A Digital Freakshow of a Guitar | The World's Weirdest Guitars #5

"I spent 300 dollars on this and now I sound like a Nintendo Wii menu" hey why did you say this like it's a bad thing?

If you're wondering why this thing exits, you're severely underestimating how much cocaine was done in the 80s.

Ichika Nito recently played a song with this thing and it’s actually amazing

As a certified synth nut I was writhing with frustration at how you never mentioned the midi capability of this awesome piece of kit. Use the midi out to control any midi controllable sound engine. You know that Roland SH-01a you featured in that one video? Yeah you can use it on that.

Looks like a SEGA console Sounds like a SEGA console ...It's a SEGA console

This could be genuinely useful when writing a retro game soundtrack

"It's not really practical..." proceeds to put out a BANGER of a jam

Imagine this, but made today with more modern technology, it could be so damn cool.

"I've got the acoustic guitar setting selected..." - Proceeds to generate the most digital sound I have ever heard in my life.

This thing kills blues purists on sight

I've had one of these for 30+ years. It is an interesting device and quite useful for recording backing tracks etc. Considering the era in which it was made, it's fairly miraculous.

6:58 how you used to feel after you watched tron and rode your bike down the street

"What would happen if a cheap keyboard had a child with a guitar?" A... keytar? Those exist.

Incredible, I never seen anything like that in my life, a guy with his own face in his t-shirt

Personally, I think this is great. It's a shame that it has been abandoned rather than being updated to improve the sound wave-forms, deal with the over-sensitive fingerboard and overly basic MIDI interface & so on. Because of the nature of the instrument, it could have been expanded to provide harmonics such that the instrument could duplicate a sitar; increase sustain such that it replicated instruments like a Rickenbacker 6/12-string guitar. The instrument sounds could have been actual samples rather than purely digital, the strings could have extended the full length allowing the player to "bend" notes and, though with low tension, they could have been metal allowing the use of an actual capo, and even a slide. With the low tension strings relieving the issues of pressing down high tension wires (causing most beginners to quickly give up) and the fingerboard switches ensuring precise notes, the frets could be replaced with fret markers. There are a ton of ideas that could expand this concept: The technology could have been adapted to other instruments like a violin or cello. Perhaps, considering that there are now guitars that digitally modify the sound for actual string, someone will revive this instrument at some point. Some concepts are bad to begin with. But, this is one that should have been modified and improved upon rather than abandoned.

Casio 100% need to bring another one out that allows you to input midi for recording. With the quality of midi instruments and samples today and the amount of people that play the guitar, it seems like a no-brainer.

Wondering if the person who chose to name the mode “mandolin” had ever actually heard a mandolin.

This thing was genuinely made 30 years ahead of its time; it's too bad.

I think a bass version would be really cool getting a sub bass sound with infinite sustain while being able to play live and not have to learn it on a keyboard

"What instrument do you play?" "I play the gaming guitar"