Casiotone CT-380 Keyboard Casiotone refers to a series of home released by Computer Co. In the early 1980s. These first keyboards used a technique known as to approximate the sounds of other instruments (albeit not very accurately).

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Most Casiotone keyboards were small, with miniature keys designed for children's fingers, and were not intended for use by professional musicians; they usually contained a rhythm generator, with several user-selectable rhythm patterns, and often the means to automatically play accompaniments. While the name 'Casiotone' disappeared from Casio's new keyboard catalog when more accurate synthesis technologies became prevalent, their low cost and abundance made them fairly common fixtures in. Musicians and bands known to use Casiotone keyboards include: of,,, of, of,,, Cobol Pongide and, Chiara Lee of, Elena Lozovskaya.

Contents • • • • • Families [ ] Old Casiotone keyboards came in three distinct families, separated by the method of synthesis. [ ] • The famous VL-Tone (1979) uses a method of sound synthesis based on the. Catia v5 torrent download cracked. • Keyboards such as the CT-202 ( c. The later model of this family, the MT-65, is one of the more well known and sought after models, as it also contains auto-accompaniment drum beats and bass lines.

• Some other keyboards (such as the MT-35 and MT-45) use a combination of two different binary weighted numbers (1 and 64). The larger weight bit provides the fundamental, and the smaller weight bit provides the harmonic complexity. The later, more professional range of keyboards, the (1984–1986), used, which is mathematically almost identical to 's, although implemented slightly differently in order to avoid patent infringement. After the release of famous in 1985, gradually PCM sample based tone generator became dominant in Casio keyboards line. After the 1990s, most Casio keyboards utilize PCM tone generator or its variants. Some early 1980s models in the PT series of keyboards, such as the PT-30, PT-50, PT-80 and PT-82, were not marketed under the Casiotone name.

The name was revived again later for models such as the PT-87 (which is basically the same as the PT-82) which was again sold as Casiotone. ROM Packs [ ]. ROM Pack Some models sold from 1983 onwards included a cartridge bay to accept Casio ROM Packs which contained sheet music in a digital format. The keyboards could play the notes automatically, or (with the exception of the PT-50 ) illuminate above each key to teach the user how to play the song. Most keyboards came with one ROM Pack as standard, but a large number of additional packs, covering a wide range of musical genres, were available to purchase separately. The last ROM Pack model was the CT-840, which came out in 1990.