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David Brook writes:
This was marketed as a home keyboard with a minimal sampler built in. you can sample about 2-3 seconds at a horrible mono quality. It has no midi The synthesizer part is not controllable in a way where you can make music.. it has 13 envelope style's but that's about it. No mod wheels or any other control devices. This keyboard is however great for techno, or rap where the samples are supposed to sound grainy If you can find one that works, scoop it up. (maybe at $20 in a pawn shop)
Sonic Stays I used to have one of these, they are crap but fun and one of those things that will probably be worth a fortune in 200 years...

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(Thanks to David Brook for this info.)

Links for the Casio SK1 Sampler
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The Casio SK1 room at Synthmuseum.com History and technical information about the SK1.
Casio Drum Sample Archive drum samples from the early casio keyboards
The Casio SK Archive Tony Mason's unofficial Casio SK Archive
Kimosabbe mp3s Listen to just a few of the wrongs from Kimosabbe. All made possible by the Casio SK-1
dMb Music All my songz from my SK-1.
The Visitors Q we <3 SK-1 (we have the pink model!)
Kimosabe mp3s Shut up... Listen to the SK-1.
Modifiy Your SK-1 Circuit-Bent Mods HERE!
RetroSound - Marko Ettlich info & links
CASIO SK-1 Some german information

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