I watched this again, just because, and I must say, I really miss these 8-Bit Keys videos. They are so much fun and bring a smile to my face every time.
I’m surprised he hasn’t done a video on the Stylophone those to my knowledge have been around since 1977 it’s a handheld synthesizer though so not a keyboard so that could be why
Speaking of false advertising, this thing actually has 30 instruments, not just 20, but there are no buttons for them so they can only be selected through MIDI. This includes instruments used in its built-in demo song!
@@kilianhekhuis Casio didn't use FM synthesis at the time. They used their own synthesis engine called PD Synthesis. That'll be what everything else is generated with.
It is funny that just 2 days ago i finally discovered the name of this band and i was listening to some famous tunes. Funny and spooky, all at the same time.
Opens with establishing shots of the city they live in, then little vignettes of the characters going about their lives, and smiling a lot, ends with them all meeting up for a group shot!
@@ericstoverink6579 Huh, that's strange. A Parker Parker square is a Parker² square. Which is a Parker square square. Which is a Parker square². Mind blown.
I was going to suggest the exact same thing. Back when I first got my SCB-55 back in the early 90s, I only had a few Sierra games that had a GM driver to support it. But found even back then I could copy over the Genmid.drv file along with the help files etc so the installer would see it and know how to show it on the install screen. In many cases, it would work just fine with the games even if they didn't originally support it.
@@nneeerrrd Actually no. I was a soldier in the ARMY and instead of drinking my earnings, I saved it up so I had a nice gaming 486 that got frequent upgrades back then.
9:30 Step 4, pressing CH4 presumably assigns the bank of sounds to draw the needed files from (in this case CH4 is “Space Wars”, which seems appropriate for Space Quest), but does that mean selecting a different bank, say CH3 “Street” would give you car horns and revving engines in place of the intended “space” sounds? Or CH1 “Forest” would give you animal & bird noises? If so, that would make for some amusing game play 😄
Gappasaurus No, when in MIDI mode, these buttons select the actual part you can control in this mode. Sound effects are disabled here, only available from the two Sound Effects from the sound bank. These effect buttons are sequenced sounds built upon those in these two banks. In MIDI mode you can set up the MT/CT/PSK to receive data on the first four MIDI channel by pressing each of these four soft pads, then select a sound for each of them. You can change these around when the game is playing and have fun and screw up the music indeed. The reason you have to press CH4 before start, has to do with how the game sends initial settings to the keyboard. CH4 is often used for drums so I’m assuming there is something they found out the user had to do manually which wouldn’t work by sending data. As mentioned, these are very limited in the MIDI protocol. :)
Thanks for the information Anders! It’s a little disappointing that cheap laughs through an easy exploit are not as simple as i imagined in this case, but I’m glad for the explanation anyway 😉
"Ander's composed a little diddy for us on the same keyboard! lets have a listen..." Anders makes a bloody amazing little tune that perfectly fits the style of the era this keyboard was released and makes it look god damn easy.
That composition certainly nailed the sound of the 80s. I was half-expecting to see a series of cheesy shots where the characters faced the camera and smiled.
I have the Casio CTK- 611. I rescued the thing from the side of the road after sitting in the rain for 2 weeks. I disassembled it then cleaned it up real good, oiled what needed oiled and upgraded it with two 18650 lithium rechargeable batteries. It's not a bad keyboard. It has all kinds of stuff on it . 100 rhythms , 200 tones, touch response, MIDI. Pitch bend, reverb, Etc.
The unexpected crossover I didn't ask for and didn't know i needed! Would love to see Matt do a Casio Keyboard unboxing and review in the style of his Numberphile calculator reviews #SSAARCASFPA
I like that idea. I'm not sure if I'd prefer he acted as if it were a strange calculator, or if he simply had enough synthesiser knowledge to cross-apply the style....
I hooked up one of these to my Tandy Color Computer to play lots of MIDI files in OS/9 and lots of these games on regular non-OS/9 CoCo. Fond memories of this excellent keyboard.
I need to draw a "six degrees of separation" chart for TH-cam collabs between all the channels I watch. I suspect a surprising number of them are actually linked...
Wow tell Anders he really made a beautiful song with the keyboard!! Getting the max out of the "cheapo" sounds and quality for sure. This was a very entertaining vid, thanks!!
Wow, this takes me way back. When I was very little, my mom had this exact keyboard, and I was always stealing it to connect to the family computer in whatever ways I could manage. Our Sound Blaster always still sounded better, but man was it cool to have two electronic devices working together back then.
More sierra games have support for this keyboard, back in the 90s I saw it being demonstrated with a copy of Colonels Bequest. Infact, you can copy the drivers from other sierra games into your folder and they’ll automaticly appear in the setup/install app. I used to copy soundblaster drivers into space quest 3 and found out it has some digitized speech and sound effects and I was amazed.
I miss this channel sooooooo much and I do believe there's a lot left to explore, like the Yamaha Portasound VSS-100, which has an in built microphone + sampler, so you'd be able to record your voice and play it all over the keyboard as chords. Also, cassette portastudios are becoming really popular again, so you'd do a video with one of those, using toy keyboards/instruments to create a song with or whatever.
yo that song the other guy put together was so warm and heart felt ,now i know how back in the day they use to get some good music for theme songs and old school tv shows ,here it is i spent 800 usd on ableton live another 2000usd on native instrument another 1000usb on computer and cant make a song as good as that to save my life,so to make a long comment short thanks 8 bit and everyone who helped make this video for bring a few minutes of joy in to my life during these trying times ,thats all for now chow
I had a CT-660, which featured the same 'tone bank' and I agree that the only two sounds that worked together were Piano and String Ens. I also had a MIDI connector. The effects and music for many games that produced General MIDI output could be hooked up like the Roland, but only Space Quest III used just four channels (the fourth being the percussion) and selected the instruments that fitted the CT series keyboards' PCM and FM voices. So many sounds in this video brought back childhood memories, right from the opening theme which I immediately recognised the instruments from.
Loved the addition (catch that?) of Matt Parker! Very tricksy. Loved everything about this video. From the explanation of the poly voices, to the integration with the game, to finding out it's not just some sound card (surprise!) to plug in to the computer. Genuine surprises all around. Hope to see more fringe posts up alleys like these. Fun stuff!
I'm hoping that he would eventually do a Yamaha MIE-1 Video since if he did the Miracle Piano then at least do a keyboard that deserves justice and coverage that nobody sees in the history of Yamaha outside a classroom setting.
I know that Ken Williams said that supporting everything was difficult, but hearing and seeing all of the supported video and audio devices is really great. It's like playing something familiar, but new. That goes more for those who originally played with less capable devices.
A wild Matt Parker appears! But honestly, thanks for finally explaining the 210 voice bank claim; I wonder just how many people who watched the older videos on this channel were still confused by it up to now. Going by your description of what the sustain should be, they missed an opportunity to make doubling up do something like what you want out of sustain. Simply delay the combined channel very slightly, possibly detuning it very slightly as well. Many Genesis games do this. Some of the early ultra-high end Yamaha FM synths also do this (the DX5 and DX1 are really just two DX7s combined) and make it a selling point by doing it transparently. I think Yamaha calls this "chorusing" instead.
Oh man, this video really brings me back. My first keyboard was a CT650. It came out only a few years after the CT460 and had the same PCM sound bank as both of the keyboards demonstrated here. Hearing Space Quest III, one of my favorite games from the era as well, played with those voices... makes for a huge nostalgia trip. Great video as always.
I got conned by that deceptive "210 sound" label as a kid. My Casio was not that model, but had the same lame gimmick. I remember seeing another brand of keyboard that actually had a giant sound bank that I passed up on.
Shin Seiki Evan Right? Same thing with my PSK-30. So disappointed. But I wanted it for the 4 lights on the right side. I thought it was a beat counte like Technics KN800 had when playing rhythms and the sequencer. Alas, it was only four presets that you could store... sigh! 😂🤪💖
Sounds pretty good for a Casio. All those films where people say "some guy did it on his casio" when talking about the soundtrack. This is actually a situation where you actually get a casio soundtrack.
Always wanted to see the Yamaha MIE-1 Keyboards if anyone can buy them off Ebay or something, that would be an AWESOME episode since I always wondered as to what chips were used to make it sound good in the late 1980's when it came into the Music classrooms scene.
Wow! Love it. I did this exact same thing 30 years ago when I was a kid. After visiting one of my friends and drooling over his brand new Sound Blaster Pro card, I noticed an orange box with the rest of the Sound Blaster Pro boxes next to the garbage. I asked him what it was and he said it was some music composing software - Sequencer Plus Pro. He had no interest in it, I on the other hand was curious. After cracking open the box, finding the MIDI cables and reading up on it I remembered seeing Casio as an option in the Space Quest III install. I rushed to grab my sisters old Casio keyboard, she had gotten a few years prior for Christmas mashed on the keys for a few months driving us all crazy and abandoned it to the back of her closet. I hooked it up to my SB, installed SQ3 again, and was floored when I heard the music start up and coming from the keyboard. Granted it wasn’t General MIDI and didn’t compare to any future full blown MIDI devices from Roland or Creative, but at that time it blew a young kid’s mind. And using it with other games as General MIDI you’d wind up with not so correct output. Oh and my friend’s jaw dropped next time he came over and I showed him.
Hey man, I don't know if you're going to read this, but I just wanted to say how relaxing and fun your videos are. I can't believe how fixing up an old junk keyboard can look this interesting when you do it. Thanks!
Thanks for making this entertaining and interesting episode. Nice that Anders was able to join in remotely. That harpsichord + oboe combination actually made a pretty cool bass
VHFGamer - It was actually in a Burnout title that I discovered that song! The interesting thing is, it’s an earlier version that predates Billy Talent II.
I found an interesting keyboard that I used to play with as a child. It is made by Kawasaki and it’s called Dual Cool Keys. Besides its regular keyboard function, when you hit the black button in the middle it flips the keyboard 90 degrees. The 4 yellow buttons are 4 games for 2 players to compete on. It will be pretty interesting for a review.
I watched this again, just because, and I must say, I really miss these 8-Bit Keys videos. They are so much fun and bring a smile to my face every time.
Yeah, I hope they’ll eventually return.
Still waiting with anticipation
@Wilmer Waarbroek crossover episode with LGR’s setup maybe?
I’m surprised he hasn’t done a video on the Stylophone those to my knowledge have been around since 1977 it’s a handheld synthesizer though so not a keyboard so that could be why
Same here bud, same here.
Speaking of false advertising, this thing actually has 30 instruments, not just 20, but there are no buttons for them so they can only be selected through MIDI. This includes instruments used in its built-in demo song!
The Casio CT-6500 has a complete CZ 3000 equivalent synthesizer inside, only accessible through MIDI!
Not to mention the fact that only the drums/SFX and piano were PCM samples. All the other patches were FM-generated.
But can you PolyMix them?
@@U014B What kind of FM chip was used?
@@kilianhekhuis Casio didn't use FM synthesis at the time. They used their own synthesis engine called PD Synthesis. That'll be what everything else is generated with.
Matt Parker was quite the surprise and I'm so happy.
Woot!
I saw him in the thumbnail video preview and was so confused! glad to see the collab!!
Same! 😍
Totally awesome
Such a great viz with the triangle! I sure with my math teachers would have utilized that. n choose k bay bee
Fun fact: The composer of Space Quest III was Bob Siebenberg, the drummer of Supertramp.
explains why i like supertramp
OH sweet :)
It is funny that just 2 days ago i finally discovered the name of this band and i was listening to some famous tunes. Funny and spooky, all at the same time.
Sierra always mentioned that, like in their awesome MT-32 and gross ad-lib demo tape.
@@-taz- I had that tape at one time and it made me drool for the MT-32 back then. But it was WAY outta most normal people's price range!
It's sad there is possibly never going to be another upload, but it will forever remain the greatest keyboard channel on TH-cam
What happened to him?
@@cooljoescott lost password if i recall.
@@DMARrecords You can reset passwords though?
@@illegitimate-egg yes, that's just what i know.
He ran out of free space to continue collecting keyboards. Main channel, 8-bit guy, is more than alive with fresh uploads
Gotta love Anders. It’s so 80s sitcom-y. I love it.
You beat me to it, I also thought Anders' composition sounded like the opening theme to a 1980s or early 90s sitcom.
Opens with establishing shots of the city they live in, then little vignettes of the characters going about their lives, and smiling a lot, ends with them all meeting up for a group shot!
Imagine how many ‘80s tv show intro credits you could throw this on top of, and it’d work!
Even The Simpson’s.
He's more or less the co-host at this point with how much he's contributed to this channel.
Yeah I agree
That was a nice square by Parker, but it certainly wasn't a Parker Square of an answer.
For those that don't get this reference: th-cam.com/video/aOT_bG-vWyg/w-d-xo.html
haha
Quality numberphile/Matt Parker meme
So in other words it was a Parker Parker square?
@@ericstoverink6579 Huh, that's strange. A Parker Parker square is a Parker² square. Which is a Parker square square. Which is a Parker square². Mind blown.
@David, try to use the .DRV driver file for this Casio with other Sierra games of that period! It could be fun!
This needs more upvotes so that David will see it.
I was going to suggest the exact same thing. Back when I first got my SCB-55 back in the early 90s, I only had a few Sierra games that had a GM driver to support it. But found even back then I could copy over the Genmid.drv file along with the help files etc so the installer would see it and know how to show it on the install screen. In many cases, it would work just fine with the games even if they didn't originally support it.
@David?
@@IvoryTowerCollections you were one clever and rich boy having SCB-55 in early 90s ;)
@@nneeerrrd Actually no. I was a soldier in the ARMY and instead of drinking my earnings, I saved it up so I had a nice gaming 486 that got frequent upgrades back then.
Never in my life did I ever think I'd need an 8-bit Guy + standupmaths collaboration :)
OMG VICTOR TRAN
That's my name!
Miss your content man
9:30 Step 4, pressing CH4 presumably assigns the bank of sounds to draw the needed files from (in this case CH4 is “Space Wars”, which seems appropriate for Space Quest), but does that mean selecting a different bank, say CH3 “Street” would give you car horns and revving engines in place of the intended “space” sounds? Or CH1 “Forest” would give you animal & bird noises? If so, that would make for some amusing game play 😄
Gappasaurus No, when in MIDI mode, these buttons select the actual part you can control in this mode. Sound effects are disabled here, only available from the two Sound Effects from the sound bank. These effect buttons are sequenced sounds built upon those in these two banks.
In MIDI mode you can set up the MT/CT/PSK to receive data on the first four MIDI channel by pressing each of these four soft pads, then select a sound for each of them. You can change these around when the game is playing and have fun and screw up the music indeed.
The reason you have to press CH4 before start, has to do with how the game sends initial settings to the keyboard. CH4 is often used for drums so I’m assuming there is something they found out the user had to do manually which wouldn’t work by sending data. As mentioned, these are very limited in the MIDI protocol. :)
Thanks for the information Anders! It’s a little disappointing that cheap laughs through an easy exploit are not as simple as i imagined in this case, but I’m glad for the explanation anyway 😉
@@Gappasaurus I too had hoped for chirping birds instead of sliding door noises. Ah well
It's been 3 years. I miss new content on this channel.
Likewise.
woah i just realized it has been 4 years! just assumed this channel was still active, there's so many great vids! i wonder what happened :(
@@chriswick21 He opened an arcade @TimeRiftArcade
@ oh wow! Okay, yeah I guess that’s probably a time sink haha
Anders is such a talented guy. He can make any old keyboard sound good with the right sounds.
"Ander's composed a little diddy for us on the same keyboard! lets have a listen..."
Anders makes a bloody amazing little tune that perfectly fits the style of the era this keyboard was released and makes it look god damn easy.
Nobody whatsoever: "If only I had a Wild West ambient sound"
The Escape Club: writes "Wild, Wild West"
Ennio Morricone has joined the chat
Nobody wanted ANY of those shitty soundscapes 🙄😝
That composition certainly nailed the sound of the 80s. I was half-expecting to see a series of cheesy shots where the characters faced the camera and smiled.
I have the Casio CTK- 611.
I rescued the thing from the side of the road after sitting in the rain for 2 weeks. I disassembled it then cleaned it up real good, oiled what needed oiled and upgraded it with two 18650 lithium rechargeable batteries. It's not a bad keyboard. It has all kinds of stuff on it . 100 rhythms , 200 tones, touch response, MIDI. Pitch bend, reverb, Etc.
Sounds like a nice catch! I'm a big fan of those old PCM keyboards.
@@KimStennabbCaesar thanks!
I'm always amazed by the songs Anders is able to put together with a single keyboard.
Tallented guy.
6:44 the mad doctor head got blown off by sheer mathematics.
now we know why his mad doctor spinoff show never went anywhere
What, a surprise crossover?! My head exploded just from that, even before we got into the maths.
He's done it now, he's abandoned 8 bit keys
Yeah since being the 8 bit Guy makes more sense.
Dude, I can't wait to watch the 80's sitcom coming up after that song!
me and the boys waiting for a new 8 bit keys video be like: *dies*
He said that he isn’t focusing on this channel anymore because he doesnt have any time
@@adenarrington7607 I can’t recall him saying that…
@@TheYorkMan agreed
Speaking of false advertisement: Anders Jensen makes this thing sound like nobody ever could at home.
I miss this channel 😔
i dont
@@RilGames. You can now safely bang your head at the wall.
@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 wow why do u want me dead you murderer
@@RilGames. Ok. Your friebdschannelisgyingroghtnow
@@lianrobintribunal484 i dont usderstand what you said so happy birthday!
The unexpected crossover I didn't ask for and didn't know i needed!
Would love to see Matt do a Casio Keyboard unboxing and review in the style of his Numberphile calculator reviews #SSAARCASFPA
I like that idea. I'm not sure if I'd prefer he acted as if it were a strange calculator, or if he simply had enough synthesiser knowledge to cross-apply the style....
@@kaitlyn__L Please don't get him started on the mathematics of FM synthesis 💥
I remember a keyboard with built in sampling so you could record for exams "hello " and play a scale with it and that was pretty awesome
I hooked up one of these to my Tandy Color Computer to play lots of MIDI files in OS/9 and lots of these games on regular non-OS/9 CoCo. Fond memories of this excellent keyboard.
6:45 when David's head blew off his shoulders, i couldn't stop laughing. I was not expecting that.
There is another game which supports this keyboard: Leisure Suit Larry 3. I randomly found out when going through the setup of that game.
Matt Parker was not the TH-cam crossover I was expecting to see here. Bravo!
6:45 is prime ytp material.
David, you know it.
for Terrible person yeah. Techmoan irritating David and he can't take it anymore
Now seriously, WHY there are so many YTPs of David?
@Solar Panel good question.
Omg, my head exploded too!!!! Brilliant video my man!!! I’m so gonna copy the detaching head!!!! 😂😂😂
How did you get here? Hi there!
Do you have a diagnosis Doctor Mix?
Doctor mix you mean OMG
@@authorlilhyz7121 How have you been?
Please, team up with 8bit guy for a song vor something!
I need to draw a "six degrees of separation" chart for TH-cam collabs between all the channels I watch. I suspect a surprising number of them are actually linked...
@standupmaths Matt Parker will do the maths for you
Matt Parker! Nice guest appearance. Maybe talk of Casio will get him to do another calculator unboxing soon. ;)
Let me guess, you are Patreon member? Because I don't know, the video 1 minute old, and this comment 12 hours old
архив канал no shit
@@archivushka I am.
The real question is, why aren't you a Patreon member? :D
I really miss getting content from this channel
Yeah, wonder why he stopped? :(
I really miss the 8-Bit Keys Videos. Thank you for the great Videos.
This channel needs to make a comeback!
No more 8 bit keys videos? I loved them !
Wow tell Anders he really made a beautiful song with the keyboard!! Getting the max out of the "cheapo" sounds and quality for sure.
This was a very entertaining vid, thanks!!
13:39 - That hi-hat that just popped up made me laugh for some reason. Totally out of nowhere and it's there. I'm losing my mind!!
That song at the end was really beautiful tbh. It has a very emotional-ish feel to it...
Wow, this takes me way back. When I was very little, my mom had this exact keyboard, and I was always stealing it to connect to the family computer in whatever ways I could manage. Our Sound Blaster always still sounded better, but man was it cool to have two electronic devices working together back then.
More sierra games have support for this keyboard, back in the 90s I saw it being demonstrated with a copy of Colonels Bequest. Infact, you can copy the drivers from other sierra games into your folder and they’ll automaticly appear in the setup/install app. I used to copy soundblaster drivers into space quest 3 and found out it has some digitized speech and sound effects and I was amazed.
I really liked this channel. Im sad it's abandoned 😞
I miss this channel sooooooo much and I do believe there's a lot left to explore, like the Yamaha Portasound VSS-100, which has an in built microphone + sampler, so you'd be able to record your voice and play it all over the keyboard as chords. Also, cassette portastudios are becoming really popular again, so you'd do a video with one of those, using toy keyboards/instruments to create a song with or whatever.
I'd love to see more 8-Bit Keys content in the future, I enjoy watching janky keyboards in action.
yo that song the other guy put together was so warm and heart felt ,now i know how back in the day they use to get some good music for theme songs and old school tv shows ,here it is i spent 800 usd on ableton live another 2000usd on native instrument another 1000usb on computer and cant make a song as good as that to save my life,so to make a long comment short thanks 8 bit and everyone who helped make this video for bring a few minutes of joy in to my life during these trying times ,thats all for now chow
Retro Midi devices, Dos games AND a song from Anders! How could this get any better! :D
Best part starts at 13:17. I liked that music. Cool. It has a nostalgic feeling to it.
6:44 NEVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN DAVE. I"M GONNA BE THINKING ABOUT THIS IN THERAPY.
Yeah, that was legit scary! LOL
I had a CT-660, which featured the same 'tone bank' and I agree that the only two sounds that worked together were Piano and String Ens. I also had a MIDI connector. The effects and music for many games that produced General MIDI output could be hooked up like the Roland, but only Space Quest III used just four channels (the fourth being the percussion) and selected the instruments that fitted the CT series keyboards' PCM and FM voices. So many sounds in this video brought back childhood memories, right from the opening theme which I immediately recognised the instruments from.
Loved the addition (catch that?) of Matt Parker! Very tricksy. Loved everything about this video. From the explanation of the poly voices, to the integration with the game, to finding out it's not just some sound card (surprise!) to plug in to the computer. Genuine surprises all around. Hope to see more fringe posts up alleys like these. Fun stuff!
Space Quest III, loved that game. And I agree, Ad Lib sounds better.
I'll throw in my "I want more 8-Bit Keys" comment in here as well. I know you're busy, but I love this channel! Currently binging videos again.
I'm hoping that he would eventually do a Yamaha MIE-1 Video since if he did the Miracle Piano then at least do a keyboard that deserves justice and coverage that nobody sees in the history of Yamaha outside a classroom setting.
I know that Ken Williams said that supporting everything was difficult, but hearing and seeing all of the supported video and audio devices is really great. It's like playing something familiar, but new. That goes more for those who originally played with less capable devices.
Holy cow! My favourite mathematician
Aww, I found this in my channel in the subscribe list. A relic of the past 🥺
A wild Matt Parker appears! But honestly, thanks for finally explaining the 210 voice bank claim; I wonder just how many people who watched the older videos on this channel were still confused by it up to now.
Going by your description of what the sustain should be, they missed an opportunity to make doubling up do something like what you want out of sustain. Simply delay the combined channel very slightly, possibly detuning it very slightly as well. Many Genesis games do this. Some of the early ultra-high end Yamaha FM synths also do this (the DX5 and DX1 are really just two DX7s combined) and make it a selling point by doing it transparently. I think Yamaha calls this "chorusing" instead.
Oh man, this video really brings me back. My first keyboard was a CT650. It came out only a few years after the CT460 and had the same PCM sound bank as both of the keyboards demonstrated here. Hearing Space Quest III, one of my favorite games from the era as well, played with those voices... makes for a huge nostalgia trip. Great video as always.
lmao 6:44 so that just happened
that was more terrifying than most horror movies
...and now *The Sketch after the Sketch*
Nice video! Loved the math part. And Angers is a true artist: love it when you bring him in on your shows.
I miss this channel.
The tune at the end was so sick, hahaha. Well done!
I got conned by that deceptive "210 sound" label as a kid. My Casio was not that model, but had the same lame gimmick. I remember seeing another brand of keyboard that actually had a giant sound bank that I passed up on.
Shin Seiki Evan Right? Same thing with my PSK-30. So disappointed. But I wanted it for the 4 lights on the right side. I thought it was a beat counte like Technics KN800 had when playing rhythms and the sequencer. Alas, it was only four presets that you could store... sigh! 😂🤪💖
I always love these little compositions that Anders makes up. Great job!
Anders is just so talented! I'm stunned! 10/10
Dear Mr Murray, I love this channel. Hope you post new video soon. We all miss you.
Ok David, time for a new video 👍😎
Sounds pretty good for a Casio. All those films where people say "some guy did it on his casio" when talking about the soundtrack. This is actually a situation where you actually get a casio soundtrack.
Someone should start sending keyboards to the 8-Bit Guy. Maybe those would revive the 8-Bit Keys channel.
Always wanted to see the Yamaha MIE-1 Keyboards if anyone can buy them off Ebay or something, that would be an AWESOME episode since I always wondered as to what chips were used to make it sound good in the late 1980's when it came into the Music classrooms scene.
Love this channel, l hope it's still alive
We need more 8 bit keys episodes!!!
Wow! Love it. I did this exact same thing 30 years ago when I was a kid. After visiting one of my friends and drooling over his brand new Sound Blaster Pro card, I noticed an orange box with the rest of the Sound Blaster Pro boxes next to the garbage. I asked him what it was and he said it was some music composing software - Sequencer Plus Pro. He had no interest in it, I on the other hand was curious. After cracking open the box, finding the MIDI cables and reading up on it I remembered seeing Casio as an option in the Space Quest III install. I rushed to grab my sisters old Casio keyboard, she had gotten a few years prior for Christmas mashed on the keys for a few months driving us all crazy and abandoned it to the back of her closet. I hooked it up to my SB, installed SQ3 again, and was floored when I heard the music start up and coming from the keyboard. Granted it wasn’t General MIDI and didn’t compare to any future full blown MIDI devices from Roland or Creative, but at that time it blew a young kid’s mind. And using it with other games as General MIDI you’d wind up with not so correct output. Oh and my friend’s jaw dropped next time he came over and I showed him.
The song at the end is epic, could be the intro to a lame sitcom
Alf spinoff starring the cat
I need that track in my life!
Hey man, I don't know if you're going to read this, but I just wanted to say how relaxing and fun your videos are. I can't believe how fixing up an old junk keyboard can look this interesting when you do it. Thanks!
6:43 Much like the face melting Nazi In Raiders and the Large Marge scene in Peewee's big advinture this terrified the inner child in me.
i dig the video. good change of pace
Coming up next week: A patch for Planet X3 to allow it to work with the CASIO MT-540 and CT-640.
OH MAN I am so happy that this video came out by you - SQ3 was one of my first games I played as a kid, and remains one of my favourites!
The music at the end reminds me a lot of 80’s japanese city pop and I like it
Anders appears to have the compositional skills of Toto at his beck and call. Very melodic and infectious stuff.
i miss this channel
Thanks for making this entertaining and interesting episode. Nice that Anders was able to join in remotely. That harpsichord + oboe combination actually made a pretty cool bass
petition to bring back the 8 bit keys
Signed
@@emaaaaax me too
I love 80’s sitcom theme music. Thanks, Anders!
10:57 -> Honestly, I prefer this one rather than the Casio keyboard. The sound is much clearer
Of course you prefer the Roland MT-32 ;)
Really nice collab and a really great video. Thanks David. I also was really pleasantly surprised by Parker
Please revive 8-Bit Keys. I love looking and listening to them.
Amazing ! I didn't suspect this was even possible ! And God ! Nothing beats the MT-32 for space quest III, it's glorious !
7:55 - My mind heard the first half of that rhythm as the percussion of Billy Talent’s song, Red Flag. I highly recommend them as they’re pretty cool!
...burnout...revenge...
VHFGamer - It was actually in a Burnout title that I discovered that song! The interesting thing is, it’s an earlier version that predates Billy Talent II.
The PC speaker sound is the most nostalgic to me. That's what I think of when I recall playing Hero's Quest (Quest for Glory.)
I bet Anders could compose and play awesome music track even on TI-83 engineering calculator!
i miss this channel :(
Anders manages to let every piece of crap sound amazing!
I found an interesting keyboard that I used to play with as a child. It is made by Kawasaki and it’s called Dual Cool Keys. Besides its regular keyboard function, when you hit the black button in the middle it flips the keyboard 90 degrees. The 4 yellow buttons are 4 games for 2 players to compete on. It will be pretty interesting for a review.
I can't believe it - you actually found a practical use for math.
Don't tell the mathematicians!
wait until you hear how synths work internally
it's a lotta math, not just electronics
My family had one when I was a child many years ago. It would blown my mind if I knew it was used to play music for a game.
"Stick around for the next episode"
>nothing new nearly two years later
8-Bit Keyes + Matt Parker is a combination I didn't know I needed.
No way! I was just watching a talk from Matt Parker, what a coincidence!