Just because you’re able to dally an instrument does n’t necessarily mean you have a great tattle vocalism . For vocally - challenged musicians , Casio ’s late digital keyboard feature a make - in outspoken synthesizer . Basically , a musician can represent a voice in the same way they ’d play distinction .
The Casio CT - S1000V is definitely not the first digital keyboard to allow voices to be incorporated into a performance . For decades , taste keyboard have enabled players to record sounds and even short snippets of voices that can be trigger off or played back in unlike pitches and with various core applied using the forte-piano ’s keystone . They were an especially popular way for kids to annoy friends and class in the late ‘ 80s when the technology was let in on many of Casio ’s budget - friendly , consumer - level keyboards .
The CT - S1000V also is n’t the first keyboard to include outspoken synthesis capabilities . Competitors like Yamaha released ware such as theVocaloid Keytara few years ago , but with circumscribed capabilities and availability outside of Japan . The Casio CT - S1000V will not only be more wide available , it will also support outspoken performances in either Japanese or English .
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Because the CT - S1000V lacks an alphameric keyboard and relies on a fairly low - Ra monochromatic LCD presentation for making on - equipment configurations readjustment , enter tradition lyrics into the keyboard is done through a smartphone app where school text can be either typed or pasted . Once the lyrics are enter , the app automatically breaks up the word into playable syllables and allows users to pluck the orthoepy to get a hope sound . Although the keyboard include Bluetooth , that ’s reserved for MIDI functions , so syncing lyrics from the wandering app to the CT - S1000V requires a strong-arm USB cable connectedness between the two devices — an funny option .
The keyboard comes preinstalled with 100 of these “ Lyric Tones ” based on phrases from popular songs with blank for an extra 50 custom initiation to be transferred from the lyric app , but the original 100 can also be overwrite when space runs low . The lyric poem can be played mechanically base on a specific rhythm as key are weigh ( with each keystone defining the pitch of the sung lyric ) or a syllable at a time for a more nuanced performance with or without legato ( a term used to describe unmediated modulation from note to note without any secrecy in between ) . Users also have a choice of 22 different vocalizer types that admit everything from automaton - similar talkboxes , to large consort , to quiet whispering .
The CT - S1000V is also a very open digital piano that features 800 dissimilar playable sound covering “ all family of official document , ” 243 built - in rhythm for solo player wanting melodic accompaniment , and 50 exploiter - programmable round . It also includes sampling potentiality with the power to record up to ten seconds of “ high - quality audio ” or several three - second sample for creating drumfish beats through a 1.8 - inch stereo input jack . The keyboard is also fully MIDI - compatible and can be connect ( using a cable or Bluetooth ) to a computing equipment or peregrine equipment for enlarge its performance potentiality and has a built - in MIDI recorder with enough content to store multiple song performances .
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More item on the CT - S1000V are now available onCasio ’s site , where the keyboard can bepreorderedfor $ 680 . For musician who do n’t require the vocal synthesis characteristic , Casio is also releasing a more or less gaudy version , the $ 500 CT - S500 , which can also be powered by six AA batteries for musician wanting the carrying out freedom of a keytar and who do n’t beware a 10 - pound keyboard hang up from a shoulder strap over their shoulder .
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