CT-6000 - what synthesis/ sound generation does it use?
Casiotone CT6000 model from 1984 - what synthesis/ sound generation does it use? What are the related models?
Some of those that know about the workings of the early Casios might know? @CYBERYOGI =CO=Windler can you shed some light on this model?
I have a Casiotone CT6000 in my collection, Casio's flagship model from 1984, and it's a very unusual beast for its time as it had a ton of high level features. For instance, it has MIDI, a velocity AND after touch keyboard, Uni
I own a Casio CT-6000 and service manual, but haven't analyzed its complex hardware further (beside making PCB photos and contact cleaning). It employs 3 main voice sound ICs "NEC D932G" (64 pin zigzag) and the unique blip percussion IC "Hitachi HD61701" (54 pin SMD), everything controlled by the CPU "NEC 7811G-081".
Although this keyboard was the flagship of 1984, it has nothing to do with phase distortion. The D932G appears to be a velocity sensitive successor of the famous "NEC D931G" (42
