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Hello, and welcome to another episode of 8-Bit Keys.

Today I have a very special guest in my studio, this is Anders Jensen.

Most of you have heard his music before because I use it quite a bit in the background of

both of my channels and I've even shown in the past this vinyl record he sent me and

I've been selling his cassette album on my website for quite a while.

I actually do the United States distribution for him because he's from Norway and so

it's pretty expensive to ship these things overseas so I just handle the distribution

for the United States.

A lot of people have been asking when they're going to get more Retro Grooves tapes in because

they've been out of stock for a while and I don't know when you're going to get

me more of those but I did just get his new album and I'm going to be selling those

here very shortly, so if you want to pick one of those up.

OK, since I'm here on vacation I figured I could sign the first five copies for David.

So, the first five of you who orders gets one of these.

And, this is Christina, who actually does the vocals on our songs and with this cassette

you also get a Digital download.

It comes with a card inside with a code.

So, it will come with the cassette comes.

In the meantime, back to regular business.

I want to show you this donation I received from Alex King.

This is a vintage Casio MT-68.

This is from 1983.

The MT-68 is a fairly basic looking keyboard with 12 built in rhythms, and 20 built-in

instruments.

And these instruments are very simple tones, however it does have several effects to help

you change the sound of those 20 instruments, giving a lot more variation.

On the rear it has a tuning knob, headphone jack, line-level output jack, and a power

port.

Also the headphone jack is not the usual kind, but rather the quarter-inch kind that you

would usually see on a professional product.

Just a quick overview of some of the important facts.

It was released in 1983, has 49 mini-keys, and 8-voice polyphony.

In fact, keeping in mind that it was made in 1983, I would place this keyboard right

about here on my toy meter.

Yeah, pretty much right smack in the middle.

I thought it would be interesting to hand this to Anders and see what a real musician

can come up with using something like this.

So, I'm going to let him play around with that for a bit and see what he can come up

with.

You see, those keys are a little bit small for me.

That's quite a difference from doing what I'm used to playing on.

That's a horn.

And we have the accordion.

People might know this.

Remember that, from King's Quest 5?

Yeah, so I love it when these old keyboards have a sustain mode because that's something

you don't get on a lot of the toy keyboards.

And it makes such a dramatic difference.

So yeah, so this is what the electric piano sounds like without the sustain.

And then you put it on and.

It gets quite muddy.

It's almost like an entirely different sound, just having the sustain.

And it's something that I think really ads a lot of depth to a keyboard when you have

that feature.

Obviously, a professional keyboard would have a pedal that you would use, but having a switch

on there is the next best thing to not having any sustain option at all.

Well, you think you can make some music on this?

I gotta say, challenge accepted?

Can't do anything else with it.

All right, well, I'm going to leave you to it for a while and see what you can come

up with.

All right, thank you!

So, I let Anders go to work on this for a few hours.

It was really interesting to see how he works.

In many ways it was similar to my methods, but in other ways it was very different.

I'll show you shortly what he came up with.

In the meantime, I wanted to show you the inside of this thing because I feel any proper

review should have that.

So here's the first thing you'll see inside, there appears to be at least 4 distinct circuit

boards in here and everything has the look of 1983 except for this one surface mount

chip and I think this may be the synthesizer chip, either that or the CPU.

The other side of this board has a lot of early 80s goodies here too, lots of analog

parts and I'll admit I don't know what most of this does.

This large DIP chip is probably the CPU.

I also find it interesting how many little trim pots this thing has on it.

I am really curious as to what types of adjustments these would make if I started changing them.

I also find the speaker design interesting.

You can see it lives inside of its own little plastic housing once the panels are re-assembled.

So that probably improves the sound some.

OK, so I found the guitar sound sounds pretty good.

So this is the part I came up with.

And then this one kind of repeats over and over again.

And then we needed some bass.

And the funny thing is, I said this keyboard doesn't really have any real bass sound.

Actually nothing.

But, the closest thing I found was the piano part.

Which then sounds like this.

But theres no real bass in it, right?

So what I did, I actually found a doubler, a pitch shifter I can shift it one octave

down.

So that makes it a little bit better.

So that sounds a little bit like this.

And we needed of course we needed some chords, which I found, theres no strings on this one.

There's a violin, but its too tinny.

It sounds like this and it didn't feel right to me, so I found this one, the cosmic tone.

And what I did, I did like this.

And what I did then, I actually layered it left and right and played it double.

That way you get kind of like this chorus effect because you're not playing entirely

the same notes.

So you get a little bit of natural texture.

So that sounds kind of quite nice.

And then we have the melody, which I think is the celesta.

OK, so what I did.

The celesta, I recorded dry but I put some extra reverb and delay.

So, from the keyboard it sounds like this, which is a little bit boring, right?

So if you add the effect, we get something like this, which kind of gives it more depth

and more texture.

OK, and for the guitar, I actually slapped on, this is, in the software I'm using I

have this kind of like room simulator.

So, instead of just using a normal reverb I actually used a simulating live simulator

does the guitar amp.

And it looks something like this.

Hang on.

This is the dry one.

And with the room.

And then I basically put everything together I guess and then of course the drums on this

keyboard isn't as punchy as male you and I like it so I actually did put on some extra

80s drums.

OK, so I just spent the last hour or so videoing Anders playing all of the different tracks

to this song and so now I'm going to let you hear it!

All right, so I

hope you liked that.

Now, as cool as that was, one of the things I like to do on this channel is to play music

that is multi-track but using only sounds that come fro the keyboard.

And you know, Anders just could not help himself, he just had to enhance some of the sounds

because, you know, that's just the way he's accustomed to working.

But, I asked him if could disable all of the different effects that he's added in and

just give me a version that's just pure Casio MT-68 with no enhancements.

And so, yeah, he did that for me and so I'm going to play it again and let you hear what

it sounds like pretty much raw from the keyboard.

All right!

So, I was totally impressed with the song that he came up with.

I hope you guys liked it too.

I did want to mention that when I first gave him this keyboard, he came up with a song

and he played it for me and it was amazing.

And, I kept listening to it and I was like, "that sounds like there's more than just

this Casio in there."

And it turns out he had added some other instruments.

Some extra bass and drums and whatnot and so I told him that it sounded great, but that's

not really in the spirit of how I do things on 8-Bit Keys.

I like to have just the keyboard.

And, he still managed to sneak some drums in on the video that we showed you earlier.

But, I still want you to hear that song, though.

So I'm going to put a link down in the description field to his Soundcloud channel and there's

another Casio MT-68 song there, so there's going to be two of them: The one you just

heard and the first one he made.

And you need to go listen to that one too because it's actually pretty amazing.

Other than that, what did you think of the MT-68?

Yeah, actually, the keyboard surprised me.

It was actually more fun than I thought it was going to be.

And it had a lot more potential than I actually thought, so yeah, I think it turned out quite

well.

That's actually something I always find when I play with these old keyboards.

It's a real challenge at first but then the more you play with them the more you find

little hidden treasures of sounds you can use in ways you didn't think of at first.

And you certainly managed to do that with this one.

Way better than I could have probably ever done.

So, anyway, All right, well I guess that about wraps it up for this episode.

So, check down in the description field and stick around until next time.

For more infomation >> Casio MT-68 keyboard review with Anders Jensen - Duration: 13:57.

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Nuevos planes y noticias! - Duration: 4:07.

Hello guys welcome to my youtube channel welcome to a new video.

Soooo....

I would like to tell you what I had been doing during this months

I was out

I was in Milano, I was working...

I was doing some TV commercials

for Ritter Chocolate

for Pasta Reggia

I was doing a catalog for the nex season of summer

for the bikini brand Solo Sole

I was doing the catalog of the underwear brand Roso Porpora from Italy

I was doing different shootings

During all this time I was like....

documents and more documents...

because I´m in an agency from Miami and I have to go there to work.

So I had to ask for a visa.

Make the visa and go inside USA it is so difficult.

It is so controled.

It is so complicated because they make a lot of questions, they give you a form...

You have to gather all the documents of the jobs that you did in all your life.

so.. thanks that I have everything save in my laptop

amm... not inside the laptop... outside...

I have it!

I had to colect all the information, they had to compare the information...

because they also check the information sent.

They also make you more questions like:

-Why you want to come to USA?

-Where will you be in USA?

-You are thinking in stay there? Or you will return to your country?

It is a bit long process.

But finally I have my visa in my passport

And now I can go to work in the USA

I´m going to MIAMI!

For me it is a big new and a big oportunity

it is an adventure and an amazing experience.

I will also continue studying my career.

All what I did was what I explained, I had been travelling...

how you can hear I have irritated throat because...

I´m allways saying that

I don´t understand... why?

Why in the airports, planes, trains, train stations...

any public place...

the air conditioner is so high??

WHY?

Why you do it?

It is not necesary put it so high!!

From 30th of Juny that I returned to Spain I´m with my throat irritated

And from this day untill now I´m like this. I have not finished recovering.

Finally I´m here in Spain, my idea is not to go to any place for hollidays

because I´m tired to make and make bags

and I just want to stay at home, enjoy, go to the beach, sleep in my bed, go to my gym, eat my food...

And I don´t want to hear anything to travell this summer.

All what I explained is what I did during this time, this is the reason why I couldn´t stay in Youtube making videos

Next stop MIAMI!

I will do video about everything, airport, apartment, the beaches of Miami

to see if it is how the people say it is, how it is in the movies or not.

I hope you have hear about what I did and what I will do next.

See you in the next video!!

For more infomation >> Nuevos planes y noticias! - Duration: 4:07.

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Putting People First: Paid Leave and Nestlé's Parent Support Policy - Duration: 4:56.

Whether you've given birth, whether you've adopted, Nestlé is there for that occasion.

Our employees' health and wellness is at the core of everything we do.

If you are a primary caregiver, with Nestlé, you can get 14 weeks of paid leave and then an

additional 12 weeks of unpaid leave.

They see it as a way of doing business, a way to make them more competitive as an employer,

and just the right thing to do if we're going to be a company that focuses on the first

1,000 days of life for a child.

It was just a wonderful experience.

I didn't realize what I missed the first time around until I got the chance to focus on

my family.

I think it's important that we as a company provide those opportunities for people to

have the balance of being at home during this very important stage of a baby's life, coming

back to work without the weighing of 'what's my job going to be?'

If we can provide that partnership, we're doing something right.

I am the Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs.

Nestle is a great company, I love working there.

Great products, great values, and they treat their employees very well.

When I got pregnant with Audra, who is our third child, my boss personally sat down with

me and said 'you know, think about it, please take advantage of it, because you don't get

that time back.'

I took the fourteen paid weeks, and I came back to work shortly after that.

She really did not want me looking at email, and when I did happen to look at something or

reply to something, she would say 'why are you on email?!'

With a prior employer, I had a much shorter maternity leave.

I worked in a really demanding, high-intensity work environment that relied on us to be available

almost 24 hours a day.

And this time, I really had the time to focus on my children, my newborn daughter, my family,

my husband- really spend time enjoying the fact that we had a little girl.

I noticed things that I never really took the time to notice with the boys.

That's time that I will cherish forever.

Medford is the proud home of Tombstone Pizza.

I'm a Quality Assurance Supervisor and a Factory Hygienist.

I make sure the plant is clean, and I make sure our food safety systems are in place.

You get about a million, a million and a half, sometimes up to two million pizzas a week.

It goes all over the United States.

When I was looking at companies and where I could go, I was looking for a company I

could retire with, that had good benefits, that would take care of me and my family,

but also that understood a balance between work and life.

I don't live to work.

I work to live.

My priority is my family.

Before I was at Nestlé, I got two and a half weeks off work when Alex was born.

It was very short, it was rushed.

I was only at the factory for nine or ten months when my son was born.

I still had a lot to learn, and I was still trying to dig into Nestlé.

They were going to give me 14 weeks off from my job with full pay.

I didn't feel that I needed that much time, so I took six weeks that I got to spend with

my family and not have to worry about my work.

Usually when you start a job, you always love it, and then you hate it, and then you learn

to like it.

I've loved it since day 1 and I haven't stopped.

I work for Nestle Purina PetCare Company in their HR Operations department.

We have two dog parks because we can bring our pets to campus, which is a little bit

unusual in the middle of downtown St. Louis.

My husband and I were going through the IVF process and that's when we found out about

the Parent Support Policy.

I was extremely excited, and I knew right away that I was going to take the full six

months with Kayla.

I was able to take the time that I needed to figure things out.

Especially now that I have a three-and-a-half-year old and an eight-month old, I appreciate how

beneficial this program was for our family.

We've got three mother lounges on campus - they give me enough time to take the breaks I need

to go pump, and I think that's really important.

It was amazing.

We are founded on nutrition values, and we're founded on making a difference in people's

lives.

We're a global organization- there's a lot of different policies, cultures, and regulations

in other countries.

I think U.S. people work work work.

We don't take a lot of time off, even for vacation.

We're trying to lead the organizations in the U.S. to change that mindset- that families

are important, that companies have a responsibility to make a difference in the U.S.

We have to do our part, and it starts with the top.

It starts with our CEO, it starts with our leaders in the organization, and I think it

will be a way of working in the future.