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
[youtube kM2N1ffhxg8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM2N1ffhxg8 youtube]
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.