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1 plutoniq9 Send Email Sep 4, 2005
11:43 pm
Hi, I'm Plutoniq9. Please discuss tips, techniques, modifications.... anything SK but with a core focus on the SK-5 & SK-8. That's my SK-8 on the home page. So...
2 plutoniq9 Send Email Sep 6, 2005
8:53 pm
I'll be posting modification info & photographs to the files section for the Casio SK-8. While I don't have a SK-5 to compare, I feel that most of these mods...
3 CasioSK@yahoogroups.com Send Email Sep 8, 2005
10:37 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the CasioSK group. File : /SK-8...
4 CasioSK@yahoogroups.com Send Email Sep 10, 2005
12:52 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the CasioSK group. File : /SK-8...
5 plutoniq9 Send Email Sep 12, 2005
10:12 pm
Hi, Any Sk-8 owners in here with an operation manual willing to scan and upload it? I've already uploaded the SK-5 manual, but I can't locate any online source...
6 plutoniq9 Send Email Sep 14, 2005
5:28 am
Thanks to a list member, the Casio Sk-1 (Concertmate-500) service manual (including schematics) are now available in the files section; ...
7 plutoniq9 Send Email Sep 26, 2005
11:51 pm
I managed to secure a copy of the SK-8 service manual through an overseas Casio division, they should arrive in about a week. Once that happens, I'll scan them...
8 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 4, 2005
9:41 pm
Hi, You know, this list has about 20+ circuit-benders with SK-5's.....hint hint. I've got the SK-8/Sk-5 service manual the other day.....all the mysteries of...
9 kingconga42 Send Email Oct 6, 2005
8:34 pm
Nope, just lurking...=] (guess it's time to pop the user post cherry) ... Ah, nice. I knew the drums were seperate from the rest, but didn't know there were 4...
11 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 6, 2005
10:30 pm
*correction Yeah, the 4-voices come directley out of the main brain CPU, after this point they go into (4) VCA's (Voltage Controlled Amp) for envelope shaping....
12 kingconga42 Send Email Oct 12, 2005
9:54 pm
... oh i see, so when you hold one note down, only one VCA is working, then the second key activates the next VCA and so on? Some of the bends i found will ...
13 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 17, 2005
8:50 pm
Yeah exactly. If your holding down four notes, it'll split those VCA/Voices up amongst them. So, it could be very interesting for "expanding&quot; the SK's...
14 Tim Drage
pics4tim Send Email
Oct 18, 2005
10:03 am
Hi, ... Wow, that sounds like some serious modification! Impressive stufff......
15 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 19, 2005
4:41 am
Thanks! Everything but the memory expansion is documented with illustrations in the "Files" section of the yahoo group. The memory expansion I'm offering as an...
16 kingconga42 Send Email Oct 19, 2005
4:33 pm
memory expansion? Can you do that with all the sks, or just the sk8? -justin...
17 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 20, 2005
7:38 pm
All of them, Sk-1, Sk-5 & Sk-8. Although, the SK-1 will be limited to 16 banks, but at least they will be non-volatile (won't erase on power down). Of Course,...
18 gmeredith1 Send Email Oct 24, 2005
2:25 am
Hi plutoniq9, Just joined the user group, this is my first post! Saw that you were getting the schematics for the SK8 in a previous post, wondering if you were...
19 plutoniq9 Send Email Oct 28, 2005
4:44 am
Welcome to the group, Yeah, I got the service manual & it's a great copy of them....but have to wait until i have access to a scanner to upload them. I didn't...
20 gmeredith1 Send Email Nov 9, 2005
3:46 am
Hi Plutoniq9, Looking forward to the service manual sometime. Regarding any mods yet, no, I haven't done any more so far, but I am seriously considering the ...
21 plutoniq9 Send Email Nov 10, 2005
8:20 am
Hi graham, I actually haven't written up the details on the 32x memory upgrade as it's is a lot more complicated than everything else i've written up. I can...
22 gmeredith1 Send Email Nov 10, 2005
10:50 pm
Hi Ryan, Regarding VCA's, then how about: If it were possible to make an add- on VCA circuit that tapped the signal from the output of the onboard VCA. VCA...
23 plutoniq9 Send Email Nov 12, 2005
8:58 am
Hi Graham, "if" you were gonna use your own VCA's, you'd want to tap the 4 voices coming direcley out of the main CPU, that is, pre Casio VCA's. Ok, so if...
24 mahceenaleen Send Email Nov 16, 2005
9:46 am
As im new on this community let's drop a message to say hello :D I wanted to get a sk5 lately but im on a kind of dire strait and cn't buy anything even...
25 mahceenaleen Send Email Nov 16, 2005
7:35 pm
You all know that sk8 has been rereleased as sk8-a right? so you may know that you all, that got a sk8, can finally normally bent their sk to get some new...
26 plutoniq9 Send Email Nov 25, 2005
8:10 am
Hi & welcome to the list! Actually, the SK-8a was the SK-8 released for the middle eastern market at the same time as the SK-8. It had different rhythms,...
27 guillaume richard
mahceenaleen Send Email
Nov 25, 2005
10:45 am
kind of crazy mod, just don't understand why they have hidden these features...
28 plutoniq9 Send Email Nov 30, 2005
12:35 am
I believe they "hid" the arabic scaling on the western models as they are, in general, scales rarely used in western music. The western 12-tone scale, however,...
29 guillaume richard
mahceenaleen Send Email
Dec 2, 2005
9:16 am
ok, sounds quite logic actually :D...
30 vav
chaorta_studios Send Email
Jan 19, 2006
2:26 am
So i've gotten an SK5, i know basic electronic stuff, i've successfully passed the soldering test. But i have to say, i've finding this a bit daunting. I was...
31 plutoniq9 Send Email Jan 20, 2006
3:17 am
All the SK-8 mods should work identical for the SK-5, even though they have clear differences, the sound boards are the same..... I'd be very surprised if...
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