A CasioTone that is worth having ? - Casio CT-S1000V with the Meris Mercury X

I use The Casio Tone Casio CT-S1000V along with a Meris Mercury X for some cool sounds.
0:00 opening audio demo
0:44 Opening thoughts
5:00 The vocal engine
13:00 Normal Instruments (Piano / Harp / Er Hu / Koto / Etc)
22:15 Closing Thoughts

[@apislapis]

The use of the term 'registration' confused the heck out of me, until I worked out it's the home keyboard equivalent of patch or preset plus it can refer to saved rhythms, effects & tempos. Casio market it as a synth but it can't hide its home keyboard roots. It has the same chassis as the CT-S1, built in speakers and no 5 pin DIN MIDI. The AiX (Acoustic Intelligent eXpression) Sound chip isn't that new it was first used in 2018 on the CT-X series of home keys (800, 3000 &5000). I got it when it first was released because I'm a Casiotone fan and tbh I find the vocaloid a bit meh but that's me. I like that it has customsisble DSP effects but not as many as my CT-X3000 and that it's light and very portable. I'd have liked DIN MIDI & a mod pitch wheel rather than the rotary pot. Enjoy Yuki.

[@davidb_bitsbobs]

I recently saw Benn Jordan's video on the C1000V (he uploaded 2 years ago) and it's been on my wishlist ever since. Not that he explored the Japaneseness of it but that in itself has a lot of potential. I can imagine building up some of those oriental presets in a looper pedal, then adding the Japanese voices as a vocal melody. Maybe even kicking back with a Yamazaki single malt and adding those bagpipes! 😁 Cheers for the upload, and your insight! All the best, David

[@michael7018]

Great keyboard. I actually got a red Casiotone piano keyboard around Christmas. Fantastic keyboard and cheap.

[@Agerian7]

Hauntingly beautiful with the Meris. Does a software version of this exist?

[@YukiTheSynthDragon]

Not sure if anyone has exact software of the vocal synth engine of the Casio. The vocaloid software would be the closest but very hard to use.

[@MichaelGonzalez-ql4ho]

Exactly where did you get the Japanese vocal samples from? I really like it but I’m having a hard time tracking down the song you got it from

[@YukiTheSynthDragon]

They aren’t samples, keyboard is generating them.

[@MichaelGonzalez-ql4ho]

I’m gonna be buying this keyboard this week so just tryna get a better understanding

[@Jason75913]

S1000?
I didn't think I'd see that here.
I've tried it last year at a local store, so not my cup of tea in many ways.
I did not know about the vocal engine, and that is not my cup of tea either, but I figure this is probably an improvement over the Korg Vocaloid things I've seen.
German? Eww, German and the Scandinavian languages are the last things I would want to put into music, no offense intended to any of their speakers watching your vids, lol
The Bluetooth functionality would appeal to me if it weren't for me having so many USB cables, thus the ability to avoid Bluetooth latency.