blip percussion sounds very unique and has been used in many tekkno, acid house and pop musics. Very annoying is that the sample-, synthesizer- and sequencer memory is always erased by auto power- off. (As a temporary fix for this, simply start a rhythm and set volume to minimum when you need to make a pause.) This instrument was also released as Realistic Concertmate-500.
Specification.32 midsize keys.Built-in speaker.Main voice polyphony up to 4 notes.8 OBS preset sounds {piano, trumpet, human voice, pipe organ, brass ensemble, flute, synth. drums, jazz organ}.11 preset rhythms {disco, rock, pops, march, samba, bossa nova, rhumba, 4beat, swing, slow rock, waltz} made from unique blippy digital waveforms.Single finger chord mode (full keyboard plays only accompaniments (e-bass + e-piano arpeggio line)).Lo-fi sampler (1 sample, loopable 1.4s with 8 bit at 9.38kHz?).Additive synthesis (1 memory for a waveform assembled from 9 virtual sine drawbars {16′, 8′, 5 1/3′, 4′, 2 2/3′, 2′, 1 3/5′, 1 1/3′, 1′} with each 14 steps).13 selectable preset volume envelopes (usable on any sounds, but they are slow and most sound very similar).Vibrato and portamento button.Fill-in button.Slide switch for “normal” (polyphonic), “solo 1″/ “solo 2” (monophonic) and “chord” (single finger chords only) mode.Sample based sound generator for 4 voices + rhythm. The percussion employs very recognisable semi- metallic thin blip timbres.Complex multi- chip hardware.Small sequencer with 400 steps on 3 tracks {solo 1, solo 2, chords/ accompaniment}.No persistent memory, i.e. sample, synthesizer and sequencer data get erased as soon the instrument is switched off or goes auto-power-off after a few minutes.1 demo melody (“The Toy Symphony” by Mozart).Auto power- off (erases memory!).Jacks for AC- adapter, line out, line in, microphone.
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