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Casiotone 401
Estimated price for orientation: 500 $
Category: Electronic Keyboards
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Description
This keyboard is in really great shape with original box, vinyl cover, and dust cloth! Everything works great! This keyboard has such a great vintage sound, I hate to part with it, it's so much fun!!! main features:
49 fullsize keys
built-in big speaker (with reasonable bass)
main voice polyphony 8 notes
chord polyphony 12 notes
volume knob
separate accompaniment/ melody volume balance knob
tempo knob
16 semi- OBS preset rhythms {rock, slow rock1, swing, bossanova, march1, waltz, rhumba, habanera | rock'n'roll, slow waltz, shuffle, samba, march2, rock waltz, beguine, mambo} (selected through 8 locking button switches + "variation" bank switch)
14 OBS preset sounds {organ, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, piano, harpsichord, celesta, accordion, electric piano, funny, frog} (buttons with each a red status LED)
"casio auto chord" switch {off, fingered, on} (manual chord mode with rhythm off)
"chord" switch {rhythmic, continuous}
chord memory switch (chord stays held after releasing key when on)
"octave down" switch (transposes main voice 1 octave down, works only in chord mode).
rhythm "fill-in" and synchro buttons
switches for vibrato, vibrato delay, sustain, hold
main voice timbres based on 2 mixed multipulse squarewave tones with different digital envelopes, those are differently low pass filtered through capacitors. Vibrato modulates CPU clock oscillator.
analogue percussion {base, snare, low tom, high tom, open cymbal, close cymbal, woodblock} which uses transistor noise for cymbal and snare
complex multi- chip hardware:
main CPU= "NEC D773G, K05266, Japan" (64 pin zigzag DIL)
accompaniment CPU(?)= "NEC D8049C, M0Z076-049, 084, Japan" (40 pin DIL)
IC "NEC D8243C, E01039-005, Japan" (24 pin DIL)
ROM(?) "Texas Instruments TMS3615NS, MBS [triangle] 8048" (28 pin DIL, socketed)
IC "AMD(?) AM 6012PC, 8050FM" (20 pin DIL)
tuning knob
mains operated
jacks for headphone, line out, aux in, volume pedal, sustain pedal, foot switch
Description
This keyboard is in really great shape with original box, vinyl cover, and dust cloth! Everything works great! This keyboard has such a great vintage sound, I hate to part with it, it's so much fun!!! main features:
49 fullsize keys
built-in big speaker (with reasonable bass)
main voice polyphony 8 notes
chord polyphony 12 notes
volume knob
separate accompaniment/ melody volume balance knob
tempo knob
16 semi- OBS preset rhythms {rock, slow rock1, swing, bossanova, march1, waltz, rhumba, habanera | rock'n'roll, slow waltz, shuffle, samba, march2, rock waltz, beguine, mambo} (selected through 8 locking button switches + "variation" bank switch)
14 OBS preset sounds {organ, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, piano, harpsichord, celesta, accordion, electric piano, funny, frog} (buttons with each a red status LED)
"casio auto chord" switch {off, fingered, on} (manual chord mode with rhythm off)
"chord" switch {rhythmic, continuous}
chord memory switch (chord stays held after releasing key when on)
"octave down" switch (transposes main voice 1 octave down, works only in chord mode).
rhythm "fill-in" and synchro buttons
switches for vibrato, vibrato delay, sustain, hold
main voice timbres based on 2 mixed multipulse squarewave tones with different digital envelopes, those are differently low pass filtered through capacitors. Vibrato modulates CPU clock oscillator.
analogue percussion {base, snare, low tom, high tom, open cymbal, close cymbal, woodblock} which uses transistor noise for cymbal and snare
complex multi- chip hardware:
main CPU= "NEC D773G, K05266, Japan" (64 pin zigzag DIL)
accompaniment CPU(?)= "NEC D8049C, M0Z076-049, 084, Japan" (40 pin DIL)
IC "NEC D8243C, E01039-005, Japan" (24 pin DIL)
ROM(?) "Texas Instruments TMS3615NS, MBS [triangle] 8048" (28 pin DIL, socketed)
IC "AMD(?) AM 6012PC, 8050FM" (20 pin DIL)
tuning knob
mains operated
jacks for headphone, line out, aux in, volume pedal, sustain pedal, foot switch
49 fullsize keys
built-in big speaker (with reasonable bass)
main voice polyphony 8 notes
chord polyphony 12 notes
volume knob
separate accompaniment/ melody volume balance knob
tempo knob
16 semi- OBS preset rhythms {rock, slow rock1, swing, bossanova, march1, waltz, rhumba, habanera | rock'n'roll, slow waltz, shuffle, samba, march2, rock waltz, beguine, mambo} (selected through 8 locking button switches + "variation" bank switch)
14 OBS preset sounds {organ, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, piano, harpsichord, celesta, accordion, electric piano, funny, frog} (buttons with each a red status LED)
"casio auto chord" switch {off, fingered, on} (manual chord mode with rhythm off)
"chord" switch {rhythmic, continuous}
chord memory switch (chord stays held after releasing key when on)
"octave down" switch (transposes main voice 1 octave down, works only in chord mode).
rhythm "fill-in" and synchro buttons
switches for vibrato, vibrato delay, sustain, hold
main voice timbres based on 2 mixed multipulse squarewave tones with different digital envelopes, those are differently low pass filtered through capacitors. Vibrato modulates CPU clock oscillator.
analogue percussion {base, snare, low tom, high tom, open cymbal, close cymbal, woodblock} which uses transistor noise for cymbal and snare
complex multi- chip hardware:
main CPU= "NEC D773G, K05266, Japan" (64 pin zigzag DIL)
accompaniment CPU(?)= "NEC D8049C, M0Z076-049, 084, Japan" (40 pin DIL)
IC "NEC D8243C, E01039-005, Japan" (24 pin DIL)
ROM(?) "Texas Instruments TMS3615NS, MBS [triangle] 8048" (28 pin DIL, socketed)
IC "AMD(?) AM 6012PC, 8050FM" (20 pin DIL)
tuning knob
mains operated
jacks for headphone, line out, aux in, volume pedal, sustain pedal, foot switch