This is a demo of the funky Casio SK-10 sampler/synthesizer, by Liz Luttinger.
The SK-10 offers 1.4 seconds of 8-bit sampling goodness, along with some eightiestastic drum beats and synth tones.
If you’ve used the Casio SK-10, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Casio SK-10 Features:
- 9.38 kHz sampling frequency
- 8 bit
- 1.4 seconds of sampling
- holds one sample
- 32 mini keys
- 13 envelope shapes
- portamento
- vibrato
- 11 drum patterns: disco, rock, pops, march, samba, bossa nova, rhumba, 4 beat, swing, slow rock, waltz
- additive synth section.
- 5 PCM tones: piano, brass ensemble, trumpet, synth drums, human voice
- 3 synth tones: flute, pipe organ, jazz organ
- Sequencer: 400 steps of polyphonic programming or 99 step chord sequence with and 198 steps each of two solo voices.
- Loses all sequence and sample memory when turned off.
Casio SK-10 Resources:
- Casio SK-10 resource site.
- Details circuit bending photos of a Casio SK-10
- Highly Liquid carries a MIDI retrofit for the Casio SK-10
- Video demo via zachknows
Yep – now I want to go hang out in thrift stores until I can find one!
Oh wow, I remember having one of these as a kid, it was crazy fun to play with. We just couldn’t get enough of sampling fart noise’s into it and then playing the preset songs back with a lead fart instead of a regular instrument lol
I created a very short abstract video using an SK-1 recording that I did many years ago …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM2N1ffhxg8
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Hypnotic!
There were around a dozen SK models. Check out this site if you want to see them all:
http://www.casiosk1.com/index.cfm
There were around a dozen SK models. Check out this site if you want to see them all:
http://www.casiosk1.com/index.cfm
There were around a dozen SK models. Check out this site if you want to see them all:
http://www.casiosk1.com/index.cfm
I found one in a thrift shop for $12.99 US. It looks new like maybe a reproduction? Had a Japanese sticker on it that looked like some hipster thing. Sounds great though. Helps me ease my inner pain of selling an SK1 back in the day. No portamento though.
My kids are playing with mine, 30+ years after I did.