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I got my HT700 for free in the late 90s from a friend who no longer needed it. i was too punk to have a keyboard in any real band i was in at the time, but i had a side project called 'the jay kaos synthpop band' that it fit into nicely. i had the HT700, a CA100, a yamaha PSS480 and a barely working cassette four track... yes, cassette. anyway around 1998 or so i got into the whole pc based thing (which i only lately recovered from)... so basically my HT700 sat around being unused for years while i pointed and clicked my way to musical genius...
now i'm happily into my newest project, 'Kidd Video', in which i use only classic Casio keys. My setup for Kidd Video features the HT700 (with one key missing), a CA100 (run through some distortion) and an MT68 for phat, analogue beats and classic good looks. :)
The HT700 is a great little keyboard/digital synth. It's unbelievably fun to mess around with and (like all Casio) sounds great through an amp. As would be expected, the synth is very easy to program but any live manipulation is almost impossible. You can really coax some cool sounds out of it with a little practice. Unfortunately my HT700 has a memory problem wherein all saved patches are erased after extended off time, so... like every other owner of the HT700, i need a RAM card.
Most of the presets are crap (surprise) but with such easy editing new patches are only minutes away. It has a 2 step drum sequencer that is great fun and definitely has a classic 8bit sound to it, which i love. It also has a 2 step bass (non editable) sequencer, which, unless you really like repetition, is best used with the 'casio chord' function for an arpeggiated bass sound.
It's extremely digital sounding but will find it's niche in your setup, guaranteed... a poor man's DX7.
I love my HT700. <sigh>
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