Name Limitations and Suggestions for Registrations

[Jazzman]

I have had my MZ-X500 for just shy of a week now and it certainly has an impressive array of features.  My intended use is as a one man band arranger and I'll probably not use many of the in-depth features for customizing sounds.  What is important to me is the ability to catalog and recall registrations quickly by song name.  I find that in this area Casio has significantly limited our ability without having an external reference sheet.  Here are the limitations that I hope Casio can address in a future system update:

 

1.  A registration name is limited to 12 characters.  This is problematic because many songs have similar names, twelve characters including spaces is simply not enough to easily differentiate the titles.  The character limit also mens that you need to drop some words so for example, while you may be looking for "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" you may have named the registration "It's Alright" or "Don't Think".  There is plenty of room in the on-screen name field to expand the character limit to 24 characters which would be greatly appreciated.

 

2.  The customized name of the song registrations does not appear on the main screen, only the bank # and registration # appear there.  Unless you are very exact in how you are going to play the song sequence for your set you may inadvertently start the wrong rhythm pattern.  Alternatively you can see and select the song you want to play from the registration naming screen but then you cannot change the part you are playing on the fly unless you exit back to the main screen.  That is a lot of jumping around. It would be easily solved if the display showed the registration name along with the bank and registration # on the main screen.  

 

3.  There is no capability to display the registration names in alpha order.  They are kept in order by the bank # then registration # so you end up with 96 random song titles in the list. I hope Casio will consider allowing us to sort by alpha order.

 

4.  Registration set names are limited to eight uppercase characters.  This means that you really need to be creative in abbreviating the sets names.  For example, if I want to have a set for "Thanksgiving 2016 at XYZ Club" i need to abbreviate to something like "Nov_2016" or "TGIV2016".   Not very descriptive, so you lack the ability to name a venue and date for future reference. This must be a hold over from the old 8 character dos filename convention.  I hope Casio will consider allowing us to name sets with an alias of reasonable length like 36 characters with punctuation, upper and lower case characters.