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  1. I answered this a couple of days ago in the Classic Casio section, and also uploaded my PDF copy to the files section:
  2. The above video was for most of my musical instrument audio cables. I still have piles of old computer and Audio/ Video cables in various places!
  3. I've uploaded my PDF copy to the Downloads section of the forum. See link below:
  4. Version 1.0.0

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    Casio CTK1000 User Guide in PDF file format.
  5. I just uploaded a shorts video for the many of us that struggle to keep lots of different cables organised. Practical tips from Casio Chaos Theory!
  6. Yup! Love Father Ted! Brilliant series, and still so very funny. "Careful now. Down with this sort of thing"! ๐Ÿ˜‚ Not sure who's to blame for showing a picture of a Casiotone M10 in the Rick Beato Shorts video, as I don't recall Stewart mentioning the actual model name in the interview itself. Then Music Radar picked up on it and starts "revealing" that it was an M10 used by Sting after seeing it in the Rick Beato video! This is how misinformation gets embedded into the public conscience... A similar thing happened when Anthony Marinelli used a Casiotone 401 for the Michael Jackson Thriller "Frog" sound. Even though Anthony did state in the Part 1 Frog video that he believed that there was another Casio keyboard with the Frog preset used on Thriller, far too many people only watched the first part and were now firmly convinced that it was a 401. Even though Anthony followed up with Part 2 making it very clear that it was an MT60 that was used on Thriller. Still, thanks to Music Radar linking to my M10 YouTube video in their online article, my video on YouTube got a nice boost in views! ๐Ÿ˜€
  7. At approx. @19.30, I show the steps for transferring a set of lyrics from the phone app to the S1000V. Check that you are following the same steps and that the S1000V is responding in the same way when you try to do this.
  8. Here's the article (mis)stating that Sting used the M10 to provide the rhythms that inspired Spirits in the Material World! https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-police-stewart-copleand-spirits-in-the-material-world
  9. I've made a YouTube #shorts video to try and clarify what Casio keyboard might have been used by Sting, because in the Rick Beato shorts video above, they showed a Casiotone M10. The M10 has no rhythms or drums, so it can't have been the keyboard used by Sting as Stewart described him playing the built in rhythms! I've also just read an online article Music Radar article stating that the keyboard was an M10, so no doubt this incorrect information could spread very quickly!
  10. XW-PD1 can also sample. IIRC, the CTK2000 has some very basic sampling features. The vintage SK series are excellent lo-fi mini samplers. And of course, the epic 1980s FZ series (FZ-1, FZ-10M, FZ-20M) are wonderful old school samplers.
  11. Not so much a sighting as a mention. The Rick Beato YouTube channel interviewed Stuart Copeland of The Police, and it appears that the song "Spirits in the Material World" was inspired by a rhythm in a little Casio keyboard!
  12. Older Casios commonly had a tuning potentiometer for fine tuning their pitch. That's literally all that "tuning screw" is, a mini potentiometer mounted on the circuit board. Sometimes they get damaged by heavy handed people/ kids shoving screwdrivers into the recessed hole without using care (I found this on a damaged PT80 I bought a few years back), and it's also possibly that the potentiometer tracks and/ or wipers have oxidized over the years causing poor/ no connection. Best thing to do is open up your MT52 and have a look for any obvious damage or oxidization. You could also use a multimeter and test the resistance in operation. A simple clean might get it working again. Worst case is you might need to replace it, which is normally quite easy if you have basic soldering iron skills. Often you can find the value marked on the potentiometer making it easy to find generic replacements online.
  13. Here's a quick video of my XW-PD1 able to play its sequenced bass line via a Casio CZ101!
  14. Wait until you see how well a cello works with Death Metal!
  15. More progress! After using the XW-PD1 as a standalone drum machine for my Michael Jackson "Thriller" recreation clip, I wanted to see if there was a way I could incorporate it into a multi-keyboard setup that was all linked together. As many of us know, the PD1 does not send or receive MIDI clock or sync, and it operates via USB MIDI only. What I want to somehow do, is to run a beat/ sequence with the PD1 and also link it up with other keyboards so that they all play together. After delving into its workflow and features, I find that the PD1's 4 x "Banks" are effectively independent "Tracks", with each Bank able transmit on its own MIDI channel, 1 to 4. What that means is that the PD1 can operate like a 4 track sequencer as per a song with 4 different parts in it. It could also operate kind of like an Arturia Beatstep Pro controller, IF I could get it talking with other devices! More delving into USB MIDI and stuff, and I was already aware that USB MIDI devices need a "host", whereas many of my older keyboards have the traditional 5 pin DIN MIDI connectors. My sound interface (a Behringer UMC404HD) also has 5 pin MIDI In and Out sockets, and it is connected to my main desktop workstation computer. How do I get my PD1's USB MIDI to talk to the MIDI DIN sockets on my sound interface? A bit of searching online uncovered an old (and free program) called "MIDI Patchbay" by Soundigy, that allows you to re-route MIDI via the computer acting as a host. I connected my PD1 to a USB port on my desktop, and also connected my CZ101 to the UMC404HD sound interface MIDI DIN "Out" port, and joy of joys, by setting the receive channel on my CZ101 from 1 to 4, I was able to get it playing any of the four banks being played/ sent by the PD1! What I then wanted to try was to daisy chain my HT700 in series so that I could get that playing one of the other PD1 banks simultaneously with the CZ101, via the CZ101's MIDI Out port. The idea being that I could program drums, bass, leads, and pads into the 4 individual banks of the PD1, and use the PD1 to play up to 4 other devices at once. However, I ran into limitations with the CZ101 and HT700 as both only have MIDI In and Out, not Thru. I read somewhere that some devices still forward the original MIDI message plus anything generated by that keyboard to their MIDI Out ports, whereas others ONLY send new information generated by that keyboard through their MIDI Out port, necessitating a MIDI Thru port to pass through the original MIDI data to a device further down the chain. Looks like the CZ101 and HT700 do not forward the originally received MIDI messages to their Out ports. My understanding now is that to have my PD1 controlling more than one keyboard over MIDI DIN and without having MIDI Thru ports, I will need to get a MIDI Interface with multiple In/ Out DIN ports. Also, with a multiple In/ Out MIDI interface, I could then use a laptop as a host and keep my desktop workstation PC with the DAW installed as a recording device to capture the audio of the PD1 and other connected keyboards. After all this, I can see why some people are not fans of USB MIDI and prefer the direct standalone aspect of traditional 5 pin DIN MIDI. On the other hand, I can see the greater potential of USB MIDI, whereby a MIDI host can re-route multiple connections via software and is not limited to 16 channels. There is an added complexity of course, but there are definitely added benefits. I'd better get that multi port MIDI interface on order....!
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