Keyboard fanatics » ek-001 http://www.keyboardfanatics.com kool keyboards & kool kats Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:33:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hing Hon EK-001 square wave keyboard http://www.keyboardfanatics.com/1285/hing-hon-ek-001-square-wave-keyboard/ http://www.keyboardfanatics.com/1285/hing-hon-ek-001-square-wave-keyboard/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:55:18 +0000 Rich http://keyboardfanatics.com/1285/hing-hon-ek-001-square-wave-keyboard/ This is the Hing Hon EK-001, a tiny musical keyboard from the ’90s that looks like a toy, but has a very interesting sounding tone generator, making it sound very much like the sound chip in a Commodore 64 or Atari 8-bit computer. More info here:

http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/HingHon_EK001.html

My favorite sound on it is the “horn” sound, the last one shown in the video — the intermodulation distortion between the two voices is really thick and massive sounding for such a small keyboard. The video I made was originally much longer, including me playing around instead of just running through the demo song, but my video capture card screwed it up. I’ll have to record another video of it.

Duration : 0:1:45


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