Absolute Anti-GAS:
You want to get rid of it without even buying it…
you forgot „Wedding gig enabler“
Wow, I’m strangely blown away by this! The vocal synth stuff is whacky (though I appreciate Japan has spent a lot of time and money researching vocal synthesis techniques) but the rompler sounds are surprisingly nice and for £429 street it’s really rather tempting.
It looks so old-fashioned! An anachronistic oddity for sure.
This exactly. I’d like to mess with one because it looks weird and fun but I can wait years if that’s what it takes to get one on the cheap.
Let’s get back to the subject, shall we?
Youtubers have been discussed somewhere else, no need to develop this subject again here I guess.
On a practical level, beyond any one dimensional GAS / No GAS decision, this thing could get real imaginative project use.
The list from obscurerobot was done with a wink, but really it hints at real uses too.
Add to the diverse uses of the vocal synth the auto arranger features as a way to quickly jot down an idea, or using it to generate single parts in a mix. It could fill in various parts, and get utility use, in a collection. And who knows what falls out abusing, combining, and misusing all the separate parts of it together.
Not thrilled with the manual, but i think the user interface may make driving this thing without living in the manual possible.
This name, though.
I don’t get this random paste of letters and numbers.
As soon as I close this page, it disappears from my mind.
Why not “カシオトーン” or something alike?
That would be a real pain!
Why only go half way?
Yeah. Casio seems to have a problem with that in general. But we can call it anything we want …
What about the Syntalk ? ( It’s a joke everybody. )
I still own and use a vsynth xt for this exact reason. The odd warble and artifacts are immensely pleasing (most of the time). Nothing else I own sounds like it.
Damn, this thing is right up my alley, lol. I’ve got a huge soft spot for vocoders, cheesy robot voices and vocal synthesis. In fact, I did a whole album using only vocoder/robot singing with the Roland vt-4 for vocals, but found it really exhausting to “sing” and play the midi notes simultaneously. I’m not surprised that this thing was already thrashed here, but I think it offers the potential to deliver a lot of milage when used creatively, as also some have pointed out here.
Unfortunately, it’s huge and ugly and I don’t have the space for it. If they would release a desktop version without the speakers and keyboard at some point (which they never will, I guess), I would buy it in an instant.
I know when’s the last time anyone in this forum looked at a keyboard with speakers. But since the S1000V ( Syntalk ) uses batteries, the speakers completes the cordless feature. But then it’s so big – 61 full sized keys. I think of the Hydrasynth Explorer, batteries, nice smaller polyaftertouch keyboard, but speakers, that would have completed that picture.
About half a minute into the video: Did they really use “let them know you are gay” as a demonstration phrase?
LOL, I listened to it several times now and that’s all I can hear. No offense to homosexuals, btw, but that’s such a weird choice for a demonstration phrase. If you can’t built up the courage to let your parents know you’re gay, just let the cts1000v speak for you!
Edit: OK, it’s “let them know you are here”, thanks for pointing that out, @DoS.
The existence of Plogue Chipspeech makes this product look kind of ridiculous in my eyes, but I am biased against keyboard synths
Synths I own with built in speakers:
- Syntrx
- Jupiter Xm
- SE-02
- Reface DX
- Volca Modular
- Volca FM
Was thinking the same, … straight from the dealer to Reverb + 2,5% pain tax!
Speakers that I have on synths and actually use.
Zero.
I just saw confirmation from Mike Martin of Casio that it has the same piano sound(s) as the CT-S1, except with customizable effects and many more variations.
I like my CT-S1’s piano sounds so to me this is a good sign.
Speaking of, well, speakers, I was advised that the onboard amp is only 2.5W per side, and therefore if I truly have my heart set on playing the coffee shop open mic night, I might consider an arranger with minimum10W per side amps and speakers instead. Then again, this shop does have a PA speaker. Hmm…
Pretty cool video, explaining the difference between Play and Phrase Modes.
Tell me you’ve never listened to House Music without saying you’ve never listened to House Music