The Casio SK-1 is a small sampling keyboard made by Casio in 1985. It has 32 small sized piano keys, four-note polyphony , with a sampling bit depth of 8 bit PCM and a sample rate of 9.38 kHz for 1.4 seconds, a built-in microphone and line level and microphone inputs for sampling, and an internal speaker and line out. It also features a small number of four-note polyphonic preset analog and digital instrument voices, and a simple additive voice.
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24-645: A rudimentary sequence recorder, preset rhythms and chord accompaniment. The SK-1 was thus an unusually full-featured synth in the sub-US$ 100 (equivalent to $ 280 today) home keyboard market of the time. The SK-1 includes one pre-arranged piece of music, the Toy Symphony , which is played when the "Demo" button is pressed. The Radio Shack version of the Casio SK-1 is called the Realistic Concertmate 500 . The SK line continued throughout
32-557: The Painfully Alone 's second live album In Sydney . Graham Lewis of Wire used it frequently during their late-80s period. Mount Eerie 's Eleven Old Songs of Mount Eerie consisted solely of Phil Elverum 's vocals and an SK-1, making use of its various effects and built-in rhythm machine. It is also featured on the cover of the Soccer Mommy album "Collection". Composer Samuel Andreyev has written demanding parts for
40-524: The SK-1 is the primary synth used in the no wave / industrial band Special Interest. It was used by notable jungle artist DJ Hype for his seminal productions, and rapper and producer Large Professor used it in his early years of beat-making. Australian band Turnstyle used the keyboard's sample function on various songs as both repetitive motifs (Happier Than Metallica) and melodic passages (Sad Rambo). Owen Ashworth used and recorded with one for Casiotone for
48-539: The late 1980s, including the SK-2, SK-5, SK-8 and 8A, SK-10, SK-60, SK-100, SK-200, and SK-2100. The SK-1 has been used by a few major recording artists for its simplicity and lo-fi sound. It became very popular in the late 1990s among the circuit bending crowd after the first guide to bending it was published by Reed Ghazala in Experimental Musical Instruments magazine, though the SK-1
56-480: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SK-1&oldid=1236875539 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Casio SK-1 All voices may be shaped by 13 preset envelopes , portamento , and vibrato . It also includes
64-448: Was being modified as early as 1987 when Keyboard Magazine published an article on adding MIDI support. The synthesizer was one of the first pieces of equipment that Autechre had when they began recording music. Musician and score composer Michael Andrews featured a circuit bent SK-1 heavily in the Me and You and Everyone We Know musical score. The "Realistic Concertmate" version of
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