Just because you can play an instrument doesn’t necessarily mean you have a great singing voice. For vocally-challenged musicians, Casio’s latest digital keyboard features a built-in vocal synthesizer ...

Casio Casiotone LK-S250 review: What is it? Casio’s iconic Casiotone brand of portable electronic keyboards first brought affordable home keyboards to the market in the early 1980s but disappeared ...

There are a number of ways that musicians can get their instruments to sing. Sampled vocals can be loaded into a synth, you can use a vocoder, or you can stick a tube in your mouth and run it to an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music and the business of music. For so many artists, music in 2024 is a hybrid of the organic and technology. As ...

Casio hasn’t been a serious player in the world of synthesizers for some time. Gone are the days of the beloved CZ series, while the current lineup lacks the lo-fi charm of classic keyboards like the ...

It’s made from materials like volcanic ash and crystal, as if it had been discovered in an ancient tomb and smashed from its protective fossil shell like a geode. But, of course, the carbon dating won ...

Compact and well built. Great built-in sounds. Vocal synthesis is more than a gimmick. Built-in speakers make it easy to play anywhere. MIDI support makes playing with a computer easy. More expensive ...

Casio is capturing a bit of Daft Punk magic with the new Casiotone CT-S1000V, which comes with the ability to “sing” using a built-in, customizable, voice synthesizer. The CT-S1000V, when used in ...

fragment design and Casio have joined forces for a special take on the Casiotone CT-S1 electronic keyboard. A hallmark of Casio’s electronic music offerings in the ’80s, the CT-S1 has been given a ...

Casio made a name for itself providing lots of bang-for-your-buck with its musical instruments, as evidenced by my review of the excellent $200 CT-S1 last year. Now the company is launching the ...

On Julia Jacklin’s excellently strange new album Pre Pleasure there’s a song called “Too In Love to Die.” It’s very much literal. The besotted narrator ticks off a couple of fatal calamities—a plane ...

What do you do with a circa 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator with a bad keyboard? Well, if you are [Poking Technology], you transplant the inside of the calculator to a new custom keyboard. There are two ...