YO BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! I kind of want to see one of these with one side modified into a 4-track, and the other acting as the “master tape”, so basically the same thing as an OP-1. Should be possible with stock heads if it can record in stereo.

@RaverOperatorGeeza

5 ай бұрын

Yesssssssssssssss! I hadn't thought about that, but since you mention it, I'd love to see that too!!! Great idea 👍💡

@SimonTheMagpie

5 ай бұрын

I have never added tape heads before 😅 but if someone can help me then yeah I think you on to something! Since it has a balance knob + stereo/mono option I bet you could record to one side and then overdub on the other side already. I’ll include this in my experimentation to test list for starters!

@ringsystemmusic

5 ай бұрын

@@SimonTheMagpie the trick with 4-tracks is that they normally only use stereo heads- each tape gets used only once, but with all the tracks in use. Instead of 1r 1l *flip* 2r 2l it's 1r1l2r2l. you'll have to completely rewire the tape machine portion but it's honestly worth it for a project this silly.

@plop-4269

5 ай бұрын

@@ringsystemmusicHey i dont understand what " 1r 1l flip 2r 2l it's 1r1l2r2l" could you tell me more please i'd be super interested to know more :)

Great video Simon! Love how you just dive in and always find ways of being creative with these oddball devices. And that piece at the end was so trippy! The CK500 almost certainly uses the same Vowel Consonant sound engine as many other early to mid 80s Casio models, such as the MT65/ 68, MT400V/ CT410V, CT405 etc. and a whole number of other models all sharing the same/ similar NEC LSI sound and rhythm chips. You'll find the same distinctly named presets in them such as Cosmic Tone and Funny, and they'll also have Pipe organ, Reed organ, Flute, Violin and Electric piano among the preset tones. The rhythms will have among them Rock, Disco, 16 Beat, along with the ubiquitous Bosanova. And yes, the drums are analogue and will have their own separate circuit board inside (very easy to mod and bend). As for modding the tape part, first thing that springs to mind is to make it into a Delia Derbyshire machine. For those that don't know, Delia worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and was a true pioneer of electronic music. Check out her videos where she was making incredible sounds using multiple tape loops way back in the 1960s. I'm thinking that if you can get both tapes to play simultaneously (iirc, only one deck can record), you can make a tape loop to play in deck one, then make a recordable tape loop for deck 2. If you can modify deck 2 to record AND play simultaneously, you could feed the multiple parts of the CK into it and build up the loop like a Looper pedal. Might need quite a lot of tinkering to make it do this, plus would only work if the record deck had separate erase and record heads so that you would be able to disable the erase part and allow it to keep adding recordings and feed back onto itself. The results would be "out there". Then again, your improvisation at the end of the video was already achieving "out there". Just imagine how that would sound if you were recording/ looping it and feeding it back onto itself!

Oh yeah, defeat that function switch so all functions are live at the same time; two stereo inputs via the cassettes and another via the radio by using a simple car FM transmitter. Alternately, you could use a hobby AM transmitter and get all the bizarre interference sounds, off-tuned sidebanding, etc. Lots of possibilities there..

@SimonTheMagpie

5 ай бұрын

Saving this comment! Very smart. I always forget I have one of those fm transmitters in the drawer next to table 😅

That antenna at the back is screaming to be connected to a theremin. All you would need is a theremin circuit board and a volume plate which could easily be mounted externally or if you’re so inclined mounted internally in front of the speaker. It would be interesting to see if the magnetic field of the speakers coil would have any effect on the volume plate.

I love the insert shots with the vhs camera, looks great

I can't believe you got that thing to do the things that you made it do. You never cease to amaze me with your imagination and ingenuity. You are a genius and an inspiration to me, and I've used a few of your ideas in the composition of my own music. Thank you so much for doing what you do, Simon!❤

Soooo love your work I used to play around with odd ways of recording and mixing with tape in the late 80's as a boy i had a tape head screwed so a piece of wood and some cut tape samples on celotape and would scratch over the mix controlling the speed with a repurposed volume comptroller :)

The thing is beautiful and what a genious who thought of putting a radio into it, just because..

What happens from 10:29 is sick(as in sjuukt cool)! Heavy stuff indeed!

No input with drums is always such a nice combo! Love the result also with the warbly tape.

Despite being a "higher end" CK this one seems way more unpredictable. Definitely some interesting sounds even in its stock state.

The CK500 has the CT310 keyboard setup. The only thing is the CK500 is STEREO where as the CT310 is mono. So a Stereo dual cassette radio with a Casiotone CT310 built in and miniaturized 😛. I had this unit once. Regret selling it like all my Casiotones that I regret selling on ebay in the past

I really love the antenna

I think it would be interesting to play the keyboard sounds into an am/fm transmitter to be picked up by radio then somehow mix the dry sound with the sound of the keyboard radio transmission

What a synchronicity. I just picked one up for free today.

The sounds and the rhythms are identical to my Casiotone MT-210, which was digital. Also the switches and buttons are of the same design.

honestly so inspiring to know I'm not the only one fucking around like this on tape decks

Wow I've been trying to buy one this week... so quite surprised to see this video. Looking forward to your mods for this.

1967 Pink Floyd with Auto Arranger at the end !

this is f***ing great. Please make an album with this no-input sound especially

Suh dude! Some gnarly sounds you got cookin here!

Brilliant ending

Wow, what a crazy blast from the past!! I haven't heard those canned rhythm and chord progressions since I was a kid staying with my grandparents, where they had an electronic organ. We didn't have much to do back then, so I spent way too long goofing around with it, trying to play along with those notes and rhythms. Thanks for the reminder, my grandparents have been gone for many years, and I haven't relived those days for a very long time.

More is moare. Mooare is muare. MooHARe is more. Yes. By all means, proceed, Mr. Magpie - but do not screw up this lovely antique, k? Bend, but do not break.

Incredible to think that you made all the sounds in this video... BEFORE the circuit bending. Great sounds, great video.

That got dark!

Sounds like the muzak you would hear in the elevator to Hell

When you plug it into itself... 👌👌👌🔥

Whaaaaaaat, a cassette keyboard?? I've never knew that these ever existed.

I feel like you will have a lot of fun with this.

That jam went from excellent to outstanding. 🥰 What a cool thing to play with!!! The double tape deck offers so many possibilities!

I salute you sir

Wow, what a cool keyboard boombox. Too bad Casio don't make radio keyboards anymore, i wish they still did.

These things are so cool, hope I stumble on one in a thrift store or something someday.

psychedelic electronic bagpipe

Amazing demo!

sounds like a casio mt-68, it uses some kind of NEC chip (NEC D931G). I circuit bent one of these before but I went for the amplification circuit and made it produce a overdrive effect but that was about it.

What a delight!

The back side of that thing looks wild with that antenna.

I used a lot of crappy keyboards in the 80s (though not one this cool). Anyway, I was using them all wrong man. Thanks.

Tape looper, fed by the keyboard sounds/radio, and running through a delay with a larger spring reverb tank, all built-in.....

@DetroitMicroSound

5 ай бұрын

....Integrate your current pedal into it????

I should NOT have dropped acid before watching this.

Nice, I have one of these. Basically an CT-405/MT-65/MT-68 with the radio and tape decks. I added drum trigger I/Os, tape slow down mods, a sub osc for the bass, mutes, and a reverb/delay to mine.

Dude, can you try to modify the Casio CK-10 into a keytar?

@timothyverbist5795

5 ай бұрын

Like converting it to a keytar.

The buttons looking like my old Casio MT-100 also with the bass and rythm variations. It was in the past always a dream of me to own such a gear with a cassette recorder inside in order i can record instantly my songs ;-)

Simon you are smart to work it out how to get around to do a circuit bent great video will done keep up the good work simon

Always Love finding the music in the din of noise. Lovely schtuff

same noises as my mt-65 here. I had one when they were new- cct bent for external triggers from the arpeg, separate outputs for the parts.... long-lost. this one is stock. sounds exactly like that thing. 1984 would be about right for the cassette section being a usp.

That ending had some serious Negativeland vibes.

Bro. The beard is entering a new dimension. lol

One of the Casio Holy Grails.👁️🎹👁️

Nice 👊🏼

It would be cool to be able to sample the radio sounds with one of those yellow little casio sample buttons.

@10:30 is awesome and it just gets better from there👍👍

Very interesting concept

Just saw half of this vid and subscribed. The cas casio is a blessing and a curse. But probably with a echo pedal or delay its on its way. Plus in its own its perfect soundtrack to buffet dinner mesure!!

Yo that is so cool!!

That is the coolest-looking instrument I've seen. DVD mod?

i mean, if we count toys, it’s probably been going on almost since you’ve been born. 😂

Wow i had this keyboard in the 80s..lol fun..been along time since ive seen one lol cool video..

I've "always" wondered if it would be possible to build a tape delay from a double cassette player, You know, record the signal on the recorder and then instantly replay it on the player, using a tape loop that somehow runs through both of them.

Forgot I have this tucked away somewhere, gonna gave to dig it out!

I have gear envy... hmmmm if you fed that output into your no input chaos thingy then into some kind of tape delay thing then back in what would that sound like? Just asking

Ive got one of these !! Always planned to make a tape echo with the double tape deck ..... But ive just seen the no input drum part and im wondering what kind of frequency modulation you could get by splicing in the radio's audio signal into the feedback loop .......??????? 🤔 Soooooo many other good ideas in the comments!!!!

Tape speed control ribbon on top of the keys?

I was hearing some Krautrock and Cluster in there.

The drums sounds like the ones in Casio MT-70. Not sure about the rest of the patches though.

What is the tape speed fluctuating so badly? It seems those tapes are not in very good shape.

Wich VHS camera is ?

MT-68? Sound almost identical. MT-68 has an arpeggio selector switch along with the bass and chord accompaniment, though, so not exactly the same. I have heard that some of the casios nerfed their capabilities even with the hardware, so maybe this is one of those cases? But why nerf a flagship?

Top notch noodling, hope you track some of this out and make it into "proper" music songs.

My Casio collection is quite extensive

Its a beaut!

Show me the beats of songs from casio dj 1 and casio rapman

😘

is the left deck eating the tape at the end there? only one reel is moving??

@SimonTheMagpie

5 ай бұрын

Its a loop made by a friend that only goes around the one side. Looks destructive I agree 😄. I think thats part of why it warbles so much as well maybe.

@duncan-rmi

5 ай бұрын

@@SimonTheMagpie they need something to keep the loop taut, gently... some 70s-80s basf cassettes had these nylon arms inside to stop the tape sticking. marketing gimmick. but one of those inside the cassette loop, with a small spring.... that'd sort out your warbling, & give you some idea how to control how much you get rid of.

@lordsqueak

5 ай бұрын

That is Åwesome @@SimonTheMagpie ♥

where's the tape delay?

the whole time i looked at the paper

noice... fm/radio also on board... :) no need to modify it..

I'd but it for sure

I think he would want to go out this way.

sounds like the CT-405 I have.... wish I had one of these though, i tried to buy one one time but it was a scam :O

What's this paper?

It DOES sound a lot like the CASIOTONE MT-100, as I had one 40 years ago.

acid bent super marios

Sounding like if the Gorillaz wrote The Downward Spiral

Interesting but sounds bloody awful for the most part. But it did make me wonder why someone didn't produce a keyboard with an integrated four-track recorder. Or perhaps they did and I'm not aware of it.

David Lynch wants to know your location...

casio need to de-throne op-1

is it just me or is this video randomly in vhs

At least it's not an upper decker... Amirite?

An antenna, weird.

Meow

Simple minds. Meets. Proco,, har.. can’t spell. And. Prodigy that’s probably best. Dj. I’ve ever seen

The sounds on these Casios are a disaster. Too plain. They look cool but sound like shit 😂

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5 ай бұрын

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5 ай бұрын

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@Typical.Anomaly

5 ай бұрын

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Those presets and controls are the same as the MT-100

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