Casio VL-10 TONE
Electronic Musical Instruments

A calculator with a mini-synthesizer inside or a mini-synthesizer with a calculator?

VL-10 is a cult machine derived from classic Casio VL-1.

TOY KEYBOARD the main panel features 29 note buttons, 9 function buttons, 2 tab switches and an internal speaker.

- Terminal connectors:
nothing!

 

Power supply battery: 3V CR-2036.

 

SOUND basically the machine generates 3 monophonic tones "I , II, III" with no possible edit.
They quite sound all the same like a kind of square bleep with different amplitude time and a tremolo effect.

 

DRUM there are 10 rhythm patterns, no edit function but a stepped TEMPO setting:

march	rock1	rock2	bossanova	samba
rhumba	4beats	beguine	waltz	swing

 

SEQUENCER records 1 track with a maximum of 100 events.
Volatile memory -> no data saving!

 

CALCULATOR move the main switch selector to CALC to activate a classic calculator with Memory function.

 

AUDIO DEMO

factory demo

 

VIDEO DEMO main demo Tetris Theme on Casio VL-10 along wih styplophone and yamaha dd5 drums