CASIO SK-1 - the real sound of the SK-1

You can MIDI up the Casio SK's, you can also "bend" it without bending it, by that I mean if you sample something then turn it over and take off the battery cover, if you are fast enough, you can take your finger and push one of the batteries back really quickly...then put the battery cover back on. Turn it back over and play it, what happens is buy pushing one of the batteries back quickly( and I mean quickly) you corrupt the volatile sample ram so what ever you sampled will sound bent...until you turn it off.

I spent hours sampling my farts and playing music with them when I was a kid in the 80’s on this machine. My mother loved it.

Like so many others this was my very first keyboard and I literally taught myself to play with this thing. Had I known it would be a verifiable classic 30 years later...I probably still would have completely worn it out. I still have it somewhere, taped-on keys and all.

Thank you so much for posting this!! My brother and I both got the Casio SK-1 for Christmas one year and we loved them!! You brought back some great memories, so again thank you!

Ich hatte das Teil als Kind und könnte grad im Strahl kotzen, dass es weg ist...total genialer Sound.

OMG!!! I had one of these!!! First keyboard I ever bought. Wow! Takes me way back. Oh, the 80s.

I love those songs patterns and seq's it's awesome to hear such great music!

i had one of these as a kid. had plenty of fun on it. when they first come out. ended up getting the sk-5 too. i would sample my voice and then go on the cb radio with it.. people used to wonder how i could mess with a voice haha. giving it the max headroom effect. well sampling had only just come out.

I used to have this keyboard in the 80's.....loved it.

0:06 - I got one of these for Christmas in the late 80s. I'm pretty sure that loop you started playing here almost drove my parents insane. The memories as soon as you played that😂 Mostly of trying to find it after they hid it in their closet

From the smallest toy to the biggest beast of analog. You are a dedicated collector. Good, informative vid again. Keep going!

I owned this many years ago. It was my firs Keyboard and It was just a toys. But I'd like to have it back, I had a lot of fun with it when I was just boy and was learning to play. Thanks for sharing this. It reminds me about when a I was 16. It's 30 ago...

When the drums came in, I half expected Homestar Runner to run onto the screen and start prancing about like an idiot.

The brass ensemble is my favourite sound on the sk1. Surprisingly analog sounding.. especially when recorded from the line out into a nice valve pre. Magic.

I've owned a few CASIO SK-1's from the mid 1980's up until the mid 2000's, they were fun and only $2.99 CAN. used at Value Village Scarborough Ontario in the 1990's. The price matched the sound. 😅

man I found one of these at the goodwill for 3.00 bucks and can't stop playing it its awesome.I trying to figure out what every thing does.

i was like 5 when i first saw one of these - an since then ive been in love with making music

Man this was my first real keyboard when I was like 8 I LOVED THIS THING #80sbaby

I still have mine. Bought it in 85. It sounds as if it were brand new.

I remember having one of these as a kid! I want one now!!!