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Hello everyone. Over the past month I've acquired two SK-1s in various states of grime and battery leak and got them all cleaned and going. When in "normal" mode, the keyboard should have 4-note polyphony. A problem I see in both SK-1s is that the polyphony fails & it doesn't even revert to mono, worse, the note you strike fails to trigger. These SK-1s are 32 or 33 years old! Are any of you familiar with this old glitch? I feel almost baffled that it happens in both keyboards. And guess what? Sometimes the polyphony just magically works correctly. Very rarely though. Thanks!

Hi All, I'm struggling working out the best way to setup triggering the px-5s drums from an external drum sequencer within a stage setting and was looking for some advice please. I've recently bought a drumbrute for live performance with the PX-5S. The drum brute has a global midi channel setting which I've set to 1. It seems to be limited to either send note data or not and this is done via the app rather than on the unit, so not convenient for switching on and off. Therefore, when I'm using the drum brute's sounds, it will trigger whatever tone is in zone 1 on the PX-5S. Of course, if I have a synth in zone 1 (when I'm not using the px drums) it will trigger that, which I won't want. I can configure the output note values from the drum brute, and I tried setting them to values >88 and setting the px KEY RANGE HIGH in zone 1 (for sounds I don't want the drum brute to trigger) to C8. The idea being that I would create drum kits on the PX with note values >88 and put them in zone 1 when I needed them. However, it looks like KEY RANGE HIGH only affects the actual keyboard and not the incoming midi (I guess the clue is probably in the name , therefore the synth sound will still trigger the higher notes from the incoming midi. Is there an easy way around this? I could dedicate zone 1 for all of my stage settings to drums, and only have a kit present in a stage setting when I need them. Is that the way I need to go, or can I stop sounds in zone 1 from being triggered by incoming midi for certain stage settings? Hope that makes sense. Thanks

Hello All! I seem to be having a problem when striking certain bass notes (especially C or F) to play a chord using auto-accompaniment. 4 out of 5 times, the keyboard is not recognizing that I just changed the chord which is kind of embarrassing! Is there a way to change the sensitivity of the keys in regards to the auto-accomp? I did see the section on velocity but I'm not sure that applies in this case. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you.