If it's a 3 way toggle switch to go from Off/Keyboard/Radio it might just be send power to only ONE of those two options. Could be as easy as adding separat epower switches for each mode? Perhaps a blending circuit for the speaker so it doesn't overdrive the speaker? But I'm not much of a circuit bender. haha.
One possible gotcha in comparing the CK-10 to the VL-1 is that, if the chips are like a microcontroller of some sort, they might have different firmware. So doing the same thing electronically on one might not result in the same results.
I had a mini Casio keyboard when I was a kid. I begged my mum repeatedly until she finally relented and gave in. It was a great little keyboard and brought me many hours of happiness.
omg lol you have so many synths and pedals you could open a museum lol I got myself a mid range otamatone a couple of days ago, its so fun lol also got a cheap ocarina which is gonna take a bit of practice, cause its awkward to hold but workable but I want to get a flute now, played a little bit of flute years ago so would be cool to have one again, also want a trumpet too, played that a little as a kid too. I think they will be good for helping me control my breathing for singing or whatever that sound is that comes out when I open my mouth. Thanks for the inspirational videos! :D
Best I got is a Yamah PSR -600. It has a floppy drive inside and it still works. I need to 3d print a new piece of bezel and put new capacitors in it. It has been on my backlog for years. Good to see your content, youtube has been doing you dirty and now showing me your vids.
Heyyyy pal if you add a low power transmitter forked from the synth output (theres a million kits and assembled circuits out there to make it a permanent part of the instrument), you should be able to make a feedback loop with a send/return jack for added effects. A slow-modulated delay fed into the slightly mis-tuned radio could create magic. Add pitch shifter and it’s fractal magic. As usual, your end results here blew me away for having started with so little!
@@SimonTheMagpie yeah I’ve patched up radio feedback separately with both consumer FM transmitters and an old eico lab tube signal generator, and then receiver of choice through effects and sometimes an amp for stacking speaker-mic feedback too for making perverse drones. for a mono lofi instrument like the casio, i would guess that the simplest discrete transistor-based transmitter circuit might sound better when overloaded than one that uses IC’s etc and also might have more fun frequency drift, but i haven’t tested the theories out yet.
This is so close to my dream! I feel like the Casio MT-600 preset keyboard could be modded into the HT-700 synthesizer, or a better version. They MUST be identical inside, other than the programmer board! THEY MUST BE!!!! I'd gladly donate one of each keyboard if the Magpie shares interest in this quest. Just saying.
Ooh yeah they look so alike on pictures! Gonna check the 8bitguy video on the ht-700. I have personally avoided most of these “bigger” casios simply out of studio space 😆 but that would be a fascinating quest indeed! Hook up on discord maybe?
I don't know if it would be possible to add the programming jog wheel to an MT600 to make it into an HT700, plus you really must have the display to know what parameters you are changing. However, the MT600 DOES have the resonant analogue filter onboard and it is possible to tap into it and add external controls. Search for "modified MT600" by a channel called Rolandsh1000 (or something similar). The chap added some great mods to his MT600, and he also extensively modified his HT700 with some very impressive mods.
Did I spot some sort of weird pedal in the background with a bunch of talk box tube patch points...? Hmmm... I'm excited, hope that'll be a video in the future for sure :)
Hi Simon, besides a fantastic amd inspiring video as always I just noticed the screen with what you are looking at in the background .. really nice detail! :)
I had one of those crappy things as a kid, it had a wand that was supposed to read the sheet music somehow but could not get it to work! The one with the radio needs a wand attachment!
I wonder if you could calculate values of resistors, that you could replace your pot with a rotary switch letting you raise and lower the pitch by selectable octaves? It might make the finished product more playable…
The Casio MT-10 was supposed to have dozens of extra presets that could be unlocked with mods. The mods were well documented in the 80s. I think you could purchase instructions
Holy shit I had forgotten I had that little muppets keyboard until you showed it - I thought some of those sounds sounded familiar, and then seeing that case & those star buttons & switches, it all came back to me
I kept my original VL-1 as is (including its nifty little cream carrying case but all my other early casiotone range synths (seven of them as of today's count) have gone through the devilish S-Cat circuit bend treatment. As long as there's room for pots, switches and knobs, there's ibviousliy tons of possibilities ahead. On a practical side, the easiest way is to get rid of the audio amp and lourspeaker(s) to free some more space inside the casing.
I had a vl-tone, never really understood the adsr / calculator thing! What I do remember is the demo tune was 1,4,4,5,5,6,black 6, 8 black 6, 5, 5, 4... And this is seared into my memory!
Great video but I’m still confused… can you sample short snippets of radio audio on that thing and pitch them up and down with your circuit bend? If so then that’s kickass and I want one 😅
I love all the quirky other variations of the VL-1, but could never understand why Casio removed features from the VL-1 when making them. They could have made a Super VL-1 with the CK-10 built in radio, plus added the VL-5's polyphony! Simon, maybe you can build the Super VL-1/ CK-10/ VL-5 that Casio should've offered back in 1981!
Holy yeah that would be so cool! I wonder about the VL-5 functions though. Like how they made it poly from VL-1. I only had a VL-5 borrowed very long ago. So wanna get one again one day and open up.
If they offered a home keyboard that satisfied too many of the needs or wants, how can they convince you to purchase the newest stripped down pcb, reused case design that cost them basically nothing in R & D at a price higher than any of last years models?
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Hello Mr Magpie! Why not to circuit bend the radio, it would a monster hybrid sound 2 in 1 ! The Casio PT1 , best keyboard to bring in your back bag and play with a Korg NTS1 for example for minimum set under the stars… well VL1 such a mini beast with programmable matrix is a must have! Keep on the way with your channel 👌
@@SimonTheMagpie yeah im pretty sure there are more of it! I've had a casio in my childhood which was clearly with same engine (monophonic, 4 voices) with 2 speakers, like CK 10, but had also some melodies built in. But of course my memory could be broken. I see that "CK" stands for the series with built in radios and sometimes cassettes.
Ahhh please open it again!! It would be neat as the newest DAWless fad 😂 FM transmitter from your phone or other hardware to this and play along. And 100 step sequence..?? Whyyyyy does everything now only come with 16 steps..? 😢
Yeah I'm gonna have to, haha. 100 steps but it only plays em all once, hehe. So I rather have a loop of 16 honestly. But a loooooop of 100 would be the absolute best!!!
That would be amazing and very kind of you! You can hook me up through either discord or email. Working on a contact form for magpiestuff.com so it will be easier in future for contact. Right now discord is easiest or the contact form over at magpiepedals.com. That goes to my company email but should work! 😁
Simon, if you make it playable with the radio, you could then play along with the mic from the previous video, and other FM transmitting devices.
Damn ok sold. Dammit!! Now I gotta do it, haha. Or at least try! I did NOT Think of this 😅😅😅
Ozone, I saw in the discord server you have a Panasonic thing that is keyboard and radio thing. Does that play radio and keyboard at the same time?
@@NicStage yes, but no FM.
If it's a 3 way toggle switch to go from Off/Keyboard/Radio it might just be send power to only ONE of those two options. Could be as easy as adding separat epower switches for each mode? Perhaps a blending circuit for the speaker so it doesn't overdrive the speaker? But I'm not much of a circuit bender. haha.
Love this channel
One possible gotcha in comparing the CK-10 to the VL-1 is that, if the chips are like a microcontroller of some sort, they might have different firmware. So doing the same thing electronically on one might not result in the same results.
I had a mini Casio keyboard when I was a kid. I begged my mum repeatedly until she finally relented and gave in. It was a great little keyboard and brought me many hours of happiness.
Great video! And it came at just the right time. A kind person just sent me a PT-10 that I’m planning to circuit bend.
Nice! :D Should be super easy to do the pitch mod. And then explore from there, yeah! Looking forward to it !!
omg lol you have so many synths and pedals you could open a museum lol I got myself a mid range otamatone a couple of days ago, its so fun lol also got a cheap ocarina which is gonna take a bit of practice, cause its awkward to hold but workable but I want to get a flute now, played a little bit of flute years ago so would be cool to have one again, also want a trumpet too, played that a little as a kid too. I think they will be good for helping me control my breathing for singing or whatever that sound is that comes out when I open my mouth.
Thanks for the inspirational videos! :D
What a great Casio! Can't wait to see the boombox!
Best I got is a Yamah PSR -600. It has a floppy drive inside and it still works. I need to 3d print a new piece of bezel and put new capacitors in it. It has been on my backlog for years. Good to see your content, youtube has been doing you dirty and now showing me your vids.
Heyyyy pal if you add a low power transmitter forked from the synth output (theres a million kits and assembled circuits out there to make it a permanent part of the instrument), you should be able to make a feedback loop with a send/return jack for added effects. A slow-modulated delay fed into the slightly mis-tuned radio could create magic. Add pitch shifter and it’s fractal magic.
As usual, your end results here blew me away for having started with so little!
So sending it back to the radio? Omg I didnt think of that! Could be completeleleeleley bizarre!! 😁😁😁😁 I will try
@@SimonTheMagpie yeah I’ve patched up radio feedback separately with both consumer FM transmitters and an old eico lab tube signal generator, and then receiver of choice through effects and sometimes an amp for stacking speaker-mic feedback too for making perverse drones. for a mono lofi instrument like the casio, i would guess that the simplest discrete transistor-based transmitter circuit might sound better when overloaded than one that uses IC’s etc and also might have more fun frequency drift, but i haven’t tested the theories out yet.
Yes, let's!
Making a song with you would be the funnest thing. I love your process.
This is so close to my dream! I feel like the Casio MT-600 preset keyboard could be modded into the HT-700 synthesizer, or a better version. They MUST be identical inside, other than the programmer board! THEY MUST BE!!!!
I'd gladly donate one of each keyboard if the Magpie shares interest in this quest. Just saying.
Ooh yeah they look so alike on pictures! Gonna check the 8bitguy video on the ht-700. I have personally avoided most of these “bigger” casios simply out of studio space 😆 but that would be a fascinating quest indeed! Hook up on discord maybe?
I don't know if it would be possible to add the programming jog wheel to an MT600 to make it into an HT700, plus you really must have the display to know what parameters you are changing. However, the MT600 DOES have the resonant analogue filter onboard and it is possible to tap into it and add external controls. Search for "modified MT600" by a channel called Rolandsh1000 (or something similar). The chap added some great mods to his MT600, and he also extensively modified his HT700 with some very impressive mods.
Did I spot some sort of weird pedal in the background with a bunch of talk box tube patch points...? Hmmm... I'm excited, hope that'll be a video in the future for sure :)
Hehe yeah maaaybe I am prototyping maybe 😆😆
Yeah, I circuit bent one. It is a noise radio keyboard “the mangled frequency”now.
Keep up the awesome work.
🤩🎹📻📡
Hey my dude I have a pt1 I don't use if you'd like to have it. I can't figure out how to message you
5:32 Da da da
Hi Simon, besides a fantastic amd inspiring video as always I just noticed the screen with what you are looking at in the background .. really nice detail! :)
Yeah it's sweet right :D
Also used to look at stuff when sitting at that other desk.
I had one of those crappy things as a kid, it had a wand that was supposed to read the sheet music somehow but could not get it to work! The one with the radio needs a wand attachment!
amazing man, perfect addition to the song :)
Thank you!
I wonder if you could calculate values of resistors, that you could replace your pot with a rotary switch letting you raise and lower the pitch by selectable octaves? It might make the finished product more playable…
The Casio MT-10 was supposed to have dozens of extra presets that could be unlocked with mods. The mods were well documented in the 80s. I think you could purchase instructions
Holy shit I had forgotten I had that little muppets keyboard until you showed it - I thought some of those sounds sounded familiar, and then seeing that case & those star buttons & switches, it all came back to me
I kept my original VL-1 as is (including its nifty little cream carrying case but all my other early casiotone range synths (seven of them as of today's count) have gone through the devilish S-Cat circuit bend treatment. As long as there's room for pots, switches and knobs, there's ibviousliy tons of possibilities ahead. On a practical side, the easiest way is to get rid of the audio amp and lourspeaker(s) to free some more space inside the casing.
Casio, please re-release the CK-10!
I wonder if you could make it a no-input synth if you use an FM sender to send the output back out to the antenna?
Gonna try!! :D
I had a vl-tone, never really understood the adsr / calculator thing! What I do remember is the demo tune was 1,4,4,5,5,6,black 6, 8 black 6, 5, 5, 4... And this is seared into my memory!
Great video but I’m still confused… can you sample short snippets of radio audio on that thing and pitch them up and down with your circuit bend? If so then that’s kickass and I want one 😅
I love all the quirky other variations of the VL-1, but could never understand why Casio removed features from the VL-1 when making them. They could have made a Super VL-1 with the CK-10 built in radio, plus added the VL-5's polyphony! Simon, maybe you can build the Super VL-1/ CK-10/ VL-5 that Casio should've offered back in 1981!
Holy yeah that would be so cool! I wonder about the VL-5 functions though. Like how they made it poly from VL-1. I only had a VL-5 borrowed very long ago. So wanna get one again one day and open up.
If they offered a home keyboard that satisfied too many of the needs or wants, how can they convince you to purchase the newest stripped down pcb, reused case design that cost them basically nothing in R & D at a price higher than any of last years models?
To the business and political leaders, this is your mantra for this week, and as long as you need 👉23:31👈click here and repeat the mantra with the magpie
Up until, "...this was a video". Just remember the part before that. Thank you, and God bless.
You should take the keyboard radio to à sampling radio keyboard !!! 🤪🤯
Please radio / synth balance function!!!
I think I must yeah 😅 damn myself for having to open it again, haha
Magpie is the Homie.100%
Hello Mr Magpie! Why not to circuit bend the radio, it would a monster hybrid sound 2 in 1 ! The Casio PT1 , best keyboard to bring in your back bag and play with a Korg NTS1 for example for minimum set under the stars… well VL1 such a mini beast with programmable matrix is a must have! Keep on the way with your channel 👌
awesome
I have a PT-1!
18:12 OP-1 from the 80’s 😆👍
Oh I see you are on Spotify. Your Spotify about to blow the f up.
Casio PT 10 is also a rebranded casio pt 1
Indeed! We should list em all somewhere :D Maybe I'll make a site for it.
@@SimonTheMagpie yeah im pretty sure there are more of it! I've had a casio in my childhood which was clearly with same engine (monophonic, 4 voices) with 2 speakers, like CK 10, but had also some melodies built in. But of course my memory could be broken. I see that "CK" stands for the series with built in radios and sometimes cassettes.
Elektron should do Digitone VL1 crossover for the 5y anniversary
Keen on keys collab when :0
Looove keen on keys!
Ahhh please open it again!! It would be neat as the newest DAWless fad 😂 FM transmitter from your phone or other hardware to this and play along. And 100 step sequence..?? Whyyyyy does everything now only come with 16 steps..? 😢
Yeah I'm gonna have to, haha. 100 steps but it only plays em all once, hehe. So I rather have a loop of 16 honestly. But a loooooop of 100 would be the absolute best!!!
I have a PT 1 I'd be willing to part with if you still need one! 😊
Hey! That would be fantastic. And super nice of you :D
Can you contact through here: magpiestuffcontact@gmail.com ?
that sounds like a silly itty bitty machine
Hey Simon, I have a red PT-10 that I can give away if you need
That would be amazing and very kind of you! You can hook me up through either discord or email. Working on a contact form for magpiestuff.com so it will be easier in future for contact. Right now discord is easiest or the contact form over at magpiepedals.com. That goes to my company email but should work! 😁
You might know a little too much about Casio synths from the 80s and 90s.
Only small ones 😅
@@SimonTheMagpie those are the ones worth knowing about
I have a pt-1!
The same C P U P C B
Uh-huh
The same C P U P C B
Not being able to play over the radio kind of break it’s purpose
Is it too late for a Soul Coughing 5% Nation of Casiotone comment?
Great work but it kinda sounds like The Oregon Trail midi from an Apple Ii. Its retro AF so its coooolish.