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I will ask him to go over creating and using a pattern. Just FYI - , the PX-5S is not designed to do accompaniment like the PX-350. I have found using an iPhone or iPad with either an drum app or a  pre-made mp3/wav file is the easiest way. You can also render a wav file and play it back via the USB drive, but you need to make sure it is a 16 bit, 44.1khz file and named TAKE00, TAKE01, TAKE02, etc.. ie you can't just make an MP3 and name them whatever you want. 

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I'd like it if there was a bit showing how to use the song sequencer, say a demo showing how to play a phrase using a hex layer over a drum loop phrase. This my first synth so I don't understand what 'channels', 'bank select msb'  and the 'program change' parameters are and what their relationship is which seems to be key to understanding how to use the song sequencer. So if he could give some basic info about them I'd appreciate it too.

 

That is probably basic synth stuff, not specific to to the PX5s so I'm not sure if he really wants to cover it and if he doesn't, that's cool but if he doesn't mind covering that sort of stuff and he's looking for more similar things to cover here are some other things I don't understand:

 

  • The "Stretch Tune" parameters in the pitch envelope option menu for tones.  
  • The key follow and key follow base params in the the pitch envelope option for hex layers. I know he did a video using his western piano stage setting demo-ing this feature but I couldn't figure out how these params work.
  • The Pitch locks in the hex layer edit menu.
  • How the delay params work: The Ratios and Levels, feedback, high damp, tympo sync and the rest. What do they all mean?  

Cheers guys!

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I'd like a detailed explanation of what the different arpeggio types mean.  There's a description in the manual and some talk abou it in other vids, but I'd like to see specifically what each type does and how it affects the playback - both notes and controls (L1-L8, U1-U8, P2-P5).

 

It could be beneficial to see some demonstrations of capturing live px-5s controller data in phrases and then playing it back.  For example, recording manual wah , frequency filters, volume, modulation, etc with the levers and dials in a phrase then playing that back in a stage setting.

 

Along the same line, it would be nice to see midi files converted using the editor into phrases and then those phrases applied and added to stage settings.  This would include midi files that have controller codes in them and/or straight music/drum files.  The hope is to see the controller codes (frequency swells, maybe modulation, hold pedal) run through the phrases.  Can this be applied to program changes as well?  Where a patch or stage setting is actually changed through a phrase? (my experiments seem to suggest this sin't possible - only certain controller codes are captured in phrases.

 

Can a list or discussion of the possible controller codes that can be contained in a phrase be presented?

 

Is there any way to have the volumes of the stage settings uniform?  Some are so much louder than others.  Is there a "smart" or global method to either design stage settings or have a common setting that keeps the volumes consistent?  

 

Can any additional effects be added to the master effects (through a firmware update perhaps) such as a limiter, and/or control of the noise gate?

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