" Casiolette is a project based on the exploitation and senseless torture of cheapo consumer keyboards from the 80s and early 90s. No circuit bending, no ProTools, just a few effects pedals and whatever can be plugged into the assorted line-in jacks.The keyboard that inspired this project is the Casio Rapman (RAP-1), a hip hop-based keyboard from 1991 with a very interesting feature. It seems that anything with a 1/8" plug can be hooked up to the Rapman and its sound messed with via the "Voice Effector" slider. This means that vocals, along with guitars, drum machines, other keyboards, etc., can be manipulated in real time while the Rapman is playing one of its preset rhythms and you're playing the keyboard on top of all of it. (Some songs were accomplished "live" in this way, but most were multi-tracked.)"
Check it out at SOMERY.ORG. via somery in the comments of this post.
I like plugging a 1/8 inch from the output back into the input, you have to pull it halfway from the output to hear the feedback. Pretty fun when adjusting the pitch and running drums through it
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