As someone, who has a ton of VSTs and does look for more expensive gear, I still agree with you. You can do alot with some cheap stuff and effects. But that's not to say that expensive hardware doesn't require talent either.
Wow! Beside the obvious talents, this also shows how much effects processing and mixing matters. The right effects on the right sounds put into a mix carefully is what made the extremely low-fi Fairlights (1 and 2) sounding so good in the first half of the 80:s! Every studio with a Fairlight back then had : 1. An extreme amount of great effects processors and 2.The best producers in the world.
I have an SA-20 model with similar sounds. If one were to listen to a track like this without this creation video to know how it was created, they would have never guessed it was recorded using a PCM keyboard from the '90s as a starting point. Amazing talent! 🙂🥂
The sure-fire way to make a cheap string patch sound majestic: Add plenty of reverb and delay, and slap a copious amount of Small Stone phaser on it just for good measure.
Well, that's why I love reverb & delay. For general usage you can just add dry bass and drums. Addind spacy sounds with dry sounds to make it more err... Grounded.
It’s truly amazing how these small vintage instruments sound transformed when put through an affect processor. The amazing results, you have done this justice well done. I’m a keyboard, piano, player and singer as a pure hobbyist, I also create multitrack demos again as a hobby.
Great times :) I used my dad's old reel to reel recorder and a cheapo mixer to create tape echo while playing this synth and it's bigger cousin the Casio CA-100 (That has been lost in time unfortunately)
OMG!!!! This was my first keyboard as a child....I have been hunting for years to find out what the model number was!! I can't thank you enough....now off to ebay to find one!
I had this keyboard! Played it a lot and even did a school performance with it playing ‘Lambada’ All these sounds, great nostalgia. My parents went nuts with me playing all these weird sounds over and over again.
Mate, let's say that... I watched 2 of your vids, but this!? You don't know what a beautiful memories you made me remember when I was a child! That exact same casio was my first keyboard too! I went the 5 years old most happy child in the neighbourhood! For that reason I'm subscribed now to your channel
Jonas, good stuff! I received this synth from my parents as well, early 90's. Since then never stopped producing music. Pressing the patches is a trip down memory lane!
Amazing! I was too 8 years old in 1990 and my parents sold these at a shop in our hometown (electronics shop). I never realized this was actually the first synth I ever played.
Very Vangelis 😁👍 I’m very impressed. My first synth was a Roland D-20. You can actually do remarkable things with it and that is what you have do if you only have one synth 😉 The synth is still going strong. I would never sell it.
I had one of those years ago ... then I got the bigger version of it with full size keys .... good fun as a kid and great for beginners... hats off to you for bringing life to it in a brilliant way ... Big thumbs flying high !!!!
So the verdict is that it is really good for making pads. I love how the Valhalla reverb transforms those sounds. Too bad the manufacturer didn't include a really good reverb module in the original design.
I had a Casio SA-21 in the early 1990s which has the same tone bank, but four note polyphony, as far as I can remember. Really awesome what you made out of this tiny instrument.
You’re a genius ! This was the most inspiring video I saw in a very long time! Clearly shows that not the highest priced equipment make the success. Not only you got me to buy an M1 after your Video with these stunning preset creations I also had a look on my local selling app for such lofi keyboards and was able to find a Casio SA 10 in great condition with the original box for 20€ incl shipping. It’s basically the same thing than the SA 1 with exactly the same sounds and housing but it’s up to 4 notes polyphony. It’s simply amazing how many of the presets sounds awesome when you add a big long tailed reverb. I absolutely love this tiny thing and will try to create something with it as well. So thank you again for showing this. I had never thought about buying such a toy like thing to integrate this into productions. All the best Jonas!
Yesss this was my first synth two, unfortunately one day it was broken but years later i found the same one on a second hand market, still have that one today 👍
"I'm still having nightmares about sliping on that beach in Spain; but I'm sure it wasn't bad money. You rock, De La Soul is Dead about it. I can't figure it without the Quadraverb." 🗨😑🎹
I used to spend countless hours with this little awesome thing! The drums, the car horn... oh man, I can only imagine how annoying I must have been 😂😂 Great job dude, thanks for sharing
Do you still have it ? For me this was a 'Sinterklaas' present. (Belgian and Dutch tradition that is basically like christmas presents but on the 6th of december)
@@marcinbonski6239 The SA-20 is (by looking at it) the exact same instrument but with a slightly different control layout. I think I actually encountered it once and it sounds exactly the same as the SA-1.
I had this 'synth' but sold by RadioShack (Tandy in the UK) It was badged as a Realistic Concertmate 360. The tones and drums were the same except for the demo tune, which sounded like a Glenn Miller song. Perhaps RadioShack were worried about the Wham! content match. Anyway it's great to hear those tones again. You did an excellent job with the end result!
This gives me goosebumps ( in a good way ). I have the exact same keyboard, also got it at the age of 8 - 9 years old, and it still works. This song is a great hommage to this little keyboard. And the demo.. my gosh, wake me up, before you go go.. :P. PS: found your channel today, instantly subscribed !
@@Estuera Not to mention; the "orient " song that was on it ( the chinese sounding song ) drove our whole neighborhood crazy since my friend and i had both these keyboards and playing it outside in the summer, good times :D.
@@Estuera Oh man, that must be a challenge haha. Hopefully someday it will return back into your video, together with the software, it has suddenly lots more of potential :)
First of all, WOW! I'm not surprised at what you were able to achieve by running it through some effects and organizing all the tracks in a DAW; just the fact that you demonstrated what is possible is beautiful. Now... I know it's old technology. But Casio even back then couldn't make it at least a 3-note polyphony? Shame on them. Even in 1990, that was achievable. They should have gotten rid of some of the clunkier patches or the demo and made it 3-note poly. But hey, it's a toy, right? Anyhow, a job well done!
I also had a bigger version, the CA100, which probably had similar internals and bigger polyphony. Unfortunately that one has been lost in time. I read about people speculating that in theory its possible to add more polyphony to the SA1 but it would be quite a lot of work.
Woohhoo... this distorted "Horns" have that dramatic Hans Zimmer vibe. What was the signal chain like? I've tried to make such a sound once and didn't get it... but I haven't tried such a simple source sound.
It was the Quadrafuzz 2 (standard cubase plugin that really rocks), a DualFilter and Valhala VintageVerb. That sound turned out quite massive indeed considering its humble origins.
Haha I have many of the same sounds and beats in my CA100, which my parents bought for my eldest brother when I was maybe 7 or so? The demo button is by far the best thing about it. In fact, I think the keyboard and I will be Together Forever
This is definitely so Vangelis (my fellow Greek world known composer) sounding, sometimes you remind me how old composers approached the music creation process, they used anything from very expensive to very cheap to make their records that sold millions and hundreds of millios of records, what they actually sold was their huge talent.
Great compliment. I absolutely love Vangelis, I listen to all his albums from the first to the last second on regular basis. If I only could play as well as he could.
@@Estuera He was self tought and all his playing was live, apart from some sequences eg the bass line from the 70s till his death, actually i am proud as a Greek myself about him but i know that apart from that most of us - and i strongly dought a lot about you on this case - wont be able to compose anything of interest even if we where given away all the gear he used and he had used hundreds of synths,drum machines etc. Actually the point is not to play well, many people play well, the point is to create something that was never been heard before like he did in the 70s - although he started with pop/rock back then in his early records with Aphrodites child - the real challenge is to be a pioneer. Another fine example was Kraftwerk. Imagine "We are the robots" in their first airplay. Anybody was asking himself and others "Hey what is that ?".
This is amazing. Everyone who downloads tons of vst or fills their studio with expensive synths should watch this. It’s all about the talent
With talent you can also play with expensive hardware, vst or whatever, so no valid point.
@@montazownianr1 What’s your point?
I mean,, the outcome of this wasn't that great and it sounded wholly due to the source of the sound being kinda lame.
As someone, who has a ton of VSTs and does look for more expensive gear, I still agree with you. You can do alot with some cheap stuff and effects. But that's not to say that expensive hardware doesn't require talent either.
@@mr.timusproductions116 Expensive hardware doesn't require more talent than cheap hardware :D
Brilliant example of creativity. For some reason it reminds me of early Jean-Michel Jarre works.
Casio is an underrated brand . I like to use their musical instruments
Wow! Beside the obvious talents, this also shows how much effects processing and mixing matters. The right effects on the right sounds put into a mix carefully is what made the extremely low-fi Fairlights (1 and 2) sounding so good in the first half of the 80:s!
Every studio with a Fairlight back then had : 1. An extreme amount of great effects processors and 2.The best producers in the world.
Agreed. And to me processing and mixing is just as much a part of sound design as tweaking oscillators, filters and envelopes.
Beautiful!
The first time I've heard a full tune from an SA-1.
I bought one with my pocket money in 1990.
The Demo is Wake Me Up Before You Go Go! 🤣
YES
That was great! Had a very 'Vangelis' feel to it.
I have an SA-20 model with similar sounds.
If one were to listen to a track like this without this creation video to know how it was created, they would have never guessed it was recorded using a PCM keyboard from the '90s as a starting point.
Amazing talent! 🙂🥂
My first keyboard!! Thanks for bringing back all the memories from my childhood.
I just found one of these at a thrift store. I think I'll hold onto it now. This sounds amazing! 🤘
The sure-fire way to make a cheap string patch sound majestic: Add plenty of reverb and delay, and slap a copious amount of Small Stone phaser on it just for good measure.
Check ✅
Well, that's why I love reverb & delay. For general usage you can just add dry bass and drums. Addind spacy sounds with dry sounds to make it more err... Grounded.
instablaster
My very first synth too in the 90's .You make me 😢
It’s truly amazing how these small vintage instruments sound transformed when put through an affect processor. The amazing results, you have done this justice well done. I’m a keyboard, piano, player and singer as a pure hobbyist, I also create multitrack demos again as a hobby.
What good effects can do, even Casio SA-1 sounds like Yamaha Montage :-D
Jokes aside, sometimes limits push creativity, and this was great!
I had one of these and the memories have just come flooding back!
I'm certainly a believer in limitations fostering creativity. Nice effort on the track
That violin with effects is so nice and huge. I really like it.
Great work. You make this toy sound like a pro keyboard. Limitation feeds Creativity. Amazing lesson.
me and my brother used to make music with one of these way back in the early 90s. we used a digital delay pedal with it
Great times :)
I used my dad's old reel to reel recorder and a cheapo mixer to create tape echo while playing this synth and it's bigger cousin the Casio CA-100 (That has been lost in time unfortunately)
You don't even need a synth, only a good reverb and delay...and maybe a woodstick and your voice, lol.
Amazing composition!
What would John Cage say now? :)
This was beautiful. A pleasure to listen to and watch.
OMG!!!! This was my first keyboard as a child....I have been hunting for years to find out what the model number was!! I can't thank you enough....now off to ebay to find one!
My pleasure :) and good hunting !
Beautiful music. A wonderful, epic movie soundtrack. Thank you.
I had this keyboard! Played it a lot and even did a school performance with it playing ‘Lambada’
All these sounds, great nostalgia. My parents went nuts with me playing all these weird sounds over and over again.
Merci pour ce partage !
This sound is magnificent, with a magical side !!!
I'm really impressed by your imagination musical,it's amazing !!!
Merci ! :)
All one need is some talent and creativity.
Mate, let's say that... I watched 2 of your vids, but this!? You don't know what a beautiful memories you made me remember when I was a child! That exact same casio was my first keyboard too! I went the 5 years old most happy child in the neighbourhood! For that reason I'm subscribed now to your channel
That's really great to read :) Thanks !
I love your channel ! im so tired of people wanting(needing) the best gear and the most complicated daw to make music !! good work.
Thanks, this is very inspiring. The next time I lust for some piece of gear, I’m going to rewatch this video!
Jonas, good stuff! I received this synth from my parents as well, early 90's. Since then never stopped producing music. Pressing the patches is a trip down memory lane!
Amazing! I was too 8 years old in 1990 and my parents sold these at a shop in our hometown (electronics shop). I never realized this was actually the first synth I ever played.
I had that "Synthesizer" as a Child, its awesome what you're getting out if it! Very cool!
Very Vangelis 😁👍 I’m very impressed. My first synth was a Roland D-20. You can actually do remarkable things with it and that is what you have do if you only have one synth 😉 The synth is still going strong. I would never sell it.
Nostalgia... My Beautiful Mother give me this for my 10th birthday. 👍
I had one of those years ago ... then I got the bigger version of it with full size keys .... good fun as a kid and great for beginners... hats off to you for bringing life to it in a brilliant way ... Big thumbs flying high !!!!
Those harp sounds, sounded like my friend Charlesthefirst whom passed away awhile ago. Amazing video!
Oh, it was really nice. It made me relaxed. Now we want someone to make a 10 hour loop of it.
Man, that sounds like a million dollar, nice!
So the verdict is that it is really good for making pads. I love how the Valhalla reverb transforms those sounds. Too bad the manufacturer didn't include a really good reverb module in the original design.
I had a Casio SA-21 in the early 1990s which has the same tone bank, but four note polyphony, as far as I can remember. Really awesome what you made out of this tiny instrument.
I enjoy the sa 21 as well
So double the chip, I guess. Interesting.
I use the SA-10 with the exact same sounds often for my productions. In my Track "Flashback" the first lead-sound is the SA-10.
Still got mine and it still works! My grandchildren play it
Such a beautiful composition. Well done. Would love a full trance version of it too.
Thanks for sharing - This was ,y first keyboard in the early 90s - still taught in schools on these for 16 years
Man, your channel deserves to explode!!!
This was also my first synth back in 2001, first time i n South Africa 😊 Inspired a track title, this video awakened a long lost memory ❤❤❤
You’re a genius ! This was the most inspiring video I saw in a very long time! Clearly shows that not the highest priced equipment make the success.
Not only you got me to buy an M1 after your Video with these stunning preset creations I also had a look on my local selling app for such lofi keyboards and was able to find a Casio SA 10 in great condition with the original box for 20€ incl shipping. It’s basically the same thing than the SA 1 with exactly the same sounds and housing but it’s up to 4 notes polyphony. It’s simply amazing how many of the presets sounds awesome when you add a big long tailed reverb. I absolutely love this tiny thing and will try to create something with it as well.
So thank you again for showing this. I had never thought about buying such a toy like thing to integrate this into productions.
All the best Jonas!
Great to read this. Hope you can make some cool things !
The KLF officially bowed to this Keyboard.
Thanks to mention the Casio i played allot on this one. Very nice sounds 👍
I'm impressed 😊
Yesss this was my first synth two, unfortunately one day it was broken but years later i found the same one on a second hand market, still have that one today 👍
Really great very much enjoyed this one. Beautiful
Hahahhaha, this keyboard was also my first keyboard. Nice to see this thing. The sounds remind me of my childhood.
This is nice work! It reminds me of some of the music that Joel Goldsmith did for the Stargate TV shows.
Thanks :) Gotta check out that music again. It's been ages since I saw Stargate.
I'm absolutely amazed! It all looks and sounds like magic!
Thanks ! :)
Spectacular!!!
The Hing Hon EK-001 has a kickass organ sample. Strongly recommend.
Jean Michael Jarre reborn.
Could also be early (1970s) Vangelis, or Reinhard Lakomy. Great track.
Sounds a lot more like Vangelis in his Alpha period, to be honest.
Very nice.
creatively amazing
beutiful and creative loving it.....
Your hands look massive playing that thing! Amazing video. Thank you for the inspiration. I actually want one of those.
Haha indeed. That keyboard is really small but still playable.
Wow! Very inspiring 🙏
Having some basic synth can be more inspiring than one with tons of overwhelming perimeters. Nice video!
Less is more indeed :)
Well sure if the perimeters are so overwhelming it takes you a day to walk from one end of the synth to the other.
the drums are amazing :D
amazing stuff u created with this lil synth! well done ...
So great 💗✨😌✨💗 Thank you
"I'm still having nightmares about sliping on that beach in Spain; but I'm sure it wasn't bad money. You rock, De La Soul is Dead about it. I can't figure it without the Quadraverb." 🗨😑🎹
Haha I had one around 1990 as well. Haven't heard these sounds in decades!
I love my sa 21 especially street organ patch #8
The demo is the best bit!
Very impressive work
I used to spend countless hours with this little awesome thing! The drums, the car horn... oh man, I can only imagine how annoying I must have been 😂😂
Great job dude, thanks for sharing
Same here :D It was the beginning of it all. (And highly annoying for anyone that had to endure it for hours and hours haha)
awesome
This is so cool, i had the exact same one! Never mastered it like you though.
great track & demonstration! found one in nearly mint condition on a flew market
LEGIT!!
Sounds like my first Demos back in the Day (with a Casio CZ230s^^)
cheers from the Chillwalker!!!
Super! I like your lofi synthesis experiment!!
Omg, I got this GEM as a Christmas present when I was a kid...
Do you still have it ? For me this was a 'Sinterklaas' present. (Belgian and Dutch tradition that is basically like christmas presents but on the 6th of december)
@@Estuera I know 😄 Hij ligt (als het goed is) bij een vriend van mij.. te goed die sounds en inderdaad die Wham demo 🤣
Haha ok. Ik had niet door dat je ook van deze kanten was 😁
@@Estuera haha was wel een populair kado toen, een klasgenootje van mij kreeg en ook 😄
Waarschijnlijk in de aanbieding bij de Intertoys toendertijd 😁
OHHH!!!! SHIIIITTT! My sister had one of these! The demo song is Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, isn't it? I actually really want this keyboard now!
It certainly is 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' :D Drove my parents crazy
@@Estuera I still have mine. That demo is the main reason I never use it.
I have model SA-20 and it have the same demo song :D
@@marcinbonski6239 The SA-20 is (by looking at it) the exact same instrument but with a slightly different control layout. I think I actually encountered it once and it sounds exactly the same as the SA-1.
@@jonassteur9538 yeah you right
Dude that matsuri sound is used in the ghost in the shell movie I think (anime edition ofc. Very nice and cool video, loved it!
Its quite a nice sound. Lofi at its best
Loved it. I want to try this myself with my original synth...
Zal die van mij ook weer eens opzoeken, nooit geweten dat met zo veel shimmer en reverb er toch nog iets uit te halen is. 😀
I had this 'synth' but sold by RadioShack (Tandy in the UK) It was badged as a Realistic Concertmate 360. The tones and drums were the same except for the demo tune, which sounded like a Glenn Miller song. Perhaps RadioShack were worried about the Wham! content match.
Anyway it's great to hear those tones again. You did an excellent job with the end result!
Perhaps only Casio had the copyright for the Wham! song. Or Radioshack didn't want this synth to be even more whammy than it already was ? :D
This gives me goosebumps ( in a good way ). I have the exact same keyboard, also got it at the age of 8 - 9 years old, and it still works. This song is a great hommage to this little keyboard. And the demo.. my gosh, wake me up, before you go go.. :P. PS: found your channel today, instantly subscribed !
Haha yes must have driven my parents crazy with that demo.
And even when I got enough of pressing that button my younger brothers didn't :P
@@Estuera Not to mention; the "orient " song that was on it ( the chinese sounding song ) drove our whole neighborhood crazy since my friend and i had both these keyboards and playing it outside in the summer, good times :D.
Hahah :D It almost made it in this video actually. But after editing only the 'jungle' one survived
@@Estuera Oh man, that must be a challenge haha. Hopefully someday it will return back into your video, together with the software, it has suddenly lots more of potential :)
This was also my first keyboard and I still have it:)
In the vacuum of space, no one can hear you synth!
Unless its needed for dramatic effect in a scene (usually the other way arround in movies 😁)
First of all, WOW! I'm not surprised at what you were able to achieve by running it through some effects and organizing all the tracks in a DAW; just the fact that you demonstrated what is possible is beautiful. Now... I know it's old technology. But Casio even back then couldn't make it at least a 3-note polyphony? Shame on them. Even in 1990, that was achievable. They should have gotten rid of some of the clunkier patches or the demo and made it 3-note poly. But hey, it's a toy, right? Anyhow, a job well done!
I also had a bigger version, the CA100, which probably had similar internals and bigger polyphony. Unfortunately that one has been lost in time. I read about people speculating that in theory its possible to add more polyphony to the SA1 but it would be quite a lot of work.
I had this keyboard!!!
Blast from the past lol
So magical! :)
My very first keyboard! Just like you!
Found one at a secondhand store in good condition for 6 bucks. Sounds nice even from the built in speaker
Vangelis Casio Module...
klassz kis Casio szintetizátor
still got my old Tonebank, this had inspired me to dig it out...
Woohhoo... this distorted "Horns" have that dramatic Hans Zimmer vibe.
What was the signal chain like?
I've tried to make such a sound once and didn't get it... but I haven't tried such a simple source sound.
It was the Quadrafuzz 2 (standard cubase plugin that really rocks), a DualFilter and Valhala VintageVerb.
That sound turned out quite massive indeed considering its humble origins.
@@Estuera I have to give that a try. I'm a Cubase user anyway :)
Haha I have many of the same sounds and beats in my CA100, which my parents bought for my eldest brother when I was maybe 7 or so? The demo button is by far the best thing about it. In fact, I think the keyboard and I will be Together Forever
I had a CA100 as well but it turned arround and deserted me...
I have a Casio PK-1 limited sounds but I love it.
Good reverb can make anything sound amazing. What else is new? ;) Nice composition though!
Yeah, especially Valhalla Shimmer. Just pass any basic waveform through it and your brain explodes
DX100 with a Microverb, back in the day. Helped a lot.
This is definitely so Vangelis (my fellow Greek world known composer) sounding, sometimes you remind me how old composers approached the music creation process, they used anything from very expensive to very cheap to make their records that sold millions and hundreds of millios of records, what they actually sold was their huge talent.
Great compliment. I absolutely love Vangelis, I listen to all his albums from the first to the last second on regular basis.
If I only could play as well as he could.
@@Estuera He was self tought and all his playing was live, apart from some sequences eg the bass line from the 70s till his death, actually i am proud as a Greek myself about him but i know that apart from that most of us - and i strongly dought a lot about you on this case - wont be able to compose anything of interest even if we where given away all the gear he used and he had used hundreds of synths,drum machines etc. Actually the point is not to play well, many people play well, the point is to create something that was never been heard before like he did in the 70s - although he started with pop/rock back then in his early records with Aphrodites child - the real challenge is to be a pioneer. Another fine example was Kraftwerk. Imagine "We are the robots" in their first airplay. Anybody was asking himself and others "Hey what is that ?".
Fully agree
wow - great work 😃
I used to have a casio pt1 it only had 5 sounds when my friend showed me this model i couldnt believe it had 100 sounds