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VINTAGE – 1980s – CASIO VL-TONE VL1 ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD COMPUTER SYNTHESISER CALCULATORThe VL-1 was the first instrument of Casio’s VL-Tone product line, and is sometimes referred to as the VL-Tone. It combines a calculator, a monophonic synthesizer, and sequencer.It has 29 calculator-button keys (G to B), a three-position octave switch, one programmable and five preset sounds, ten built-in rhythm patterns, an eight-character LCD, a 100-note sequencer, and a multi-function calculator mode.The VL-1 is notable for its kitsch value among electronic musicians, due to its cheap construction and its unrealistic, uniquely low-fidelity sounds.Released in June 1979, it was the first commercial digital synthesizer.The VL-1 acquired enduring notability when the German band Trio used it in one of their songs, the “faux-Kraftwerk tune”, “Da Da Da”. They used the Rock-1 rhythm preset and the Piano voice.A similar rhythm preset, Rock-2, features in the first half of “The Man Whose Head Expanded” by The Fall, only to be cut short by Mark E. Smith’s command to “turn that bloody blimey space invader off”.The Human League used the VL-1 for “Get Carter”, a song on their album Dare.INCLUDES: Original case, manual and how to play booklets
USED CONDITIONUsed Very Good Condition. See photos.In very good cosmetic condition considering age – see photosSome wear and tear as you’d expect for an item from 1980s – see photos Not checked if this is workingOne owner (myself) from childhoodPLEASE NOTE there is no packaging
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