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  1. DSP is just effects. Whether more or different or more control over effects makes a sound "better" is a matter of perspective and semantics, I guess. But I think Brad's Jan 3 message above addresses whether the "same" sounds would sound "better" on the 500, when he says, "Shared tones between both models include the same DSP effects. The effects are preset as part of the tone on the CT-S400, meaning not editable. The DSP effects are editable on the CT-S500. " IOW, they sound the same (not better), BUT since you can edit the DSP, you might be able too tweak them to make them sound better to your tastes.
  2. You can create sounds from scratch using the hexlayer mode. If you want to do traditional synth style programming, for your waveforms, select waves 764 and up, where you will find a a variety of triangle, square, saw, pulse, and noise (and you can combine up to 6 of them, in any combination, each with their own pitch, envelope, filter, and LFO settings if desired). See p.30 of the manual.
  3. The Oct 2022 update described at https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/21937-ct-s500-ct-s1000v-firmware-update-now-available/ should let you do what you want.
  4. If your application is not finding the bluetooth MIDI, try loading some other app that does see it. Once you establish the connection with that other app, the first app may then work. (This seemed to solve the similar problem I was having on an iPad.)
  5. To change the octave of your left hand sound (when using a split), the instructions say, "While holding down the SPLIT button and the TONE/REGISTRATION button, press the keyboard key of C that you want located at C4 (middle C) of the left keyboard" and you should see a screen with an L (for Left) and a number (indicating the amount of your octave shift), as shown in the screenshot from the manual below. Although the English is poor, I think I know what it wants... but any time I try, it behaves the same as if I were only holding down the Split button (and not also the TONE/REGISTRATION button)... that is, whatever C key I hit (with those two buttons depressed) simply changes the split point to that key, rather than doing an octave shift. Has anyone gotten this to work? Any clue as to what I might be doing wrong? (It may be moot, because if this isn't saved as part of a Registration, it would be a useless function for me anyway, but I can't even get it to work so I can try it.)
  6. a regular USB A-to-B cable (typical printer cable) plus Apple's "Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter" (USB-to-lightning adapter). Apple also makes a cheaper version ("Lightning to USB Camera Adapter") but that one doesn't let you leave the charging cable in at the same time.
  7. For sustain pedal, I believe it simply makes or breaks (opens or closes) a connection, i.e. voltage passes through or it does not (and the keyboard is programmed to behave differently based on whether that connection is or is not made). Expression pedal has a potentiometer, so it can provide a range of values instead of only on/off. It receives a voltage from the keyboard, the pot (whose value you are controlling with your foot) alters that voltage depending on where in the travel it is, and the keyboard reads that revised value and behaves accordingly. Whether sending or reading a voltage value is "sending or receiving data" is semantically questionable. But regardless, you're again running into the same conceptual issue as addressed with your earlier question. The issue isn't simply a matter of whether these jacks "send" anything, there's still the fundamental issue of what those jacks connect TO (inside the keyboard). Pedal jacks do not directly connect to anything in either the analog audio path or the digital processing path, they are essentially connecting to electrical circuits. In a way, these questions are similar to asking, if you were to run the Casio from batteries, could you use the board's AC power adapter connection to send audio. Sure, you could rig up its wires to terminate in a 1/4" connector, but there would still be no physical path to get audio to it, it is only connected to the power circuitry. You can have all kinds of connections on a keyboard... TS or TRS 1/4" and 1/8", XLR, 5-pin, USB, power... what they can do is not determined merely by their size/shape or by programming or whether they connect unidirectionally or bidirectionally, but are very much determined by what they are physically connected to inside the keyboard. That should work fine, using a MIDI routing app like Keystage or Camelot Pro.
  8. Right, that's what I've been saying, you need separate jacks. But once you're going to install separate jacks, unless it's a tiny device where space is at a premium, why use the TRS connector, instead of the 5-pin? You're then dealing with having to have more "special" cables around, as well as increasing the possibility that someone will plug something into the wrong jack and wonder why it's not working. Not "normally," -- always. Not directly, for the reasons I've already described. Indirectly? See next part... So again starting from the foundation that the audio jacks are physically wired to analog circuitry in the board, that there is no physical path for digital data to get to that connector, in referencing the DAC, I think you're suggesting that your solution to this would be to convert the digital data to analog. Could the board's firmware be modified to permit the digital data be converted to analog and sent out a TRS jack? Maybe. But there are numerous reason this won't happen, not least of which is that, even if were done, you would not be able to use a TRS MIDI cable to connect it to your external MIDI device... you would need an intermediate box to take the analog signal that has the analog representation of the digital MIDI data and convert it back to the actual digital MIDI data your external device needs to see. Analog data (as in information) can be anything. For example, the grooves of a vinyl record or the magnetic particles of the strips of a cassette tape contain "analog data" and sure, they can have music, or they can have speech, or they can have noise, or they can have (something close to) silence, and yes, it is possible for them to store digital data as well, but in analog form (and it would "sound" like noise, as I talked about earlier). But again, even if the Casio somehow were able to produce that signal, there's no MIDI device on the market capable of understanding it.
  9. I know. You left out too much of the quote . Your quoted me as saying "TRS jack is probably moot (regardless of whether or not it is technically possible)" when the quote actually said (responding to your comment about Casio building an additional board) "a board that would allow you to send your choice of MIDI or analog audio out a TRS jack is probably moot (regardless of whether or not it is technically possible)" - the issue isn't the viability of sending MIDI over TRS, it's the viability of sending your choice of MIDI or audio over that same TRS connector (i.e. what you've been asking about through this whole thread).
  10. I don't fully understand your questions. But if it helps, bluetooth does not transmit analog audio. It transmits digital audio, and the receiving device has a DAC that converts it to analog. And it is certainly possibly to transmit multiple digital signals out of a single data stream, which are then routed to different places to be processed by separately by different electronics. The fact that USB hubs work is an obvious example... you send a single USB digital data stream out of your computer, and each destination device attached to the hub recognizes and processes only the data it is supposed to see (i.e. an attached USB printer, scanner, multiple thumb drives, etc. are all getting the info designated for them from the single data stream coming out of the computer into the hub). So sure, you can simultaneously transfer digital audio and MIDI (which is also digital) simultaneously over the same digital connection (whether USB or bluetooth, whatever). Whether Casio could build (for some future model) a board that would allow you to send your choice of MIDI or analog audio out a TRS jack is probably moot (regardless of whether or not it is technically possible)... I think it would probably be cheaper to include separate jacks, which would also certainly be preferable for the user.
  11. Pretty much correct. CPU deals with digital signals only (ones and zeroes), not analog signals. Once the DAC converts the digital signal to analog, the CPU can no longer do anything with it. The reason I qualified the answer by saying "pretty much" is because there can be digital control over analog routing (e.g.to route a given audio signal to one jack or another, or to enable/disable the speakers). But again, "a connector is just a connector... what it connects TO matters", e.g. software cannot control which physical connector an analog signal goes to unless an analog signal is physically wired to that connector. Being digital, MIDI cannot be played back through a speaker, it would have to be converted to analog first. And since MIDI data has no audio component whatsoever (it contains no digital audio data that can be converted to analog), even assuming you found a way to convert its digital content to analog in order to hear it through a speaker, it would sound like noise. (Think dial-up modems.) Picking up from the previous point, technically it is possible to convert MIDI data to an analog signal, to record it as audio (which sounds like noise), and then play it back in such a way that it is converted from analog back to digital MIDI. Back in the 80s, there were devices that could convert MIDI data to an analog signal that could be recorded to cassette tape, and then played back into the device. But this required additional electronics in the device, e.g. you didn't simply run a wire from the cassette player's audio out to the device's MIDI in , the device would have had an audio input designed for this purpose, which would take the analog version of the MIDI signal and convert it to digital. Again, what a connector connects TO matters. The MIDI jack would not be connected to any kind of analog processing capability... analog signals get processed through an analog signal chain, and digital signals get processed digitally, and any time you need to get from one to the other, you can't just connect a wire, you need a converter (DAC digital to analog, or ADC in the other direction).
  12. Non-standard. I would not assume compatibility with anything other than the specific things it was made for. Audio outputs are analog. Analog audio is not generated or routed by the CPU. Once the audio signal exists (i.e. post DAC), the CPU is removed from the equation. This gets back to one of the first things I said. A connector is just a connector... what it connects TO matters. What comes out of the 1/4" jack is not determined by the CPU, it is determined by what the jack is physically wired to. Inside the board, a MIDI connection connects to digital circuitry for transporting a digital data stream, an audio connection connects to analog circuitry for transporting analog audio. While a TRS jack can be used for either, the jack would be physically wired to one set of electronics or the other, not both. Discussed at https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/21937-ct-s500-ct-s1000v-firmware-update-now-available/
  13. MIDI requires 3 points of connection, not 2. You can already send either audio or MIDI through TRS. But you can't send both. TRS is merely a connector. It gets physically wired to different electronics depending on whether you're using it for audio or MIDI. It does not function as a host for another USB enabled MIDI device, AFAIK.
  14. You put one CME WIDI Jack or WIDI Master piece on your device that has the 5-pin connector. On the CT-S1000V, you may be able to use Casio's supplied bluetooth dongle, or you may have to buy a CME Uhost, which may have to be connected to the Casio's "other" USB connection (the micro), not the one Casio's own adapter plugs into.
  15. right, the XLR inputs on an audio interface are balanced microphone inputs., and yes, they have 3 wires. While it's not technically impossible to use an XLR connector for an unbalanced stereo signal, that would be a very unusual thing to do, and wiring it to do that would prevent it from being used as a mic input.
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