Gonna have a play around and see if I can make a tune solely with SK-5 sounds. It’s got some half decent beats in it… not sure how I could make a beat with lion, laser and dog sounds work however. 😆

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Petition for #Casio to revive the SK line and make a new SK-8 with #MIDI output (I used to have one my aunt gave me but I don't know what happened to it).

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guys...i don't think this is just like buddy holly anymore 😱

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Haha, I just made a quick beat from those re-sampled 808 sounds plus the default SK-5 sounds and it's not completely awful, I might stick with this. It did need a fair bit of EQ-ing to make it sounds half decent however.

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Hmm, interesting! I’ve been having a quick play around with my old Casio SK-5 sampling keyboard and thought I’d try sampling some sounds off my PC. After hooking up the SK-5’s line in to my audio interface I tried sampling some TR-808 sounds as a test, the bass drum, hand clap and closed hi-hat sound fairly normal but the open hi-hat comes out a bit odd. I might re-sample this back into my PC and use these sounds. Who needs a Teenage Engineering KO-II when you’ve got an SK-5, eh? 😉

(edit: I've attached some audio of the default "rhythm pad" sounds and the 808 samples)

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Batteries in… yep it’s working! I think I’ll give it a little clean up but it’s pretty much all fine. I might’ve scared one of the cats with the dog sound. Oops.

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A Tidy Octave Mod For The Casio SK-1

1985 saw the release of the Casio SK-1, a compact sampling keyboard that brought the technology to a lower price point than ever before. However, one drawback of this was that it comes stock with only a 2.5 octave keyboard. [Jonas Karlsson] wanted a little more range out of the instrument, so set about hacking in his own octave mod.

The build consists of fiddling with the SK-1's microprocessor clock to change the pitch of the notes generated by the instrument. The original clock is generated by a simple LC circuit, which in this mod is fed to an inverter, and then a pair of flip-flops to divide the clock by four. The original clock and the divided version are then both sent to a mux chip. With the flick of the switch, either the original or downshifted clock can be sent to the microprocessor.

With the slower clock feeding the microprocessor, all the notes are downshifted an octave. The resulting sound, which you can listen to on Soundcloud, is similar to what you get when chopping down sample rates. It bears noting, however, that as this mod changes the master clock, other features such as rhythms are also effected.

It's a great mod which gives the instrument a gloomier, grittier sound on demand. The Casio SK-1 has long been prized for its hackability; we've seen them completely worked over in previous mods. If you've got your own twisted audio experiments cooking up in the workshop, be sure to drop us a line.

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