Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)Gonna have a play around and see if I can make a tune solely with SK-5 sounds. It’s got some half decent beats in it… not sure how I could make a beat with lion, laser and dog sounds work however. 😆
EllieHaha, I just made a quick beat from those re-sampled 808 sounds plus the default SK-5 sounds and it's not completely awful, I might stick with this. It did need a fair bit of EQ-ing to make it sounds half decent however.
Hmm, interesting! I’ve been having a quick play around with my old Casio SK-5 sampling keyboard and thought I’d try sampling some sounds off my PC. After hooking up the SK-5’s line in to my audio interface I tried sampling some TR-808 sounds as a test, the bass drum, hand clap and closed hi-hat sound fairly normal but the open hi-hat comes out a bit odd. I might re-sample this back into my PC and use these sounds. Who needs a Teenage Engineering KO-II when you’ve got an SK-5, eh? 😉
(edit: I've attached some audio of the default "rhythm pad" sounds and the 808 samples)
Batteries in… yep it’s working! I think I’ll give it a little clean up but it’s pretty much all fine. I might’ve scared one of the cats with the dog sound. Oops.
Visiting the parents usually ends up with me looking around their loft for some of my old crap. I’ve been thinking about this for a while so I’m glad that my Casio SK-5 is still around! I’ve brought it home along with my brothers old Casio PT-87 to have a play with, fingers crossed they both still work fine.