Mi Casio Tu Casio
A Casio VL Tone with a great history.
ByJoshua Meltzer
The story
I hope you don’t mind me using the familiar form of Tu, as I think we are all friends by now!
I got this Casio VL Tone for Christmas when I was a little kid. I loved recording melodies on it and then playing them at a much faster speed.It gave a glimpse of my midi “cheating” later in life. Anyways, I lined out of it and went in to an old Fender amp, so it had some extra air and life to it. I did all kinds of processing in the box. The “Casio Swells” and “Casio Flutter Pad” were more of a re-imagining. I combined and blended every VL tone instrument together, for a more larger, cinematic scope. The “Sub Casio” bass and “Casio VL Tone Beats” are more of a nod to the original lo-fi vibe. I included a multi combo of both pads called “1980 Pad”!
Reviews
Very Slow attack but beautiful and interesting
The attack of these pads are extremely slow, at first i thought they weren't working. But that's not really a complaint. The sound of these pads are extremely beautiful and interesting. Theres a-lot of nice modulation going on and it always feels like its evolving which is really cool. Not much else to say, there's no ability to control anything in this instrument but its still very inspiring and playable
Bleeps and beauties.
A classic VL Tone Kit, a classic "bass 'n' bleep" patch - make sure you extended the zones right up to the top of the keyboard and two corking pads that sound absolutely nothing like a VL Tone :-D Another JM classic in the making.
Playable and easy to use pad
It's very different from the sound you imagine from the title. Casio's Flutter / Swell is like another drone pad, very easy to play out of the box.