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I just got my new Privia PX-5S today and am currently trying to set it up. I have all the cables in place. All that is missing is SOUND. I've been going through the owners manual to try to find the answer but am unable to find one. I didn't know if there were built in speakers that just aren't working? I've even plugged in M-AUDIO studio speakers and there is still no sound. I've tried playing the piano while adjusting the knobs, yet, still no sound. Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks! -Clint

Okay.........Mike Martin was gracious to guide me through a couple of " Casio Logic" moves that resulted in: A channeling of my emails to him to the forum to the benefit of all... 1. Successful download of updates for BOTH the XW P1 and the PX 5S. 2. My old instincts kicked in. Those who know me will know that I will be relentless in sharing anything I think of value, no charge. 3. I am a teacher, My thought is slowbut very methodical. 4. My desire it to sincerely contribute to the Casio effort. 5. My goal: To address owners of two Casio models and their communication benefits. Feel free to look me up...or ask for info. I am a little cooky, but very sincere. Thanks MIke Martin, Jerry K. and Casio.

I am toying around with the presets on my Privia PX-5S and I want to save a certain set up of sounds for a gig that I am playing. Luckily the show is in January so I have time to not know what I'm doing at the moment. I have a Synth sound with Strings layered with it. I want to somehow save that sound so I can switch between that and a normal piano setting while playing live. Is that possible with this keyboard? Any help with this would be awesome so I don't have to type in what I want before each song! Thanks!

File Name: Dirty loop File Submitter: David File Submitted: 01 Nov 2014 File Category: XW-G1 Tempo: 99 BPM Click here to download this file

File Name: PalaLED (sample) File Submitter: David File Submitted: 12 Oct 2014 File Category: XW-G1 Deep and "hard-hitting" rhythm. Click here to download this file

I have a student who purchased a PX-130 digital keyboard a number of years ago. She was playing around with the feature that shifts the sound of the keyboard up either 1 or 2 octaves, and now it is "stuck" sounding 2 octaves higher. I have tried following the directions in the manual, but nothing is working. With the level of music she is playing now, she really needs the keyboard to play in the correct octave, as it was originally...help! Has anyone else ever encountered this problem?

This question little silly but i need to clear on this... i purchased ctk 245 but i can't attach with Fl Studio Because it don't have USB option But Can i Add USB Option to this piano if can Than Please share your thoughts/...... Thanks in advance

Alright I have a question that might be stupid but it's stumping me and figure someone on here might be able to help. I have a Casio XWP1, it's about two years old now, and I was wanting to hook up a midi foot controller to it to be able to switch between patches/tones. What are all the things that need to be enabled on the keyboard for it to recognize the controller and do I need to move my tones into the performance function for it to be able to switch between them. I've been looking specifically at the behringer fcb1010 if anyone already uses one and could even help with the controller set-up.

File Name: Gee Are 300 (XW Solo) File Submitter: Mike Martin File Submitted: 24 Jul 2013 File Category: XW-Synths First attempt at the famous Roland GR-300 sound as used by Pat Metheny and countless others. Click here to download this file

I am unable to use my new Casio PX-150 with Finale and was told by Finale that, "We are aware of an issue when using some of Casio's newest models of keyboards to enter notes in Finale on Mac computers. Keyboards such as the PX-350 have implemented a new HD MIDI technology which sends an additional controller message on CC#88. This controller is not compatible with any of our current notation products. Some users report that third-party programs, such as Midipipe by SubtleSoft, can be used in conjunction with Finale to filter controller messages. These third-party programs are currently untested by MakeMusic and we cannot offer support for using them with Finale." Has anyone dealt with this and have a fix?

"Another original music composition ("Adrianna Groove") showing off the power of the Casio XW-P1. This is ONE take, so still sticking to my "play live" attitude. (ok ok, the perfect is the evil of the good, so there is one little blip), but this is just sitting down and playing...the way music should be it seems to me, at least whenever possible....but must admit that I like the better quality computer recording (even on one channel)...Oh well. The pads and filters are totally on the XWP1, while at the same time I am controlling (2) other synths simultaneously via midi. The piano you hear is a layered Casio and EX5R piano, plus EX5R created arps, with the drums and strange industrial timing sounds being triggered to the Miniak....all played LIVE in ONE take....on ONE channel on ONE Keyboard. Basically mix on the hardware FIRST...then just play and record all at once. The P1 keys are quick, so my 88 key style is harsh to say the least...(classically trained trumpet fingers). All sounds modified/created by myself (except for the piano of course.) This song blends tons of genres together, and has typical corporate bs structure....oh well. For the money, this XW-P1 is a real pro sounding power monster, IMHO, and CAN compete against the high dollar big boys, especially in LIVE situations. Thanks Tune is for my niece......Adri"

So I recorded myself playing my casio priva px5s and i go trough all the steps to play it back but its silent. I took the usb drive to my pc but the wave file plays back silent there too. My usb drive is formatted corectely i dont know whats wrong.

Has anyone had any luck building some good ambient stage settings on the PX-5S? I'm trying to write in the vein of Sigur Ros, Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Tycho, etc., and I would really like to build some cool ambient stage settings. Anybody have one they can share, or have any tips on building my own?

I am looking for tone tb-303 to the XW-G1. But I can not find it. Can you help me? Thank you. PS: the search engine does not find it...

Hello, I am collector of music keyboards and electronic sound toys and partly modify them into synthesizers. This is my keyboard site: http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/index.html I bought an eprommer ("Willem PRO4 isp",had unfortunately defective transistors and other flaws I had to fix) and have started to dump EPROMs and ROMs of my keyboard collection. - Has anybody tried yet to make an emulator (similar like MAME) for old Casio keyboards? E.g. Casiotone 401 and MT-40 are controlled by an Intel MCS-48 microcontroller which ROM I successfully dumped. So at least the accompaniment section would be possible to emulate yet. Robin Whittle (firstpr.com) found out much about the Consonant-Vowel synthesis main voice sound ICs in early Casios, which would be useful to emulate them. Also the various Casio calculator emulators on the internet might be useful to understand what kinds of special CPUs Casio has used. Google patent search helped much to get an idea what is going on inside of them. Unfortunately most early main ICs seem to be rather based on general digital logics (networks of gates, counters and flipflops - like a Pong game) than a CPU (software controlled by one central code ROM) in its stricter sense. I am still working on documenting the pinouts and functions (e.g. key matrix eastereggs) of all 1980th Casio home keyboard special ICs. For this I already have examined all service manuals I could find on free websites. Unfortunately there aren't many about first generation Casios. (If you need info, e-mail me.) I also own a dead SK-200 (from eBay,someone elses circuit-bending-corpse); after disabling the auto-power-off (to make it turn on),only all lights flicker wildly and there is some bus activity (seen on CRT oscilloscope), but it makes no sound at all. Does anybody know the symptom? Is the sound CPU dead?

Triangular wave modulation (US patent 5164530) is an FM-like Casio speciality that generates waveforms by modulating a monotonous carrier function with a sine (or other) wave and decoding the signal by mirroring it at a triangular wave. With the same count of operators (here only 2?) the produced waveform has higher harmonics than normal FM because at high modulation the wave peaks fold back into the opposite direction. Without modulation it outputs a sine wave and so can nicely blend between very dull and bright timbres. The carrier waveform stands in ROM and so can be switched between a variety of timbres. Like with FM, operators can be combined in various ways. https://www.google.com/patents/US5164530 - Is TM part of the "phase distortion" engine or something else? I own a CZ-230S and revived a CZ-101 (had severe water and fire damage), but I am no PD expert and never heard about TM synthesis before (even websearch doesn't help much). Is this used in phase distortion synths (e.g. the later VZ-series) or is this only used in the Casio "Pulse Code Modulation" engine of preset sound keyboards? Patent 5164530 suggests that Casio at least planned to make dedicated TM synthesizers with a PD/FM-like user interface. I am reworking my technical keyboard descriptions for the WarrantyVoid site. So I websearched for 1980th keyboard patents and discovered a lot of interesting info. https://www.google.com/patents/US5319151 This is what I wrote for my SA-series page: The Casio "PCM" sound generation is apparently described quite detailedly in the US patent 5319151; it is based on a highly complex softsynth with many algorithms those can perform PCM, DPCM, FM and TM (triangular wave modulation) synthesis with sophisticated envelopes. This rather confusing 121 page tome of a patent text however is ambiguous, because it covers plenty of different implementations those e.g. can employ different counts of chip-internal sub-CPU cores for sound generation in higher grade instruments. The SA-series is surely the cheapest described "First" or "Second Embodiment" which has none. The algorithms for this version even describe how shorter tasks are stuffed with blank "dummy commands" to keep the timing in sync when different sounds would need different computing time. It works indeed very VCS2600-like - a marvel of freakish realtime programming made from one big loop (plus in "First Embodiment" one timer IRQ to compute waveforms and fill the DAC output FIFO; the "Second" does even this during dummy commands). The interpolation method with that Casio smoothly blends between wavetable sections is described in the US patent 4442745 "Long duration aperiodic musical waveform generator" It plays sections of compacted samples back and forward to implement things like long decaying cymbals. US patent 4958552 explains algorithms how envelope data is extracted from natural instrument recordings and applied on loop samples as a approximated segmented functions. The original envelope may be removed from the stored loop sample by a waveform normalizer (US patent 4691608). Most important is that these chained envelopes can have basically any length and have (unlike e.g. ADSR) no fixed count of steps. Combined with crossfading between adjacent loop samples this permits very flexible sound definition. The US patent 5319151 "Data processing apparatus outputting waveform data in a certain interval" mentions for the "First Embodiment" that the chip size is only 5x5mm, a program word has 28 bits (including lower potion of next address) and these further hardware specs: "With regard to the circuit scale and the operation time of the specific embodiment (PCM sound source system capable of producing eight polyphonic sounds) the control ROM has a size of 112K bits, RAM 445.4K bits and the control data/waveform ROM (for 100 timbres) 508K bits; one machine cycle is about 276 nanoseconds with a maximum number of cycles of the interrupt program when invoked being about 150; and the executing period of the interrupting process (tone output sampling period) is about 47 microseconds." Expressed in KBytes this would mean 55.7KB RAM, 14KB program ROM and 63.5KB sound ROM, which isn't far away from a Commodore C64 with large ROM cartridge. Said CPU speed would be about 3.6 MIPS. Higher grade MIDI keyboards like MT-240, MT-540 or MT-750 certainly have sub-CPU cores for 16 bit sound generation. Their external ROM is 512KB up to 1MB. Interesting is that OKI made a general midi sound IC ML2860 (32 note polyphonic ADPCM) to play high quality ring tones in mobile phones, but the datasheet from 2002 contains a very strange note: "Please appreciate that ML2860 is not offered for musical instrument and toy applications, such as keyboards." This suggests that OKI licensed an efficient sound synthesis engine (possibly even surplus ICs) from Casio keyboards, but had to sign an agreement not to use it in competitive products against Casio. - Does anybody know more about this sound engine?

Good nights. I would like to make a suggestion for Casio product developers, and it's to create a basic keyboard aimed to the kind of people who just wants to play and doesn't need a multi track recorder or rythms at all. That keyboard should be centered on the quality of sounds without needing to have 200 sounds, I mean that with two dozens or so you could do really well (if they're well choosen), and not having features as the rythms or multi track recorder would probably make it cheaper to build. If it were designed retro style, maybe even with real wood (or at least a looking like wood finish) with powerful integrated speakers (20>X>10 W RMS) and with a 5 octaves manual with two sets of drawbars, one like the Hammond B3 from the current CTK7200 series and the other a newly developed one based on (or sampled from) the legendary Vox Continental. Put this together and include some of the sounds of the CTK series like the piano, harpsichord, a couple more organs (a Farfisa, one sounding like Deep Purple's Wring that neck organ, one for church, one for gospel...), strings, brass and a synth and you'll have a winner (you could even reverse the black and white keys colour as in the original Continental, to have a damm sexy winner): Have you, Casio marketers, noticed that actually there's no under 1000 € keyboard offering Vox Continental sounds? That's the keyboard used by The Doors, The Animals, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees and several other classic bands from the sixties and seventies. Korg (the owners of Vox) have their PA50SD which costs around 700 € in Spain and has one Vox Continental sound (called Vox Legend) and that's just ONE sound. For true Continental sounds with the 4 original Vox drawbars you gotta go to Nord and spend a minimum of 1600 €! With the Hammond drawbars you can cover Booker T & the MGs, Jimmy Smith, Procol Harum's Whiter shade of pale, or Gainsbourg's Je t'aime among many other classics (by the way I wonder why there's no preset for that so sought after sounds on the CTK7200 when it could be so easy to have those preconfigured), but you're missing a lot. If Casio could do the same they did for the Hammond like drawbar organ on the CTK7200 for the Vox Continental they will kick Yamaha, Roland and several others out of the under 1000 € market and make history on business industry, Casio will monopolize that classic sixties sounds and be the only one option to choose when looking after it. Just an idea.

I added my personal MIDI files to the MusicDat folder on the USB Drive. Reads Standard Midi files fine. However the playback of MIDI tracks need to be lowered in volume so playing live parts are louder, MIDI is lower. How is this done? Thanks. Tom Piggott

So i just bought my Casio PX-5s and I am having some trouble loading patches that i downloaded from this website. I have them all in the left list (PC user data files) but when i drag them over into the instrument list it asks if I want to replace stage setting already on the piano. I'm worried that means I will be overwriting stock sounds/settings which I definitely don't want to do. I was hoping there would be a seperate section for me to drag these custom patches or stage settings. Yes i have read the editor manual btw. Page 16 onwards was helpful but still didn't enlighten me on this matter. I guess I don't understand the interface too well yet. Any help would be appreciated Michael

Here is a thread (if there isn't one yet) to give ideas/suggestions to Casio. I urge Casio to look closely how quickly DJ and music production are converging within the music industry. Technology advancement created access to software with tremendous capabilities. Many synth software makers are getting in the act to reap a slice of the ITB market with realistic emulation, motion/touch, easy-to-use interface, etc On DJ front, you see not only "ubiquitous" sync button but better beat, tempo, key and energy level matching with new forms of expression. 2013 saw release of many DJ controllers/mixers and DJ-ing is fast becoming accessible to everybody. On music production front, a slew of hardware synths released one after another. A comeback of analog-based synthesizers is on the cards but would its revival be sustained? It seemed that in music products, Casio had chosen a generic approach, releasing keyboards, synthesizers, iPad app, DJ controllers and even DJ headphones - basically a little of everything. However, Casio needs to address the reason(s) why it is not taking pole position and excelling in any of these markets. I think "CASIO" means different things to different people, to some watches and calculators and to others "light-synth action" keyboards, etc. Perhaps Casio's core and forte are not related to music at all. Still, if Casio is serious in getting into the music industry, I have the following ideas/suggestions. Feel free to contribute. Products Line-up - focus resources to lead (menu of complete products) in chosen product market(s) instead of generic approach. - understand market demand and competition, e.g. DJ arena already dominated by S & T houses, etc. - develop quality software applications to match/support hardware. R&D/Engineering - pioneer new sound synthesis, forms of expressions to making music. - look ahead of market trend, i.e. trend-set not market-chase. - take serious account of user inputs/consumer feedback. - provide regular updates of firmware/new functions. Brand Image/Loyalty - create desirable products, the rest would just fall into place! - put in place a cutting-edge marketing/PR team. - provide quality after-sales support.

Hancock Chameleon Stage Setting To play live with a band something looklike the song... Instruments keyboard: EP Rhodes, Synth Bass, Clavi Wha, Synth Lead, Strings Download link

I tweak on Melody Tones, analog synth sound inspired. Some lead, pad, sweep... Demo sounds https://soundcloud.com/andrea-scattolini-1/sets/px-5s-sim-analog-tone-presets Download forum page http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/file/332-melody-tones-analog-style/

Hello: I've found this interesting video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjbm-1S3qIo