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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Premiered Aug 11, 2023 ^^
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FANTASTIC!
I was a 15 year old at a music school in the UK when I got a cassette of the Thriller album and it blew my mind. I had a Casio (403 I think🤔) and was convinced that the frog sound was used in the breakdown section of Thriller. All my friends laughed and said "There's no way Michael would let them use a Casio keyboard on his album!" 😂
Thanks for proving me right...even if you are 40 years too late!!😅
Awesome chan. 👍🏻😎
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As a kid I had a Casio MT-60 which had the same "frog" and "funny" tones, so I assume it had the same engine and rhythm section as the earlier CT-401, only that it seemed to be marketed as a cheaper budget model. Back then for me, "frog" was a funny novelty sort of tone that I'd use to give myself a chuckle or to make friends laugh, and then move on to a more usable lead tone, but in the context of Thriller (especially the horror themed video), it really does add a layer of tension, uneasiness and bite (pun intended) to the bass sound, making it almost alien in nature, as if a monster is about to awaken. Talk about thinking outside the box. (By the way, to help with the search, look for Casio / Casiotone keyboards from between 1981 and 1982 that use vowel-consonant synthesis, as these likely share the same engine and/or tones, for example the CT-101 and CT-403).
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2:59 Those few seconds between "was" and "is" felt like hours.
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Once there was a Japanese nerd's website from the early to late 2000s (even featured in American Keyboards magazine) called "sealed's deep synthesis page". He explained that Casio started with additive synthesis very early. In 1982 they even had their first fully programmable additive synth on the market called CASIO 1000P that used sine waves BUT "Sealed" also explained that CASIO often used pulse instead of sine waves for additive results. To my ears that frog sound reminds very much of a certain wave I know from semi-pro HT- series using additive PW synthesis. Anyway CASIIO HT-6000 was by far the best sounding "table hooter" of all in 1989 with polyphonic VCFs full (subtractive) programmabilty not only of their 4-DCO main- but also of their 2-DCO accomp tones, progrmmable patterns & certainly programnable drum machine.
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@MattGiffin
9 months ago
Anthony is really opening the vault on this channel. This is truly arcane and I love it.
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