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Can somebody spell out in simple english without referring me to the manual how to modify and save stage settings on the PX5S? I simply want to be able to select a tone, modify it as needed and save it for stage recall. Time in between songs is taking too long and it's mostly because of me. Please don't refer me to the manual, I beg of you. I find the manual almost as frustrating as putting together a room full of Ikea furniture. Just the simple steps would be great. The manual continually refers you to "See ______" If you dedicate a topic session to something, it should not refer you to another section of the manual. Almost as much time was probably dedicated to printing "See ______" as it could have been to simply list the steps. This is supposed to be a very friendly stage piano, but there is a section as to how to recall a stage setting, but nothing specific as to how to simply create one. Thanks in advance

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Start here.  http://px-5s.com/   Explore all the resources available for learning how to operate this keyboard.  There's several manuals and videos and a data editor for the computer.  

Within that site is a page of links to videos by Mike Martin.  These should be seen by all who own the PX-5s.  http://sc3900.wix.com/px-5s#!how-to-videos/c9k5

 

If that is not enough.  Come back here or join the facebook group and ask for answers.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Casio.Px5s/

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I'll try. So your question is:

 

How to modify and save stage settings on the PX5S? I simply want to be able to select a tone, modify it as needed and save it for stage recall.

 

Ok so select a stage setting. Do you know how to do that? press bank and then the stage setting number you want.

Each stage setting has up to four zones. Each zone can contain a tone. Zone 1 is the only zone that can contain a drum tone. Zones 1 and 2 are the only zones that can contain hex layers.

 

You cycle between the zones using the buttons marked zone/part/step/track + and - to the left of the LCD screen.

 

To turn a zone on and off, you select a zone and press the + and - buttons together.

 

Select the zone you want to edit.

 

Now you can put another tone in this zone by pressing one of the tone bank buttons (piano, organ, synth various etc) just above the zone+ and - buttons and then cycling through the available tones by using the -no +yes buttons all the way on the very right of they keyboard.

 

So once you have the tone in the zone you want to edit, you press the edit button which is just below the num key button on the right hand side.

 

Now you can select tone or stage setting to edit. you move the cursor by using the 5,6,7,8 buttons on the right which are also marked underneath with left, up, down, right.

Select tone and press the enter button. Now you will see a new menu, again use the 5,6,7,8 buttons to move the cursor and use the enter button to select.

Move back a menu using the exit button.

Up, and down move through the menu items sequentially one by one while left and right is a fast way to move through the menu items, moving up and down three items at a time (the next page of options)

 

Once you are deep into a menu, you use the yes+/no- buttons to change parameters for what you want to edit.

So having done you edits, to save the tone, exit all the way back to the main screen and then press the "write" button.

 

You will be asked whether you want to save the stage setting or the tone. If you didn't exit all the way back before you pressed the write button, it will assume you want to just save the tone.

 

Choose stage setting in your case.

 

Press the 6 and 7 buttons, you can see the cursor move between the name of the tone and the stage setting position you want to save it to.

First decide where you want to save it. Select a stage setting  you want to save over by using the yes+/no- buttons .

Then move the cursor down to the name, change the name using the yes/no buttons to change letters and the 5 and 8 buttons to next space.

 

One tip is, you can use the k2 knob instead of the yes+/no- buttons and knob k1 instead of the 6/7 buttons through-out this tutorial. 

 

Like Brad suggested though. I highly recommend you watch Mike's vids. You'll learn it very easily by seeing it in action.

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Brad, thanks for the links. The point I was trying to make is that one should not have to sit and watch videos to learn how to work a keyboard that comes with a manual. I have 4 other keyboards and their manuals were so much easier to understand. When there was a function I didn't understand or didn't know how to perform, I could simply look in the table of contents, find the corresponding page and follow the steps without being referred to another page. dc2k, thank you very much for your detailed steps; it is very much appreciated. Casio should copy that and put it right in the manual. If those kind of instructions were in the manual, I wouldn't be typing this. In all reality, I'm sure Mike Martin has enough on his plate. I'm pretty certain that the videos he did/does is a result of the fact that the manual is vague. I'm well aware that manuals are written by engineers who create the software/hardware, but along the way, add a couple of pages to the manual and cover the functions exactly like dc2k did...concise, direct and explicit. Printing "Use button #12 and button #16" to perform this function, which causes I or anyone else to have to constantly refer to the diagram of the keyboard which contains 56 different buttons/dials/jacks, etc. It seems to me, it would be so much more user friendly to say what dc2k did. 

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Have you read the the 2nd advanced manual you can download online? It's goes into more detail

http://sc3900.wix.com/px-5s#!manuals/c23h4

 

Manuals are always hard to read but they are also difficult to write especially for things like this keyboard, not least because of the paper format which manufacturers must feel forced to include. I can see a lot of work went into them. I guess they have protocols where they can't repeat themselves and have to keep referring you back to the place where they explained a common function. This can be disorientating.

 

I had trouble getting to grips with the board at the start too but the videos really are a great help. It's much easier and quicker to demonstrate how to work something then write how to do it, and once you are familiar with some basic features of the board, it's easier to go back into the manuals and figure out what they are saying. I think you appreciate them more then.

 

Ideally as we move into the future, manufacturers should hopefully spend their time writing online wikipedia style manuals where pages can be inter linked with keywords and it can include full colour photos and be as big as you like and then users can add detail too, or videos etc. In fact users here might one day start such a wikipedia. 

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