Casio VA10 demo track

Published on Aug 13, 2014 ikworgek

"Track made with only the casio VA10 keyboard
all sounds and effects from the casio
No external effects used
no circuitbending

main features:

32 mid size keys
stereo (effects stereophonize the initially mono keyboard and microphone sounds)
2 cheap, hissy and bassless built-in speakers
uncomfortable headphone- style microphone
6 voice polyphony
100 preset sounds
12 preset rhythms (they contain no chords)
monophonic microphone input
59 built-in preset effect combinations, each consist of 1 or 2 combined basic effects
9 effect memory user presets
pseudo- vocoder (envelope follower)
"pitch sensor" sing- to- note converter which shall permit to play keyboard notes by singing, but it is almost unusable because it works only reliable within about 1 octave and otherwise randomly jumps to wrong octaves.(wich can be nice for experiments)
5 drum pads, switchable by 3 buttons to play 2 drum kit (A=normal, B= synth toms/sirens) or as effect intensity controls
record/ playback sequencer
"harmony arranger" (some kind of chord sequencer?)
The PCM sound generator corresponds to Casio SA series instruments. It synthesizes each preset sound by a combination of 2 mixed wavetable samples with different complex envelopes.
6 fusion/ synth pop demo tunes"