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  1. Some Windows-10 USB problems have been traced to the BIOS. Whoever wrote the BIOS for those particular devices apparently did not understand the differences between Windows-10 and previous versions, when it came to USB. These are the units that every time there is a Windows-10 update, all of the USB Root Hubs on that machine get blown away. This is/was a computer manufacturer problem, and explains why Windows-10 runs fine on some models and has no end of problems on other models, even within the same manufacturer's lines. It all depends on who wrote the BIOS for that particular model. Some early Windows-10 OEM (Mfr installed) builds were missing the USB-MIDI Class Compliant driver modules. This was a Microsoft problem. They distributed some OEM builds that did not include the Class Compliant driver modules. Many (most ?) older keyboard USB ports have problems working with USB-3 computer ports. We tend to assume that those keyboard ports are USB-2, because that is what our computer had in it when we bought that keyboard, when in fact, due to that 4 to 5 year computer vs. keyboard design differential those keyboard ports are actually USB-1.1, so it is a speed problem. I suspect that USB-3 ports are only backward compatible to USB-2, so when you plug a USB-1.1 device into a USB-3 port, the USB-3 port slows down to USB-2, and you run into buffer overflow on the USB-1.1 device.
  2. For your connection between your tablet and the CTK-2500. are you using a standard stereo cable with 3.5mm Tip-Ring-Sleeve (TRS) plugs, or a four conductor cable with Tip-Ring-Ring-Sleeve (TRRS) plugs. In this YouTube video, he just mentions you only need a standard 3.5mm cable. He does not use the word "stereo", and he does not state the number of conductors or the type of plugs, yet if you pause the video just as he is about to insert the plug into the tablet, you can see that the plug is a four conductor TRRS plug. You can plainly see the three black plastic bands that separate the four metal conductors. It was my understanding that you should use a standard three conductor TRS stereo cable for this, but I am wondering if this could be your problem. I am suspicious because of the buzzing sound you are getting when you attempt to do a file transfer. As though the transferring data is actually gettng into the CTK-2500's audio circuits. I am not trying to say which you should be using, because I am really not certain, at this point. I am just giving you something to question. Just found this. You might want to review this tread in its entirety. This guy was trying to connect to an LK-265, but the LK-265, CTK-2500, and CTK-3500 are all very similar in their Chordana Play setup. He was also getting a distortion in the keyboard speakers. Problem was a 4 conductor (TRRS) cable. Needed to be 3 conductor TRS (standard stereo). The jacks in phones and tablets are 4 conductor TRRS jacks, but they can connect to either 4 conductor (MIC/PHONES) or 3 conductor (STEREO PHONES) plugs. I have a feeling that the audio in jacks in the keyboards are just standard 3 conductor stereo jacks and can not connect correctly to 4 conductor plugs. https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/18077-connecting-chordana-app-with-ipad-11-pro/&tab=comments#comment-58377
  3. Yes! Those are the 5 GM organ tones, but if your variation organ tones are just labeled Organ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, there is no way of telling what they really are. They can be just about anything, as variation tones are not governed by the GM tone conventions, at all. You will just have to audition them, and decided on your own which tones are suitable for which use. No guarantees. Good luck! One other thought: IF the CTK-711 allows you to "layer" 2 tones, you can "layer" 2 organ tones and come up with a totally different sound, especially if you can add some reverb and/or chorus to them. Experiment with the 711's effects, whether you can "layer" or not! For example, in Supertramp's "The Logical Song", Roger Hodgson split his Wurly's output, and sent one to the soundboard dry and the other through a guitar chorus pedal. This can be very easily emulated on a keyboard, if it allows you to "layer", although to get the live concert hall effect, you need to add a little reverb ot each "feed" (layer). And . . . finally - if you are really serious about this, and the 711 just will not give you what you want, much less than a new or different keyboard, you may want to consider connecting the 711 to your computer via a USB-MIDI Adaptor and use it to play VST instruments on your computer. That would open up a completely new world for you, but I have to admit that I say this 'tongue in cheek", as I am completely old school - personally I want to keep everthing I do completely self contained in a single box (keyboard). I have just never felt comfortable depending upon a computer umbilical cord. - T -
  4. Mark I was not able to find a Tone List for the CTK-711EX, but I did find this spec sheet in the archives. It tells me what I needed to know: https://archive.casio.com/products/archive/Digital_Pianos_%26_Keyboards/Portable_Keyboards/CTK-711EX/ The basic tone (voice) set of the CTK-711EX is the 128 voice General MIDI (GM) tone set, which is specified by the Standard MIDI Spec, in order to ensure tone compatibility amongst various MIDI devices: https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/gm-level-1-sound-set You will note that the GM tone list includes 5 organ tones. In addition to the "required" 128 tones, Casio provided 64 additional tones that are mostly just 'variations" of some of the basic 128 GM tones, to add some variety. Without an exact Tone List to go by, I have to assume that these "other" organ tones you are asking about are just merely "variations" to the 5 basic GM organ tones. Roland pioneered the idea of variation tones with their Sound Canvass tone modules and keyboards, and carried it to its ultimate with the SC-88 Pro, which boasted a total of 1117 tones, all of which above the base 128 were (supposedly) some closely related variation of the base 128. Tones within "banks" of 128 were arranged in such a manner that if you played a MIDI file made for a newer model were played to an older model, which did not have all the tones of the newer model, tone requests would "fall thru" (pass thru) the banks until they "hit" a tone that sounded most like the originally intended tone, so that that MIDI file would sound reasonably like the model it was actually made for. You can use (play) these "variation" tones by merely selecting them from the keyboard's front panel with the tone selection buttons, but if you were to use them in a MIDI file, each tone selecting Program Change message that is to select a "variation" tone would need to be preceded by a Bank Select message to indicate that this selection is to come from "variation" Bank 1, instead of base Bank 0. Any tone selecting Program Change message not preceded by a Bank Select message is assumed to be selected from base Bank 0.
  5. Check your computer's manual to see if the Phones jack is input/output switchable. If it is not, then you will need a USB-Audio Interface that connects to one of your computer's USB ports and provides you with an audio input. For more info on these, do a Google or Bing search on USB Audio Interface. Just a simple $30 to $40 one, that is not much more than a small box with audio connections on the end of a USB cable works just fine, and is all you need. You do not need a big expensive desk or rack mount unit. The sound quality is pretty much the same for all of them. - T -
  6. Many apologies, Kurt. When I responded to your other post on this, I had forgotten that the WK-6600 would save Song Sequencer files directly to the SD Card. I will correct that response as soon as I am finished here. Yes! This should work for you. Did you format the SD Card in the keyboard so that is has a MUSICDAT folder ? All SD Card files for the WK-6600 go into a MUSICDAT folder. Once you save the sequence to the card, can you then load it. If so, then it has to be there somewhere. Now, from the list of typical problem areas with this: If the keyboard is in Card Mode, press the C-7 button to take it out of Card Mode. You can not load or save data to/from the card when the keyboard is in Card Mode. Card Mode is for formatting the Card and for playing MIDI files from it - not for loading/saving data. To load or save a sequence, press the C-3 Song Sequencer button to put the keyboard into Song Sequencer mode. The Card menu provides for loading/saving Tones, Rhythms, DSP's, User Presets, and Songs (sequences). Check the top line of the display to ensure that, in this case, you are set up to save a song.
  7. Save the Song to the MUSICDAT folder on an SD Card (Page E-103 in the manual). Port the Card to an SD Card slot on your computer and attach the CMS Song Sequencer file to an email. ----- OR ----- Use the Casio Data Manager 6.1 software to upload the CMS Song file from the WK-6600's internal Song memory to your PC. Attach a copy of the CMS Song file to an email and send it to your friend. Have your friend use the Casio Data Manager 6.1 software to download the CMS Song file from his PC to his WK-6600's internal Song memory. Data Manager 6.1 software: https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=67 Data Manager 6.1 User's Guide: https://support.casio.com/storage/en/support/download_files/en/008/manuals/DM61-E-1A.pdf
  8. The oldest post I could find on an LK-280 was for a unit with a key lighting problem. The keys would not light at all. This was a problem with some LK-280's early on. Some were shipped with the ribbon cable to the key lighting circuits left unconnected. The date on that post was January 30, 2013. The unit had been purchased used, so that puts the manufacture date on that particular unit well back into 2012 - well over 7 and possibly even closer to 8 years ago - well before Chordana Play and the LK-265 were even thought of. - T -
  9. Mixer settings are saved (recorded) as part of a song, or saved separately in a registration.
  10. Alyona You can not assume that because a particular Casio keyboard model has a lower model number that it is older than a model with a higher model number. Casio has never consecutively numbered their keyboard models 100% like that. The LK-265 debuted at the Winter NAMM show in 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ztd4KwUYc Yet, you will find many threads here, that go back at least 5 or 6 years, where I and others discuss modifying generic MIDI files to properly light the keys on the LK-280, and the LK-280 was already several years old then. Yes. you can still purchase an LK-280 new, today, but this is typical of Casio's "learning" series keyboards. They enjoy a rather long "marketing" life. The LK-265, CTK-2500, and CTK-3500 all share three unique features that the LK-280 does not. They were specifically designed to work with Chordana Play. They receive both audio and MIDI via the Audio In jack. They have the Dance Music Mode feature. While the LK-280 may work with Chordana Play, after a fashion, it was not designed specifically to work with Chordana Play, as Chordana Play did not exist when the LK-280 was designed. Thus, some Chordana Play features do not work with it. I currently have Chordana Play working, after a fashion, with my Yamaha PSR-E433, but obviously some features do not work. The LK-280 does not offer the Dance Music Mode feature because, again, Dance Music Mode did not exist when the LK-280 was designed. Now, the most significant difference. The LK-280 receives only audio via its Audio In jack. It receives MIDI via its USB port only. There are no internal wiring connections between its Audio In jack and its MIDI circuits. While you can connect your device (phone/tablet/etc) to the LK-280's USB port and "play" MIDI files into it, when you try to actually transfer MIDI files, the LK-280's operating system is looking for the Data Manage 5.0 transfer protocol of the PC software, not the Chordana Play file transfer protocol. If you want to play external MIDI files on your LK-280, it would be much, much easier to just copy them to the MUSICDAT folder on an SD Card with your computer and play them with the LK-280's MIDI file player. - T -
  11. You will need a stereo cable of suitable length with a 1/8" stereo plug on the end that connects to your computer's MIC or Line In jack (If it has both, use the Line In jack), and a 1/4" stereo plug on the end that connects to the WK-245's Phone/Output jack. Most likely it will have 1/8" plugs on both ends with !/8" to 1/4" plug adapter for the end that connects to the WK-245. Once you have this, you will need audio recording (DAW) software for your computer. To start, I recommend a very popular product known as Audacity, which is a full featured DAW with a fairly easy learning curve. It is available as a free download from www.audacityteam.org. Due to its popularity, help for it can be found on just about any forum that deals with music production or audio recording. Once you have everthing set up. Continue recording to the WK-245's internal Song Recorder, as you have been, then set up audacity to record, set up the Song Recorder to play back the desired performance, start Audacity to recording, start the Song Recorder to playing back, and in a few minutes you will be all set. Audacity will record to a wide selection of audio file types, but I recomend recording to the Windows standard 16 bit 44.1 Khz WAV format, and keeping a copy of that, for posterity, then making conversions to MP3, if required. Good luck! - T -
  12. I think, maybe, the original poster here had in mind the " single finger chord" mode of the arranger keyboards (CTK/WK/CT-X/etc).
  13. The MIC jack on the CTK/WK-6XXX keyboards allows you to sing along with your playing, and have the sound of your voice play through the keyboard's onboard speakers, but those models have no audio (voice) recording capabilities what-so-ever. They do not record audio to the SD Card. That requires the CTK/WK-7XXX models.
  14. The two conductor cables are standard fare from any music supply retailer. To keep this as simple as possible, if you just connect your keyboard's Line Out jacks to the Solo's Line In jacks, that will use your computer's hard drive to record your keyboard's output, just the same as though your computer were an old tape recorder or cassette recorder. It does not require any type of software on your computer that emulates your keyboard's sound library. That is for recording MIDI files (not audio files), and is an entirely different technology than we are discussing here. Once you have the keyboard connected to the Solo, Yes! You will need audio recording DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software to control the recording process, and Yes! Ableton is one of the options, but it is one of the high end products with a fairly steep learning curve. You have enough on your hands at the moment with just the keyboard, so let's not complicate things more than we have to for the moment. I recommend a very popular product known as Audacity. It is a full featured DAW recording package with a fairly easy learning curve, and is available as a free download from www.audacityteam.org. Because of its popularity, help for it can be found on just about any forum that deals with music production or audio recording. Once you have the above all set up, you will have two options when you record. One is to record your performance as a final take directly to Audacity, but if you make an error, you will most likely have to do the entire take over again, and again, and again, until you finally get it right. Correcting errors in audio files without leaving a noticeable glitch is extremely difficult, if not almost impossible. I recommend you familiarize yourself with the keyboard's internal Song Sequencer (recorder) as much as possbile, as soon as possible. Then record your initial takes to the internal Song recorder, use its editor to make any necessary corrections, save the Song, prepare Solo and Audacity for recording, prepare your saved performance for playback, start Audacity to recording, start playback of your saved performance, and voila! you have a picture perfect recording suitable for playing for your stern music instructor. If this procedure leaves an excessively long silent lead-in trailer, you can easily use Audacity's editor to trim that to something more acceptable - and the same for the outro trailer. Above, I made reference to MIDI files. Your keyboard can handle both MIDI and audio. When you record to the keyboard's internal Song Sequencer, that is a MIDI, not an audio, recording. Sooner or later you are going to want and need to understand the difference, so I will provide some YouTube links to assist: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=difference+between+audio+file+and+midi+file - T -
  15. Kurt Go into the MIXER and turn off the "A" Track parts that you do not want. The DRUMS are on Track A10, so don't turn it off. If you want to keep the BASS, as well, it is on Track A11. The rest of the band is on Tracks A12 thru A16. Turn any or all of those on or off to suit yourself. Do not turn off any tracks below A10, as those are the real-time (live) parts that you play on the keys. If you want to record this, use the EASY REC method. Then, if you want to add any tracks, use the track-at-a-time (individual track) record method to the "B" Tracks. If you try to add anything to the "A" Tracks, you will erase EVERYTHING you have previously recorded to ALL of the "A" tracks. "A" Track recording is stricty a "one shot" deal, but you can record, erase, rerecord to any or all of the "B" Tracks to your heart's content. Good luck! - T - P.S. For future reference, so that we can refer you directly to correct parts in the manual, which keyboard model do you have?
  16. Yes and no! Your Focusrite Solo is a very good choice for making high quality recordings of your WK-7600's audio output. You need only connect the WK-7600's "L (Mono) / R" Line Out jacks to the Solo's Line In jacks using a pair of mono cables with 2 conductor Tip-Sleeve (TS) plugs. Do not attempt to use cables with 3 conductor Tip-Ring-Sleeve (TRS) plugs, as they will not work. Then, set up the Solo per its instructions, and you are all set, BUT . . . . the Solo is just an audio recording interface, like any other audio recording interface. They assit your computer's recording (DAW) software in "remembering" whatever it "hears" for posterity, but as for "remembering" your WK-7600"s set up, and which tones you had selected, then No! The Solo does not have that capability. For that, you would need one of the other Focusrite products that has MIDI capabilities, and that would require a MIDI recording, not an audio recording. However, there is really no need for that, as the WK-7600 has 96 Registrations for storing its own setups. See Page E-66 of the WK-7600 manual. If you need additional assistance for setting up the Solo, please see this set up guide from Sweetwater Sound: https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/articles/focusrite-scarlett-install-and-setup-guide/ Now, all of this said, I am wondering if you are aware that the WK-7600 has its own internal high quality audo recorder for recording its own output as well as that of a connected microphone and a connected mono instrument (guitar, etc). See Page E-121. Results are recorded to an SD Memory Card. As a matter of fact. You can record your keyboard performance only with the keyboard's internal Song (MIDI) Sequencer, easily make any changes or corrections, then play that performance back as you sing and play (guitar) along with it, and the combined results will all be recorded to an audio file on the SD Memory Card - no computer or interface required at all. In essence, the WK-7600 is its own stand-alone recording studio. See Page E-68. Best of luck with your endeavors! - T -
  17. Alyona Back to your original question of transferring song files from Chordana Play to the LK-280 - have you seen this video from YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_WkPD9B4M After watching this video, I get the impression that the file transfer feature only works with certain of the newer models (CTK-2500, CTK-3500, etc). I do not think the LK-280, being an older keyboard, has the necessary electronic circuits to do Chordana Play file transfers. The LK-280 is designed to do song file transfers via the Casio Data Manager 5.0 computer software. However, if you are just wanting to transfer MIDI files (SMF's) to the LK-280 and have a way of copying them from your phone or tablet's internal memory onto a USB flash drive (either directly or via your computer), you can just copy them into a MUSICDAT folder on a flash drive, and the LK-280 will play them from there. Now, if Chordana Play does not save its "fingering" parsing into the MIDI file (SMF), then the "fingering" in the LK-280"s display will not work when that MIDI file is played back from the flash drive. At least the keylighting should work. If it doesn't, or doesn't work properly, we can fix that. Good luck with this. I apologize that I no longer have an LK-280 nor a device that can run Chordana Play, so that I could be of more help with this. - T -
  18. Many thanks Jokeyman. It's Romanian. I'll take it from here. I just hope that little to-do early on hasn't scared our original poster off. Hopefully he/she will be back and see this. Somehow I feel that in times like these, little things like this become really important. Vasi Jokeyman123 has posted two files for you above. The file labeled style converter is the STYTOCKF that you want. The other file converts a MIDI file to a CKF rhythm. Jokeyman123 a postat două fișiere pentru tine de mai sus. Convertorul de stil etichetat de fișier este STYTOCKF dorit. Alt fișier convertește un fișier MIDI într-un ritm CKF. OK, aici este programul convertor de stil-acesta este cel care va încărca un fișier Yamaha .sty (stil) și convertiți-l la un (oarecum utilizabil) Casio auto-aranjament ritm. Am avut succes mixt cu acest lucru, deoarece am discutat deja la lungime-că stilurile Yamaha nu traduce întotdeauna peste prea bine din cauza yamaha încorporat informații în unele dintre fișierele lor. Dar aici este, singurul de acest gen pe care l-am găsit. Cred că celălalt fișier este programul Casio care traduce un fișier midi standard la un ritm casio auto-aranjor. Acolo is unul that is part de la IDES 4.0 numai i de asemenea have it as un separate executable Ferestre program. Am inclus, de asemenea, versiunea în limba engleză a manualului convertor SMF conținute în fișierul zip 2a. Multumesc din nou Ted pentru ajutor, sper că sunt bine prin această pandemie epic teribil.
  19. Jokeyman His original post actually says STYTOCKF. He misspelled it in the title ("STITOCKF"), but he appears to be trying to download .the Yamaha style to Casio CKF rhythm converter. I put the translation out there, hoping you would see it, as I know you have some knowledge of it and the MIDI to CKF converter. Any chance you could help him out somehow? - T - Său origine scris spune STYTOCKF. El a scris greșit în titlu ("STITOCKF"), dar se pare că încearcă să descarce .stilul Yamaha în convertorul de ritm Casio CKF. Am pus traducerea acolo, în speranța că ar vedea-o, așa știu că aveți unele cunoștințe de ea și MIDI la CKF convertor. E vreo șansă să-l ajuți cumva?
  20. Do you know if there is a way to play each individual track on a loop as long as you wish and change tracks during the song as the song progresses? On your WK-7600, you can do that with the Pattern Sequencer per that Mike Martin tutorial that I referred you to some time ago, but there is no way to loop any of the tracks of the linear (Song) Sequencer. If they did, then it would not be a linear sequencer. In the Pattern Sequencer, the loop tracks can be up to 16 bars long.
  21. What you have described is exactly how a song is typically built up, track-at-a-time, on a linear sequencer, but on the WK-7600 you do it on Tracks 1 through 16, as Track 17 (the System Track) is reserved for the recording of complete (all parts / 16 tracks simultaneously) Auto-accompaniment performances in a single pass with the Easy RECord method. And with this, you are about to go beyond my personal expertise with these keyboards. as I never used my CTK-6000, or CTK-7000, or WK-7500 as track-at-a-time "workstations". Instead, I purchased and used them as typical arranger keyboards ("one man banders"), so my recording experience with them was totally limited to complete performances with Auto-accompaniment in a single pass with the Easy RECord method. Sorry to say, but I am afraid I will be of very little, if any, assistance with the intricacies of track-at-a-time recording. That has just never been my area of expertise. I am a dyed in the wool arranger workstation one-man-bander.
  22. So far, the translation coming this way is good. Let me know if I need to reword anything to make it more understandable. The only converter program that Casio ever offered for this is what they called the Casio SMF Converter. It converts Standard MIDI Files to the Casio CM2 Song file format that is used by the "Learning" series boards. It supposedly makes the SMF data compatible with the "Learning" features of those boards, but in my experience, it never resolved any of the problems we have been discussing here. If you are interested, you can download a copy from here: https://music.casio.com/e/smf/ This is a very old 32 bit Windows program, originally written for Windows 98SE. It will also run on Windows-XP/Vista/7 - 32 bit only. It will not run on any of the Windows 64 bit systems. This is why I still keep an old 2001 Windows XP laptop handy. After conversion, the resulting CM2 Song file needs to be loaded into the keyboard's internal memory with Casio's IDES data manager software (older boards) or Data Manager 5.0 software (newer boards).
  23. Looking at your last display, it seems to be trying to make a point that "MIDI from the internet = there IS a fingering". If this were commonplace, why would they be making such a big deal out of it. They are making a big deal of it because up until now, it was not possible. It appears that Chordana Play is providing the algorithm that is missing from the keyboard. I would love to check this all out on YouTube, but right now my satellite IP system has YouTube throttled way back so that it does not overload their satellite network. I can connect to YouTube with no problem, but actual streaming has not worked at all for several days. Between YouTube being busy and the throttling, we just get the continuous buffering circles.
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