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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Concertmate-200 Keyboard Synthesizer - Casio VL-1


via this auction

"This nice Realistic C-200 Keyboard is actually a Casio VL-Tone 1 clone specifically built for Radio Shack stores!

The Concertmate-200 is a monophonic VL-Tone 1 (VL-1) synthesizer with built-in calculator. The "M+" calculator memory also stores the timbre, ADSR, vibrato and tremolo setting for the synthesizer, and the short 29 buttons mini- keyboard could be transposed by a switch to low, mid and high pitch range. (In Germany the VL-1 became very famous by the pop group Trio's song "Da Da Da", which features the "rock" rhythm and piano sound of this tiny white keyboard.) The VL-1 was the first genuine "Volks- Synthesizer" and came out even earlier than the well known Yamaha DX-7. It was first released as the Casio VL-Tone 1, and later as the Realistic Concertmate-200.

Overview

29 Button Micro-Keys
Monophonic Main Voice
5 Preset Sounds : piano, fantasy, violin, flute, guitar (selected by slide switch with a small delay)
10 Analog Rhythms : march, waltz, 4-beat, swing, rock-1, rock-2, bossa-nova, samba, rhumba, beguine
24 Preset Patterns (8 Drum Rhythms / 8 Accompaniments / 8 Funny Arrangements)
Volume Slider Control
Tempo Slider Control
3 Octave Transpose Switch
Full-Function Built-in Calculator
ADSR synthesizer (uses calculator memory as sound parameter register)
LCD (displays calculator stuff and e.g. note values)
Demo Button (plays German folk song)
Tuning Trimmer (located case bottom)
Simple Sequencer (100 Notes, Editor Insert & Delete with Battery Backed-Up)
2 "One Key Play" Buttons (play and change note duration)
Built-in Amp-Speaker System
Jacks for AC Adapter & Line/Headphone Out
Operates on Batteries or Optional (not included) AC Adapter

Special Note

The Realistic C-200 Portable Electronic Keyboard is part of the Casio VL-Tone 1 synthesis series.

The C-200 is a monophonic sound generator based on multi-pulse square-wave tones with different digital envelopes. The digital envelopes with audible zipper noise are linear, and the analog rhythms consist of 3 (high, low, snare) sounds made from square-wave and shift register noise.

The C-200 Synthesizer has a fun variety of fantastic voice tones to modify and drum rhythms to play to."

xUlA & the sequencer on the timeFrog & Interview

xUlA & the sequencer on the timeFrog from Undead Instruments on Vimeo.


"xUlA first look at timeFrogII... This video shows the use of the sequencer in a very basical config: a few synth lead running in Ableton Live."

xUlA's interview from Undead Instruments on Vimeo.


"xUlA's feeling after he test the timeFrog for the first time.
French spoken"

Time Skew 200e Study, Dick Robinson's Emu Watching Along

Time Skew 200e Study, Dick Robinson's Emu Watching Along from don hassler on Vimeo.


Happy Knobbing 2008, Modular Synthesizer Meeting, Germany


YouTube Uploaded by Moogulator on Aug 20, 2011

"Modular Synth Meeting 2008, Germany

http://www.sequencer.de/synth/index.php/Happy_Knobbing"

Sounds out (Doepfer Dark Energy + Moog Slim Phatty + Boss DD-2 + Behringer FX600)

YouTube Uploaded by GruithuisenCityMan on Aug 20, 2011

"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made in one take by using a Doepfer Dark Energy, a Moog Slim Phatty, a Boss DD-2 and a Behringer FX600. Enjoy !"

This Second Sleep - A Reptilian Place


YouTube Uploaded by arthurpainter on Aug 20, 2011

"http://thissecondsleep.blogspot.com/
Something of a response to brother ether^ra's Buch-zilla series. My reptiles are a bit more friendly. Please listen with headphones."

Search Update

Note this site has two Search interfaces. Blogger Search and Google Search. The main difference is Blogger search shows results as posts and Google Search shows results in the standard list and short description format. I keep both for two reasons. Blogger is good when I want the link to bring up all posts for a given term like all YouTube videos featured on the site from a particular YouTube account. Google Search is better at digging deep and it's faster. Due to the high number of posts on the site, Blogger does a pretty poor job with older posts.

That said, I moved the Google Search box to the top right to make it more prominent. Remember to use both depending on how you want results to come back. Google pretty much finds everything, Blogger is good for recent posts and searching YouTube aliases.

Traummaschine


YouTube Uploaded by synthypnosis on Aug 20, 2011

"VELVET VOYAGE - "Traummaschine" (Dream Machine) - Performed by Bruno Ender Lee, August 20. 2011
The sequences and some bass-sounds are pre-recorded, from the 2004-CD "Traummaschine", with Arturia ARP 2600 V. The Live-Part: Moog Little Phatty Stage II, Synthesizers.com Studio-88, ARP Odyssey, MacBeth M5N, Roland Juno-60, Roland JP-8000

...take a look at the response-video by JampyKey..."

KORG microX Synthesizer "Bass & Pad"


YouTube Uploaded by retrosound72 on Aug 19, 2011
part 1 here
"synthesizer demo by RetroSound
not a vintage synth ;)

Korg microX Synthesizer

part2: bass & pads

The microX is a compact and portable music synthesizer with the typical Korg Triton HI sound synthesis (64MB ROM), advanced control and computer-based music system integration.

demo by
www.retrosound.de"

Make Noise Pressure Points vs Roland System 100


YouTube Uploaded by acidjack303 on Aug 20, 2011

"Play around with Make Noise Pressure Points vs Roland System 100 a tb 303 as sequencer and a TR 606 for the drums. nothing special. just a free style jam. Watch also the video 2"

Make Noise Pressure Points vs Roland System 100 Demo2

Uploaded by acidjack303 on Aug 20, 2011

"Play around with Make Noise Pressure Points vs Roland System 100 a tb 303 as sequencer and a TR 606 for the drums. nothing special. just a free style jam. Watch also the video 1"
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