With over 70 million sold products, Casio realized such a big success that even Toshio Kashio never imagined.
I would like to use it as an input keybaord for GarageBand but the only drivers that come with it are for Windows OS. Today, the brand is represented all over the world. I have a similar problem with the Casio CTK-710 that I purchased yesterday.
From Keyboards for beginners via affordable digital pianos to synthesizers and other professional instruments, Casio offers high-quality music instruments at low price.
There are 100 versatile rhythms to help add plenty of life to all your keyboard performances and a Auto Accompaniment that will allow you to simply play a chord and the corresponding rhythm, bass and chord parts play automatically. So the dream of Toshio Kashio became reality and stay until today in the credo of this company. The CTK-710, 61 Key Musical Keyboard, allows you to select up to 242 tones that include orchestral sounds, synthesized sound and more. The syntheziser 16 bits FZ-1 introduced finally the start of a new era by making the music market accessible also for beginners by preventing that they have to pay the price of a new car. Stephan Remmler, member of the german group TRIO, showed by using the mini-keyboard VL-1 which was presented one year later for his worldwide known hit "Da Da Da" that quality is not always accompanied by an expensive price and imposing size. In view of the 49 different notes produced by this machine they don't have to wait long for success.
In 1980, Casio introduced new norms for the future with the first portable keyboard of the world, the CASIOTONE 201. ii 759 CASIO PUT A LITTLE MUSIC IN YOUR LIFE MT-40 MINI KEYBOARD I 37-key. Casio CTK-496 Electronic Keyboard 100 Song Bank Keyboard With AC Adapter 37'. Their aim: to base on new ideas like smaller equipments and an innovative technology to be able to offer a great price-performance ratio which allows also to musicians with a lower budget to participate in this creative pleasure caused by music and even at home! headphone w/mute Panasonic PY-I710 Cable Ready, 2-4-6 Hour VHS, Still 8. As a result Toshio thought that the know-how of technical development is advanced enough to set his initial project to motion, to realize his dream.Īt the beginning of 1978 the brothers tackle to revolutionize the market for electronic music instruments under the laedership of Toshio Kashio. Since the middle of the 70s, Casio succeed to manage a coup at the watch market with the presentation of the CASIOTRON. The successful start in 1957 with the first electronic calculator was followed by the first ink-jet printer and the first pocket calculator at the beginning of the 70s. But the passionate amateur musician Toshio wanted to realize a project: it was alway his dream to develop electronic music instruments which also should be available for amateur musicians in this field. Their common aim were to develop and to produce electronical and digital technology, what they succeed.
So we find ourselfs in 1946, just one year after the end of the second world war.
What sounds like the beginning of a fairytaile were in reality a high-risk enterprise founded by the brothers Kazua, Tadao, Toshio and Yukio Kashio. Once upon a time, there were four brothers with talent, ideas, courage and pioneering spirit.