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Casio Rapman. Anyone remember this?
In the 1990s Casio tried to suck up to rap-fans with a toy keyboard, including a plastic scratch wheel an a small microphone with optional pitchshifting. You can easily find the Casio Rap-1 on platforms like eBay. The Casio Rap-10 was kind of the "small brother" of the Rap-1, as it had no keyboard. It's just a scratch wheel with the same crappy microphone, some buttons for percussion and some beats to choose from, which would interrupt while performing scratch solos. Some sounds differ from the Rap-1, so i plugged it into my Zoom Hn4pro and recorded every sound of it. So, here you have it:The sounds are campy as f#¢%, but they sure are fun. The kick drum sounds pretty cool, though. It's all in mono, as the device doesn't offer stereo.
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Matosinhos (to record only water for 10 minutes)
Hi.
I made a 10-minute-recording while I was at the Atlantic Ocean in Porto. Back at home I took the recording of splashin water hitting the rocks, and did some eq-filtering. I filtered off anything, but four parallel octave-pitched notes. So, what we have is a pack of 12 ten-minute-wav-tracks, each one in a different pitch, starting from "A". It's a dynamic and spooky organ-like sound, which should work just fine as a multi-sample-set. The more notes you play at once, the closer you get to the original recording, and you start to hear those waves, again. Feel free to download from my Soundcloud an have fun with it. If someone made a track or two, using this sound-set, I'd be happy to hear it.
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Hi from Mainz (Germany)
Hi jensg. I would think, the customs are still the same, but cannot say for sure, of course. If you are wondering whether the deluge is worth the price, you should consider, of you have the time and patience to work yourself into it. There‘s loads of great YouTube-tutorials that tell you how, but still it takes a lot of practice, but on the other hand you can make progress pretty fast. The greatest benefit might as well be the greatest flaw: This machine can do about anything, and it keeps evolving.
So, if you have the time and patience, this machine is worth every single dollar! You surely wouldn‘t need another sampler, looper or sequencer, midi- or cv-controller ever again.
