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!
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?)_
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 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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!).
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.
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. 👍👍👍
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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 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??
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
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
@@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 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.
I still have mine with the casio case. These are awesome Gems.
Can't wait till my zoom arrives monday, cheers for this vid .
I used to hook mine up to my amp too! Had great fun in the 80s with this.
Excellent! Effects and synths go together like peanut butter and chocolate!
Wow this is the da da da machine? How legendary 😀 oh and the reverb just thrusts me into the stratosphere🌍
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!
Ebay ; )
Was my first synth before I could afford a new Korg Poly 800. Still got it gathering dust!
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?)_
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
I was buying Clackers in Brierleys and then Genesis albums in Andy's Records then.
@@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
@@Havanacuba1985 No Bull, no Still, probably no Falcon, no Gladstone. No Fat Pete.
I definitely remember these now that I've seen one. Never had one though.
One of the most versatile pedals ever... Great vid!!
That is incredible, you were not lying.
That carpet really ties the room together.
Looks like a towel?
He just used the carpet as a toilet and moved on.
I have 2 VL-tones and 2 MS-70CDRs. I can’t wait to make some magic with them. Thanks for the inspiration!
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
"What I'm going to do ... if your still here." I got a kick out of that one.
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.
Wow I can't imagine the possibilities of this zoom pedal with my Casio SK1!!!
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.
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.
I just ordered one to plug into my 4-track. Can't wait!
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.
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.
Inspired by this, I'm getting the Zoom pedal, so I'm also getting a David Bowie edition Stylophone to put through it!
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!
Thank you!!
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!).
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.
Hi Doug, you probably sold me one of these in the said Hesseys 😄👍🎹 enjoying the Akai Miniak 😉👍
Mine has gone yellow like that, too.
Yes Doug, YOU could make a really cool track with this👍🎚🎧🎼👽 Looking forward to it😎😉🎹
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 :)
I still have that Casio today...
Me too! Never sell this gem.
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. 👍👍👍
Very very nice from 12:15 to 14:15.
great demo!
Bought my Roland JX3P from Hessy's, oh and a Yamaha DX27...happy days...
Wow! you can basically plug a potato to that zoom pedal and it will make you good sounds. Good buy then.
Ha, brilliant, yes, I should make one of those carrot flutes😂
@@TheSoundTestRoom LOL. But seriously. Do you remember the Kawaii PH50 keyboard? This would be a great MFX for that one.
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.
Almost all cheap keyboards sound better with guitar effects.
da da da da . Synth used on a no 1 record.
Very clever video. That Zoom EFX Unit could even make cat sound good....hmmmm, there’s an idea...
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.
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!
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!
I run a mid 80s Yamaha pss680 through a phaser pedal and it sounds epic.
Casio SA10
5:38 casio vl-1 + zoom ms = moog 1.
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.
I bought it while I was working there, sad day when it closed
Fantasic results.
And the best thing about the VL Tone is..... there's a CALCULATOR! :D
Was that a very tiny bit of the DS9 opening I heard?!
I still have that Casio Today
I had one of these.
1981? I got my for christmas in 1979.
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
Amplifier or interface or mixer or recorder. Usually these effect pedals have a stereo output.
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.
My uncle had one but he didn't let me borrow it afraid I might crash it lol. The calculator was also handy. Now there's an app.
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.
How easy is it to sync the Zoom’s rhythmic effects to a tempo from a midi source?
Not easy because not midi
So cool I had one for many years. Peace Christo 👽
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??
I used to love the Synth dept in Hesseys I bought a Roland D10 there Oh yes and my Casio VL-1. :)
LOL Hessey's. Spent a good deal of time dossing round there and Rushworths as my mate could actually play guitar and keyboard.
Just found your channel and really enjoying the vids.
Can't seem to find anything on the Digitakt or other Elektron gear?
Whh didn't you output to stereo?
Sounds so much better
I should have😊
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
do u think it is one of these on Abba Gimme Gimme (layered with strings)
ABBA used more hi res synths is my guess
Interestingly the sounds of this machine aren’t yellowed in the same way as the look.
And i got them both!
Anyone know how this compares to an Eventide Blackhole?
My dad has one of these
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
Chris Greene the original one is, but they also make one with built in gm sound set now.
If love to make an 80s type track with this
I’m still here.
will this improve drum sounds also? thx in advance !
Yes especially reverb
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I've never understood why Casio never followed it up with enhanced models. It's the only keyboard they ever made with the ADSR.
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
@@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.
@@ian_b yeah on the low end consumer market or kids keyboards they mostly didn't but some of the yamaha ones did
can i connect the casio to the computer and record it? 🤔
Solange Betancourth if the computer has a microphone input then yes.
Dan Butorovich line input of course. If it's a laptop - any USB sound card with line input will do.
wow that's yellow!
I know, right, the person who owned this before me must have left it exposed for many years😂
Is the 70 the same as the 50?
No, totally different effects
@@TheSoundTestRoom I have 50 and a 100 bt. Now that you say that I need a 70 asap lol
I only say: Trio - Da Da Da! :)
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
You should have recorded this video in stereo and used both outputs from the Zoom pedal. It will sound way better
In hindsight you’re probably right👍
@@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.
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 😊
@@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.
Did i hear a bit of Gordons Gin there?
Da Da Da I don’t love you you don’t love me Da Da Da! Hahhhahahahahhaha! Thanks fo that homie :)
Hahaha, this is genius!!!
cool
Giorgio?
I still have my VL1 which works apart from the screen which means no programming... Shame.
U dont have to see the numbers to program them
2:15 Da Da Da
Dude...that was large.
Mummy nice nicotine yellow 😄👍🏻
im here because of trio
hhahahahhaha
Got one for $5
maybe ... you can give another video ... just give only a little concert of 20 to 25 min? pls ...
Da da da
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. :-)
Have you no ears, boy?
Made it sound like a frigging AWESOME toy, you mean!