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Previously used Casio vl-tone, VL-1 model. It has some minor signs of past use, but its still looking very good and fully working. One last thing, the booklet, while readable, has some torn pages.
A vintage classic from the 80s, an item that has been used by Apollo 440, Devo, the Talking Heads, the Cars, Dee-Lite, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Vince Clarke, Beastie Boys, The Human League, Trio, White Town, and Bill Nelson.
29 button keys
built-in small speaker (mounted in a resonance pot)
monophonic main voice
5 preset sounds {piano, fantasy, violin, flute, guitar} (selected by slide switch with a small delay)
10 preset rhythms {march, waltz, 4-beat, swing, rock-1, rock-2, bossanova, samba, rhumba, beguine} made from 3 analogue percussions
volume and “rhythm/ melody balance” sliders
3 octave transpose switch
built-in calculator
ADSR synthesizer (uses calculator memory as sound parameter register)
LCD (displays calculator stuff and e.g. note values)
monophonic sound generator based on multipulse squarewave tones with different digital envelopes, those are differently low pass filtered through capacitors. The digital envelopes (with audible zipper noise) are linear and thus sounds unrealistic because they fade silent too soon.
rhythms consist of only 3 sounds {high blip, low blip, snare} made from squarewave and shift register noise.
CPU= “NEC D1867G, X1Y24K-146, Japan” (44 pin SMD)
simple sequencer (100 notes, editor (insert & delete), 2 “one key play” buttons to change note duration, battery backed-up)
demo button (plays German folk song “Unterlanders Heimweh”(?))
tuning trimmer at case bottom
jacks for AC-adapter & headphone
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Category: Musical Instruments:Keyboards and Pianos:Electronic Keyboards
Location: London