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Hi, I'd like a bit of information regarding circuit bending my newly acquired 'casio sk-200'. I basically just need to know which chips to stay away from, so I...
sexy mc.cunt
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May 12, 2008
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Generally, any point on the board that has a power supply voltage on it, such as 7.5V DC, or 5V DC. You can safely check these points before trying them if you...
gmeredith1
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May 14, 2008
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Hello. I was wondering. Disscussion is about SK samplers so You must have some of Your music made on these machines. I would be very pleased to hear it. I'm...
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May 14, 2008
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Yerz; That is a good point. Maybe there is or could be set up in the forum list a section for music files. I often go searching for songs on the sk's myself....
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epitaph68
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May 14, 2008
11:26 am
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If you check out the track Sullen Lamplighters on my Myspace page you'll hear a bunch of bent gear, including an SK-1. The SK-1 makes the higher pitched...
telephone1652
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May 14, 2008
4:30 pm
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My band (Systems Theory) have just released a free album on the net which you can get to at http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/codetalkers If you have a listen to...
Mike Dickson
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May 17, 2008
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Heads up people! Amsterdam based electronic music institute STEIM is in danger of losing its funding, see here ...
asmoeddie
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May 22, 2008
1:11 pm
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Can anyone put me in touch with someone who can repair my "casio sk-200" sampling keyboard? It stopped working today... It powers on, and the keys play the...
david tomlinson
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May 22, 2008
10:15 pm
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Does anyone know where these two points are on the SK-1? Thanks x...
oscillate_wildly1
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May 29, 2008
11:44 pm
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I don't have an SK-1 to tell you by looking at it's board and showing you, but I can tell you where to find them using the SK-1 service manual. On p28 of the...
gmeredith1
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May 30, 2008
12:17 am
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Thanks a lot! really helpful. Ok so i now have this built and programmed, excluding the rest of the circuit on pin 5 but including R1 and the LED: ...
oscillate_wildly1
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May 30, 2008
10:11 pm
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Ahh, OK, I see what you're trying to do. You want to do a pitch LFO, right? If that's the case, the SK CV outs are not what you want. The SK CV's are for...
gmeredith1
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Jun 2, 2008
1:00 am
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New to mods and would like to do a cv sync with my first experimentation on the SK 5. Can someone point me twards a step by step guide I looked in the files...
inducejack
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Jun 2, 2008
10:18 am
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OH sure i see thanks again! would i be able to combine two of the LFO circuits and connect them to the same point using the vactrol in order to have 2 VCO's?...
oscillate_wildly1
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Jun 2, 2008
7:04 pm
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Yes, you can combine them. What were you planning to do with the 2nd VCO, some sort of ring modultion as well? Cheers, graham ... LFO circuits and ... VCO's?...
gmeredith1
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Jun 2, 2008
10:51 pm
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You mean like what they do with the SK1 to sync the rhythm patterns to an external trigger? Cheers, Graham...
gmeredith1
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Jun 2, 2008
10:53 pm
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I am talking about how to sync the sequencer to cv...
inducejack
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Jun 3, 2008
3:01 am
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You could try checking out this thread here: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CasioSK/message/219 It was regarding doing that with the SK-1 though. Still...
gmeredith1
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Jun 3, 2008
6:18 am
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i was planning to connect both of them to the pitch so i could combine waveforms, e.g square wave on one and triangle on the other. would they still work...
oscillate_wildly1
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Jun 10, 2008
1:02 pm
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Yes, they will. Actually, you'll get some unique sounds out of it if the LFO rates are set at different rates to each other. Cheers, Graham ... combine...
gmeredith1
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Jun 10, 2008
11:40 pm
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Hi. I'm bending my sk-1. I've gathered all I could find about it and experimented on that: Pitch (just pot and body contact), poly, skew, found the drums...
boulbastic
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Jun 11, 2008
7:39 pm
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oh, also: Is there a better place/forum to post questions or infos regarding the sk-1? You should know about that......
boulbastic
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Jun 11, 2008
7:59 pm
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... that link anymore. So what I remember is I should solder the direct out to the negative leg of a 4.7uf capacitor, then pass through a 3k3 resistor and out...
boulbastic
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Jun 11, 2008
8:04 pm
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Sounds like you've been pretty industrious! "would like to have your opinion on them, just out, after the envelope/pitch circuits (adsr?)" Yes, and depending...
gmeredith1
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Jun 11, 2008
11:54 pm
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Well I did those 4 outs but the volume is really low, drums volume very low, melody I can barely hear, bass and chord I can't even hear. Is that normal? I...
boulbastic
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Jun 12, 2008
6:32 pm
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Ok, then try tapping each voice after each of its amplifying section, before they're combined together. On each of the voice lines, this would be just before...
gmeredith1
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Jun 12, 2008
11:16 pm
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Oh, and for the drums, I'm not sure. There doesn't seem to be an amplifier circuit for it. Try tapping it at points along the drums line, starting directly out...
gmeredith1
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Jun 12, 2008
11:32 pm
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Yep, I got to the multimeter test probe pretty fast. I found some interesting things: C38,42,46,50 are the spots to tap the 4 voices out. The volume is good ...
boulbastic
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Jun 13, 2008
1:57 am
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hi, i have this circuit almost built. i want to connect it up to the voice and audio 1 out. should i do the 'vactrol' method in connecting it? i haven't...
oscillate_wildly1
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Jun 13, 2008
5:32 pm
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Yes, just connect the vactrol's photoresistor to the SK circuit board points, then just attach it to the LFO's LED. But check to see that it works first. After...
gmeredith1
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Jun 15, 2008
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