Casio (name)
(カシオ 計算機株式会社, CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.) is a Japanese company primarily engaged in the manufacture of consumer electronics products, founded in 1957.
Casio's product line covers calculators, electronic dictionaries, PDAs, watches, digital cameras, printers, electronic musical instruments, and other electronic products.
History of the Casio line of electronic musical instruments
卡西欧于1979年开始从事电子琴的开发、生产工作1)，并在1980年发布了VL系列第一台合成器CASIO VL-1 (also known as VL-TONE) and the electronic keyboard casiotone201 .
Since then CASIO has gradually developed its production of electronic musical instruments, releasing a series of sampled electronic keyboards, synthesisers, and arranger keyboards for the home and professional sectors in the 80s and 90s, and in 1999 released its highest-end arranger keyboard to date CASIO MZ-2000 2), but since then Casio has not released a similarly high-end product, focusing instead primarily on home and teaching-type musical instruments.
Casio electronic keyboard product line
Casio electronic keyboards are mainly composed of the following product lines:
CT（CasioTone）系列: C asio T one series, full-size keyboard electronic keyboards for home entertainment and teaching, early use of the Casiotone prefix, later abbreviated to CT, which was released in the 1980s and early 1990s, and was replaced by the CTK series (a few Chinese-market-specialised models in the 1990s still used the CT prefix), until the release of the 2018 CT-X and 2019 CT-S series, which saw the Casiotone (CT) series made a comeback.
MT迷你键电子琴: A mini keyboard electronic keyboard geared towards home entertainment, the main products are contemporaneous with the CT series, with certain models having corresponding full-size CT series versions.
pt: Miniature keyboard electronic keyboards for children's use, toy-oriented, most models with square-wave sound source, with melody guide lamps, and support for ROM cassette systems, discontinued in the late 1980s.
a系列_ca_ma_sa: A line of amateur-type electronic keyboards that appeared in the late 1980s, known domestically as the “100 voices electronic keyboards”. According to the size and function of the keyboard, it is divided into three sub-series: CA standard keys, MA mini keys, and SA mini keys or micro keys. The CA series was later merged into the CTK series for low-end products, and the SA series is still available today.
CTK系列键盘The SA series is still available today: C asio T one K eyboard series, a name prefix from the mid-1990s to about 2018, with products primarily for home, instructional, and quasi-professional use. It has been discontinued and replaced by the CT-X and CT-S series.
WK宽键盘电子琴Series: W ide K eyboard, a series of wide-keyboard (76-key) electronic keyboards for home, teaching, and quasi-professional use.
LK发光键电子琴: L ight K eyboard, used for home use and teaching, with an illuminated keyboard. Early Light Keyboard products were part of the CTK series, and used the “L” ending in the model number to differentiate them.
New CT series ( CT-X系列键盘 , CT-S系列键盘 ): 2018 Casio product line adjustment, comeback Casiotone series, restore the CT prefix, take over the original CTK series positioning.
MZ系列编曲键盘: High-end arranger keyboard products for the professional and quasi-professional market.
XW系列合成器: Products geared towards electronic music, including synthesisers, samplers and DJ beatboxes.
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