My Casio SK mods

[gmeredith]

Finally (woo hoo!!) I/my band have our own website, and part of it has an instrument mods section, where I can now finally store all my Casio mods and bends guides:

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/index_files/Professor.htm

Previously they have been stored at the Yahoo CasioSK group site (they still will be as well) but you needed to be a member of the group to access the files, which was a pain to have to join Yahoo, then the group just to pull down a guide.

Now you can download the guides from our website directly. I've put the most popular ones up there just now, such as the Phat Philter Bank, Slo-AD mod, SK memory expansion mod and a few others. When I get time, I'll put the others up. I will also put my mods for other Casio gear up in time too, so watch this space!
I'll also put up a collection of service manuals there, too, for people to grab.

I'm also unashamedly advertising my band as well while I'm at it  

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au

All our music is free to download  

[Dylan]

Wow, I really dig your band. Would suppose you guys like DEVO at all, eh?

[Circuitbenders]

wow, its like early 90's internet all over again!   

Give that man some Karma!

[gmeredith]

Hey thanks guys! Yeah we like Devo, B52's, WAS not WAS, weird early 80's pop electronic stuff - we grew up in that era - "you can take the boy out of the synth, but you can't take the synth out of the boy!"  
Our live performances actually have a science show - we do science experiments in between songs - show-and-tell chemistry experiments, physics stuff - anything that's science orientated eye candy!

I have quite a collection of manuals, too, both service manuals and user manuals for Casio, and also other brands - some quite hard to get, such as the Casio VL-1 service manual!
I've put some up already. If anyone has a request, just post here and I'll see if I have it and put it up on the site for download

Does anyone have a service manual for the RZ-1? Been looking for a while but can't seem to find it around...

Cheers, Graham

[Circuitbenders]

Theres a service manual for the VL1?

Wouldn't that suggest that at one point in time people actually valued their VL-1's to such an extent, that enough of them were sending them back to accredited Casio service centres with complex enough problems that Casio actually had to produce a service manual to address the issues?

When you put it like that, it can't be just me that finds it weird.......... 

[gmeredith]

Yes I was completely astounded when I found it - I wasn't actually looking for it at the time I stumbled upon it but i grabbed it straight away. It's a whole 8 pages long  But it actually does have some useful bending info.

Cheers, Graham

[Circuitbenders]

whats even stranger is that the first couple of pages deal with the basics of 'what is sound' and then its straight into the circuitry!
Even the short bits about the actual circuit have a curious 'My First Service Manual' feel to them.

[gmeredith]

Just added Alesis MMT8 and HR16 service manuals

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/index_files/InstrumentManuals.htm

Also put up my Alesis MMT8 memory expansion guide and MMT8 12VDC power mod guide.

Cheers, graham

[dislocations]

Your band is great! Kinda like Servotron meets Add N To X..........

[Circuitbenders]

 none of the download links in the 'professors lab' section seem to work using anything other than internet explorer.

[gmeredith]

Damn I didn't see this post until just then. Damn holidays!

You're the 2nd person to report problematic links on various pages there. Thanks for letting me know - not sure what the cause of it is. I just checked it out with Firefox and confirmed that the liink to the manuals doesn't work in firefox but does in IE.

I've updated the site - here are the new links:

Main Band page;

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/index.htm


Professor's Lab page:

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/index_files/Professor.htm


Here's the direct link to the manuals page:

http://www.warningwillrobinson.com.au/index_files/InstrumentManuals.htm

The manuals page appears to work with my version of firefox (ver 3.5.16) - all the manuals links seem to work
but not the link to it on the professors page. For now, use the direct link to the manuals page until I resolve this.

Cheers, Graham

[gmeredith]

OK I figured it out... Firefox seemed to not like the text download box for some reason - something about giving it a fill colour, of all things! - I've now changed it and it works in both firefox and IE. Apologies to those trying to access the guides and also the manuals page from within the professor's page link - they now appear to work OK. Let me know if this is not the case - can somebody try them and see??

I'll never go away on holidays again  

Cheers, graham

[Circuitbenders]

it all seems to work using Chrome now 

[Dj Task Manager]

Hi there,

if i choose to make just one phat philter circuit and pop it in my sk5, do you recon i need to mix th cv signals from the 4 cv points with 4 little resistors? and then perhaps rather than tap the 4 poly-voices from the points marked in the instructions feed the keyboard output into the philter instead. also i was thinking of making individual volume contols for each of the 4 poly-voices, anyone done this?  any tips?

Cheerzzzz!

[gmeredith]

Crusty: That's great news, thanks for trying that out, I can sleep now 


DJ: - You can "sum" the SK voice CV lines together but as I recall it affected the volume envelopes of the other notes when you play sequential notes close together or chords - I think I remember fiddling with this sort of thing when I was designing it and found that it altered up the SK's notes volumes - an interesting bend effect, but you couldn't stop it when you wanted it not to. Easy to try and see - you could perhaps put a diode in each tapped line just before they merge and see if that helps cut down cross voice interference.

Cheers, graham