Should Casio Bring Back The Classics?

US VL-1, CZ Series, and Rapman up for remakes 16/09/24

The appropriately named Casio Chaos Theory takes a look at a bygone era of Casio synthesis, and poses the question whether they should bring any back? get ready for a bit of history, anecdotes, adverts, commercials, video footage and demonstrations - as he states why Casio could simply rely on their back catalog - but do you want them to do remakes, or release some original gear?

CCT takes a detailed look back at many of Casio's classic, vintage and iconic keyboard models that were very influential and popular, and finds that they also inspired other manufacturers to develop and produce more recent and similar products using Casio's original concepts.

The other three big Japanese musical keyboard manufacturers currently all re-issue some of their classic models in various forms, so it has to be asked – why won't Casio bring back their classic models too? And why didn't they evolve some of their innovative models that had great core features?

0:00 – Intro 1:53 – VL-1/ VL Tone 4:11 – MG-880 (MG/ ML Calculator Series) 6:30 – SK-1 (SK Series Samplers) 12:39 – CZ-101 (CZ Phase Distortion Series) 17:43 – RapMan 22:42 – MT/ CT (Vintage Vowel Consonant Series) 26:31 – SA Series & GZ-5 MIDI Keyboards 30:44 – Crazy Casios (VA-10, DG-20, AZ-1, XW-P1/ G1) 39:28 – Conclusion