skyy38

Thanks Tsquare! Been a bit busy, and trying to catch up with you.

All sounds, save for the drum track, done on the Casio CT-670.

A very nice job Tsquare! WHAT Casio keyboard did you do this on?

A quick summation of what's going on. Track 4 is the MMT-8 programmed with the string patch ( I don't know WHY I didn't write the patch # down!) and the SR-16 Drum Track. Record tracks 1 and 2 and then collapsed to 3. Recorded over 1 with chimes and Rhodes and 2 with Guitar. The pan structure is a bit weird, admittedly, but it all works out with a total of six instruments over 4 tracks and the mix is nice and uncluttered!

Well here's my track sheet! It took me a bit to decipher myself because this is 25 years old!

Yours is in order! Mine however, I can barely decipher, because I took a wrong turn somewhere! ALWAYS "Save To Paper" though- because computers CRASH but paper doesn't!

Tsquare, you just made my month, with your kind words. As soon as I can decipher my "chicken scratch" handwriting, as concerns my track sheet, I'll tell you more about this track! One thing I can tell you NOW, is that the "Navy Bell" chords were directly inspired by Harold Faltermeyer, because he did the same thing at the beginning of TOP GUN ANTHEM and THAT was my way, of acknowledging his pure genius on same! Again, Thank You!

All sounds, save for the drum track, are exclusively from the Casio CT-670.

BINGO!

Once upon a time GODZILLA did not start out as such- he had a different name, which was GOJIRA. CASIO was paraphrased/changed in a similar way, owing to the four brothers who first started the family business. What was the last name of the brothers, originally?

If you want a more "naked" example- https://soundcloud.com/skyy38/the-birth-of-the-phoenix

In 1990, I picked up the CT- 670 and it would be my ONLY demo recording Keyboard for 7 years. I did a lot of stuff with this baby and, to this day, it remains one of my fave Casio Keyboards EVER! https://soundcloud.com/skyy38/fields-of-white-with-pierre

Always glad to help! You're Welcome!

The ONLY thing wrong with the MZ-X series was that it was released to market as a "half finished" product. It STILL doesn't discount the SOUND advances that CASIO had made, up to the point of the MZ-X Series release. Anyone remember the ALESIS FUSION debacle from 2005? And also, remember THIS classic line... "We will sell no wine, before it's time...…." Any "airplane" taking off from the strip, that is only "half finished" will surely *crash*………..

And, not to "gild the lily" or anything like that, but this was ALSO done on the SAME CASIO Keyboard as the previous example!

Several years back, not only Mike Martin but Craig Anderton were just about gob smacked ( translation "Whoa DUDE!" ) when I posted this little thing done ENTIRELY on a CASIO:

Oh, CASIOS reputation among "Pros" is legendary as a lot of them managed to use CASIO instruments on chart topping hits! I forget, if it's Mr. Saucier or someone, who first turned me on to this, but a CASIO was used in this song, circa 1987:

CASIO is more than competing with "Y, R, K" in terms of product quality, specifically in the last 18 years, and, even BEFORE that. WHO says that a "Pro Instrument" has to run in the thousands of dollars? True, "You get what you pay for" but CASIO to me has always been alone as far as "Performance to Price Ratio" is concerned. Even when "Y, R, K" has tried to match CASIO on IT'S terms, they wind up a little short, because CASIO STILL does it better than them, on general terms, especially pricing. AND with the intro of a first generation sound source on a so-called "consumer instrument" instead of it trickling down from the "higher end models" FIRST, CASIO, to my ever enduring delight, continues to trail blaze while the others "sidewalks" have started to show cracks.

The first step to being able to layer is to first grow a big set of ears. Listen to songs/instrumentals over and over and OVER then take note of what is going on, sound wise, THEN see if you have the sounds on your CASIO to either get them dead on or, at least, to approximate them. By doing a LOT of listening, you can learn how to "solo" each of the tracks in your mind, so you can ID the sounds. Also keep in mind it's not necessarily the NUMBER of tracks that you have but HOW you make use of those tracks with your sounds. For most songs, 8 tracks is the absolute minimum but sometimes, you can get by with less! Done with less than 8 tracks on my CASIO WK-1350.

Got it boss! Thanks!

Well thank you for that great compliment Mr. M! I hardly knew what I was doing when I recorded this- eg, I didn't have an orchestral panning guide and I'd have to dig up my studio track notes to tell how much of this was the MMT-8 and how much of this was overdubbed to separate tape tracks on my Tascam PORTA 05. I can be assured though, that a great contributor to the overall sound was mixing this down to my Hitachi 6 Head VCR, aka, my "Poor Mans DAT" instead of a standard cassette deck and also the fact that I didn't have a lot of tracks to record on, which helps a lot with a clean mix. Again, thanks for the nicest thing that anyone has said about my work in quite some time!

CASIO keys are indeed built for the "long run." My CT-670 and WK-1350 are still testament to that fact, even though I have NEVER abused them-they were always "Studio Babies" and THAT is where they have remained! I also have a 28 year old 6 Head VCR from Hitachi, that I have used for a mixdown deck and nothing else! In two years, I'm going to throw it a birthday party!

In my much-used WK-1350, when I layered tones, it all sounded "50/50" between the two, at least to me, so I'm glad there wasn't an adjustment for that, except for the mixer function, after recording, where you could NOT record layered or split tones but you could still "mix" between the two. Being able to fine adjust the layered tones volumes would have been just ONE more excuse, for MOST of you to waste time on editing, rather than getting any serious work done.

More than a few cretins, who would delight at ANY chance to use CASIO Keyboards as a common "punchline" to their stupid jokes, just did not REALIZE how far Casio was going, even in 1987! In 1990, when somebody referred to CASIO Keyboards as "Fun Stations" I just had to laugh at them, because I knew what I was able to accomplish with my then main axe ,the CT-670. Please refer to the "Share Your Music Here" section of these forums under the title of "One Paw...."

One of the first orchestral emulations that I did on the Casio CT-670, in the early 90's. Sequenced on the Alesis MMT-8 and then many years later, the final touches were added in Audacity.