[microsound] synth toys

[shinjiro yamaguchi <matigainai@xxxxxxxxx>]

"casio tone" is good, too.
it's very cheap sounds.


best
shinjiro


>perhaps a yamaha cs-1? it uses sliders instead of knobs but that makes it
>very small and sturdy. can be batery powered, has a speaker, idealy suited
>for touring. best of all; it will do both noizes and synth lines. affordable
>too. in my experience it needs a compressor or a limiter when used live
>because tweaking the settings can cause huge volume changes but apart from
>that it sounds like exactly what you want.
>
>looks good next to a casio sk-1 too.
>link for your convenience;
>http://www.synthmuseum.com/yamaha/yamcs101.html
>
>confession time; apart from my own experimental work iｴm also in a disco
>project called "bangkok impact" (*ducks*). weｴve taken to using a lot of
>small and toy keyboards on stage because you can throw a lot of them
>inbetween your clothes in your suitcase, they take up little room on stage,
>can be modified, donｴt crash and they enable us to switch to completely
>freestyle jamming at any moment. some of them produce a frightning amount of
>bass too......
>
>i wholeheartedly recomend the practice to everybody.
>
>Kas.
>
>p.s. sorry about mentioning disco on the microsound list, i feel dirty now.

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