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Here I give a quick (and quite amateurish — I am not a good keyboard player by any means!) demonstration of my Casio PT-100 keyboard. It is ALL ORIGINAL and NOT modified or “circuit bent” in any way, unlike almost all the other Casio keyboards you’ll find shown on YouTube!

From the late ’80, the PT-100 was one of the last and most advanced Casio keyboards to use exclusively multi-pulse squarewave sounds… *not* FM synthesis or digital samples! It also features Casio Chord with percussion accompaniment, which also makes some very nice retro-style synthesized electronic sounds, especially the “zizz” sound of the hi-hat cymbal.

I just wish they made a bigger keyboard with the same electronics, because I really like its sounds (both keyboard voices and percussion / accomaniment), but especially with Casio Chord enabled, it doesn’t give you very many keys to play the melody on.

p.s. The snippet of melody I keep repeating is from Louise Tucker’s “Dancing By Moonlight”, which itself is based on some classical composer’s melody, the identity of which is unknown to me.

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vintage gear demo by RetroSound

Back to the 80`s!

Some people wished that:
The funny Demo Songs of the Casio SK-1 and Yamaha VSS-200 Sampling Keyboards.

So many memories…

Casio SK-1 (1985):
5 PCM tones: piano, brass ensemble, trumpet, synth drums, human voice
3 additive synth tones: flute, pipe organ, jazz organ

Yamaha VSS-200 (1988):
4 voices, 8-bit sampling, 100 FM tones, 9 DSP effects: loop, u-turn, reverse, FM, AM, fuzz, echo, level and pitch

more info: http://www.retrosound.de and
http://www.myspace.com/retrosound72

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Watch with high-quality stereo sound! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbAe2HyzqA&fmt=18

Three guys, six keyboards, fifteen hits of the 1980s. All played live!

Keyboards:
ARP Axxe
KORG MicroKORG
KORG Triton Extreme 61
M-Audio Axiom 61
Roland Juno 6
Yamaha SHS-10 Keytar

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99 Luftballons by Nena. This video was made for headphones. the 1st Verse Interlude and Synth Solo.

Too see more videos from KeyboardDP on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/KeyboardDP

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A late ’80s Casio keyboard with a nifty gimmick: digital sampling through a built-in microphone (or optional external mike or line-in), allowing you to capture sounds and play them as a voice on the keyboard. Its own instrument voices are digitally sampled as well, giving a more realistic but also more cheesy sound than my PT-100, but it has the same kitschy video-game-like percussion effects.

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Me playing my Yamaha DGX-200 keyboard, recorded on Cakewalk Music Creator v3.0. I Can’t Make You Love Me, Music and Lyrics by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin, as performed by Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Hornsby.

I was originally going to mix in a drum beat and some filler instruments with this until I heard how it came out. I added a reverb, but this is just me playing the song. Since this one has no video, I included the lyrics with it. Hope you enjoy.

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