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  1. A couple discoveries about the CT-S500: - The PEDAL 1 jack does not seem to sense pedal polarity. (What non-sense is this? ) - Using PEDAL 1 to sequence thru Registrations changes the Bank number when stepping directly between slot 4 and slot 1. That makes sense, and might be obvious to most people, but my reading of the manual led me to think that the Bank number would remain fixed. Unproven and perhaps misguided thoughts about Leslie speed control (besides using a Knob): - Layer a slow-speed organ patch with a fast-speed organ patch and crossfade between them via MIDI. It won't give the acceleration/deceleration, though. - Use VIBRATO Rate as a poor substitute, and control it with MIDI. - Use the servo motor from an Arduino kit and mechanically link it to "the Knob". For extra credit, fashion a miniature human hand as part of the linkage. Control the servo with a processor, or a simple 555 circuit inside a footswitch body. Crazy, I know; but notice how similar "Lester" and "Fester" are... (Feel free to attempt the use of reason and logic (not the DAWs) to dislodge these musings. )
  2. My CT-S500 arrives in a few days, and I plan to try using PEDAL 1 to step thru the 4 slots of a registration bank, wrapping from 4 to 1. I'll dedicate all 4 slots to an organ patch. Slots 1 and 3 will have rotary speed SLOW; slots 2 and 4 will be FAST. If this all works, each pedal press will toggle the speed of the rotary. "Think it'll work? It would take a miracle!"
  3. PX-5S + Midi Designer question: When switching Stage Settings, do the sliders and knobs on the iPad update to visually indicate the settings of their parameters on the new SS? (e.g., a new B3 patch with drawbars on the iPad) If so, does it matter whether the SS was changed via Midi Designer vs. the PX-5S UI? I confess I've never bothered to put a MIDI monitor on the PX MIDI out and watch what happens during a SS change.. Thanks!
  4. I'm new at PX-5S Stage Setting editing. I (naively) programmed the sliders to send CC 11 ("Expression") to control the volume of each Zone. Can you confirm that recalling a Stage Setting will set Zone volumes to 100% of their saved volume values, effectively ignoring the last known Expression value? I think that's another way of asking for confirmation that there's no saved value of Expression in a Stage Setting. So I'm guessing that a better technique is to have the sliders send Volume (CC 07) messages. Is this making sense? Thanks.
  5. These questions are all about.. (wait for it!) ... timing! In a 4/4 song, imagine a 4-beat (1 bar) bass phrase, transposable, played by zone 1 keys, looping. If I release a C key in zone 1 and play an F in zone 1, - when does the transposition happen? immediately? quantized to a quarter note? - when does the phrase retrigger (start over at the beginning)? quantized to the next "beat 1" (start of new bar)? What if I play the new note ahead of the beat, or behind the beat? Does that get the phrase onto the wrong quarter note? Or off the beat entirely? Is there a stage setting with such a setup? Are these answers in the documentation somewhere? These questions are based on an (imagined ?) model where the phrase always finishes (all 4 beats) once it starts, it always starts on beat 1, it can transpose mid-phrase (possibly with some quantization restrictions), and can tolerate some amount of timing slop on the part of the player. Whew! Still reading? Thanks!
  6. Brad, Thanks for the lightning-fast response on this 2.5 year old topic! Glad the instrument has a way to do it. I'll eventually get around to giving it a try. I've got an old Ensoniq kbd with aftertouch - that might be a good way to "lean into" an extra parameter or two. Other random thoughts: has anyone here tried a breath controller for a cello parameter (either the original from DX-7 days or the new USB variety)? I've also wondered whether a "PC gamer" multi-axis joystick would make a good multi-controller for instruments (like cello) that could be played with one hand. (And whether it would be easier to just learn cello than learn to "play" a complicated joystick... :)) Installed the alternate-map ALL file today; totally glitch-free. The forum and its members are top-notch (except I have had no luck trying the Search box :))
  7. Hi. Just got a PX-5S. Admittedly I have zero sound design experience. Two questions about the cello LFO situation discussed above: 1) Could the arpeggiator be used to output control messages, a la Mike Martin's stereo pan of (Herbie's) e-piano? (But if arpeggio tempo can't be varied by a slider or knob, maybe this idea doesn't help ; can arpeggio tempo be controlled by a slider or knob?) 2) With an external computer running custom software (maybe a MainStage MIDI Script), could a continuous series of MIDI pitch bend and expression changes be applied to the cello patch, to simulate simultaneous LFO rate changes for both pitch and amp? I'm asking about the Casio part of the equation - would such a controller stream swamp the PX, or would the synth happily respond, no sweat? Thanks to all the contributors here!
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