FREE Sample Pack #2: Casio SA-10 SoundFont, Drum Samples And Loops
Many of my friends had toy synths when they were kids. Yes, and I’ve never had one. Not even a cheap chinese model. Can you imagine how happy I was when I got this little 80’s Casio a few days ago? Well anyway, the same moment I heard it’s cheap and dirty sounds, I new I had to record them and make a new sample pack.
At first my intention was to only record the drum samples, but later i decided to also make a soundfont with my favorite Casio SA-10 instruments. As a bonus, i recorded all the rhythms, the demo song, and the so called “Super Accompaniment” loops, and included all of those in the sample pack too. So what you get here is an experience similar to owning a real Casio SA-10.
While the samples were recorded perfectly from the Casio SA-10, don’t expect any audiophile-quality sounds here. These samples are cheap, dirty, and noisy, and they are meant to be so. You may use them just for fun if you want, but some of them can be very useful in music production, especially in the situations where you might find yourself in need of some lo-fi pianos and such. Instead of adding bitcrushing effects to some high quality samples, you might want to use some of these ready and authentically lo-fi samples. I especially like the electric piano, almost fell in love with it.
No fx has been added to the samples, to keep them as authentic as possible. Even the instrument names in the soundfont have been written with Caps Lock on – they’re written like that on the Casio SA-10.
Keep in mind that the original keyboard has the range of keys from F1 to C4. I used the same layout in the soundfont.
UPDATE: The sample pack has been updated with the new version of the soundfont that has twelve instruments instead of nine, and also some loop points fixed. If you already have the 9 instrument version on your computer, you might want to download the sample pack again. Loop points were fixed in the SYNTH-LEAD instrument. The new instruments that have been added are: POP LEAD, SYNTH-ACCORDION and FLUTE.
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This is the original Casio SA-10 demo song (mp3 quality):
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May 8, 2009 at 09:31
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May 8, 2009 at 16:33
MediaFire keeps giving me an error, so I switched over to your C64 sample pack & it worked just fine… Just thought you should know.
May 8, 2009 at 16:38
fixed that now. there was a short downtime for the file, as i was making an update. thanks for letting me know anyway. enjoy!
May 8, 2009 at 17:16
Thank you for providing these samples! I have a heart for them because I used to have a Concertmate 460 I bought at Radio Shack — it’s the same machine, I reckon, because I recognize nearly all the sounds you provided. :D But what happened to the closed high-hat? Thank you also for taking the time to create a SoundFont with some sounds like the “grand” piano and the metal guitar!
P.S. I sampled that keyboard I used to have but the sound quality isn’t as good… ;)
May 8, 2009 at 19:05
Very nice! Thanks for these.
May 9, 2009 at 07:58
Awesome….thanks!
May 13, 2009 at 14:29
I’m finding that Logic’s EXS24 sampler shows the Soundfont as empty when I open it, though the file itself is 24mb or so in size.
Assuming this isn’t just me being stupid in some way and is a problem intrinsic to Logic/OSX, is there any chance you could post the component sample files as well?
Thanks for the free samples!
May 13, 2009 at 16:10
@junai
thanx for reporting that! check your email.
@everyone
if you have any similar problems with the sf2 or any of the samples, please report and i will try to help out. :]
May 14, 2009 at 08:28
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August 11, 2009 at 18:55
It says that the WinRAR archive is broken. Weird. I can’t extract the files.
I own the synth. in question, it’s a real nostaliga trip to play with. I heard a loop off it the other day on TV. Pretty cool. Also, a successful band named ‘People In Planes’ have a song with the ‘metal guitar’ sound on it. It’s called’Last Man Standing’, check it out.
August 11, 2009 at 19:06
Nevermind. I tried downloading a couple more times, and I got it to work the third time. Pretty illogical if you ask me. Anyway, you can delete my comments now if you wish, as they serve no purpose.
August 11, 2009 at 19:43
nah, comments are always good ;]
glad you got it working!
August 11, 2009 at 22:21
thanks a lot! this is great!
October 25, 2009 at 08:29
Awesome! Thanx for that!