Casio CT-S1 Home Piano Demo (sounds only - no talking). Headphones recommended!
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00:00 Pianos
09:42 Electric Pianos
14:48 Organs
19:46 Keyboards
20:21 Synths
25:04 Others
32:15 Onboard Demo
A demo of the Casio CT-S1. This is a home piano, so the sounds are "as is", and are not tweakable in any way - though you can layer two sounds and adjust the relative volumes of each. You can also shift the layered sound up or down one or two octaves, which can give some interesting results that can seem to be more than the sum of their parts (e.g. layering a two-octave up shifted vibraphone over a pipe organ to give it a bit of extra "cut" at 17:20 - a trick I picked up from an old Korg M1 church organ sound back in the day).
Overall, the piano sounds are surprisingly good for a unit that I picked up new for under £200 - I originally bought it for our little one to practice on for his piano lessons, but I've ended up playing it a whole load more! The piano sounds also respond well to changes in velocity, especially as this isn't a weighted keyboard. The key bed is solid enough though, and the textured finish somehow gives it a more premium feel. Some of the electric pianos are fairly passable as well, particularly if you layer them. There's a nice onboard surround sound feature which adds a lot to the sonic texture of these (but which can't be activated when listening through the external output on the rear). The organs would sound nicer with a controller pedal - I almost got out my Leslie emulator to see how they would sound - but the main purpose of this demo was to present the sounds as they are out of the box, so I resisted that urge.
The rest of the sounds are (as may reasonably be expected of a keyboard at this price point) fairly nondescript - they certainly can't compete with a half-decent ROMpler, for example - but these are always going to be seen as bonus sounds rather than a major selling point (and there are, of course, no controllers such a mod wheel or pitch bend to modify them in any way). A few of them are actually fairly disappointing: I can't believe, for example, that Casio couldn't have found a better choir sample; the strings have a short attack to them unless played really softly, and don't blend well with the piano part unless you pull the volume right down, and the reverb doesn't work on some of the sounds such as the mellotron-inspired Tape Flute (a trait interestingly shared by the much more expensive Yamaha YC-61, demoed elsewhere on this channel). And, although there's a drum track in the David Foster-inspired onboard demo (included at the end of this), this must have been sampled in as a sound ROM or something, as I've found no way to access any drum samples (other than those in the cheesy VL-1 sample).
Nevertheless, there are one or two hidden gems here and there that can be layered to good effect - and you have seven user-definable program slots in which you can store the results of your experimentations.
The unit also has an onboard MIDI recorder (real-time only, unfortunately), so you can record and play along with yourself - I've had some fun with this and included a few examples in this demo.
All sounds were played live and recorded directly from the CT-S1 to a Roland R-05 digital recorder - no external effects or processing were used. I've edited down the original master recording for the sake of keeping certain sections short and interesting (and fumble-free!), so there a couple of instances where I've applied a fade-out to the track in question.
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Any chance I can find the list of songs somewhere?
@billyruss
3 ай бұрын
LOL I've never been asked this before, and I've never really thought about it! There's no real song list - it's mostly improvised short pieces, but there are a few well-know pieces demonstrated. After going back and listing some of these, I never realized quite how many songs I was stealing; hope I don't get a strike over this! 00:00 Grieg: Piano Concerto, second movement 01:42 Commodores: Easy (beginning/pastiche) 02:33 Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (pastiche) 03:09 Journey: Dont Stop Believing (pastiche) 03:25 onwards: just me, noodling 03:59 Yes: Awaken (pastiche) 04:32 Adele: Hello (pastiche) 05:09 noodling/old silent movie theme 05:39 onwards: me noodling 08:05 Dave Brubeck: Unsquare Dance (pastiche) 08:17 Dave Brubeck: Take Five (pastiche) 09:05 onwards: me noodling 10:02 Billy Joel: Just the Way You Are (pastiche) 10:42 Whitney Houston: Saving All My Love (beginning/pastiche) 10:59 onwards: me noodling 13:27 Supertramp: If Everyone Was Listening (pastiche) 13:44 Supertramp: Dreamer (pastiche) 14:19 Chris de Burgh: A Spaceman Came Travelling (pastiche) 14:50 onwards: me noodling 16:29 noodling on the octotonic scale in the style of Olivier Messiaen 17:20 onwards: me noodling (bit of JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) 17:45 onwards: me noodling 18:43 The Doors: Light My Fire (pastiche) 19:11 onwards: me noodling 19:46 Focus: Birth (pastiche) 20:23 Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite, Movement I: Basse Danse (pastiche) 20:44 onwards: me noodling 21:11 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields (pastiche) (this alone could get me a strike!) 21:22 Van Halen: Jump (pastiche) 21:38 Rick Wakeman: Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII (from "Yessongs") (pastiche) 22:36 Supertramp: Fool's Overture (pastiche) 23:01 onwards: me noodling 28:07 Yes: Roundabout (pastiche) 28:16 Eagles: Hotel California (pastiche) (another strikes) 28:34 onwards: me noodling 32:15 Casio's own onboard demo
@TheDimsml
3 ай бұрын
@@billyrussThank you! I do appreciate the fact that you went through the video and made a list.
@billyruss
3 ай бұрын
@@TheDimsml I actually had quite good fun going through listening to this again, a year on!
Such an amazing sounds.., well.., compare to the price.., CT-S1 definitely worth every single cent spent on this keyboard... Well done Casio
I love some of the layering tricks you shared. Your performance of Tubular Bells is terrific (I think that's what you are performing).
@billyruss
9 ай бұрын
Thanks! Yes, that was a simplified rendition of Tubular Bells.
The drum sounds you mention can be accessed externally where a full GM soundest is available. Quite a lot of extra goodies are available when studying the CT-S1 MIDI spec, which is now available at Casio manual downloads.
@billyruss
5 ай бұрын
I wasn't aware of that... sounds a bit like Roland's Gaia, which has a full GM set only accessible via MIDI.
Wow! You've even made Take Five at 8:15 ! Great job really )
I love this keyboard
Great sounded!
I'm returning to this video from time to time just for the sake of your playing. You should definitely post more often even just a piano/organ/synth solos 💚
@billyruss
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words! I do have a couple more uploads in the pipeline, so watch this space 🙂
Great job!
That was incredible. YES, Supertramp etc. I've been trying to decide on my first keyboard.. Think I've found it 🎉
@billyruss
4 ай бұрын
One of the other comments on this channel talked about the CT-S500, which came out after this. If you've got the extra cash, it might be worth checking that out; it apparently has all the same sounds as the CT-S1 plus a load more.
28:15 What's this sorcery? Loved it. ❤
thanks for getting that v and F organ in there. trying to figure out how to get mine to do it lol.
@billyruss
3 ай бұрын
I think they were just the standard sounds.
8:17 , 25:05 - nice 👍
ich habe es auch gekauft seeehr gutes piano
The best Ct-s1 demo ever!! How good is Ct-s1 as midi controller(pianoteq/others piano vsts)?! Have you tried? Cheers!
@billyruss
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comments! No , I didn't try it as a controller but I imagine it would be fine.
@jamietopolski4019
9 ай бұрын
I have used the CT-S1 as a MIDI controller with several instrument apps on my iPad. I connect via Bluetooth (I use the CME WIDI uHost because I already owned it and therefore did not need to buy Casio's BT adapter). I connect the headphone jack from my iPad to the audio-in jack on the CT-S1 and use the built-in speakers (if I am playing alone or with a few friends and don't need an amp). This works as a great, compact setup. I don't even need a stand. I place the CT-S1 on my lap and have a guitar strap around my waist to keep it from sliding off.
Um dia vou ter por enqyanto eu estou estudando no cts300
Supertramp❤
I wonder if it is not better to buy CT-S500 instead of this
@billyruss
4 ай бұрын
I don't think that had been released when I got the CT-S1 (it seems to have some out the following year). Just watched a few videos on the CT-S500 and it does look like a better deal, yes. It has all the sounds from the CT-S1 plus hundreds more, and for not much more money. Given the choice I'd probably go for the CT-S500 if I was buying today. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Have you tried to run this keyboard through an amp? I understand that you can only do this through the headphone jack. The piano sounds surprisingly great for the price.
@f.ziegler9950
5 ай бұрын
I played it through 2x QSC K8.2, but only in a band context - it's fine if you don't have too many solo parts
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Why you skip 17, that's my favorite
@billyruss
11 ай бұрын
Aww... sorry about that! I missed a few along the way - I've since sold this keyboard, so I can't remember what that one sounded like or why I skipped it! 🙂
@michaelduke2026
5 ай бұрын
I'm curious about why you ended up selling it. Did you discover issues with it over time?
if the keybed was better…
@billyruss
3 ай бұрын
Yea, I know what you mean... but it's not too bad given the price point 🙂