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Depending on where you live the Casio warranty might provide a technician that comes directly to your home. I believe it is the case at least in US and Germany.

I confirm that my PX-560 charges an iPhone. This isn't very surprising really. Both devices have to adhere to certain USB standards. The charging is most likely slow (at 500 mA I guess).

It sounds like some hardware issue. If the drives do not light up, maybe the USB port is missing power. You could try to charge your phone with it to verify.

How big is your flash drive? You might be hitting some limit. Please check this out:

keef, As per PX-560 Manual Appendix page 13, the Grand Piano button isn't supposed to restore the controller settings, so this is an expected behaviour. If you want to restore more settings, you can use a registration.

Also check out the hints from:

arcutus, The information you have found on pianoworld doesn't apply to PX-560. Together with SP-33 it provides continuous pedaling. Please read the following thread: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/9192-px350360-with-sp33-half-damper-function/ I think Brad is right. Proper expression pedal is a much better long-term solution.

As far as I know, it isn't possible. As a test I set both the Pedal and one of the knobs to control Volume. On the main screen I can see the value of the Volume parameter and it is changed by the knob, but not by any of the pedals. It's the same with Pedal type set to Foot Switch and Exp. Pedal. I believe the "Pedal edit" menu controls only the pedal connected to the expression pedal input. Unless Casio provides an improvement in a firmware update, a solution might be to modify the wires and connect part of SP-33 to the expression pedal socket, but that really depends on how SP-33 works in detail.

This information is available in the manual on page EN-76 in a somewhat abbreviated form. Also take a look at the Appendix, page 14. I like the idea of this table quite a bit. I tells you which settings are stored in registrations, which are restored after restart, when you press the "Grand Piano" button etc. It helps to figure out how to set things up. As far as Line in volume is concerned, it isn't tied to a registration. It's sort of global and it can be restored after restart if you enable the "Auto resume" option. Note that the Line in in PX-560 accepts a pretty low signal. Manual specifies 200 mV (page EN-92), which is -11.7 dBu or -14 dBV. I found that it can take a bit more maybe 300-400 mV. If the signal is hotter, it clips, which can be heard as distortion of the high-volume content. Adjusting Line in volume does not help with that, since the clipping seems to appear before the volume is applied. You need to adjust the volume of the source appropriately. You may also want to take a look at the diagram on page A-6. It shows how the input from Line in flows, also in comparison with the simpler Audio in. I can add that Line in has an adjustable noise gate (3 levels), while Audio in doesn't. Also, Line in is recorded by the internal audio recorder, while Audio in isn't.

Simone, I believe PX-560 can go louder than it is out of the box with factory settings. It seems there's some headroom left for processing such as EQ. Did you try the stuff I mentioned in the other thread? It applies especially to percussive instruments such as piano. Organs get much higher average SPL without tweaks.

I didn't try. I need someone with PX-5S to team up and provide the data. It would be an interesting exercise - we would see if and how well PX-5S tones translate to PX-560. The devil might be in the details.

Old Man Tom, As far as the volume is concerned, you can increase it by doing the following steps: - Go to Tone -> Edit -> Amp and increase the volume of the tone (it works on the tone basis) - Go to Master Equalizer and increase the input level. It works globally.

I have PX-560 and can help, but I don't have PX-5S I have an idea, though. What about opening the tone/stage setting in the data editor and taking one or more screenshots? That would provide all the data necessary to recreate the tone, wouldn't it? The thing is that the data editor doesn't let you open PX-5S files unless you have an actual PX-5S hooked up to your computer.

Turning the speakers off doesn't change anything in the measurements. I have one more data point. The maximal output voltage on open circuit is about 1.18 Vrms. It's not extremely much, but not bad either. It should be enough to drive headphones with low impedance and reasonable sensitivity. There's another article from nwavguy that I can recommend: http://nwavguy.blogspot.de/2011/09/more-power.html Max voltage + output impedance combined with relevant headphone specs and one of the formulas from the article gives you enough information to calculate the peak SPL.

Just performed an update. Everything went fine. Contrary to what I thought, the user-created stuff and setting are actually untouched after the update.