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well, no replies, so I did some digging around on the net, and everyone says that I should get a passive di box for a keyboard, not an active. So I went to local Gutiar Center yesterday and bought a LIve Wire passive DI Box. Plugged it in and it cuts my volume down over 50 percent! Not what I want! Going to take it back and wonder if I should try another Active DI box. I am so lost and this Casio needs something because straight into the mixer is not working. It will start off ok, but over time, I lose volume. Weird. Thinking I may need to look for a different synth.

My DI box is now causing major problem. When I plug it in to mixer or my own powered speaker it is making an awful loud hum. My keyboard doesn't even have to be plugged into it. Has my box gone bad? Battery is good and strong. Have toggled the ground switch , doesn't matter. Tried different xlr cables, doesn't matter.

Thought I'd post this. We had an opportunity to record a few songs a couple months ago. I'm using Solo Synth 0-1 for "the sound".

Thank you for the tips Brett, I will try them out. And thank you Brad as well.

Thanks Brett. Just downloaded it. Sorry to say, it's not to my liking. I sure do appreciate your efforts though! Brad has the sound nailed but it's a flat sound, not the "baaoo baaoo baaoo" I'm looking for. SoloSynth patch 0-1, while it doesn't sound as good as brad's, does have some of the characteristic I'm talking about, and in the end, is still the more useful patch. I wish I could tweak it a bit, cuz it has too much fuzzy distortion in it.

no, I guess it doesn't, I mean the correct sound is there, and your demo has that "baaoo baaoo baaoo" effect, but I guess that part didn't translate well to the XW-P1. Still, with what I have, can you recommend any parameters to tweek to get it?

Ok Brad, I transferred your patch to my Casio, and while the tone is darn near perfect, it's still basically a flat solid tone. It's not doing that "baaooo baaaoo baaaoo" on each note. Which parameter would I need to tweek to get that effect?

LOL! ok. I'll try tweeking it some when I get home tonight and if that fails, will download your patch. By the way, your patch sounds excellent! Now, to try to use this editor thing, do I just need a USB cable to my pc?

I guess the sound is more like "baaoo baaoo baaoo" , not wah wah. lol! Hard to describe sounds in writing.

nevermind my last message. I figured that part out and have completed all your instructions. The sound is just a flat sound though, it's not doing that "wah wah" thing that is unique to this patch. Am I missing something?

Thank you Brett! Ok, I am trying to follow the instructions and am on the first user patch 0-0. I hit Edit and was able to set Syn1 as you stated. I don't see where you enable Syn2, I don't see how to even get to Syn2.

Hey guys. I've had my xwp1 for a few months now and am just really lost on how to tweak patches on it. I was wondering if any of you would be inclined to show me how to take the patch SoloSynth 1 which is located at 0-1 and tweek it to sound more like the synth in the song Let's Go by the Cars. It sounds nice as it is but it's not quite there. If somebody could play with this and then show me exactly how he did it, it would be a great stepping stone to help me understand how to go about something like this. Here is a youtube link of the song:

holy moly batman! I got my Behringer DI box and have just tested it out. FANTASTIC!! You guys are the best, thanks again.

Oh, didn't know this. My two other boards, Yamaha s90 and now my Roland RD700sx both have em. So, there is a balanced quarter inch out? So why didn't Casio make that with this synth?

Thanks guys. I just bought the Behringer silver one from Amazon. Yes! Thankfully not a pricey piece of gear!! Most of our gigs we don't need the snake, but I will be ready next time we do! Question, why didn't Casio make this rig with XLR outputs? No room?

My powered monitor has that jack and I am fine plugging in a straight TS cable. But that's only for my own practice. My EV monitor is my monitor that is connected to our Carvin mixer in a gig. And with this snake now, I have to figure out how to go from TS output to XLR input. Bought a new cable for the gig last night, another TS to XLR cable, and it seemed to work fine for a few minutes then the rest of the night it was half volume the rest of the way. Very frustrating. So, from reading everything above, is my only solution to buy an active DI box? I have no clue what this is.

I have had no problems when using a quarter inch cable out of my Left (mono) and into either an amp or our band's mixer. But now we just bought a snake and all inputs are XLR. So I went to my local Guitar Center and bought a quarter inch to XLR adaptor and tried it out. It was like I only had half the volume as before. So I then purchased a 20 foot cable that has quarter inch on one end and XLR on the other and that was even worse, same volume issue but also a ton of static. Looked at the soldering of both ends of this brand new cable and it looks fine. Went back to using a plain old quarter inch cable straight to mixer and volume problems disappeared. What is going on here? i have a big gig tonight and we need to use the snake. My quarter inch cable will not reach the mixer location for tonight's gig.

can't find a distorted guitar in hex tones.

I found a decent distortion guitar but when I hit Edit, I don't see anything for LFO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGzgoSg5OZg Is there a way to create this opening sound on my P1? I know nothing on how to create sounds, have only used the presets. Is there a way to just hit a button and let it repeat over and over? Can I set the tempo with it as well? I realize it sounds like a guitar, but the song has both an acoustic part and two other electric guitar parts so if I can pull off this repeating lick with my P1, it would be a cool song for our band to cover.

Kenny, your instructions bring up the big confusing question I have about this synth. If I want to modify or create sounds, I have to go to three separate places to do so?? Why? Also, Not really understanding the drawbar area with the associated number buttons above it.

not only can I not paste things into these messages, but when I hit the Quote button on a reply, the quote does not show up in my message. WHat am I missing here?

I don't even know how to download stuff to my synth yet. I did download and install the data editor, just haven't figured out how to hook up the synth to the pc. USB connection?

I must be missing something here because it is sounding nothing like it. I think I found a better preset to work with, listen to 0-1, it is kinda close right off the bat.

Hi Kenny, could you point me to them please, I will then try experimenting tweaking them. If I can just get started on one thing I think it will get me motivated to learn.