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  1. Casio has made some real musical jewels over the years, and the 80's era RZ-1 Digital Sampling Rhythm Composer is one great example. I bought my RZ-1 new, and still have it. It was only an 8bit machine, but back then that didn't matter and besides Casio put the most usable samples in it already. But its most incredible feature was its sampler and 4 panel buttons for them. You just didn't find drum machines with samplers that good back then. First sample I added was a tambourine. We used the hell out of those customized samples. The front panel buttons were Perfectly designed, with two Accent buttons, a must for realism! The front panel included a mixer with sliders, and there were outputs on the back for every drum sound, for you super tweakers. Most people who hear my tapes think it's a real drummer. The only giveaway was maybe the crash because it was truncated due to memory constraints, but heck my drummers use to do that on purpose a lot anyway. With reverb you could extend the crash tail (ahhhh... By using the crash's separate output in the back) The cool thing about that was you could trigger other sounds from any of the RZ-1's sounds. ( bass drum triggering bass guitar's noise gate on : ,"Land of Confusion") Course it had MIDI implementation too. The RZ-1 was simple and intuitive! The front panel silkscreen was near perfect! The color scheme was cool, and pretty much matched my Yamaha gear, so folk thought maybe it was a Yamaha. (Could be a Casio right? Dont they just make toys... Well tell that to Eric Johnson) I consider myself an expert at programming and using the RZ-1. I've programmed about 100 songs with it, and gigged in the DFW area for 2 years with it. We kept going thru drummers, and I also composed a lot, and one day I came across the affordable RZ-1 and couldn't resist it. Now I didn't program easy stuff. I was in an arena style progressive rock band, and was programming ELP, Yes, Rush, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, early and 80's Genesis tunes, and the like. Only a couple times did I run out of pattern memory, like on ELP's 3rd Empression. (Yea we did that one live too) Today most guys are programming on their computers. But if you don't have a computer, and you're looking to get started on programming drums and want a control surface, check out the RZ-1. I've seen them go for $20 on eBay, if you can find one. They're rare.
  2. Somebody's already done a layout in MIDIDesigner for the PX-5S. Should be able to modify that for the PX-350. I see the value in adding the screen to the 360.
  3. BradMZ, The D140's have been around a LOT longer than the P's. However, ...., I dont want to take away from Peavy though. The Peavy black widow, smart design, allowed you to unscrew the basket with blown voice coil and screw a new one in.
  4. Thanks Rustar. That's just something I threw together in the storage room above the garage to check the 350 out. I attached a picture of my set up an 85. I don't miss the days of hauling all that stuff around in a big truck. Looks great on stage, but I got the bad back to prove it too.
  5. The low A on the PX-350 is the most powerful, full sounding and solid lowest note on a piano that I've ever heard!! I attached a .wav snippet from one of my songs demonstrating that powerful low A. I hope you can play it ok here. Believe me, I've tried all my other keyboards and VST's, and nothing comes close! So the Casio really makes that song pop! LowestA_PX350MWE.wav edit: plays on laptop but not iPhone for some reason.
  6. Rustar, did you get your speaker compartments removed? My 350 is still under warranty so I'm not taking it apart. However I've got the urge to upgrade the internal speakers. The sound of the 350 is incredible thru my Senheiser headphones and killer thru my homemade monitors. I attached a photo. Yeap, those are 60's D140F 15"s, their fs is an amazing 29hz, for musical inst spkrs, so they reproduce the low A with incredible power.
  7. I bought MIDIDesigner and I'm trying it out on my PX-350. It seems to work ok but..,,. This isn't a deal killer, but the damper pedal does not receive midi, but it transmits it. The other 2 pedals work fine. This a bug? The implementation chart says yes for receive and transmit. I'm using the USB MIDI port, not the standard MIDI in/out ports. Looking at the manual, there is a ton of stuff inside the 350 that you'd probably never use or get around to using without software. Hoping to remedy that with this app.
  8. MidiDesigner looks like the most likely candidate to setup the PX-350 or 360. Wonder if anyone's done it yet. I have so many other keyboards & tools I probably won't write a program myself. I'm just using my 350 basically for the 88 keys, grand piano and stereo strings patches.
  9. Anybody still searching for a PX-350 editor to change the internal settings? Last post here was in 2014. I still haven't found any programming software for the PX-350. Too bad someone hasn't come up with an Apple app for the iPhone or iPad. Need more buttons! I hate searching thru settings on the front panel. It gets better once you memorize where everything is. Casio could have done a better job of silkscreening the functions of each button. Now with Windows touch screens, a laptop app could be created with a ton of buttons which would allow you to get more out of the instrument quickly. I'm a programmer, but don't have time to create an app for this keyboard, though the thought of doing it is appealing.
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