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Vintage Casio Casiotone MT-65 Electronic Musical Instrument Keyboard Synth Works. EUR 131.91 131.91.

This is what it looks like.I dig it. I reckon this is a medium sized eighties Casio. It is about the same size as my Korg R3 but has small keys and one more octave. I bought this because being an early digital Casio it might have some video game-like sounds in it.

It actually does. The sounds that have a sharp attack do.

The ones with a slow attack rate don't. But the electric guitar, clavinet, synthesizer, and vibrophone sounds are rather video game-like. The MT-205 actually has more 'useful' sounds than my older analog Casiotone 501 does. Though the 'useful' sounds on the 501 sound better than their counterparts on the MT-205. In fact the 'jazz organ' sound, which is actually pretty good on the Casiotone 501, is one of the less interesting sounds on the MT-205. But several of the selections sound pretty good as long as you don't expect them to sound just like the instrument you selected. The trumpet sound does not sound like a trumpet.

But it is a nice sounding synthesizer-type sound. The flute sound is rather odd and doesn't have much sustain. The 'synthesizer' sound has a pretty good bass sound. I could use it.

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In fact all of the sounds could be used for something.What is really groovy about the MT-205 in particular is Super Drums. The MT-205 has a dozen different beats. And for every beat you can select three different sounds for the bass drum, snare, hand clap/bongos, and cymbal. The drums are a lot more versatile than on the 501.

Though the 501's drums sound a little different. But the 'drums' on the MT-205 and Casiotone 501 are like on those really old school seventies drum machines like what might sit on top of a home entertainment organ. 1000 hz test tone. And the cost of the MT-205 and the 501 together are less than most of those old school drum machines. Those old Rhythm Aces are getting expensive. Cheap Casios are an acceptible to good alternative. Although I really enjoy my Casios the thing I got them for and the thing I like best about them is their 'drums'.

They are rather mechanical sounding and do not sound much at all like real acoustic drums. Not that there is anything wrong with it. But if I am going to be using a drum machine it might as well sound like a drum machine since that is what it is. Ah casio, i have loads of them, here's notes on a few.PT1/PT20'That' Blippy Rhythm, 'That' Fantasy Sound, the PT20 has great one finger chord stuff, just take the waltz rhythm, run it through a space echo and it's hella creepy!MT-240Amazing String Ensemble, Creepy Vibe Synth Sounds, Cheese-tastic Drums (Including some crazy LFO cymbals!) and Slap Bass, MIDI(!) and 4 part multi-timbrality.CASIO SA-1OH MY GOD!

The holy grail of great GRITTY sampled/rompler sounds, featuring some insane synthy effects, a great WAW voice, cheesy drums, and other great gritty timbres, good to sample, but, you'll have to either mic it up or make your own output socket coz it has none!Love my casios!

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Casiotone CT-380 KeyboardCasiotone refers to a series of home released by Computer Co. In the early 1980s. In 2019 the series was revived with the launch of three new keyboards.

Casio claims that the Casiotone 201 (CT-201) was 'the first electronic keyboard with full-size keys that anyone could afford'.The first Casiotone keyboards used a technique known as to approximate the sounds of other instruments (albeit not very accurately). Most Casiotone keyboards were small, with miniature keys designed for children's fingers, and were not intended for use by professional musicians; they usually contained a rhythm generator, with several user-selectable rhythm patterns, and often the means to automatically play accompaniments. While the name 'Casiotone' disappeared from Casio's new keyboard catalog when more accurate synthesis technologies became prevalent, their low cost and abundance made them fairly common fixtures in. Musicians and bands known to use Casiotone keyboards include: of, of, of, Cobol Pongide and, Chiara Lee of, Elena Lozovskaya. Contents.Families Old Casiotone keyboards came in three distinct families, separated by the method of synthesis. The famous VL-Tone (1979) uses a method of sound synthesis based on the. Keyboards such as the CT-202 ( c.

The later model of this family, the MT-65, is one of the more well known and sought after models, as it also contains auto-accompaniment drum beats and bass lines. Some other keyboards (such as the MT-35 and MT-45) use a combination of two different binary weighted numbers (1 and 64). The larger weight bit provides the fundamental, and the smaller weight bit provides the harmonic complexity.The later, more professional range of keyboards, the (1984–1986), used, which is mathematically almost identical to 's, although implemented slightly differently in order to avoid patent infringement.After the release of famous in 1985, gradually PCM sample based tone generator became dominant in Casio keyboards line. After the 1990s, most Casio keyboards utilize PCM tone generator or its variants.Some early 1980s models in the PT series of keyboards, such as the PT-30, PT-50, PT-80 and PT-82, were not marketed under the Casiotone name. The name was revived again later for models such as the PT-87 (which is basically the same as the PT-82) which was again sold as Casiotone.ROM Packs. ROM PackSome models sold from 1983 onwards included a cartridge bay to accept Casio ROM Packs which contained sheet music in a digital format.

The keyboards could play the notes automatically, or (with the exception of the PT-50 ) illuminate above each key to teach the user how to play the song. Most keyboards came with one ROM Pack as standard, but a large number of additional packs, covering a wide range of musical genres, were available to purchase separately. The last ROM Pack model was the CT-840, which came out in 1990.

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