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Hey guys, I have loaded some user samples into my MZ-X500 lately. I noticed some sound changes between the WAV file and the ZTN playback in the MZ-X500. Especially with Saw-Waves and Brass Ensebles the ZTN sounds are thinner and spikier. I import the wave files with 40.1 kHz, as it is written in the manual of the SampleManager. How can I ensure a better fidelity from WAV to ZTN?

My latest acquisition! I've never owned an SK model, and thought it was about time that I did. The classic SK-1, 5, 200 etc. are all rather sought after these days and can command rather high prices on eBay. Then I found out about the later SK-60 model, which is actually quite a bit more powerful than the earlier SK's, with much more sampling time, higher quality sampling, sampling effects, the ability to split sampling time to one long sample, two shorter samples or four short samples. Then it also has the ability of voice cycling, meaning that with each key press it will cycle through sample 1, sample 1 - 2, sample 1 - 2 - 3, or sample 1 - 2 - 3 and 4. The possibilities this gives you is immense. Oh, and you can even assign the root sample to any specific key, then the sampler will work with that, and there are four effects pads that can work their magic on the samples. On top of that, it has this somewhat weird "magical singer" feature that uses sort of acapello voice sounds for melody and even the "drums" (sort of like beat boxing, ish.) Best of all, as it's not as collectable as the earlier SK's, they can be picked up for less. This one is almost in 'as new' condition too and works perfectly. Somewhat strangely seeing as it's more powerful than the earlier SK's, it lacks both a headphone/ line out and also microphone line in jack sockets. It also seemed to have been marketed more as a gimmick/ toy rather than as a serious piece of kit. Having a few initial try out sessions I'm very impressed at what this crazy little keyboard is capable of. And yes, I've already tried doing Paul Hardcastle's "19" and Fatboy Slim's "Rockafella Skank" with it! 😂 Plans are to add a line out and possibly a mic line in, then see if I can do an entire song with it. Maybe in conjunction with my equally bonkers Casio Rapman keyboard! Regardless, I'm going to have a lot of fun with this SK-60. Crazy Casio at their best!

Hi everyone, I recently bought a XW-G1 and am loving the product (although the documentation leaves a lot to be desired). I am in the procces of putting some of my old projects (sample based hiphop) into the G1 but am running into a little problem with wich i hope someone can help me with: i upload my samples, save them and go to the right user tone (200 and up). i then go to the step sequencer, assign the solo synth to channel 1 and put in the notes live trough step edit. Now here comes my problem: when i have a sample that is made of multiple splits that all loop seamless and i put split one in the first step and next in the fourth to keep the loop going it seems to cut of the last part of the loop from step one when its near step four. When i only trigger 1 step in a pattern it doesn't seem to have this problem but because of the complexity of some of the songs this is not an option since i would be loosing to much patterns if i can only trigger a sample once per pattern. I hope i worded my problem accurate and understandable (english is not my first language) and one of you geniuses can help me. Edit: the problem is not the sampled loops length or quality, i already checked this and it plays normal when i only trigger one step per patter

I got busy updating the interstellar package then I decide to create a new Crunchy package specifically for looping, Created a short loop from those patches and step sequences its a bit sloppy I was surprised there me making this its kinda fun noodle-jam . Funkalicious.MP3