surfkat

I have to agree that it would be a major upgrade to have the arpeggiator programs and programmability from the PX5s on the 560. In addition, I think it would be a major upgrade to include the ability to send and or recieve midi clock on the 560. Please! I am on bended knee begging you to give us these upgrades soon.

I understand the difference. The thing is we have this beautiful touch screen but we can't use it to name performance setups or to scroll thru a list of those names for recall as we can do with the music presets. If you use it on stage you have to just remember that you stored bossa #1 in Bank 4-02 and piano with strings is in in Bank 3-02. That's fine if you have only a couple of setups. But what if you want to store 40 song setups and recall as desired. What if you want to use auto accompany on one song but not the next. I am pointing out what I see as a short coming in hopes that it might be fixed in the next Casio generation. Look at Roland's interface in the FA-08. One setup recalls all possible options. That is what is lacking here. And yes I had a Roland but the sounds and the keybed are very much inferior to the Casio.

Hi Scott and thanks for the response. I am not sure what the Registration screen is all about but it seems to be related to the Banks as there is a page for each of the 24 Banks. The default settings are all set to 'off' and the manual says "Turning on this setting disables recall of the split point setting." As I said in my post, I can save and recall a setting to a Bank and it will recall ALL of the parameters including split point. If you load any of the factory presets they will not change the current setting for the split point either. It seems short sighted to me that a preset does not save the split point. From a user point of view it seems confusing to have both the bank registration and the music presets as a place to save a "setup". Why have 2 places, neither of which saves everything? Why not keep it simple and have one place to store setups and have the choice to use or not use rhythms, accompaniment, sequencer playback, arpeggio, etc. I have a PX-5s that I have been using since July with my band. It's great but it lacks the on board rhythms I need for solo/duo gigs. The small screen is also hard to use on stage.

I have had my new PX-560 for 2 days and I am trying to figure out how to use it for my solo piano gig. I need to be able to store settings for a given song and recall them as needed. I will not be using auto accompaniment. The bank registration will store and recall the settings but there is no way to name them and scroll through a list to find one. I thought using the music presets would work perfectly but I have found a problem there. The music presets do not store the split point! What? That's right. While all other settings are stored in the preset, tones, balance, rhythm, arp, tempo, the split point is not stored and recalled. This seems like a huge oversight. Am I missing something here? Also when you recall a music preset the auto accompany function is always on. Is there no way to have that default to off? Another disappointment for me is the lack of editing for the arpeggiator. They should at least let you change the note value of the steps. Not every arpeggio needs to be 16th notes all the time. I love the way the PX5s allows editing of the arpeggio. Why not have that here also?