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Hi Silvano, do you mean a new model?

I can only confirm what Randy said and what you other guys also confirmed: the MZ-X500 is a great board, full of power, simple to manage, with a ton of features. It's also true that everytime I sit in from of this board it's instant fun Casio has done a great job, no dubts!

I totally agree! Organs are very good and playable on the MZ-X500! Congratulation for your purchase!

@Popsel Hi Well, to be honest I've not looked yet at how tones are stored, I had just a quick look some time ago to what the Sample Manager stores but since a tone has many more parameters than a pad data I've started from them to try to understand the logic behind. I hope to map the pad data in a week or two since I'm quiet busy with my real job now... Btw ZTN seems not much different from pad data, just more complex because of the more parameters & eventually custom samples with velocity triggers, etc... I don't know why the Sample Manager cannot reopen tones coming from the MZ-X, I never tried. I'm pretty sure that there is some sample data conversion (compression) between SampleManager->MZ-X and back, maybe we cannot reopen tones because a bug or by design. Maybe the Sample Manager cannot decompress sample data... who knows... we need to investigate

I'm trying to understand the file format used to store pads, I really miss a PC editor and I'll try to build an editor when I'll have figured out the format. Data are not encrypted and not compressed, at least it seems so, but the job is really time consuming: - change data - export - check what's changed in the exported file multiplied for every single parameter Why manufacturers does not make public the saved file format it's a big mistery for me

A software to manage data files would be awesome, if only Casio could open the format to the public I (or any developer interested) could develop such a software, this wuold add an infinite value to the MZ X keyboards... Think about if you could edit/create you pad banks from the PC, or manage the registrations, this could save a great amount of time! Come on Casio! If you don't want to update the firmware or invest in software tools, give us the ability to build the software we need!

My midi collection comes from free sites, no big problems playing back them, I've never tried to convert audio to midi but I suspect that they are the most problematic ones

I've no problem playing back midi files from USB stick, some files sound bad but it's because, as @Brad Saucier says, they miss some initialization data like program changes.

I've found this on Twitter dated 17 Feb 2020

Thank you! I've downloaded the samples from this site which "seems" legit

Fade to Gray (Visage) Thank you all for the nice comments, I hope to find soon a couple of hours to make a new video!

Hello guys, Finally I've got the time to record something on the MZ-X500, I hope to make more videos soon, I'd like to show all the incredible features this keyboard hide under its blue skin I think this keyboard deserves some respect I think

@Shad0wfax I completely agree with you! I've a MZ-X500 along an MOX6, and I'm using the MZ-X500 almost every day to record ideas, and play for pure fun! It's so easy and quick to edit stuff or to create a scene (registration) adjusting everything you need! The only complains are for Casio policy about this keyboard which seems to have been abandoned to its destiny. I hope that Casio will think again, and will listen to all users of the MZ-X line for an updated firmware release, anyway the really important thing for me is that every time I turn on this keyboard I really enjoy it

A very handy addition could be something that could help us to recognize tones that use DSP, a symbol on the tone name would be enough.

Happy New Year my friends! :D