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Looks like it is not possible to assign the rotary effect to the modulation wheel. I can not find it there. I can assign a chorus, vibrato, lots of other things the wheel but there is not rotary effect there. Please let me know why it is not there and how to assign rotary to the mod wheel. Thank you!!

Yes, this is the only and the obvious way. But quite often I would select the organ from the different registrations depending which one I use at that moment so I will have to modify all the registrations then. But, frankly, why would Casio developers program all the organs with that cheezy horrible vibrato effect on the modulation wheel instead of at least rotary or chorus... Weird...n All other keyboards I owned (Roland, Yamaha, Korg) have organs setup with the rotary for the modulation wheel.

Ok, thank you for your input, AlenK. But do you know how can I globally change the vibrato to a rotary effect on the modulation wheel for all the organ sounds? Otherwise, the organ sounds are not usable to me.

Me too! Always had, always do. It annoys me... But still had that clipping issue

That's where I was getting most of the clipping from - the acoustic pianos...

Could not be happening at all the stages with all different gear and soundmen. While other keyboards sound just fine. As I said I'm yet to test my brand new replaced 560 but that's how the issue was happening for me with the one that I had replaced.

Wow!! Didn't have a chance to check my 560 replacement with the stage PA gear yet. But if this is the case.. Hello, Casio!! Are you hearing us?! And can you do something about it?... Hellooo!!..

Thank you for heads up, Brad! It worked and the store is now confirmed getting the replacement for me!

ok, I've been dealing with Casio in regards to my clipping sound issue and the repair centre did confirm the issue. But instead of replacing the defective unit Casio Canada decided to repair it. I'm not happy with repairing the unit that was defective right out of the box and I want it to be replaced. Any advice on how to go about it instead of repair? Thank you.

Ok, it's still clipping the sound system. I have a rack of 4 keyboards on the stage and the Cassio is the only one that is crapping PA. Please advise how to go about replacing the unit. Thank you.

As I mentioned before, I don't do any auto comp things/gigs and I don't use sampling and I would not need the internal speakers (not sure what would I use those for besides some homework). So, providing I will not use those features is it worth it to pay almost 3 times price of XW P1? And would I be maybe better off with X300? What is the biggest difference between 300 and 500? Besides 200 fewer sounds and fewer pads. What sounds are missing from X500 and are they really that important? Thank you!

no, I dont do MIDI. I need it as a secondary keyboard for the live gigs on tbe second tear along with my PX560 and my Hammond on the right of me.

So, all in all would you guys say that besides the designated solo synth and the step sequencer, the X500 has everything XW P1 has but much better and improved?

are the sounds same as PX 560?

I'm using my boards for a live playing. I got PX 560, Yamaha MX 49, Hammond SK2 and Yamaha CS as a phat little synth. I want to replace my MX49 with Casio. MX49 has a great sounds from Motif and I created and saved some songs performances for the live gigs and I also manually call string, organs (when i don't bring my Hammond SK2), vibes, some layers, etc. . But MX49 has a horrible NOT friendly user interface and features (Yamaha guys, are you reading this?..) and is a pain to use for the live gigs even that I know it very well by now. So, i was considering XW-P1 as i loved the intreface and how easy it is to use after I played around with it in the store. And I love the space they made on the right of the board to place anyting from iPhone or iPad to Ventilator or a lilttle mixer... But after a lillte research i stumbled with X500. XW-P1 is now on a special deal fro $599 CAD. But the X500 looks like a newer model. I do like that Synth mode on XW-P1 though and the price And I do not need all that sequencer stuff the X500 has... So, Im a bit undecuded now what to get... Theres is also X300..

Thank you AlenK. So, it does look like in the way the X500 IS a successor to XWP1. Or, I'd say indirect successor?.. As it can do everything XW-P1 can but much better? And yes the price is almost triple. Pads are I can care less about as I don't do any sequencing. The touch screen is the same as PX560 that I own. All I care is good sounds, simplicity/easy (on the fly) to use in a live situation. I am looking to buy XP P1 but was wondering if Casio made any updated models of it and came across the X500. So, now I'm bit undecided as of what to go for...

Is the MZ X500 a successor to XW-P1? Can it do/does it have the same features as XW-P1 or is it somewhat a different instrument?s, piano samples, new touch screen. But is there something it doesn't have that XW-P1 has? For example, does the MZ -X500 have the phat synth like the XWP1? XW-P1 vs MZ-X500 would be great. Unless there is a dedicated comparison page on Casio somewhere? Oh, and I'm not really interested in the arranging functions on both of these boards. Thank you!

Hmm... Did I? Where is it located on the panel? I don't have the keyboard in front of me. And did I also miss the split and layer buttons? Thank you!

I'm just looking to pick up the XW-P1 but I need to be sure I can create performances (sound sets) that I can quickly access and use for different songs live. Checking in the store I didn't find any preset performances and didn't find the way to create and save one. Please advise. And also, is it possible to create performances consisting split, layer out of different sound groups, for example, mix and match so to speak Organ group with Synth group or PCM or HEX sounds? Can I also do a split and layer two sounds on the fly? Thank you in advance!

ok, i did the factory reset. Still distorting, I will test it in at the New eve gala I'm doing thru the big PA and will update here. I am in Canada. Thank you!

Yes, my firmware was outdated V.1.0 I now updated it to V.1.10 and was able to save all the registrations but I did not reset the keyboard to factory defaults. Wouldn't it bring back the outdated firmware? I have 4 gigs tomorrow and on two of them I'm using the PX 560. So, will test how it works and if there are still any distortions and will post the update tomorrow. Thank you, Brad!

There is none. Nu such option. See the attachment. And the keyboard is still cracking every amp I tried. I think I'll be calling the Casio support...

Thank you for the explanation, Brad! What is the DSP stands for? So I better understand all this FX setup. Thx!!!

Thank you for the explanation, Brad! What is the DSP stands for? So I better understand all this FX setup. Thx!!!

Ok, I'm a bit confused on the saving options, I expected I can just dump for example all my registrations on the USB. But instead I see Bank01 - AREA 01, Bank01 - AREA 02, Bank01 - AREA 03, Bank01 - AREA 04 Bank02 - AREA 01, Bank02 - AREA 02, Bank02 - AREA 03, Bank02 - AREA 04 etc. I'm not sure what that is. I thought there are 24 banks per each registration. But what this above doesn't make any sense to me and there is not much of an explanation in the manual. I would not be happy to go and save and rename one registration at the time. Besides I can't remember what I got in each one unless I open my show book to look up songs each registration is created for Please help. Thx!