Product: Casio DM-100
Price Paid: 50 (Euro) used
Submitted
02/21/2004
at
08:12am
by
AdDM
Ease of Use
:
10
Unless you are seriously mentally challenged this keyboard needs no explanation.
This keyboard was one of the first musical instruments casio built (together with the sk-series) The DM-100 is sort of an SK-5 put on top of a casio with a 210-soundbank. Extremely rare, and very very kewl.
Features
:
5
double keyboard:
Upper Level Features
32 mini keys
4-note polyphonic
8 preset tones
4 sampling tones
Lower Level Features
49 mini keys
10-note polyphonic
20 preset tones
210 sound tone bank
Other Features
20 Auto-rhythms
Stereo built-in speakers
auto power off function (very annoying, always on)
line out L/R
line in/sampling input
separate tuning knobs for both keyboards
special sampling effects (reverse, loop, 6 envelopes)
separate volume controls for upper, lower, and accompaniment
All in all pretty limited but hey, its a casio
Expressiveness/Sounds
:
10
If you're looking for lo-fi casio-sounds without a whole load of free noise, this keyboard rocks! the 8-bit sampler sound really kewl, the rest of the sounds excell in dorkiness and cheeziness.
Just plug it in start playing around and have fun. This is the bestsounding casio-crap-keyboard i played so far.
Reliability
:
8
Well it was made in 1982 i think, it still works fine. Wouldnt gig with it well mainly because it'd be too dorky, and since these babies are very rare, i try to look after it.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
n/a
Overall Rating
:
10
If it were stolen i'd cry a bit, then get my shotgun and hunt the thief down. Somehow this keyboard is just kewl! Even amidst my yamaha cs10 cs30 solina strings ob12 crumar ds2 and polysix it still looks kewl. Just fiddling a bit with it, shouting into the samplermike, or sampling the sounds of the lower keyboard (the samplermike picks up anything:P). If it werent so rare i'd circuitbend the hell out of it, o well maybe someday ill find another one. If your looking for a serious instrument dont look for casios, but if you want a piece of keyboard/sampler-history in your studio the DM-100 is the bomb :P
