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There is a stage setting where sliders 1-4 have been set to control the volume of the four zones, one for each zone. http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/file/53-4-zones-4-sliders/

I made one 1,5 years ago (wow is it that long?) It is made from the original order (not the alternate order) of stage settings, and you can both find Excel and PDF versions, links in the comments. http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/4919-a-list-of-stage-settings-and-their-zones/ Edit This is only the stage settings, with information about what is on each zone and whether the zone is on or off, by default. There is a list of tones in the manual.

It depends on whether you are downloading a tone or a stage setting. If it's a tone, you can easily put it in a user location (ones starting with the letter U) and you won't be overwriting anything. These locations (U : 20 and on, in the piano category) simply contain GrPnoConcert, the same piano as is in location P : 00, the first stage setting, 0-0. If you download stage settings, you have to replace any of the 100 factory stage settings, but you can always fetch the old factory settings again, one at a time or all, as Joe points out. I personally like to use the Electric Piano stage settings in bank 1 for user downloaded stage settings, and keep all the piano stage settings in bank 0 intact. The factory stage settings are intended as templates, the user can change to his/her own liking, and even substitute his/her own, though a lot of the factory settings are very good - out of the box, as it's called. One more thing, you are never replacing every sound in the PX-5S, unless you give the Load - All command.

A link to an Excel file. https://copy.com/i9ZNmjx3LrylTTBG

Welcome to the forums, TomAviv. Incidentally, I also upgraded from Yamaha P85, and felt it was quite a jump up in dynamics and features. I also mostly use a piano sound. The 0-0 setting is good enough, but I also like to use 5-0, Just the Way, because I like to add a warm pad to the grand piano sound. Yesterday, I decided to add volume control to it, it's not that hard. You just choose the stage setting, then push EDIT -> Stage Setting -> Common Edit -> Slider [1,2,3,4,5 or 6] and set it to CC07:Volume. Then EXIT all the way back. You can do this for any and each of the four zones. One more thing you need to do, is disable the slider you just set to control volume on zone 1 (or any of the zones) for the other three zones, this way: EDIT -> Stage Setting -> Zone Edit -> Slider1 Enable -> [Off] Instead of Slider1 it could of course be any of the six sliders, just the one you chose in the first step to control the volume for zone X. Again, the slider has to be disabled for all the other three zones. When you're done you simply save the modified stage setting: WRITE -> Stage Setting -> Replace No/Yes? -> +/YES. If you change an existing stage setting,and regret your changes, you can always restore the original ones, the factory settings can be found online.

Choppin is right, PianoManChuck explicitly stated that he was driving both sound sources at the same time, not by playing first the PX-5S and then the Ravenscroft (again with the PX-5S of course.) Line Out for the PX-5S, and the Ravenscroft via the USB connection. Then he assumably edited the video, inserted the Ravenscroft version of each passage, immediately after the same passage recorded with the Casio, through the Line Out. He must have had a screen capturing software to record the interface of the Ravenscroft, which is the UVI workstation, if I'm not mistaken. There are actually two ways to record the PX-5S, using any of it's internal voices. On the USB flash drive or through the Line Out. Recording through a headphone jack might be considered the third way. I don't know if it there is a difference between a Line Out recording and a USB drive audio recording. I know at least the PX-5S doesn't sound the same through a headphone jack and Line Out, there are more distortions through the headphone jack. If there are distortions when playing, there must also be distortions when recording.

Thank you for your comparison video, PianoManChuck. I enjoy your videos very much, keep them coming!

I had guessed that the first one was Ravenscroft, assuming the name of the files was not a hint. Still at some point in time, I thought the second one was the R. Felt as though it had more timbre in the beginning, like a real piano has. I hardly noticed any difference, and I'm not even sure that the Ravenscroft is better, than the PX-5S, and if so, then only by a margin. I've been listening to software pianos day and night the last weeks, wondering if I should get me one, and by now, I feel maybe there's no need. For the record, did you record with the grand piano concert voice, the first piano of the PX-5S's list of piano voices, the one that is by default in stage setting 0-0? I ask, because we have so many possibilities to play with the existing piano voices and make new ones, taylored to our preferences.

I've used your stage settings quite a lot and I like them. I'll post a more detailed review later. Since we're talking about this, I feel the volume of the MVGRANDPIANO needs to be lower. I notice distortions, if I play forte or above. I also use The Pianist, and I noticed it has a more realistic decay than the basic GrandPianoConcert, setting 0-0. It decays slowly if holding the pedal, while with 0-0 it just stays at the same volume and disrupts suddenly when releasing it. How did you do that?

Do you want to record as AUDIO, not MIDI? The file you want to play, is it MIDI or AUDIO? If it's only MIDI, you can use the Song recorder to combine a few phrases, up to eight in one file. Song -> Edit -> Track edit [Enter] -> Insert (above the stage settings number buttons, for each track you want to add.) For each track, add from your existing phrases collection. When all is done, save the Song with the Write button, a step I often forget myself. Maybe you know all this, and this is not what you want to do? Edit Some time ago I was trying to find out how to send a MIDI file back to the PX-5S and record it, using voices from the instrument. I ended up playing it from Synthesia, just had to make sure on which channel each track was residing, and that the right voices were on the corresponding channels of the PX-5S.