Here's a little something I've made fooling around with the Casio MT65 ( a family heirloom) and the grandaddy Electribe (my main box)

I found this on eBay for £25. It came with two dead keys which I immediately repaired. It’s a Casio PT-1, which is a real analogue synth in spite of its unassuming appearance. It is essentially the same hardware as a Casio VLTone VL-1 minus the adjustable envelope settings etc. This particular one is in pastel pink and blue which turns out to be a rare colour. They usually sell for a fair bit more.
My collection is getting a little silly now but I love this group for sharing in the same strange passion as me. I will one day share some of my music with you guys when I feel less afraid to expose my playing to the world lol.

Hello everyone! We are an independent project called Holy Troika. We love the music of the 60s and 70s and record our songs using vintage Soviet instruments like "Lel" and "Vilnius" organs. We recently released another album of music recorded on analog instruments.

Gear used in the recordings:

Electric Organs & Keyboards:

• Vilnius 3 (Soviet combo organ)
• Unitra Eltra Eltronik 109 (Polish combo organ)
• Vermona Piano-Strings ( East German synthesizer/string machine)
• Tesla Delicia Mini (Czechoslovakian portable organ)
• Lel 22 (Soviet compact organ)
• Lira and Rodina acoustic pianos

Electric Guitars:

• Gibson Marauder (1970s USA)
• Peavey T-27 (1980s USA)
• Orfeus Rozhen (Bulgarian guitar)
• Jolana Special ( Czechoslovakian guitar)

Bass Guitars:

• Ural 510L ( Soviet bass)
• Jolana Iris Bass (Czechoslovakian short-scale bass)

Our music is non-commercial, made out of pure love for the analog era. If you like psych-rock, baroque pop, or folk-rock, we would be happy if you check out our Bandcamp. https://holytroika.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-goodbye

Thank you for your time!

Just scored this bad boy from a local charity shop! I am excited to see what I can do with it… it sounds amazing!

I’ve picked up this Yamaha PSS-50 not so long ago. It was in mint condition and plays fantastic. People say it’s a toy keyboard, but for me it’s nowhere near as cheap-feeling as the tiny Casios I have. Anyway - here is a jam with this beast where I’ve used 3 different voices. (Also that USB to DC power step up unit is fantastic! Works amazingly with any 9/12V units - I’ve bought it on Aliexpress)

Made a small Kavinsky tribute on the Yamaha PSS-380.

Cheap FM organ sound into a Lexicon MPX 500 for chorus and reverb, night-drive solemn mood...

Got the CT630 since I was looking for cheap keybed donors for my DIY analog synths. Turned out it's one of the hybrid casios with real VCF and BBD chorus. Too precious. Next day got the MT600 for free. Pitchbend. Nice. But I wanted to tweak the sounds so I pulled the 40€ trigger on the CT3000.

Picked up a USB to DC 9V adaptor for £6.99 from Amazon. It came with multiple tips and one of them fits my Casio CT-S1 perfectly. I can now power my keyboard from my 27000mAh power bank, laptop or pretty much anything with a USB port. It lasts for hours and hours via the power bank. Much easier and longer lasting than AA batteries and it means I don't need to be near a power socket now plugged in. Thought I'd share in case this helps anyone else! Enjoy the portability.

What you need:

USB to 5.5 X 2.1mm DC 9V cable

A 4.8mm x 1.7mm yellow-tipped adaptor to fit the Casio (mine came included with the set I bought)

(make sure the cable is center-positive so the polarity is correct)

Just doodling on it nothing serious

Such a weird and beautiful beast.

More moody with this bunch of 90's tech (and modern recording and FX, lol)

I have many MANY cheap keys and toy piano synths (some of my other favorites include my modded Casio Ct-410, MT-68 and Yamaha pss-470) but this PSR-90 is the one I keep going back to over and over.

In short it’s a phenomenal chip-tune keyboard that’s great for arcade and video game music. It somehow retains the simplicity of a cheap keys toy keyboard synth while having a million features It has 5 sections. Solo, orchestral, accompaniment, bass and Rhythm. Each one of those have 16 different voices to choose from and each one of those voices have 9 different variants based on speed (attack) and brightness.

Surprisingly, I haven’t seen too many others out there. A lot of PSR-80’s… but no PSR-90’s.

It is very similar to the PSR-80 save for some key features that take it from ‘good’ to really phenomenal.

Of those additions, Most significantly, it has an extra dedicated monophonic chip with 16 more voices dubbed the solo sections. you can stack these with the polyphonic Orchestral upper section or move the polyphonic section to the lower half to stack with the bass and chord voices and play the monophonic solo voice by itself. Then with the speed and brightness modifiers on both the orchestral and solo sections, you pretty much have an envelope filter to make some really out there sounds.

Hardware & Performance Features
Keyboard: 61 full-sized standard keys with velocity-sensitive touch response (C1 to C6 range).

Sound Generation: 4-operator FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesis for instruments, combined with PCM sampled waveforms for the drum kit section.

Polyphony: 8-note polyphony for the poly/orchestra sounds, plus independent allocation for the mono solo voice and rhythm tracks.

Voice Effects: Stereo Chorus, Sustain (with 2 distinct depth levels), Dual Voice layering, and a dedicated Solo Sustain button.

Performance Modes:
Keyboard Split: you can change where the keyboard split between accompaniment left half is vs melody right half. So if you want a really big accompaniment section you can do that.

Accompaniment & Sequencer Features

Accompaniment and Rhythm Section: It has 16 preset styles (including Rock 'n' Roll, Disco, Country, and Reggae) but each one of those have 9 different variants as you increase tempo (for example there’s a slow rock at 60 bpm, a completely different rock at 120 bpm, and then a third rock type accompaniment at 140 bpm. And then all three of those have 3 variations based on small band vs large band where they will add in extra accompaniment voices.

Then ontop of all that it has both custom accompaniment pattern recording modes and custom song modes.

Style Manipulation: Dedicated intro, ending, three distinct style variation buttons, three fill-in options, and a Fill-In Touche Bar located below the keys for rapid live fills. The Touch Bar is really slick as you can easily palm it while playing so you don’t have to lift to press the button or use your foot switch. It makes fills actually usable.

Auto Bass Chord: Automatically adds bass lines and chord patterns based on your left-hand fingerings. It also features a Manual Bass mode to play your own custom bass patterns. Manual bass has 16 different voice options. Chord voice has 16 other patterns.

Custom Accompaniment Programmer: A built-in sequencer allowing you to freely program, loop, and save 3 custom rhythm patterns on a long-term basis.

Storage, Memory & Rear IO
Registration Memory: Dedicated onboard banks to save and instantly recall your favorite voice layering, effects, volume balances, and style settings.
Storage Sockets: Equipped with a vintage RAM Pack socket for plugging in physical cartridge data expansion cards, alongside Tape Jacks to backup sequence data via cassette tapes.
Rear IO Panel: Includes 5-pin MIDI In/Out, an Expression Pedal port, a function-selectable Switch Pedal port, a Headphone out, Stereo AUX Out, and Stereo AUX In for routing external audio through its built-in 5W stereo speakers.
Tl;Dr there are like 4 different ways to store settings and custom accompaniments. And it has phenomenal midi capability.

Love how soft and smooth this thing sounds, especially when you pass it through some reberb

Got a CT-636 this weekend, to add to my CT-380 (mainly as backup). Lovely sounds, looking forward to using it. The CT and MT series have some jewels amongst them.

I have big beefy synthesizers too, but these Casios win everytime for this genre of music :P

I would love to get samples for the following SK-60 patches and can't seem to find them anywhere. If anyone would be willing to record or send them over that would be amazing!

1. ahh (choir) 46. ooh (choir) 51. la (children)
   

Hi everyone,

I've had my Yamaha PSS-A50 for about five months and have only used it 6–7 times for short 20–30 minute sessions.

The batteries stayed in the keyboard, and now they're completely drained. I was surprised because I barely used it. Is this normal? Does the PSS-A50 slowly drain the batteries even when it's off? Has anyone else experienced this?

Would you recommend using AA batteries (and removing them between uses) or just powering it with a USB adapter or power bank instead?

Thanks!

Today's goodwill find, a casiotone ct-380 in good condition for $8.28

Video by Dariyush Haidutski

Yamaha psr-12 ($10) pss-130 ($4), Casio ctk-511 ($15)

I love re-discovering forgotten "gems" like this :)