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This is my first song of 2017. Life https://www.reverbnation.com/silverbeat/song/27464943-you-may-or-you-may-not-know Cheers, Terry Words and Music Piano, vocal and all keyboardsFull Arrangements, production, engineering and mixing Completed by Terry Carroll

I find so now and then something that strikes me once in a while on the XW with an "oh" The DSP been on my exploration list for a long while because well there seems like there are two DSP but you only get to use one where the other is for dual usage like ""FlangReflection". "The way I came to understand where it does it like that." The XW controls the DSP FX differently in each of its mode when in tone mode but it also mixes the tones differently in each of its modes for an example. I've given an edited Clav tone a DistPan and saved that compare it to the same clav DistPan in performance mode (with EQ off) in tone mode the sound presence would be kinda mild soft tone where in Performance a non edited tone get full presence in the sound its like monaural vs stereo. Edited tones used in Performance mode also have a different sound presence, Actually in performance an edited tone sounds less full then one that isn't in performance mode. an edited tone will sound exactly the way as it is in tone mode while being used in performance mode. So in performance mode the XW gives two different sounds from exactly the same tone that seem to be processed differently by the matrix mixer. It gives a different perspective to how patches can be build with edited tones though. So I went further in the rabbit hole and dug deeper to see how much a difference there is while mixing edited and non edited tones together in performance mode. For instance when an edited tone DSP parameter is set to on and used in performance mode all the parameters will be maintained except the DSP (there is only one DSP to use) so all sounds will use that DSP setting. But there those edited tone get the same full presence you also get with non edited tones in performance mode. Well that is odd so there is less presence with edited tones in performance if you don't set their DSP on. But if you do their presence sound full as the non edited ones. That got interesting cause now I can use a DSP effect to concatenate a full sound presence while still having the other tone parameters like ADSR time , Vib settings fixed as I wanted them. I can change those by setting the knobs to that particular #CC whahahaha. <-(*thats me having fun *). Well that journey got interesting I dug into the XW and it showed me what its sonic capable off. The practice I got doing this serves me well in digging deeper in my other synths such as the PX5S the more I learn to know the faster I can build something.

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

I really want to learn how to mix, modify, and create sounds, but I'm overwhelmed with all of the ways there are to modulate a tone! I am a COMPLETE beginner. I've spent a few nights playing around with everything the PX-5s has to offer, and I feel like I'm paddling a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean. Are there some good resources for beginners out there trying to make their own sounds? For example, what is equalization, compression, distortion, attack, attack decay, etc? How can I recreate an awesome piano sound in a song I heard on the radio? Are there effect and filters that do or don't combine well? Is there a way to imitate sliding a note on a guitar with the px-5s? It feels like there is SO much to learn and I can't WAIT to learn it, but I'm having trouble even knowing where to begin! Any suggestions??