Casio VL-1 (first commercial digital synthesizer, 1979) as only sound source for create ambient music in live looping with effect pedals (eq, looper, reverb).
I try to challenge myself to produce a sound experiment - create ambient music on live looping with the restriction of using only one instrument: Casio VL-1 (monophonic synthesizer, 1979) as sound source and with minimal / less effects to the instrument. (less is more - truth of the material).
In a scenario of overwhelming number of synths, people often do not take the time to deepen and explore the creative possibilities of each gear/synth they possess.
Signal Chain:
VL-1 > Pre-Amp / EQ > Looper > Reverb.
About VL-1:
The VL-1 was the first instrument of Casio’s VL-Tone product line, and is sometimes referred to as the VL-Tone. It combined a calculator, a monophonic synthesizer, and sequencer. Released in June 1979, it was the first commercial digital synthesizer.
Its sounds were mostly composed of filtered squarewaves with varied pulse-widths. Its piano, violin, flute and guitar timbres were nearly unrecognizable abstractions of real instruments. It also featured a “fantasy” voice, and a programmable synthesizer which provided for choice of both oscillator waveform and ADSR envelope. It had a range of two and a half octaves. (Wikipedia)
