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grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:08 am

anyone have them or own the old 80's craptastic synth to sample the sounds at all? i'd be willing to pay. it was my first synthesizer as a kid so i have fond memories of it. i found the drum samples for it, but that's it.

more info here:
http://www.synthmania.com/mt-500.htm

bought the 'mega drum machine samples' off of ebay for $15 and it had the drums in

i'd like to buy this and sample it myself just for sentimental reasons. it made horrible sounds, but i miss them.

thanks in advance.

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:17 am

i love anything with "casio" on it

BITWORD · Post by **BITWORD** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:37 am

I'm not sure if you want to own one again, but I just did a quick search on ebay for "mt-500" and found a few. One is at 9.99 and the others are at $20, so I would imagine you could win with a bid of about 25-30.

If it was your first synth, you might enjoy the real deal again.

Good luck!

Marc

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:41 am

ebay is casio heaven

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:02 am

nice i put a bid on one of them. if i win, i'll sample the thing and put up the samples for download. i might be able to convince one of the people i've collabed with on in the past to do a vsti

i love cheezy oldschool stuff like this. it'd be fun to use again in a virtual studio configuration.

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:22 am

i great vintage casio sampling effort is needed. i only have a ctk-611 (i had sooooo many) so that leaves me out

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:12 am

i still got my MT-65,used it a lot bac in the day,very special,love the piano,but would be a mare to sample,especially with it's modulation options.

and all the rhythms,chords and basslines.maybe one day.
it would be better if someone could get to the bottom of what made the casiotone circuitry sounds so fine!
the new VL-tone emu is very good.

Rangtangtang · Post by **Rangtangtang** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:08 am

Oh, I see that someone is having dreams about casio....

That is a MT-500, its probably mid 80's, and it might not be analog either....mmmm...not good. I do remember they had few small white ones whith automation and memory rom. They had the sk1 sampling keyboard that could sample and record a whole track, but too much of a toy.

The earlier you go whith Casio the more likely you might have something you can actualy use, like befor they got too smart.

Iv got right here a genuine Casio MT-68. Its got one speaker, a bit of yucky acompanyment(base, chord, arpeggio), its got 20 sounds whith modulation switch and reverb/vibrato switches and drums(rock, pop, latin swing, tango ....ect). There is whole story whith the drum side in these types of thing, cause they seem to use the same styles that nobody can make sense of. I sampled mine and it sounds good...

You can get casio sounding like a real fully fledge synth..

saulc12 · Post by **saulc12** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:31 am

I used to have a few samples of casio MT-750 that I used in protracker modules on the amiga - so real lo-fi...

If you go to my site and luck on the page called stuff you can download a number of modules that feature some of those samples amongst others and you should be able to get the samples out using modplug or Awave...

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:36 pm

All these sound a bit too advanced for me. After I grew out of my VL-Tone I bought a Casiotone MT-30: 22 sounds, no rhythms, no bass. I later upgraded to a CT-202, which was similar but with four full-size octaves, and 49 sounds! I'd love to get my hands on either of these again...

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:01 pm

saulc12 wrote:I used to have a few samples of casio MT-750 that I used in protracker modules on the amiga - so real lo-fi...

If you go to my site and luck on the page called stuff you can download a number of modules that feature some of those samples amongst others and you should be able to get the samples out using modplug or Awave...

thanks, but i've clicked on many mod dl links and i get "The page cannot be found"

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:22 pm

spacedad wrote:i still got my MT-65,used it a lot bac in the day,very special,love the piano,but would be a mare to sample,especially with it's modulation options. and all the rhythms,chords and basslines.maybe one day.
it would be better if someone could get to the bottom of what made the casiotone circuitry sounds so fine!
the new VL-tone emu is very good.

i have a special place in my heart for the sounds of cheezy low grade consumer synths like this. looking up the MT-65. i've got to check in on the ebay bid too.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:26 pm

Rangtangtang wrote:Oh, I see that someone is having dreams about casio....

That is a MT-500, its probably mid 80's, and it might not be analog either....mmmm...not good. I do remember they had few small white ones whith automation and memory rom. They had the sk1 sampling keyboard that could sample and record a whole track, but too much of a toy.

The earlier you go whith Casio the more likely you might have something you can actualy use, like befor they got too smart.

Iv got right here a genuine Casio MT-68. Its got one speaker, a bit of yucky acompanyment(base, chord, arpeggio), its got 20 sounds whith modulation switch and reverb/vibrato switches and drums(rock, pop, latin swing, tango ....ect). There is whole story whith the drum side in these types of thing, cause they seem to use the same styles that nobody can make sense of. I sampled mine and it sounds good... You can get casio sounding like a real fully fledge synth..

nice will look up the MT-68 as well - would you care to share the samples you've made as well?

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:29 pm

saulc12 wrote:I used to have a few samples of casio MT-750 that I used in protracker modules on the amiga - so real lo-fi...

If you go to my site and luck on the page called stuff you can download a number of modules that feature some of those samples amongst others and you should be able to get the samples out using modplug or Awave...

does soundmover do it? i cant afford awave. modplug tracker though i can afford

spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:59 pm

androidlove wrote:
saulc12 wrote:I used to have a few samples of casio MT-750 that I used in protracker modules on the amiga - so real lo-fi...

If you go to my site and luck on the page called stuff you can download a number of modules that feature some of those samples amongst others and you should be able to get the samples out using modplug or Awave...
thanks, but i've clicked on many mod dl links and i get "The page cannot be found"

yeah,me too.(firefox)
but if i right click-save as..it works ok.

probly firefox downloader not recognising .mod.can't figure out how to set it atm.
but thanks for the mods!

casiotone mt-500 samples?