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Cmon you guys, gotta jam

It's been a busy month for various disasters (I've suffered a license plate theft and mail robber this year already that's TWO felonies committed against me) but I'm trying to get big into keyboarding this year. I went to Saint Paul last week and visited my friends who just bought a fancy ass house, and I haven't seen them in several months. They both have nice day jobs and a kid, while I'm a musician weirdo with little/no structure in my routine. It was refreshing to hang out for a couple days. They're REALLY into board games, which is whatever to me but it was cool to see a bunch of Pokemon/MTG/Funko Pop/comic book normies interact with each other and prepare for a convention. I helped my friend Kay unload the stock room (which took two hours or so) and they paid me in video games. I got Rayman 3D (which has amazing music and design in general) Killer Instinct on N64 and Resident Evil on Gamecube. I recently got a Nintendo 2DS and have been having fun getting back into gaming, there is a couple pieces of KORG software and a few other content creation apps for the 2DS, but it's just silly fun for the most part. It was really cold and I'm scared to drive in the big city. Kay told me that she had a keyboard in her garage; I asked her what kind and she said "IT'S A CASIOOOO" so I was obviously pumped because that's obviously my jam. See picture. I didn't get to jam it but Kay ordered the power supply from the internet so maybe I'll get to try it next time I'm in town. I might buy one depending on how much it rules. It's low end but so is most of my stuff, so it was fun to see this banger up close. I will probably buy a similar one as the CTK series has been recommended to me in another post. We went to a fried chicken restaurant and they ordered a $70 vat of crab and seafood. I got a shrimp and chicken basket. On the way home I got a flat tire 12 miles from my home, which sucked. Today I went to a Minnesota store called Fleet Farm and got $600 worth of new tires, which leaves me super broke. I spent about twenty minutes (in the waiting room) watching some guy modify a cheap tackle box with a retractable blade that he borrowed from the store clerk. He filled it with fishing lures and then explained his ice fishing routine to me, I tried to make conversation but we're nuts from different trees; and different generations. I'm talking to my friend Jack about MIDI and getting into sequencing. I'm curious what you guys will think of my new project if I ever finish it. That is all for now.

Thanks so much for the help you guys, I'm really excited to get a new keyboard and practice uppp. I'm glad that you know what it is, and that there are people able to understand what makes stuff like this cool.

Did you make all this stuff? Seems like you're career is going pretty good to say the least! What brings you to the Casio forums?

This is really good, I downloaded it and emailed it around a bit. I'm really glad that you have a tape, I'll try to grab one at some point

This sounds good, I actually haven't heard the original song before but it reminds me of Duluth Minnesota for some reason, maybe I heard something similar when I was there at some point; either way it's a good sounding song keep up the good work

I used my MT-640 on this multi-track solo tape album "Christmas in the Fridge" (by "Fountain Dew"). The synth is most noticeable on track 7 which is a cover of the classic George Costanza answering machine hit. The album was recorded on a Tascam 414 which worked very well with the Casio MT. I plan to do more of these lo-fi jams, so let me know what you think and enjoy. https://fountaindew.bandcamp.com/track/george-isnt-at-home

I'm currently shopping a second MT-640 to teach my friend's daughter the fundamentals, and she is five I think. I can guarantee at least one child of the new generation will be learning on a Casio!

Awesome to see you here, I'm a noob to the forum as well; actually I'm just glad that there is an online community for the brand, I've got one friend whose really into synths and keyboards, and he has inspired me to dig a bit deeper. My brand loyalty stems from a combination of love for my cheapie old keyboard and the fact that John Candy wore a Casio wrist watch in Planes Trains and Automobiles, and in one scene offers to trade it for a hotel room

I'm new to keyboards- the only one I've ever owned is an MT-640 which I really like. I'm curious if there is a similar sounding Casio keyboard with full size keys. I've had the MT-640 since I was very young and I really like the sounds, it's very dear to me but is in rough shape (missing keys and all). Right now I'm looking for an upgrade and curious what you think is best. I've used the MT-640 on a couple recordings, most recently my Christmas album, which was done on a Tascam 414 (link) https://fountaindew.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-in-the-fridge See attached photo. Thanks!