My school music department invested in a whole classroom full of SK1s in the 80s. Music lessons soon turned into a cacophony of flactulance, profanities and Tourrete's syndrome that the music teachers resorted to physically removing all the sample buttons on all the keyboards.

@ralphradyk6970

3 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

So if I find one without the sample button chances are it's from your old school ;)

@chrishopkins209

3 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz that brings a whole new meaning to the term “old school sampler”

@MarsHottentot

3 жыл бұрын

OMG - tears 😂

@RosalvoParadella

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I got one heck of a sample I’m holding in.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Relax...

@o_aydin

3 жыл бұрын

Better sampled, than in

@roryjineffect

3 жыл бұрын

Don't mistake this for a Volca, get it placed in the wrong location ...

@milltymefresh

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@Neucougar

3 жыл бұрын

@@roryjineffect is this synthmemes

This was my first synth as a kid. I used it as a burp sampler rather than a fart sampler personally but art is subjective.

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Totally burp guy here too!

@MrVein5.0

2 жыл бұрын

haha, if you havent sampled burps as a kid you havent lived

@justintonation9726

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrVein5.0 someone unfamiliar with music hearing people talking about sampling farts and burps may be left confused about what we’re discussing.

@MrVein5.0

2 жыл бұрын

@@justintonation9726 hahahaha

still can't get over that Ferris Beuller had an EMUlator in his room. No big deal.

@MicLitter

3 жыл бұрын

Emulator. But yeah, still not quite a consumer machine at the time, lol.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Blew my mind too!!!

@williammartin1963

3 жыл бұрын

The box made for a pretty cool blink-and-you'll-miss-it easter egg in Ready Player One as well.

@snoballuk

3 жыл бұрын

And an IBM PC as well. And he has the nerve to complain about his parents not buying him a car!

@DerekPower

3 жыл бұрын

Talk about *not* being born under a bad sign 😁

In the late 80s I had to go into hospital for a procedure. My brother visited me and gifted the SK-1 to me in my hospital room. I had so much fun with it sampling dialogue from Road Warrior from the hospital room TV. I sampled "Don't hurt the snake!" and played with that for sooo long. Good thing my room mate didn't mind. I eventually lost the keyboard to the murky flood waters of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. I tried to resurrect it but it was just far too corroded. I had no idea how much my brother spent on the thing until this video. I had no idea it set him back that much.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Damn you, Sandy!!!

@PlasticCogLiquid

3 жыл бұрын

That's great :D

@SianaGearz

3 жыл бұрын

There comes a point when you just re-trace the PCB and get a new one made, i can see this being done a lot today with electronics that is becoming difficult to replace. We have the technology! And it's gonna be FR4 now, not phenolic paper - it's not water-permeable and the bond between copper and substrate is much more solid too.

@compfox

3 жыл бұрын

I had my SK-1 also with me, when I was in hospital the same time! Used to please the nurses by playing little tunes with their sampled names. Sad, that you lost yours, still have mine in working condition.

@VidHardt

3 жыл бұрын

They're available at an unpredictable variety of prices!

I used to sell these, back in the 80s. Sold a ton, just by saying ridiculous things into it, and playing it back. A friend of mine had one, and back in the days when answering machines had tapes in them, he decided to sample "I am Satan" and call me, play it back on my machine for 30 minutes, filling my tape. Good times.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaah, that's what the loop function was designed for

Who is out there calling the SK-1 bad gear? It’s legendary and does exactly what it’s meant to do. The lofi charm in this little keyboard is amazing.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

You know, one man's Bad Gear...

@greatheightsu

3 жыл бұрын

Just because it's on Bad Gear doesn't make it bad gear. There are crazy people everywhere and one man's trash is another's treasure. I would pay more attention to his final verdict for true judgement. :)

@voltijuice8576

3 жыл бұрын

"Limited Gear" didn't sound as catchy

@dudelester2504

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually a very desired piece of gear, just check market prices. Some people won't get past the joke though

@ET2carbon

8 ай бұрын

New to bad gear huh?

this was my first ever synth, passed down to me from my sister. i have two now. they’re limited, sure, but when you’re a little kid, there’s not much that’s more fun than screaming into the microphone then playing a song with that sample

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

So true!

That moment when your coffee is so hot it's censored.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I would have let my Hustler mug in ;)

@pentagonanimates

4 ай бұрын

hot pooey

I had one of these when I was a teenager in the 80s. I absolutely loved that thing! I regret the day I stupidly gave it to a girlfriend then never saw it again after the eventual breakup. I sure did have a good time sampling daily sounds. Every once in a while I'd have a moment of inspiration like filling a glass of water until I could tap an A note, sampling it, then running the sample thru the different envelops and a Radio Shack reverb to get some really interesting and eerie sounds. And yes, I sure did entertain as well as annoy friends and family with it. It ended up on a lot of recordings and answering machine messages I made at the time, but sadly, or perhaps happily, those recording are long gone now. Happy memories!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

So true. Not everything needs to be preserved for eternity

The title is already giving me high hopes

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I try my best ;)

@deaththreats2070

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@bwgti

3 жыл бұрын

I believe there are ZERO FART SAMPLES in this video - unless I missed something. So half the title is possibly total BS I think. The demo tune is pretty great as always of course though. And I keep thinking that cramming a shitty "synth" through a bunch of EHX pedals will have diminishing returns. But nope. Not yet. Still sounds pretty great.

@remka2000

3 жыл бұрын

The first Larry... Oh memories.

oml i cant believe leisure suit larry and nakey jakey made a cameo in a audiopilz vid XD

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Both essential cultural cornerstones!!!

@secretelitemusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Leisure Suit Larry was my first digital hero. I was hoping he'd get his own Teletext channel, but the powers that be in the UK were terrified that we'd become a nation of shmoozers..

New Girlfriend: "What´s Your favourite Music?" Me: "Oh I love Halloween comes early this Year 8 Bit Trance Postmodern Silent Movie Music"....🤩

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

You're a person of class!

@FungleFunTime

3 жыл бұрын

Pshhh, that Discord server is so overrun with 16bit nerds

@DarkSideofSynth

3 жыл бұрын

She'll love you forever. Or rather... until next Friday when your new favourite genre will come out ;)

@kutaboveentertainment9072

3 жыл бұрын

Had a laugh at the "Fatboy Slim" thumbnail.

@rachelar

3 жыл бұрын

I recall the Uncyclopedia definition of "girlfriend" as "something you'll never have". Surprised I do considering my synth obsession

As someone who had a Casio keyboard collecting phase, these samples make my heart sing. So glad you did a video on this.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@TheRepublicOfJohn

2 жыл бұрын

"Casio keyboard collecting phase" very accurately describes my life between the ages of 14 and 20. At this point I must have 15, including 5 or 6 SK-1s, a Rapman, and a CZ-230S. I got physically choked up when I found my pink SK-1 in a Goodwill toy bin for $4, after years and years of losing eBay auctions for one. Glad to know there are others out there who keep the Casio legacy alive!

It amazes me how you manage to make excellent sounding music out of every single piece of equipment you test.

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! Pressure helps;)

Farting into a sampler was a mid-late 80's rite of passage I think. Everyone must have done it.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Good that there weren't that many cameras around back then ;)

@dxtxzbunchanumbers

3 жыл бұрын

Note to self: disinfect the keyboard immediately upon delivery

@reggiep75

3 жыл бұрын

Those who could unleash a sustained 'brown note' for the 1.4 second sample time were gods amongst mere mortals.

@waroidot

3 жыл бұрын

God I'm learning new things :D

@petestrangeproductions1699

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

I am blown away by how you can get the SK to sound so amazing. The last two jams sound very modern for how old and supposedly cheesy the SK is.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Some polishing does wonders on that little keyboard

My wife donated a toy keyboard our kids had in the early 2000's. Now I am starting to think it was a mistake.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

That strongly depends on the toy keyboard ;)

I just absolutely love your intro for this episode. Its music. Its graphics. Its style. #CASIOsk1 forever!!!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Love that 8bit chip tune intro!

@Yuzuki1337

3 жыл бұрын

It's so smooth, almost sounds like a different song

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This was my first musical instrument. I was born in 79 so this had been out a few years and i was just getting into music as a kid. I remember taking this to school for show and tell and yes sampling fart noises and setting them to polka or whatever other rock pattern it had.

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Simpler days!

I love my sk-1 and it's always right in front of me on my desk bc it's currently my only sampler with a keyboard. It doesn't work with every sound you throw at it, but when it does you are in lofi heaven! It's always a hit with friends and family when you bust out the sk-1.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's great when it works but when it doesn't it's just mush

@OPdbx

3 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz yeah drums especially sound bad on it which is odd being that it is a lofi sampler so you would think they would sound good but as you said they just sound mushy. Its much better with melodic samples that aren't too complex.

I'm really loving the idea of the full intro song being played by the instrument rather than just one or two tracks. I hope there will be more like it in the future

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the input. Quite a lot of the intro tunes are entirely played on the instrument (even the Korg DS-10;)

@MiIIenia

3 жыл бұрын

My bad, I always thought it was a track or two that was played with the original recording. Even the Korg DS-10 sounds like it has the original guitar line in it. I just liked the idea of every part of the song being played only by the unit in question but regardless I love all of your content so far!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

@@MiIIenia oh, yeah. The guitars, always keep forgetting about these 😅Check out the TB3 episode then

@MiIIenia

3 жыл бұрын

I should probably communicate with you directly via email. I have amassed a large collection of synthesizers, mostly good ones but there's a number of ones that make the cut like the Roland Gaia SH-01. I would love to be able to help out

DAMN?! Your classic split screen jam is about the best jam I’ve heard so far this year!! East coast rap music! Indeed!! As a matter of fact, your abilities for putting together a lead and bass from the SK1 along with the Digitakt are second to none!! You make me regret having given away my last two SK1s!! THANKS AGAIN!!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!!

"If you can't avoid it, embrace it." Florian, I'm going to start using this if you don't mind. Best line I have heard in months. This review brings back some memories. In the day, Casio wasn't known for musical instruments in the US, but rather, for cheap battery powered watches that were generally not water resistant and had crystals that could be scratched by wool sweaters. I know this because I went through them like paper socks. At the time, I worked at a US Big Box department store called Sears and the SK-I was sold in the sporting goods department, right beside the Atari 2600s, and I happened to work as a sales guy there. We had exactly 1 SK-I, it was on display and was on a shelf high enough to keep the 3-year olds from drooling on the keys. But nobody could figure out what to do with it, and at the time, $139 was pretty darned pricey for something you couldn't figure out. Adults would usually start trying to noodle with the presets but after a couple hours the department manager would make me unplug it. Because the SK-I was a demo that was bolted down, once it was unplugged, it became an object of great disdain - and we only had the one. If a customer actually asked to buy one (no one ever did) I would have had to get a set of wrenches from the hardware department to unfasten it from the shelf. Eventually, when we rotated stock one XMAS season to make room for the Atari 2600s, the store manager had me take the SK-I down and put it in the back room. I was allowed to buy it for the store price plus my employee discount plus a discount because the thing had been beaten to crap by so many mangling fingers over the years. I think - can't remember exactly - but it seems to me I couldn't have paid more than $25 for it. I was doing keyboards in a band in dive bars on the New Jersey shore (before it was cool and before anyone knew where it was except close to the ocean) and figured we'd be able to use it for some cover or another. But what I found was that unlike Hans Zimmer or Trent Reznor, I couldn't make anything remotely musical with it (I had other boards I used for piano / hammond sounds) and so we were reduced to using it to record various belches and puking sounds, as you demoed, with great hilarity. We discovered the best rehersal beer for the SK-I was a German Import Weissbier (they really ferment in the bottle in a very gas producing manner on the way to America). I might have even brought it to a gig and powered it up, but as we always fundamentally worked for bar tips, it seemed dangerous to replay belching at various speeds to a non-sober audience (the only way we got paid was when the audience was so trashed they didn't remember how many bills they stuffed into the tip jar so they kept stuffing in more - and as the night went on, it was my job to make sure that someone who looked like they were putting a few bucks into the jar on my Rhodes wasn't actually removing some for more drinks.) I had utterly forgotten about that thing until I saw you puking into the microphone of your SK-I and now I'm totally certain there's a box in my attic where that thing lives - probably destroyed by leaky batteries by now. It's that tiny microphone in the upper right that triggered the memory, and the belching into it. I must have done that 1000 times.... This is truly a great bad gear episode. Thanks for it.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That line is up for grabs!

A trick I used to do with mine was to sample a sound that was already played at half the speed and then play it an octave up. You only got 0.7 seconds this way but it was at an effective 18kHz sample rate and the built-in reconstruction filter meant it sounded quite good for drum sounds and such

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea, I used it the other way around to fit drum loops on it ;)

This is a very interesting and professionally produced channel. I love watching these videos!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Best intro music yet!!! Thanks for another fab production

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I have fond memories of going into Service Merchandise back in the mid 80s while my mom did her shopping and recall playing with this keyboard particularly! This kind of nostalgia has made me into the proud keyboard nerd that I am today. :-) Love your channel man!

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I remember having one of these as a kid in the 90s. My mother probably got it from a goodwill for a few bucks, as stated. Fond memories of the sampler feature include me and my brother playing all the various tones of our classic single "Holy shit I gotta shit."

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Sounds like a potential world wide hit record;)

I loved the special intro today so much! A surprise, but a welcome one to be sure.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

There was a really cool circuit bend for the SK-1 that replaces the memory with higher capacity nonvolatile memory. The hardware can only access the same memory space as before so you still only get 1.4s. However a rotary encoder dial that sets the upper address lines lets you switch between many different banks in the larger memory (64 banks in the mod that I saw). Note that it isn't just the sample memory that is expanded by the mod, it's the synth memory and sequencer memory too. If I still had my SK-1, this is the bend I'd be doing first.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, didn't know that mod. Thanks for posting!

@macevensen2364

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to know how to do this

@improbablesafari1491

2 жыл бұрын

@@macevensen2364 Same. Haven’t managed to locate info yet.

my casio sk-1 literally changed my life after one of my early IG videos with it blew up. Helped set my career on the path i'm on today!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Do you have a link?

@kenzieprice6745

3 жыл бұрын

Flobama right here is one of the best bringing these old instruments out of the dark dust and into the light!

I learned to type aged six trying to type the password in Leisure Suit Larry. You only had about ten seconds to type 'scott me up beamie" or the bouncer would tell you piss off. I also learned through trial and error a lot of 80s US-centric trivia so I could get passed the quiz at the start that proved you were 18+ play the game in the first place.

@6pin66

3 жыл бұрын

Necessity is the mother of invention , some say . I'm more inclined to believe it's actually mischief .

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

LSL tought me everything I know about the English language

@fisk0

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, that and other Sierra games were also my introduction to English when I was a kid. Neither me nor my parents really knew the subject of Larry, I think. Never got far enough into it to get to any of the more suggestive parts.

@treetopjones737

2 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Thankfully leisure suits died with the 70's.

This Hass to probably be my favorite KZread channel right now. Thanx🙏 Bruh! 😎

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Wow! Thanks again for yet another most enjoyable watch 👌 oh yes... That noise that trailed each note played... Totally forgot, that was once a thing.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure, thanks for watching!

nice one, this was my first sampler and I was endlessly sampling stuff around the kitchen and off the TV - The Art of Noise was a great inspiration --- nice jams as usual and plenty of laughs - the brass ensemble was quite good, and it's cool how the envelopes could really shape the sounds, also the organ synth was fairly versatile too

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Great introduction to the world of electronic music production!

You have huge talent for making even this PoS sound great! (Silent Movie Music cut) Thank you, and please keep up the great work!

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

You crammed some really nice tones and beats out of this box. It blends really good with other gear.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Great with stuff that has a wider frequency range

I bought one in the 80s, then sold it on eBay. Years later, I found one for a fiver at a charity sale. The guy on the stand couldn't understand why I was more interested in the tiny "toy" keyboard than other home keyboards with bigger keys.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

When you know you know;)

I got my first one as a Christmas gift in 1985 ... then it broke. Then I found one last year at a pawn shop in MINT perfect working order for $35USD. Same batteries I installed still work to this day. Takes m back.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

That's a really nice price!!!

Love the SK-1! I gave my first one to my child (who played with it until half of the keys were gone) and then randomly found another on Craigslist for $30.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid the 30 bucks days are over...

Great review! Talk about memories. As a teen in the 80s I convinced my mom to get me one of these for Christmas. It was a blast to use. A few years later I found a later SK-5 for $15 new at a discount store. I kept the SK-1 and rewired it for circuit bending. My regret is ever getting rid of both of those.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, those are keepers

Awesome as always!! You could widen your horizons though, these would be just as awesomely fun even with not-so-hated gear!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Working on it but a concept for that needs to be bulletproof

he’s not all jokes but when he is he’s a comedic genius

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I remember this one. Pretty fun to play around when I was a kid. Had a different Casio keyboard. Back then you were limited to what you could play in the moment. I remember as a kid recording on cassette tape recorder and then re-recording on another device with the mic output. No multitrack for me. This with a daw can do a lot of great stuff. Kids today are in a different world. Loved the re-recorded track btw. Love that silly cheesiness that pours out of the device.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

When I got into audio engineering SAE in New Zealand still had two stereo minidisk recorders as the only recording devices in one of their studios ;)

@midiminion6580

3 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz lol. When I was young I recorded a couple of demos with my band in minidisk in a local studio. One take. The second one was done in protools and was a game changer. This was all very new back then. (97-99 I think). We’ve come a long way.

I am so glad I found this. I had that sampler demo song stuck in my head and had to hear it.

Another wonderful episode. And spot on once again. Greetings from the willhaben dr rhythm 550 guy ;)

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, danke!!!

An actual cool thing you can do with these is rattle something (change, keys, marbles, whatever), sample it, and then play a root-fifth-root power chord. It'll make a crazy but not quite random polyrhythm! Add effects and you're well on your way to some kind of noise beat.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea! Can we get polyrhythm body noises too!

These are so expensive in part because they're one of the best things to circuit bend. Tons of people try to get one because it pretty much always creates awesome bend sounds

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

True! I assume most people will keep them in their original state now

I can't understand , why you don't have at least 6 millions subscribers!!??! Amazing content, Thank you!!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Well, I'm working on it ;)

Absolutely brilliant. And the Dr.Caligaris Cabinet pictures was a really nice throwback to my angsty teenage years.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! A milestone!

I got my SK-1 one Christmas around 87 or 88. This was my prize possession and used it for years. Once I figured out I could hook my Walkman up to it and make drum sample loops, my whole life changed. It became much more than a "fart sampler" but yes I still sampled farts😂. I still have it. It's beat to shit and missing 2 or 3 keys but still works fine. This keyboard will always have a place in my heart because it was much more then just a typical keyboard for me. Also, the human voice sound still gives me nightmares. Lol

@OneRoomShed

2 жыл бұрын

Also, I had a boombox with dual cassette decks, that had high speed dubbing. I found I could get a longer sample by playing it using the high speed dub and then slowing it down on the keyboard. I started sampling LPs at the 45 rpm to achieve the same thing. I made so many loops like this and would record my own mix tapes. Good times!

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that one is a total classic!

Alternately it also made an interesting rhythm machine too. The trick is to use the rhythm presets, but not in the usual way intended. The bottom isn't shielded all that well, so putting it on top of a radio and turning its volume down produces weird glitchy sounds if you tune to places on the dial with no station and listen to the radio instead. In turn that can be recorded to play around with later on. Basically you get some circuit-bent sounding stuff without having to take anything apart. For the sample capability, it's rather short. I liked using it with plucked sounds (rubber band or soda can tab) or something like a spoon tapping on glass. Sometimes something as simple as that sounds rather neat with four note polyphony.

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Nice technique!

@Electrohedron

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an excellent discovery.

I found an SK-5 at a thrift store in the bottom of a huge toy bin for 4 bucks like 10 years ago. One of my favorite machines. Been on the fence about bending it for years but I dont trust my soldiering skills. Cheers man great vid!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

That intro tho... love you man 🥰 keep up the good work

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

this might be my favorite Bad Gear intro song yet

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

YES!!! My FIRST EVER SAMPLER!! Actually quite a brilliant little unit once one gets into the crude synthesis capabilities. And also great fun at parties just as the mushrooms kick in. Guaranteed to send anyone tripping on shrooms into a giggling mess!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! (and of course: DON'T DO DRUGS!!!;)

Really was waiting for you to sample some home-produced flatulance :p Great video tho, thanks!

yaaa that intro is xcsssssellent! so is that end song

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

As soon as I saw Leisure Suit Larry and heard that familiar, nostalgic keyboard beat, I hit like.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for liking!!!

Guys he watches nakeyjakey, this is a man of class and prestige.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

NakeyJakey is a modern day poet!!!

My much-loved SK-1 has a MIDI kit installed making useful for contemporary production. I keep it in a "go bag" and bring it along for ferry rides, picnics and other places where sonic noodling is required to pass the time. Sampling burps never gets old.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Nice! Midi kit is an essential mod

@lo-firobotboy7112

3 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz heads towards "better gear" with the MIDI kit. I've also installed a MIDI kit into my Yamaha CS01. I'm still on the fence about adding MIDI to my JUNO-6. Such a beautiful instrument inside and out I feel bad drilling holes into it.

Veeery Nice video, as usual! I would love to see the Korg Monotribe as a baaad gear!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Monotribe is great! I'll try to find enough hate for that (which is not easy;)

Given to me by a band mate. We use it to amuse ourselves while drunk. Nu Shooz probably used one to make “I Can’t Wait”. Otherwise it’s a kitsch machine.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Just pushed play on that one!

@imlxh7126

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, some of the best songs came out of getting drunk and screwing around with a toy keyboard. Just look at. uh. Nipple Copter I guess????

Now, I just want to know what’s on your coffee mug...

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Starbucks already gets enough PR ;)

Mine was heavily circuit bent & re - designed to my spec by Diabolic devices in Florida with reverse colour keys, highly liquid midi & everything. Love it!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Cool, I have to check them out!

07:53 Amazing, there's no way I'd have guessed that this quality of sound was coming from an SK-1, even with the best of FX pedals! Great job

I had an SK-1 then graduated to the SK-5 which if you sampled the record at 45rpm and played with the pitch, you could get a perfect loop. You could sampled two one bar phrases and pitched all the way down they would play at around 105bpm. I used to travel to people’s houses selling beats with an SK-5, a Korg DDD5, a Gemini GL101 a Gemini Mx2200 and bag of records. I sold a lot of beats like that back in the day.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Great setup and nice technique!!!

I have been jamming on one of these since the 80’s under rated, fun little machine 🎹

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

When you go to the split screen jam, it sounds like a really good early 90's hip hop record! Fantastic :)

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It reminded me of Old Dirty Bastard and Portishead. A lot.

you have the canyon delai pedal. im proud of you. I subscribed and did hit the bell. Cheers

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Love the Canyon!

That was the keyboard that taught me that a burp, played low enough, sounds like a lion or a monster. I worked in a music store at the time. Pretty sure I annoyed everyone with that Casio :D

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you sold a ton of them ;)

@VidHardt

3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I just made a comment that it could sound like horrific vomiting, but yes, a lion's roar too! Depends on the belch!

@treetopjones737

2 жыл бұрын

Young music store workers must be in hell if they come to work hung over.

I’ve only recently gotten into music production and of course I’d never heard of this. But it looks like awesome lofi fun! Being an 80s kid who loved the sounds of chip tunes this seems Like the kind of thing I can vibe with. Before this video was even over I checked eBay to see if I could find a cheap sk-1 as this is a little toy I would love to play with. Alas, like most vintage goodies the prices have all been jacked up to hell. 😔😔😔

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

These are the most insanely inflated prices of any piece of gear I've had the pleasure to do research on

One of your best reviews! Casio SK-1 Rocks!!!

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

A couple of my mates were in a band called Black Spring. They are / were quite avant-garde and used all sorts of great gear. Nord drums, all sorts of lovely acoustic percussion, and an SK1. They made it sound wonderful.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's great combined with more upscale stuff

I love how you consistently pronounce every "W" as "V", but also every "V" as "W". Takes some real commitment I imagine :D

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually not even fake ;)

@feelingevaporated2912

3 жыл бұрын

This is how a lot of people with near perfect English but a non native language sound man

picked one of these up cheap (like $30 in aussie dollary-doos cheap) about 15 years ago, with every intention to circuit bend it...it's still sitting in the cupboard. used once in a joke recording with a friend's sk-8 where we just recorded swear words and ran them both through distortion pedals. fun times.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I still wanna know if the Japanese engineers had body sounds in mind when they designed the SKs ;)

I sure do miss my SK-1. Thanks for bringing back some fart memories from back in the day!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

I hope these memories ain't smelly ;)

@ThePacratz

3 жыл бұрын

They fade after awhile.

Awww yeah! I’ve been waiting for this ❤️

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It had to happen!

Would be cool to see Cherry Audio emulate this maybe while they're busy doing these incredibly affordable Jupiter 4 and Oberheim 8 Voice and so on emulations. I mean, Cherry Audio handed out the Realistic Concertmate MG-1 emulation for free last year, and that was a pretty neat little Moog project made for Radio Shack way back in the earlier 80s. Maybe this year we'll get another surprise. Would be a fun way to warm up for following Arturia into making a couple emulations of more advanced sampler synths. Speaking of, I got the V collection 8 and SQ80 V with two bonus preset packs for less than some people are trying to sell SK-1's for. That's crazy. There's multiple instruments in that bundle like the Emulator II that could do plenty of impressive things with bodily sound samples as long as you have a mic hooked up to your PC. I feel like if the choice is 29 emulations of classic, quirky, and legendary instruments ranging from ok to amazing in their quality for 269 versus an overpriced SK-1, I'll just stay in the box and get tons of synths and keyboards through the ages goodness with some wise UI updates to make programming these instruments far less painful than it is in the hardware. The Synclavier especially looks interesting given they got the programmer of one of the first digital synths to give them a pristine copy of its programmed digital soul and then worked with him to exponentially expand its capabilities.

@AudioPilz

2 жыл бұрын

I'd LOVE a plugin of that one!

John Carpenter would be proud of that Halloween comes early this Year 8 Bit Trance Postmodern Silent Movie Music.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! LOVE John Carpenter!!!

Lolz at opening theme! Brilliant. Just brilliant. And the Puke Symphony? Masterpiece.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Another funky fly upload. Immediately went to eBay where the SK-1 I was bidding on was sold for the Buy It Now price minutes earlier 🎹

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Damn, it's so sick

Gene Belcher approves

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

There's a serious lack of Bob's Burger in this episode

Hey Mr Pilz. My cousin had one of these and we annoyed his mum one day by recording the old landline telephone and playing the sound when she was out of the room - which would mysteriously stop as soon as she opened the door. We managed three or four goes before she figured that we were having a lark - our childish laughter probably gave the game away. She wasn't very happy with us. Ah, happy days. :) Anyway... Have you done Nanoloop on the old Gameboy yet?

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Nanoloop is a great idea, I'll have to take a closer look. There's a Korg DS-10 episode tho

Your jams are great. Need a whole horror movie scored like that...

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing. I saved up for one of these when I was a lad. Loved it I did. Who knew they’d still be around some 30+ years later.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that little keyboard has a lot of staying power

I have a major soft spot for this synth.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

It's so cute!!!

Im always amazed at the cool tracks you manage to make with these terrible and undesirable machines. LOL

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@boombap28

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.. these tracks need to be compiled and released.

My inner Gene Belcher is inspired! Great work as always. Keep it up!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

I used to love this thing. Once as a kid me and another became friends playing one of these. We were on a long trip in one of those old yellow school buses in sweltering summer. He happened to have a Casio SK-1 I sauntered over and we played with it for hours. Good times.

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

4:33 I died 😂

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

That's what killed Leopold Mozart ;)

Hi, I know everyone writes this way, but what's about "Tenori-On" from Yamaha in one of the next episodes??

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

That one keeps coming up, yeah. Thanks for the suggestion!

I really appreciate your videos, I think they are funny and educating, hope you will get more follower, I mean you are a guy for a million of subscribers

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I got this in 1985 and was doing advanced sampling with AKAI rack gear when I was 13 in 1990. This was absolutely a gateway drug to electronic music. Burps Farts bossa nova led to metal, industrial, and D&B. I still have my original in box.

Fun fact, this is the most black keys in any Bad Gear to date.True Story. 🍷

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

It was the only way to be able to hit that low note. Whatever it takes ;)

Next time you make a reference to a lyre, can you photoshop the instrument onto someone who has their pants on fire? Your content is absolutely amazing!

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! So true, a missed opportunity!

@treetopjones737

2 жыл бұрын

@@AudioPilz Or a video of Someone playing a lyre ( maybe Greensleeves ) with pants on fire.

Well.....that intro was very.....different. Never the less once again a great review :)

@AudioPilz

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! If you can't avoid it, embrace it ;)

Still have one in my gear. Irreplaceable! It was _rebaptized_ *pling* after scratching off the “Sam” part. Used a lot of electric tape to hold keys (kept the Velcro trick for my Midiman controller back then). Really like the jams you made with the SK-1, very cool.

@AudioPilz

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!