Bad Gear - Casio SK-1 - The Original Fart Sampler
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Casio SK-1. Is this 80s legend the original fart sampler?
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My school music department invested in a whole classroom full of SK1s in the 80s. Music lessons soon turned into a cacophony of flactulance, profanities and Tourrete's syndrome that the music teachers resorted to physically removing all the sample buttons on all the keyboards.
😂🤣😂
So if I find one without the sample button chances are it's from your old school ;)
@@AudioPilz that brings a whole new meaning to the term “old school sampler”
OMG - tears 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got one heck of a sample I’m holding in.
Relax...
Better sampled, than in
Don't mistake this for a Volca, get it placed in the wrong location ...
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@@roryjineffect is this synthmemes
This was my first synth as a kid. I used it as a burp sampler rather than a fart sampler personally but art is subjective.
Totally burp guy here too!
haha, if you havent sampled burps as a kid you havent lived
@@MrVein5.0 someone unfamiliar with music hearing people talking about sampling farts and burps may be left confused about what we’re discussing.
@@justintonation9726 hahahaha
New Girlfriend: "What´s Your favourite Music?" Me: "Oh I love Halloween comes early this Year 8 Bit Trance Postmodern Silent Movie Music"....🤩
You're a person of class!
Pshhh, that Discord server is so overrun with 16bit nerds
She'll love you forever. Or rather... until next Friday when your new favourite genre will come out ;)
Had a laugh at the "Fatboy Slim" thumbnail.
I recall the Uncyclopedia definition of "girlfriend" as "something you'll never have". Surprised I do considering my synth obsession
still can't get over that Ferris Beuller had an EMUlator in his room. No big deal.
Emulator. But yeah, still not quite a consumer machine at the time, lol.
Blew my mind too!!!
The box made for a pretty cool blink-and-you'll-miss-it easter egg in Ready Player One as well.
And an IBM PC as well. And he has the nerve to complain about his parents not buying him a car!
Talk about *not* being born under a bad sign 😁
My wife donated a toy keyboard our kids had in the early 2000's. Now I am starting to think it was a mistake.
That strongly depends on the toy keyboard ;)
I used to sell these, back in the 80s. Sold a ton, just by saying ridiculous things into it, and playing it back. A friend of mine had one, and back in the days when answering machines had tapes in them, he decided to sample "I am Satan" and call me, play it back on my machine for 30 minutes, filling my tape. Good times.
Aaaaaah, that's what the loop function was designed for
In the late 80s I had to go into hospital for a procedure. My brother visited me and gifted the SK-1 to me in my hospital room. I had so much fun with it sampling dialogue from Road Warrior from the hospital room TV. I sampled "Don't hurt the snake!" and played with that for sooo long. Good thing my room mate didn't mind. I eventually lost the keyboard to the murky flood waters of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. I tried to resurrect it but it was just far too corroded. I had no idea how much my brother spent on the thing until this video. I had no idea it set him back that much.
Damn you, Sandy!!!
That's great :D
There comes a point when you just re-trace the PCB and get a new one made, i can see this being done a lot today with electronics that is becoming difficult to replace. We have the technology! And it's gonna be FR4 now, not phenolic paper - it's not water-permeable and the bond between copper and substrate is much more solid too.
I had my SK-1 also with me, when I was in hospital the same time! Used to please the nurses by playing little tunes with their sampled names. Sad, that you lost yours, still have mine in working condition.
They're available at an unpredictable variety of prices!
Who is out there calling the SK-1 bad gear? It’s legendary and does exactly what it’s meant to do. The lofi charm in this little keyboard is amazing.
You know, one man's Bad Gear...
Just because it's on Bad Gear doesn't make it bad gear. There are crazy people everywhere and one man's trash is another's treasure. I would pay more attention to his final verdict for true judgement. :)
"Limited Gear" didn't sound as catchy
It's actually a very desired piece of gear, just check market prices. Some people won't get past the joke though
New to bad gear huh?
this was my first ever synth, passed down to me from my sister. i have two now. they’re limited, sure, but when you’re a little kid, there’s not much that’s more fun than screaming into the microphone then playing a song with that sample
So true!
That moment when your coffee is so hot it's censored.
I would have let my Hustler mug in ;)
hot pooey
Farting into a sampler was a mid-late 80's rite of passage I think. Everyone must have done it.
Good that there weren't that many cameras around back then ;)
Note to self: disinfect the keyboard immediately upon delivery
Those who could unleash a sustained 'brown note' for the 1.4 second sample time were gods amongst mere mortals.
God I'm learning new things :D
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oml i cant believe leisure suit larry and nakey jakey made a cameo in a audiopilz vid XD
Both essential cultural cornerstones!!!
@@AudioPilz Leisure Suit Larry was my first digital hero. I was hoping he'd get his own Teletext channel, but the powers that be in the UK were terrified that we'd become a nation of shmoozers..
The title is already giving me high hopes
I try my best ;)
XD
I believe there are ZERO FART SAMPLES in this video - unless I missed something. So half the title is possibly total BS I think.
The demo tune is pretty great as always of course though. And I keep thinking that cramming a shitty "synth" through a bunch of EHX pedals will have diminishing returns. But nope. Not yet. Still sounds pretty great.
The first Larry... Oh memories.
I remember having one of these as a kid in the 90s. My mother probably got it from a goodwill for a few bucks, as stated.
Fond memories of the sampler feature include me and my brother playing all the various tones of our classic single "Holy shit I gotta shit."
Nice! Sounds like a potential world wide hit record;)
Trust me my man...that is old-school royalty. My foundation. Every kid in Fayetteville NC had one or 4 of em.
Nice!!!
I had one of these when I was a teenager in the 80s. I absolutely loved that thing! I regret the day I stupidly gave it to a girlfriend then never saw it again after the eventual breakup. I sure did have a good time sampling daily sounds. Every once in a while I'd have a moment of inspiration like filling a glass of water until I could tap an A note, sampling it, then running the sample thru the different envelops and a Radio Shack reverb to get some really interesting and eerie sounds. And yes, I sure did entertain as well as annoy friends and family with it. It ended up on a lot of recordings and answering machine messages I made at the time, but sadly, or perhaps happily, those recording are long gone now. Happy memories!
So true. Not everything needs to be preserved for eternity
Would be cool to see Cherry Audio emulate this maybe while they're busy doing these incredibly affordable Jupiter 4 and Oberheim 8 Voice and so on emulations. I mean, Cherry Audio handed out the Realistic Concertmate MG-1 emulation for free last year, and that was a pretty neat little Moog project made for Radio Shack way back in the earlier 80s. Maybe this year we'll get another surprise. Would be a fun way to warm up for following Arturia into making a couple emulations of more advanced sampler synths.
Speaking of, I got the V collection 8 and SQ80 V with two bonus preset packs for less than some people are trying to sell SK-1's for. That's crazy. There's multiple instruments in that bundle like the Emulator II that could do plenty of impressive things with bodily sound samples as long as you have a mic hooked up to your PC. I feel like if the choice is 29 emulations of classic, quirky, and legendary instruments ranging from ok to amazing in their quality for 269 versus an overpriced SK-1, I'll just stay in the box and get tons of synths and keyboards through the ages goodness with some wise UI updates to make programming these instruments far less painful than it is in the hardware. The Synclavier especially looks interesting given they got the programmer of one of the first digital synths to give them a pristine copy of its programmed digital soul and then worked with him to exponentially expand its capabilities.
I'd LOVE a plugin of that one!
A trick I used to do with mine was to sample a sound that was already played at half the speed and then play it an octave up. You only got 0.7 seconds this way but it was at an effective 18kHz sample rate and the built-in reconstruction filter meant it sounded quite good for drum sounds and such
Great idea, I used it the other way around to fit drum loops on it ;)
An actual cool thing you can do with these is rattle something (change, keys, marbles, whatever), sample it, and then play a root-fifth-root power chord. It'll make a crazy but not quite random polyrhythm! Add effects and you're well on your way to some kind of noise beat.
Great idea! Can we get polyrhythm body noises too!
My favorite thing on the SK-1 is still the Flute with portamento... It gets very low-fi Theremin sounding.
Yeah, totally neglected the flute!!!
I am blown away by how you can get the SK to sound so amazing. The last two jams sound very modern for how old and supposedly cheesy the SK is.
Thank you! Some polishing does wonders on that little keyboard
You're so super bad you're super good. I always used to prep myself with a fizzy drink before belching down the mike of my SK-1. Ah nostalgia, those weren't the days. Seriously Florian, you must have included half of my gear in your bad reviews. What are trying to tell me?
...there's nothing wrong with owning Bad Gear ;)
Now, I just want to know what’s on your coffee mug...
Starbucks already gets enough PR ;)
As someone who had a Casio keyboard collecting phase, these samples make my heart sing. So glad you did a video on this.
Thanks for watching!
"Casio keyboard collecting phase" very accurately describes my life between the ages of 14 and 20. At this point I must have 15, including 5 or 6 SK-1s, a Rapman, and a CZ-230S.
I got physically choked up when I found my pink SK-1 in a Goodwill toy bin for $4, after years and years of losing eBay auctions for one.
Glad to know there are others out there who keep the Casio legacy alive!
John Carpenter would be proud of that Halloween comes early this Year 8 Bit Trance Postmodern Silent Movie Music.
Thanks! LOVE John Carpenter!!!
I just absolutely love your intro for this episode.
Its music. Its graphics. Its style. #CASIOsk1 forever!!!
Thank you!!!
Love that 8bit chip tune intro!
It's so smooth, almost sounds like a different song
Thank you!
Guys he watches nakeyjakey, this is a man of class and prestige.
NakeyJakey is a modern day poet!!!
I love my sk-1 and it's always right in front of me on my desk bc it's currently my only sampler with a keyboard. It doesn't work with every sound you throw at it, but when it does you are in lofi heaven! It's always a hit with friends and family when you bust out the sk-1.
Yeah, it's great when it works but when it doesn't it's just mush
@@AudioPilz yeah drums especially sound bad on it which is odd being that it is a lofi sampler so you would think they would sound good but as you said they just sound mushy. Its much better with melodic samples that aren't too complex.
I love Casio gear... can't lie, I've had my eye out for one of these. But I refuse to pay the market rate. I am just waiting for the lucky find as I don't need it in my life. But I do want it.
Now... I cannot ignore the original Leisure Suit Larry intro - nice. I must also say the SK-1 version of the Bad Gear intro reminded me of the Zombie Flesh Eaters (AKA Zombi 2) theme... even though it is not at all alike.
Everything I know I learned from LSL
YES!!! My FIRST EVER SAMPLER!! Actually quite a brilliant little unit once one gets into the crude synthesis capabilities. And also great fun at parties just as the mushrooms kick in. Guaranteed to send anyone tripping on shrooms into a giggling mess!
Absolutely! (and of course: DON'T DO DRUGS!!!;)
Ah! My first keyboard. Bought it at a K-Mart I had a cleaning job in.
Nice!
I bought one in the 80s, then sold it on eBay. Years later, I found one for a fiver at a charity sale. The guy on the stand couldn't understand why I was more interested in the tiny "toy" keyboard than other home keyboards with bigger keys.
When you know you know;)
I have 4 of these…one I got new for xmas back in the ‘80s…and the rest at Goodwill for $5 each. Also have a thrift store bought SK 5 which saves 4 samples and retains samples with power turned off. It also has drum and sample pads allowing you to play different samples from 4 pads.
Wow, I'd love to have one but prices have become quite insane
There was a really cool circuit bend for the SK-1 that replaces the memory with higher capacity nonvolatile memory. The hardware can only access the same memory space as before so you still only get 1.4s. However a rotary encoder dial that sets the upper address lines lets you switch between many different banks in the larger memory (64 banks in the mod that I saw). Note that it isn't just the sample memory that is expanded by the mod, it's the synth memory and sequencer memory too. If I still had my SK-1, this is the bend I'd be doing first.
Wow, didn't know that mod. Thanks for posting!
I would like to know how to do this
@@macevensen2364 Same. Haven’t managed to locate info yet.
Oh wow! Could you please post a link?
From the SK-1 version intro tune alone I knew this was going to be a corker! I wasn't disapointed (or was, in the right way)
Unparalleled!!!
I learned to type aged six trying to type the password in Leisure Suit Larry. You only had about ten seconds to type 'scott me up beamie" or the bouncer would tell you piss off. I also learned through trial and error a lot of 80s US-centric trivia so I could get passed the quiz at the start that proved you were 18+ play the game in the first place.
Necessity is the mother of invention , some say . I'm more inclined to believe it's actually mischief .
LSL tought me everything I know about the English language
Haha, that and other Sierra games were also my introduction to English when I was a kid. Neither me nor my parents really knew the subject of Larry, I think. Never got far enough into it to get to any of the more suggestive parts.
@@AudioPilz Thankfully leisure suits died with the 70's.
That was the keyboard that taught me that a burp, played low enough, sounds like a lion or a monster. I worked in a music store at the time. Pretty sure I annoyed everyone with that Casio :D
I'm pretty sure you sold a ton of them ;)
Ha! I just made a comment that it could sound like horrific vomiting, but yes, a lion's roar too! Depends on the belch!
Young music store workers must be in hell if they come to work hung over.
I got my SK-1 one Christmas around 87 or 88. This was my prize possession and used it for years. Once I figured out I could hook my Walkman up to it and make drum sample loops, my whole life changed. It became much more than a "fart sampler" but yes I still sampled farts😂. I still have it. It's beat to shit and missing 2 or 3 keys but still works fine. This keyboard will always have a place in my heart because it was much more then just a typical keyboard for me. Also, the human voice sound still gives me nightmares. Lol
Also, I had a boombox with dual cassette decks, that had high speed dubbing. I found I could get a longer sample by playing it using the high speed dub and then slowing it down on the keyboard. I started sampling LPs at the 45 rpm to achieve the same thing. I made so many loops like this and would record my own mix tapes. Good times!
Yeah, that one is a total classic!
What's creapy is, if you play the lowest key, you hear HOME ALONE. I loved it when I had it too.
For whatever it's worth, I found an SK-1 in a thrift store and sampled my cat's meow with it. I want to sample a car horn sometime (someone once told me that it's difficult to pitch shift one, and I'm curious how well the SK-1 would manage).
DAMN?! Your classic split screen jam is about the best jam I’ve heard so far this year!! East coast rap music! Indeed!! As a matter of fact, your abilities for putting together a lead and bass from the SK1 along with the Digitakt are second to none!! You make me regret having given away my last two SK1s!! THANKS AGAIN!!
Thanks for watching!!!
Gene Belcher approves
There's a serious lack of Bob's Burger in this episode
Alternately it also made an interesting rhythm machine too. The trick is to use the rhythm presets, but not in the usual way intended. The bottom isn't shielded all that well, so putting it on top of a radio and turning its volume down produces weird glitchy sounds if you tune to places on the dial with no station and listen to the radio instead. In turn that can be recorded to play around with later on. Basically you get some circuit-bent sounding stuff without having to take anything apart.
For the sample capability, it's rather short. I liked using it with plucked sounds (rubber band or soda can tab) or something like a spoon tapping on glass. Sometimes something as simple as that sounds rather neat with four note polyphony.
Nice technique!
Sounds like an excellent discovery.
Im always amazed at the cool tracks you manage to make with these terrible and undesirable machines. LOL
Thank you!!!
Agreed.. these tracks need to be compiled and released.
These are so expensive in part because they're one of the best things to circuit bend. Tons of people try to get one because it pretty much always creates awesome bend sounds
True! I assume most people will keep them in their original state now
I’ve only recently gotten into music production and of course I’d never heard of this. But it looks like awesome lofi fun! Being an 80s kid who loved the sounds of chip tunes this seems Like the kind of thing I can vibe with. Before this video was even over I checked eBay to see if I could find a cheap sk-1 as this is a little toy I would love to play with. Alas, like most vintage goodies the prices have all been jacked up to hell. 😔😔😔
These are the most insanely inflated prices of any piece of gear I've had the pleasure to do research on
Love the SK-1! I gave my first one to my child (who played with it until half of the keys were gone) and then randomly found another on Craigslist for $30.
I'm afraid the 30 bucks days are over...
I'm really loving the idea of the full intro song being played by the instrument rather than just one or two tracks. I hope there will be more like it in the future
Thanks for the input. Quite a lot of the intro tunes are entirely played on the instrument (even the Korg DS-10;)
My bad, I always thought it was a track or two that was played with the original recording. Even the Korg DS-10 sounds like it has the original guitar line in it. I just liked the idea of every part of the song being played only by the unit in question but regardless I love all of your content so far!
@@MiIIenia oh, yeah. The guitars, always keep forgetting about these 😅Check out the TB3 episode then
I should probably communicate with you directly via email. I have amassed a large collection of synthesizers, mostly good ones but there's a number of ones that make the cut like the Roland Gaia SH-01. I would love to be able to help out
This was my first musical instrument. I was born in 79 so this had been out a few years and i was just getting into music as a kid. I remember taking this to school for show and tell and yes sampling fart noises and setting them to polka or whatever other rock pattern it had.
Simpler days!
As soon as I saw Leisure Suit Larry and heard that familiar, nostalgic keyboard beat, I hit like.
Thanks for liking!!!
I never had a SK-1. It kind of reminds me the Sir Sampleton IOS app. Check out the "Beat Thang" for a possible bad gear video.
Thanks for the suggestion! Beat Thang is on top of my list but used prices are already getting a bit crazy
he’s not all jokes but when he is he’s a comedic genius
Thank you so much!
picked one of these up cheap (like $30 in aussie dollary-doos cheap) about 15 years ago, with every intention to circuit bend it...it's still sitting in the cupboard. used once in a joke recording with a friend's sk-8 where we just recorded swear words and ran them both through distortion pedals. fun times.
I still wanna know if the Japanese engineers had body sounds in mind when they designed the SKs ;)
I got my first one as a Christmas gift in 1985 ... then it broke. Then I found one last year at a pawn shop in MINT perfect working order for $35USD. Same batteries I installed still work to this day. Takes m back.
That's a really nice price!!!
my casio sk-1 literally changed my life after one of my early IG videos with it blew up. Helped set my career on the path i'm on today!
Cool! Do you have a link?
Flobama right here is one of the best bringing these old instruments out of the dark dust and into the light!
Hey Mr Pilz. My cousin had one of these and we annoyed his mum one day by recording the old landline telephone and playing the sound when she was out of the room - which would mysteriously stop as soon as she opened the door. We managed three or four goes before she figured that we were having a lark - our childish laughter probably gave the game away. She wasn't very happy with us. Ah, happy days. :)
Anyway... Have you done Nanoloop on the old Gameboy yet?
Nanoloop is a great idea, I'll have to take a closer look. There's a Korg DS-10 episode tho
"If you can't avoid it, embrace it." Florian, I'm going to start using this if you don't mind. Best line I have heard in months.
This review brings back some memories. In the day, Casio wasn't known for musical instruments in the US, but rather, for cheap battery powered watches that were generally not water resistant and had crystals that could be scratched by wool sweaters. I know this because I went through them like paper socks. At the time, I worked at a US Big Box department store called Sears and the SK-I was sold in the sporting goods department, right beside the Atari 2600s, and I happened to work as a sales guy there. We had exactly 1 SK-I, it was on display and was on a shelf high enough to keep the 3-year olds from drooling on the keys.
But nobody could figure out what to do with it, and at the time, $139 was pretty darned pricey for something you couldn't figure out. Adults would usually start trying to noodle with the presets but after a couple hours the department manager would make me unplug it. Because the SK-I was a demo that was bolted down, once it was unplugged, it became an object of great disdain - and we only had the one. If a customer actually asked to buy one (no one ever did) I would have had to get a set of wrenches from the hardware department to unfasten it from the shelf.
Eventually, when we rotated stock one XMAS season to make room for the Atari 2600s, the store manager had me take the SK-I down and put it in the back room. I was allowed to buy it for the store price plus my employee discount plus a discount because the thing had been beaten to crap by so many mangling fingers over the years. I think - can't remember exactly - but it seems to me I couldn't have paid more than $25 for it.
I was doing keyboards in a band in dive bars on the New Jersey shore (before it was cool and before anyone knew where it was except close to the ocean) and figured we'd be able to use it for some cover or another. But what I found was that unlike Hans Zimmer or Trent Reznor, I couldn't make anything remotely musical with it (I had other boards I used for piano / hammond sounds) and so we were reduced to using it to record various belches and puking sounds, as you demoed, with great hilarity. We discovered the best rehersal beer for the SK-I was a German Import Weissbier (they really ferment in the bottle in a very gas producing manner on the way to America). I might have even brought it to a gig and powered it up, but as we always fundamentally worked for bar tips, it seemed dangerous to replay belching at various speeds to a non-sober audience (the only way we got paid was when the audience was so trashed they didn't remember how many bills they stuffed into the tip jar so they kept stuffing in more - and as the night went on, it was my job to make sure that someone who looked like they were putting a few bucks into the jar on my Rhodes wasn't actually removing some for more drinks.)
I had utterly forgotten about that thing until I saw you puking into the microphone of your SK-I and now I'm totally certain there's a box in my attic where that thing lives - probably destroyed by leaky batteries by now.
It's that tiny microphone in the upper right that triggered the memory, and the belching into it. I must have done that 1000 times....
This is truly a great bad gear episode. Thanks for it.
Thank you! That line is up for grabs!
nice one, this was my first sampler and I was endlessly sampling stuff around the kitchen and off the TV - The Art of Noise was a great inspiration --- nice jams as usual and plenty of laughs - the brass ensemble was quite good, and it's cool how the envelopes could really shape the sounds, also the organ synth was fairly versatile too
Great introduction to the world of electronic music production!
First keyboard i ever bought, with the help of my parents back in those days 😋 .. i had so much fun with it.. yeah.. those 80's 😅
I love how you consistently pronounce every "W" as "V", but also every "V" as "W".
Takes some real commitment I imagine :D
That's actually not even fake ;)
This is how a lot of people with near perfect English but a non native language sound man
I remember asking a music store owner why he did not stock the SK-1 back in the 1980s. He looked me in the eye and said: "IT'S A TOY!!!" Then he turned around in disgust and went to the back room to cry. IMHO
You have huge talent for making even this PoS sound great! (Silent Movie Music cut) Thank you, and please keep up the great work!
❤️❤️❤️
Another funky fly upload. Immediately went to eBay where the SK-1 I was bidding on was sold for the Buy It Now price minutes earlier 🎹
Damn, it's so sick
I had an SK-1 then graduated to the SK-5 which if you sampled the record at 45rpm and played with the pitch, you could get a perfect loop. You could sampled two one bar phrases and pitched all the way down they would play at around 105bpm. I used to travel to people’s houses selling beats with an SK-5, a Korg DDD5, a Gemini GL101 a Gemini Mx2200 and bag of records. I sold a lot of beats like that back in the day.
Great setup and nice technique!!!
I just found one a few months ago at a thrift store for $9 with the manual. It's the third one I've owned - I might have a SK-1 problem.
9 bucks is a REALLY good price!
I remember this one. Pretty fun to play around when I was a kid. Had a different Casio keyboard. Back then you were limited to what you could play in the moment. I remember as a kid recording on cassette tape recorder and then re-recording on another device with the mic output. No multitrack for me.
This with a daw can do a lot of great stuff. Kids today are in a different world.
Loved the re-recorded track btw. Love that silly cheesiness that pours out of the device.
When I got into audio engineering SAE in New Zealand still had two stereo minidisk recorders as the only recording devices in one of their studios ;)
@@AudioPilz lol.
When I was young I recorded a couple of demos with my band in minidisk in a local studio. One take. The second one was done in protools and was a game changer. This was all very new back then. (97-99 I think). We’ve come a long way.
When people talk about G.A.S. when discussing this synth, they really mean gas. 🐈 💨💀
Hi, I know everyone writes this way, but what's about "Tenori-On" from Yamaha in one of the next episodes??
That one keeps coming up, yeah. Thanks for the suggestion!
An older friend of mine bought it in 89, we spent the whole summer sampling guitar, farts and burps! High times..
That's how 1989 was supposed to be spent!
this might be my favorite Bad Gear intro song yet
Thank you!!!
It amazes me how you manage to make excellent sounding music out of every single piece of equipment you test.
Thank you!!! Pressure helps;)
@AudioPilz my friend, You really got the maximum out of my #CASIO SK1!
And I swear I can see a huge smile on the little keyboard's face in your video! :)
Hey Jot, thanks again!!!
@@AudioPilz My honor and pleasure!
I have fond memories of going into Service Merchandise back in the mid 80s while my mom did her shopping and recall playing with this keyboard particularly! This kind of nostalgia has made me into the proud keyboard nerd that I am today. :-) Love your channel man!
Thanks!
Man, i just farted. Then this came up in my recommended. I guess Google really does listen to everything
Next time you make a reference to a lyre, can you photoshop the instrument onto someone who has their pants on fire?
Your content is absolutely amazing!
Thanks! So true, a missed opportunity!
@@AudioPilz Or a video of Someone playing a lyre ( maybe Greensleeves ) with pants on fire.
The piano sound is quite decent for a little toy keyboard. The sampler is good enough to reproduce what our body produces...
Oh yes, this has been used professionaly, notably with Portishead. So not just for sampling farts and pranking people!
Agreed, the lofi sounds can be used in professional music production
The low midrange of the piano voice is OK, but I've always wished it were better and an octave lower.
I have been jamming on one of these since the 80’s under rated, fun little machine 🎹
Agreed!
OMG. Is tah Leisure Suit Larry in the intro? Whahaha. You get me everytime Florian
Always a pleasure;)
Fun fact, this is the most black keys in any Bad Gear to date.True Story. 🍷
It was the only way to be able to hit that low note. Whatever it takes ;)
Aha, now we know the origin of „instrument: dogs“ brought to fame by another famous bald synth guy :D
I have no idea what you're talking about😅
As an 80's kid, *every single time* I pressed that goddamned "synthe-sizing" button was like a nightmare 🥺
I assume this could be very traumatizing
Lolz. We actually used The Cabinet of Dr Caligari as a background projection at some gigs a couple of years ago. 🤣
One of the most groundbreaking films of all time!!!
@@AudioPilz we used that one and Nosferatu. Great for some ambience.
4:33 I died 😂
That's what killed Leopold Mozart ;)
I opted for the Yamaha VSS, which is the better "kid's sampler", as it's got all the extra looping and modulation options.
I'll keep my eyes peeled for one of these, thanks!
The VSS 300 is the one that tends to be hyped up on UA-cam, so the VSS 200 is often overlooked, but is just as good (and thus cheaper on eBay!).
I have a major soft spot for this synth.
It's so cute!!!
Portishead used an SK-1 also. :)
True that!
if calling the SK-1 a piece of bad gear is your attempt at a joke then i'm sorry but i'm not laughing, this was and still is absolutely top-tier in its class of budget "children's toy" instruments
...but it IS the OG Fart Sampler, isn't it?
"You must be fun at parties" is what I would usually say... But I can't quite recall what a party is anymore... 😶
@@AudioPilz ...maybe
That Huuuuueeeeee song cracked me!! 🤣 LMAO
Lol, thanks!
Is that blurred out logo mug available on badgear.com/merch?
Nope but I think Starbucks already gets enough PR without me publicly drinking from their mugs (Bad Gear Merch coming soon;)
Nice, Please do the Yamaha VSS 30 next
Thanks for the input! I'll keep an eye open for these!
Argh... just... just stop the background music. Man, it's pretty annoying to listen with headphones...
Thanks for the feedback!
Liquid Swords, yeah. Not just cuz Bernardo said so either.
Still an ODB fan;)
the lil jam at 5:43 sounds like lost Donkey Kong Country OST
Love old console soundtracks
I still have mine legit back from the 80's (along with my PSS-470 and MT120). Yes, this was the very first time so many of us got our hands on sampling for the first time. The very first "#?*!" machine.
Cool. Nice 80s fun machine collection!
Man. I miss having my SK 1 keyboard
Yeah, these have become quite rare
So I guess you could say this is the more professional yak back
I had to google that;)
None of the toy synths with crusty samplers are a-whale-a-bull cheap anymore. Lucky I bought a variety of Yamaha toy synths in a mad spree a few years ago :-)
Yeah, I keep hoarding that Bad Gear too!
Lolz at opening theme! Brilliant. Just brilliant. And the Puke Symphony? Masterpiece.
Thank you!
IDK if this counts as a "Bad Gear" but do a review on the Casio Songbank SA-5 keybord. I still have mine that I grew up with for the past 23 years.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a closer look