KVR Audio

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:07 am

Now listen here, y’all…

I log onto KVR and I see these youngsters talkin’ about their modular racks, their polyphonic aftertouch, their “I-spent-my-rent-money-on-this-oscillator-core-firmware-update” keyboards…

Meanwhile I’m sittin’ here remembering when the fanciest piece of gear I owned was a Casio with ONE speaker, THREE good keys, and a “Disco 1” rhythm that sounded like a squirrel fallin’ down a flight of stairs.

And guess what?

WE STILL HAD PEOPLE DANCIN’.

We didn’t need no “granular spectral vector wavetable hybrid FM subtractive additive re-synthesis with 4D morph modulation” nonsense.
We had a $79 keyboard from a hardware store and an outlet that sparked every time you plugged it in.

These hipsters showin’ off synths that look like they gotta be refrigerated overnight…
All them blinking LEDs, like they’re tryna communicate with aliens.
Half of ’em don’t even play music — they just twist knobs like they’re churnin’ butter in the future.

Back in my day, the only “preset” we had was ON.

And if you wanted reverb?
You took your Casio into the bathroom.
BOOM. Ambience.

But hey… y’all enjoy your boutique handcrafted artisan farm-to-table oscillators.

I’ll be here with my one-finger-melody Casio makin’ folks dance like it’s 1989.

seafire · Post by **seafire** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:12 am

Cool story.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:16 am

seafire wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:12 am Cool story.

Ya'll young spitfires need to respect your elders

seafire · Post by **seafire** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 8:15 am

The Beatles were still going when I was born

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:17 am

I paid >350 CAD$ on one of those little cheesy Casios in 1985, I think.
It was bloody *orrible.
Certainly elevated my music to heretofore unkown heights.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:28 pm

Truth be told Im just 40 - i love those hipster space pianos - just jesting

thought this was amusing

need to have some fun here and there

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 6:28 pm

ive got socks older than you.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:05 pm

Cloris Leachman told a dirtier version of that.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:32 pm

Touch The Universe wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:28 pm Truth be told Im just 40...

40?! Get off my lawn, ya damn kids, and take yer newfangled Casio keyboardamathingyjobby with you!

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:35 pm

You guys are hilarious - who you calling a sock - trying to play me

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:19 pm

I just put the modular stuff in the videos to get views. I'm still using the old Casiotone MT-68 for all the sounds.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:31 pm

justin3am wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:19 pm I just put the modular stuff in the videos to get views. I'm still using the old Casiotone MT-68 for all the sounds.

Pay no attention to that Casio behind the curtain!!!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:08 pm

Touch The Universe wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:35 pm who you calling a sock - trying to play me

how does one play a sock? is it a wind instrument? or do you pluck it?

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:28 pm

vurt wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:08 pm
Touch The Universe wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:35 pm who you calling a sock - trying to play me
how does one play a sock? is it a wind instrument? or do you pluck it?

from your hands to the toes you play it - your hands on a casio with 3 keys - and your toes covered by a 40 year old sock. The dual converaging from the neglect of these two sources catalyze unto uparalled sympathetic resonances

Back in my day we didn’t need no hipster space-pianos…