I had one when i was 17 years old! Took it with me every where. Was given as a gift…..

@evacuatedspace6946

Ай бұрын

Did you ever get into music, someone obviously thought you'd like it?

@phil-good

Ай бұрын

@@evacuatedspace6946 Sure …. This got me into analog synths 😁

Wow this is the da da da machine? How legendary 😀 oh and the reverb just thrusts me into the stratosphere🌍

I definitely remember these now that I've seen one. Never had one though.

Excellent! Effects and synths go together like peanut butter and chocolate!

That carpet really ties the room together.

@ASH-ou4cg

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a towel?

Can't wait till my zoom arrives monday, cheers for this vid .

i so wanted one of these when I was a kid, never could afford one at the time. loved going into Dixons and playing the demo units :) very cool to see it on your video!

@guidelineuk

5 жыл бұрын

Ebay ; )

Awesome! Cannot recall the VL-1 being massively imported to Brazil, but I got the Casio MT-75, and one day I decided to put it through my bass pedal. WOW That was the day I got interested in getting more synths, grooveboxes and etc. :D

That is incredible, you were not lying.

I still have mine with the casio case. These are awesome Gems.

One of the most versatile pedals ever... Great vid!!

This is so awesome. I still have my old PT-1, which was the model that came after this but unfortunately, it got rid of the calculator, high/low octaves, ADSR and Guitar sounds. I still love my PT-1 cause it was/is the first instrument I ever received from my mom as a child. It led me down my musical path to the musician I am today. I also use ZOOM multi FX pedals for my basses and pairing this ZOOM unit with this keyboard is genius. Anyone thinking that pairing these two together is just pandering to nostalgia and that there are no real practical uses for these sounds is *_SORELY_* mistaken. I can hear lots of tones you played in many modern songs, especially electronic based genres like Darkwave, New Wave Revival, EBM/Industrial, Shoegaze etc. etc. that use those tones as background soundscapes. Awesome video here. Thank you for sharing... _(P.S. Anyone ever tell you your voice is a dead ringer for Malcolm McDowell's voice?)_

I used to hook mine up to my amp too! Had great fun in the 80s with this.

"What I'm going to do ... if your still here." I got a kick out of that one.

great demo!

I have 2 VL-tones and 2 MS-70CDRs. I can’t wait to make some magic with them. Thanks for the inspiration!

I just ordered one to plug into my 4-track. Can't wait!

Yes Doug, YOU could make a really cool track with this👍🎚🎧🎼👽 Looking forward to it😎😉🎹

When I was young I remember having just moved to Peterborough when these came out. Somewhere like the large boots the chemist store or the co op department store (west gate house ) was selling them , someone wanted to look at one and either they or the assistant played the riff from ‘open your heart’ by the human league on it , and I nearly died of sheer amazement

@girlinagale

Жыл бұрын

I was buying Clackers in Brierleys and then Genesis albums in Andy's Records then.

@Havanacuba1985

Жыл бұрын

@@girlinagale I’ve just moved back to Peterborough , no Andy’s, no proper market , no hereward center , no hereward radio, no Shelton’s No wirrina no Tandy store. Lincoln rd is still cool though & looks like there’s a few decent bands playing rock/metal

@girlinagale

Жыл бұрын

@@Havanacuba1985 No Bull, no Still, probably no Falcon, no Gladstone. No Fat Pete.

Thank you!!

Hi Doug, you probably sold me one of these in the said Hesseys 😄👍🎹 enjoying the Akai Miniak 😉👍

Was my first synth before I could afford a new Korg Poly 800. Still got it gathering dust!

Thanks for the video. I just picked up one of these synths. It sounds beautiful through my Specular Tempus. I will have to pick up the Zoom at some point for all the other effects. You sound a little like Aleister Begg to me.

There’s one of these sat forgotten in the corner of the office at a studio I use. Might get a zoom just to give the old Casio a bit of love :)

Fantasic results.

One of my band buddies had one of these back when it came out and he would play Human League's "Don't You Want Me" which of course, they used on that album, and probably on that track as one of the programmed sounds is a dead ringer.

Genial! Es tremendo lo que se puede hacer con cualquier tipo de teclado conectándolo a un pedal, procesador de efectos o incluso con un cable auxiliar a una pc y usar los efectos de cualquier software, transformándolo en un potente sintetizador. Saludos!

I remember the effects and synthesizers available in the 1970,s. A modular Moog or Synclaviar system would only be accessable to the most famous.

Just found your channel and really enjoying the vids. Can't seem to find anything on the Digitakt or other Elektron gear?

Awesome video !!!! This is incredible the spatial sounds you can make with it. I am a beginner with synth and cables and would like to know what's the others cable is use for? Connected to an amplifier? Thanks for sharing

Inspired by this, I'm getting the Zoom pedal, so I'm also getting a David Bowie edition Stylophone to put through it!

I really wanted one of these, but the Christmas I was hoping to get one the salesman in Dixon’s to, my mum if I was serious about music I should get a chord organ instead. No not a bontempi, but an Antoneli 24 button chord organ. Turned out the buttons were laid out like the bass on an accordion. So while I never got my Casio I did get a career for life.

This was my first synth. I leaned the 5 note Close Encounters jingle. I wish Casio would re-release this. I'm leery of buying this at 43 years old.

Great job. I've had three VL tones. One I lost somewhere? One from a charity shop for £1, a few years ago. and the other off eBay boxed, with case and Manuel. It was amazing at the time. Have you seen Bohemian Rhapsody played on a VL tone.?.It's amazing.. Thanx.

Some of those sounds are like architecture and morality era OMD, and BOC without the tape hiss. 😅 Mine has a crackly volume slider and I haven’t played it for ages. Might have to dig it out.

Mine has gone yellow like that, too.

I still have that Casio today...

@JohnnyGuitaristOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Never sell this gem.

So cool I had one for many years. Peace Christo 👽

I had one of these.

Very clever video. That Zoom EFX Unit could even make cat sound good....hmmmm, there’s an idea...

da da da da . Synth used on a no 1 record.

Can you run a SK-1 through this MS-70DR so we can hear the effects (if you have one). Maybe lay different layers down on some recorder to see how it's done? Thanks for the video. 👍👍👍

And the best thing about the VL Tone is..... there's a CALCULATOR! :D

And i got them both!

I still have that Casio Today

Bought my Roland JX3P from Hessy's, oh and a Yamaha DX27...happy days...

I used to love the Synth dept in Hesseys I bought a Roland D10 there Oh yes and my Casio VL-1. :)

Hey man i need some help, i plugged my vl tone to a small speaker using a lineout and now it only works with the speaker plugged. I saw online something about the instrument muting after plugging it being “the standard” but thats as much as i could find. Thx in advance.

Wow! you can basically plug a potato to that zoom pedal and it will make you good sounds. Good buy then.

@TheSoundTestRoom

5 жыл бұрын

Ha, brilliant, yes, I should make one of those carrot flutes😂

@jml19221

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSoundTestRoom LOL. But seriously. Do you remember the Kawaii PH50 keyboard? This would be a great MFX for that one.

@brentgreeff1115

3 жыл бұрын

I think thats the true test of a unit like this. - Just listened to an awesome synth through this & I was not convinced at all.

How easy is it to sync the Zoom’s rhythmic effects to a tempo from a midi source?

Bought one in October 13, 1980 . 40 years ago, wow! FAVORITE USER PRESET ' 05050505' through my Dallas Arbiter Sound City Mark IV 120 guitar amp stack (6 EL34 tubes!).

do u think it is one of these on Abba Gimme Gimme (layered with strings)

I used to buy my bass strings from Hessey's (got 40% discount every time... ah the good old days) Curly's was better for synths and drum machines though.

cool

Hello Scouser. Did you get it at Hessy's in Liverpool? Ya kidding? Gosh, the cathedral in the Holy Land where the 4 Gods used to get instruments. Awesome.

@TheSoundTestRoom

3 жыл бұрын

I bought it while I was working there, sad day when it closed

will this improve drum sounds also? thx in advance !

Was that a very tiny bit of the DS9 opening I heard?!

Very very nice from 12:15 to 14:15.

Yeah had great fun with this when it was released i thought it was the bees knees. made great sounds using the ADSR function etc.. and the 1 key play function was a great feature, hours and hours of fun and still have room for it even now, and lets not forget the most famous use of this device in the song Da Da Da by Trio :D

LOL Hessey's. Spent a good deal of time dossing round there and Rushworths as my mate could actually play guitar and keyboard.

Hahaha, this is genius!!!

What, in your opinion, do you think is the best "crappy" casio to own? I am in love with the garbage quality keyboards - they have such a unique sound!

@loganslone9436

3 жыл бұрын

I feel exactly the same! There's nothing like them. I have the Casiotone 202 which has some really great, bad tones, haha. With effects pedals it can make some truly unique sounds. And I just bought this Casio VL 1, so I can't wait to mess around with this thing!

@Mind-your-own-beeswax

3 жыл бұрын

I run a mid 80s Yamaha pss680 through a phaser pedal and it sounds epic.

5:38 casio vl-1 + zoom ms = moog 1.

✨👍✨

1981? I got my for christmas in 1979.

you can go further by running the output of this little synth into the ext input of a synth something like a like a Bass station 2 and also run your effects chain after the BS 2 or synth with a ext input for awesome sounds....just saying.

I'm newbie, I'm want to buy some cheap Casio keys, I found the Akai MPK, can I use it (Akai MPK) with the zoom ms-70cdr? Thanks

@kentaccordionist

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Greene the original one is, but they also make one with built in gm sound set now.

I think the zoom track recorder have the fx filter built in as well. That device is for foot stomping guitarists man. Why it is expensive bc of the rugged quality built??

If love to make an 80s type track with this

My dad has one of these

Anyone know how this compares to an Eventide Blackhole?

why are you using mono? many of the effects are in stereo.

I only say: Trio - Da Da Da! :)

Da da da

Whh didn't you output to stereo? Sounds so much better

@TheSoundTestRoom

2 жыл бұрын

I should have😊

I’m still here.

Da Da Da I don’t love you you don’t love me Da Da Da! Hahhhahahahahhaha! Thanks fo that homie :)

Dude...that was large.

Interestingly the sounds of this machine aren’t yellowed in the same way as the look.

wow that's yellow!

@TheSoundTestRoom

2 жыл бұрын

I know, right, the person who owned this before me must have left it exposed for many years😂

2:15 Da Da Da

can i connect the casio to the computer and record it? 🤔

@danbutorovich246

4 жыл бұрын

Solange Betancourth if the computer has a microphone input then yes.

@shadowflash705

4 жыл бұрын

Dan Butorovich line input of course. If it's a laptop - any USB sound card with line input will do.

Did i hear a bit of Gordons Gin there?

I have a pt 82 and was just about to throw it in the garbage with joy because of the sounds it males but with this pedal i can raise it from the dead, too bad i dont have the dadada rhythm

I've never understood why Casio never followed it up with enhanced models. It's the only keyboard they ever made with the ADSR.

@valley_robot

2 жыл бұрын

Casio make real synths as well , I had a Casio HT 600 that was fully programmable , the Casio Cosmo is a highly sought after synth

@ian_b

2 жыл бұрын

@@valley_robot Yes, but they didn't follow up the VL1's ADSR in the low end. For instance the VL5 was 4 note poly, but not programmable.

@valley_robot

2 жыл бұрын

@@ian_b yeah on the low end consumer market or kids keyboards they mostly didn't but some of the yamaha ones did

maybe ... you can give another video ... just give only a little concert of 20 to 25 min? pls ...

Is the 70 the same as the 50?

@TheSoundTestRoom

2 жыл бұрын

No, totally different effects

@stellitacat

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSoundTestRoom I have 50 and a 100 bt. Now that you say that I need a 70 asap lol

Mummy nice nicotine yellow 😄👍🏻

im here because of trio hhahahahhaha

You should have recorded this video in stereo and used both outputs from the Zoom pedal. It will sound way better

@TheSoundTestRoom

2 жыл бұрын

In hindsight you’re probably right👍

@jeffevansmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSoundTestRoom Your demo is really great and I loved it. I am just a stereo fan. It is SO wide in stereo it is scary. This pedal turns even the most basic sound into a wide ambient mind blowing soundscape. You should hear what it does with a really fabulous stereo synth with a fantastic patch on it sounds like.

@TheSoundTestRoom

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I am a stereo fan too, I have used it in stereo and it is a fantastic pedal, and for the price it’s incredible 😊

@jeffevansmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSoundTestRoom The cool thing is with a really stereo source such as a Roland VSynth or JD800 all that stereo imaging stays intact out the other end but the effects are all added in stereo as well.

Got one for $5

I still have my VL1 which works apart from the screen which means no programming... Shame.

@fortheloveofnoise9298

5 жыл бұрын

U dont have to see the numbers to program them

Giorgio?

カシオさんはvl1の新型出さないかな～◎○

Nostalgia, nothing more. Even the very decent Zoom Multistomp couldn't make this Casio sound like anything more than a toy. But good college try. :-)

@TheDavidPoole

3 жыл бұрын

Have you no ears, boy?

@zachariahpoltergeist4516

Жыл бұрын

Made it sound like a frigging AWESOME toy, you mean!