Rick Stirling

I would guess because the natural decay time for say C0 is much longer than C6. My question for the OP would be what's wrong with the factory pianos? ;-) I think they're pretty good for this class keyboard, can't compare with my Kronos 2 SGX-2: piano synthesis engine with 12 level velocity switching, but the X500 does OK with 4. (Edit: I originally said 5)

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Terima kasha kembali!

Thank you sir! Look awesome! Thank you for sharing!

What's an MHT file? ;-)

Randelph, No issues here with Windows 10

These are excellent suggestions.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing these!

If it is the USB drive then there's still the issue of MZ-X OS error handling. ;-) The OS should make sure the USB drive is the right size, tested, formatted and ready for use. Error handling is the one way for mfgs to cut corners to save time and firmware memory. Unfortunately when they do this you end up with fragile systems that will crash or freeze if the environment is not perfect.

Maybe they're busy creating new videos for the new MZ's ;-)

Jazzman, How many recordings did you do in one continuous session before the keyboard locked up? I think I have seen this behavior myself when I was doing a long series of recording sessions. Makes me think there might be a memory leak in the OS related to the Audio Recorder. After a period of time the OS loses enough memory to these processes that it eventually freezes the OS. Not nice.

Brad, It's really all about making the instrument my own and I'm afraid Korg spoiled me forever regarding rewritable factory resources. ;-)

See my edited post above. ;-)

I'd like to arrange the locations of my rhythms to suit my needs. I'd like to edit a grand piano and have it be in the right slot not somewhere off in the hinterlands of user memory. That way my preferred pianos are quickly available when I press the PIANO button. I'd like to store my preferred tones to the GM slots so I don't have to spend so much time editing midis.

I would add user rewritable factory rhythms and factory tones. Half the rhythm slots on the x500 are not my cup of tea.

If I ever ,need to do this the two handed approach works fine for me.

OK I think I see what you are talking about. If you program a registration with synchro start Intro 1 when you select that registration while playing another rhythm it goes immediately to Variation 1 not Intro 1. Not sure how I feel about that, it's not a 'feature' I would ever use in my playing as when I change rhythms in the middle of a song I don't want the intro to play again. Looks like a two handed approach is needed. Press the new registration with your right hand while pressing Intro 1 with your left? ;-)

Yes, no problem with loading registration when rhythm is playing. You'll need to create a YouTube video to show us the issue. I can't seem to replicate it here.

A classic case of "The Grass is Always Greener" syndrome. (sometimes expressed as "Buyer's Remorse") Example: "Many of you have heard the old saying that the grass is always greener on the other side. I can picture a farmer leaning against a wooden fence with a straw hat on examining the condition of his grass. As he looks down, he sees bare patches and other blemishes in his field. Looking over the fence to his neighbor’s field he sees nothing but green healthy growth. What this farmer doesn’t see are the many blemishes in the neighbor’s field because he’s not standing in it but looking at it from a distance." The E-A7 is not without its own blemishes.

Silvano, You have mixed bugs with feature requests in this list. Perhaps we should separate them into two lists? A bug is something that doesn't work the way the manual says it should. A feature request is an added functionality not found in the manuals. For example: 1. Feature Request --> Changing Rhythms does not change the BPM and has to (be) change(d) through the Tempo buttons. 2. Bug: --> Preload of maximum memory hangs factory sounds I agree that there should be a global parameter added to allow the changing of tempo with the saved rhythm, but it must be an option as some folks mght not want the current tempo to change as they switched rhythms while playing. re: #2 Think the vast majority of X500 owners never load user samples so they would not see this issue. (out of sight, out of mind) By the way, have you had conversations with your local Casio sales company about these issues? If so what was their response?

Little commenting because the people who read this forum have nothing to do with product development and can not force the issue with Casio in Japan. The USA and other sales companies can let the manufacturer know about issues, but those issues should first be brought up with direct communications with the local sales company, not here on a user forum. I would think manufacturers and sales companies would have dedicated staff to plumb the user fora for valuable insights into their product issues and how those products are perceived by their customer base. Unfortunately that is rarely done these days. The other possibility is that other users have not experienced the issues posted to this forum and have little interest in spending time confirming them. I had an issue early on with the X500 crashing & freezing, but have not seen that happen since version 1.50 was released.

Should eventually come down to $1700-$1800 US

Should sell for about $1100 here in USA by the end of the year. 😉