The VL-Tone is ideal as a pocket size composition aid but does it fit into the studio environment?
The sequencer can be programmed in real time or step mode. It offers preset rhythms, preset sounds, a sequencer and a programmable sound where you can set each of the waveform, attack, decay, sustain level, sustain, release, vibrato speed and tremolo speed controls to a volume between 0 and 9 thus enabling a wide variety of sounds to be produced. This unit is probably their most successful because of its low price. The first Casio keyboard, the VL-Tone, also doubles as a calculator. Every so often a company launches a new product which uses the most up-to-date technology to enable millions of people to become involved in what to them is a new field.Ĭasio began by adding musical sounds to their calculators and now the musical content has taken over. It happened in the early 70s with the launch of the first pocket calculators and it has happened now, in the early 80s, with the portable keyboard.
