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So I love my instruments 61 key's up to 88, But an upgrade is due for the 88 key's Lots of sounds and gentle for play 88 key's would suffice enough but it still have to be inspiring to go to, My playing style has changed considerably so are my fingers XD. I've peen pondering and look for a second 88 key's I can switch to but it has to be ordinary like my current 88 key's something I can play with creating an atmosphere.

Piqued my interest with an 88 keybed (newer), But than on a MZX-500 full hexlayer per zone with PX5S full dsp capacity for each of them. Wear and tear on buttons happens with my PX5S as well I've used it extensively. I didn't know about the control to cut portamento off while playing.

I had some issue with recording session the audio from ipad wasn't coming out the speakers during a time. When I disconnect the cable from the ipad it sounded fine through its own speaker but couldn't hear it anymore from the keyboard speakers when I reconnected. Didn't bother about it till now. This sunday gonna use the go:mixer instead but before that I'll try see what the cause was. I'll post something till then.

Thanks man , I thought I missed that with bluetooth can do my weekend jam recordings now 😎👍

Connected the keyboard with ipad but I want the audio from ipad to come out of the ct-s1 speakers from bluetooh I'm using garageband , cubasis. Or must I use a cabel to plug the ipad into the CT-S1 kinda forgot the solution to this.

Yipper it was a long time ago hihihi I almost forgot Yep a long time ago. Now where I put my pipe and Tabaco.

I was lot later in the game "ZPI" and "HPSS" , I do like AIR but I'm not sure if its AIR or the synth engine with it.

Two day's to go. Its not my birthday but it feels like it XD.

Programmable arpeggiator have details been leaked about the specs ?, I doubt it if the casiotones are fit for deep midi programming or setting. Being on the subject of midi I wonder which keyboard of the newer ones will have midi 2.0 specification . I've found there also a Casio G-SHOCK designated MTG-S1000V-1A , A watch to match although its from 2015🤷‍♂️

You guys 🙄 Have interesting views 😌 Fact of the matter remains the only Casio keyboard that remains firm through time , without lots of criticism in return which baffles me more then anything is the WK 7600. Anything after it is like a young whippersnapper prone to social attention while hardly standing on their own key's. Its an culture thing here which mentions once on a crazy moon. What do you gonna do. Its musing its part of the belonging kind. 🤭

With what the CT-S1 delivers I'm not worried at all , I shouldn't even say " worried " at all in the sentence, Only for the chip shortage extended waiting time to get going.

It is possible to make a stereo sound mono , Distortion effect is one of the DSP that keeps the sound centered, The only thing to do is reduce the effect so much that it doesn't kick in. I know cause by George I tried so much to figure out why it couldn't output in stereo. I think it differs between hexlayer and tone sounds.

Aside sound engine improvements, I'm thinking of something that is clearly unexpected or is. An arranger-synth , Performance / arranger , Performance , Vocal string keyboard, Vocal sampler keyboard. new definition keyboard class. Surely an expanded AiX with new features like vocal processing and enhanced sampling capabilities to go with that, A keyboard with new presets and enhanced performance capabilities that maybe be reminiscent to Casio vocal sampling of the past but not necessarily. I sum it up like expanded AiX processor with new preset sounds for CTX(if it is one) and vocal string sound processing and maybe sound preset related for vocal sound processing. Anyway this can only be a powerful AiX sound processor. I can only imagine how many sounds can add up to play a rich performance but someone mention it to be an arranger type and that says a lot but we will see.

Chas , Jokeyman123 like totally right the experienced of well known music pieces played as they should be, or self compositions played on an instrument The thing that makes me happy as well when people listen to demo's I've made they don't ask what instrument its made with, More like "did you make that music", I go yeah yes you like. If they really interested I tell them how and with what made that magic happen 😄

I was pondering something for a few weeks now , So clearly some people retain an image that not true anymore. Few weeks ago I went to one of musical instrument shops I love to go to and play some. While playing with on a few brands I got into a conversation with a young shop assistant how this and that brand sound like, be great on stage and a go to keyboard to work with. Than the shop assistant ask if I'm an artist, I said no but that I give a little performance once a while at company parties, bbq , Family and other venue's. I said either I do some sound design mostly or practice playing and the practice part was an item we talk bout good sounds for performance and musical taste , I then said I'm using Casio and the shop assistant replied Casio no they don't have good sounds. Was a bit surprised hearing that , so you don't know the latest or even the CT-S1 (I didn't bought mine at this shop which is huge shop to go at) No that person said, I said really cause you would amazed, Casio changed their ante sure assistant thought about the older version good for 8 to 88 hobby beginners. Shop assistant looked at me "like serious no its you're thing" , Looking around didn't see any CT nor CTK they did have once. I plugged them right there to try it me saying that in a Moss voice from "the IT crowd" nerdy :)) . I understood it was my enthusiasm talking but we where on "the good sound topic " for practice and idea's. Stopped the conversation cause well some don't know. People still think toy keyboards its like this old view hits them with that believe , Maybe there no exposure off course people can look it up on internet but it has to be word of mouth to know or bump upon to. This is this but what if , I mean there less musical exposure nowadays I use to see in electronic shops, books stores and what not keyboard from 15 to 400 euro setup people toggling on keyboards. You don't have that anymore maybe its obsolete with online shops and youtube but that not the same like tactile response. I'm kind of old fashioned with that. Time changed but if they don't know now they know.

That would do it , There where specific phrases that didn't need to be part of a stage still was because of how I wanted it, Which was not necessarily again cause I wanted it for anyone to create their own melody how they wanted it with any other sound. And I wanted to leave room for new composition just with the sounds in the stage. I'm going for the packages solutions I've got lots of renaming to do for the drum , bass and melody patterns / arpeggio, this solution can work out excellent. Thank you.

Le Femme Beaucoup Du Vent , 😂 Good to hear it didn't disappoint by much, Enjoy.

I say, Its odd replacing Midi in to function as a power input, That means disconnecting it from the main print (as Midi itself is a print attached to the mainboard) and reconnecting the wire with the main input of original dc from another board , But this also means someone has put a din connection on the adapter removing the original one. That kinda cheap and messy cause now its missing din midi In/Out. The original adapter input on the keyboard has to be totally rekt. That a wrong substitute for power adapter. If anything else happens to the keyboard you'll have to explain that modification, Chances are they won't fix it further as it is in a poor state. I fully agree with @Jokeyman123 In addition I won't recommend anyone doing repairs themselves on the unit unless you really really know what you're doing, cause there are really sensitive parts inside of it. And once these are broken there be a hard time to replace those parts. Something of this keyboard made me gasp in awe and freaked me out. But if you're adventures and want one go for it, Just leave it as it is , if it isn't broken don't fix it.

Not at all missing the objective 🙂 That is all indeed possible both ways but to do so require lots of handling as the song sequencer really not a part of stage but will play useful if triggered by control option as sort of backing. Song sequencer purely for playing and groove on top of a stage sounds. song mode , stage mode , wav player they're all their own entity bonded by Midi CC controller. But I expect to much while this is a stage piano not a performance synth like the XW *sigh* discovering cool things on this its like the saying go's limitation breaths creativity maybe I'm rambling . Managing track channels specific to not interfere with zone channels hex/tone usage of a stage also can be done luckily. If it were not that Hexlayer sounds have their own tones to play with , There for If two hexlayers make up a big sound like a specific bass or piano zone one and two are taken for, either use one hexlayer in song mode and reserve one for stage , use two hexlayer for song mode and none for stage and vice versa. Concession if I say this correctly to be made. Either way hexlayer stay fixed at channel/zone 1 and 2. You'll only notice when hexlayers playing big role in sound designing your music, I'm burning to know how PX560 users manage with four hexlayers(and one dsp).

I have projects that I've ranted a while back about , Can't do though at the moment or coming weeks. Its an interesting project but I got to finish the other ones I have little or no time, I was pondering about it some more the solo-synth is basically a monophonic hexlayer it could do it as well but with legato.

It might not needed be hammer-on samples per se if you got synthesis. For special purpose instrument it would be nice to have but that is workstation range keyboard. And I'll bet even the popular sold WK-7600 doesn't have that. PX-5S and PX-560 every sample is a wave sound and has certain properties that can be used, if there are no samples fitting to an instruments musical behavior one can approximate those with wave sound within both instruments. That is what synthesis is for its not only for manipulating synth sounds like pulse , sine and other sampled instrument to just layer on top of each other like wow. It would be a waste of an instrument to not look at it as such one can purpose it in anyway u want . One of the reason for me to look and ask for expanded capabilities like better more filter , dsp - chains, eg, step-lfo , holds etc because the tech has great sounds, fine synthesis to open up ones creativity creating emulating the missing parts for an performance. Thrills and triple strikes thus fast play is the magic which i keep in mind cause I'm no guitar player and I once saw how a piano player played two note interval to get an modulation. If possible playing two notes like that an hammer on is also possible , On a synth you can cheat with Key -off , velocity , filter envelope and . Two notes three tones, The first tone the note pressure mustn't die the transient attack has to stay so you don't want the amp envelope changed, however the second tone has to get plucked quickly and balanced in the transient when you hit that note it shouldn't bounce it need to get locked in harmonious. There what the second tone is for this one plucked should fall in balanced with the transient attack of the first tone level so it has to be filter response for this one where it has to lock into the first tone , the filter has to be set on the same length as the transient attack of the first tone, but there a problem surfacing cause you don't get that hammer-on effect because it will sounds to harmonious like a dyad, So you want to mask this long enough to hide overlap of two separate tone. that where the third tone is for. This Third is the key-off this tone is when the first tone is struck and softly plucked by the second tone filter response only the second tone when played figural speaking struck the second note by velocity response while transient attack still continue cause the first note has to continue until the moment the key is released . this triggers a key-off by the third tone which is programmed short on the amp level but with high filter envelope response as an off tone Meaning this third is a short -off version of the first tone but with filter envelope response to match the second tone filter envelope. The velocity level has to be as such, hammer on is playing fast without plucking a snare full on a second time like the first one has been done. the first Tone pluck has to be played at full range with out losing its transient attack, The second tone has to be locked in without getting bend it has to stay balanced with the first pluck that when filter response comes in at the point it can lock into the first tone transient. The third tone is when this second tone get released it twangs a little at the same level of the second tone filter response level like it left after the second note thus both exposed as a nice harmonic twang end. Both second and third tone should play at the same velocity level to pull that off. So I guess the first tone has to be a lower velocity level and second and third note at highest velocity. This is when the modulation comes at play with two notes just like how I saw it done. :). I've used some principle methods that are much related as and from layering with hexlayers. I agree totally that the implantation on the PX560 and PX5S are far better. Tone edit on the XW is limited actually its all put in solo synth, XW tone not a true ADSR compared with the PX.

No hexlayers and zones are the trick , Most notes can be programmed in a way that with velocity that single note slides where it needs to go. including hammer-ons. I think the mistake people make with zones is for different instrument usage while in reality one can program one single instrument using all zones complete with velocity dsp and eq. This is certainly true for PX5S and PX560. The XW maybe the P1 hexlayer but not the zones without cause of the limit tones have. Dave Weisner made cool bass sounds.

This going to be some challenging hex layered programming The bass play I'm lusting to do is Mark Ronson uptown funk. I'm kinda stoke how to make that one note slide while the rest being played.

That not fraud a keyboard that was rented or returned for another keyboard, Having a few usage signs on it (not necessarily) is called ( B-Stock).

Not much just a small short circuit its easily solved the only thing needed some good eyes and steady hands to fix it cause stuff on the XW are small real small.