This video, via 8-Bit Keys, is a review of the vintage Casio PT-80 mini synthesizer.
“Not only does this keyboard have bad sound instruments, and not only is it monophonic which makes it impossible to plays chord…..but it also is all treble,” he notes.
Jeez, not another mini key synth! When will companies learn we want full size keys! This is going to flop. I will not be preordering this! This is an outrage! Boycott Casio!
The synth engine sounds fantastic but the mini keys RUIN it. NO SALE! How can I shred on this with all my expert lightening fast master skills? This is a toy for babies! Dumb babies!
Just in case someone doesn’t get your joke: This keyboard was released, as a toy, in 1984.
Better than ReFace lol!
just played some refaces there actually pretty cool
That was a nice lil vid, BTW.
Casio forever… Well early 80s casiotone, until the silicone decomposes…
Did the casiotones have fake breasts?
They would be much more popular if they did.
I got one. When I recived it, super dirty, I clean it inside out, even the circuit board, Then I reassemble it, It start to have an LFO on the sound…
Run that Casio through an Analog Filter season with a touch of Delay and generous helping of reverb and one can arrive at a pretty thick sounding analog wall of tone.
As long as you’re happy with a thin pulse wave F4 being your lowest note.
Then again, you can run a smoke detector alarm though enough effects and make a “wall of tone.”
I have a small eurorack attached to my smoke detector just for this reason. I love a wall of tone whilst burning popcorn.
Cool wall mountage.
if it is all analog, couldn’t you fairly easily hack an octave switch?
The PT30 is superior, the bass organ on the PT20 is awesome.
I still have my1984 PT-50
350$, and back ordered .
Chord buttons were classic
It came with a ROM cartridge
That played songs, and had a playbook
Cheesy 80’s band autograph included!
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Did the reviewer own the keyboard as a kid?
Its not unheard of to run vintage crap through a couple of effects and find some good voices, assuming you have the desire and room for a lot of old Stuff. Astro is right about the thin pulse wave, though. Some pigs you can dress up, some you can’t. You newbies and near-newbies should try this: run your newest doof toy through a few pedals or, if u r lucky, something like a Roland GT-6 multieffects box. Spend just one honest hour exploring it. If it doesn’t reward you with a few useful noises by then, it ain’t gonna. The Korg Poly-800 was sure no Jupiter-8, but with a distortion pedal, an EQ and a delay, I got a surprising e-guitar out of it. You never know. It took them a while, but with the PX5-s stage piano/synth and its two synth predecessors, Casio finally showed its muscle.
I had one of those, fun toy but not too useful lol.