Casio PT-80
Technical

The PT-80 turned out to be perfect for someone with synth-diy background to modify; The drummachine consist of analog hihats and snare, bassdrum and congas are squarewave outputs that have a pre-set amplitude decay routed trough a analog filter (?). Ouput for chords and melody consist of two audio outputs, VCAs and CV outputs to control a pair of VCAs. Each sound except melody is routed via a resistor to one accompany mixing section which in turn is controlled by the panel "Accomp. Volume" slider. The melody is mixed with the rest after this section and the whole mix is routed through the "Main Volume" slider.

The top circuitboard seems to consist of decoders for the various keys, leds, keyboard and ROM-pack interface. The lower circuitboard contains the analog parts and the powersupply.

The cable inbetween the two circuitboards is pictured below.



My measurements yields the following (from left to right):

PinDataDescription
1+5.7VRaw battery power?
210mV?
30.8mVGND?
45.0VRegulated power?
55.0VVoltage output routed via ON/OFF button
6?Digital noise output?
71.6mV?
8Snaredrum0.3mS trigger
9Hihat, cymbalCHH trig 0.3mS, OHH trig 291mS HIGH -> equal length LOW?
10??
11??
12Bassdrum, congaSquare wave with amplitude modulation
13Chord VCA CVDigital VCA CV envelope out for chords
14Chord audioChord audio squarewave output (amplitude controlled by VCA)
15??
16??
17Melody VCA CVDigital VCA CV envelope out for melody
18Melody audioMelody audio squarewave output (amplitude controlled by VCA):
Flute - equal duty cycle
Piano - HIGH signal being 1/3 of LOW, stops ~0.5 seconds after VCA fadeout
Clarinet - PWM modulated
Harpschicord - ? (don't remember, must look up again)
Trumpet - HIGH signal being 1/10 of LOW
Organ - Weird PWM modulation
Celesta - Equal duty cycle, stops ~0.5 seconds after VCA fadeout
Violin - LOW signal being 1/8 of HIGH

On the analog board, each resistor to the mixing section(s) can be identified by the following markings:

LabelDescription
SDSnaredrum "punch" filter output
SDNSnaredrum noise filter output
CLCongas filter output?
BDBassdrum filter output
CYNCymbal/Open Hihat filter output
HHClosed hihat filter output
CHRChord VCA output
MELOMelody VCA output

My reverse-engineering of the main circuitboard yields this *very preliminary* schematic.