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I was assuming that phrases could be created internally on the XW-PD1.  For the life of me I can’t figure out how to do so.  I have now downloaded the software editor in hopes that I could do so using it but am only finding that I can convert already made phrases so that they can be used in the XW-PD1.  Am I missing something here?  If phrases can’t be made in the XW-PD1 or using the software editor what do you recommend using to create phrases with? Thanks!

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I have yet to use the converter as I don’t have any midi files containing phrase data to even do so with currently.  My original question still stands though: If phrases can’t be made in the XW-PD1 or using the software editor what do you recommend using to create phrases with?  I am once again going to assume something here but I am guessing that since this is CasioMusicForums that some users will just use their Casio Synthesizer/keyboard capable of creating phrases to do so.  This isn’t the direction I am looking at going in currently.  I am more thinking of a software solution, one that is rather geared toward creating phrases and not necessarily much more than this, if one exists.

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To create you're own phrases and convert them to midi file which you can use in the PD1 editor to convert them,

You can use any DAW with a step sequencer or piano-roll in them and save them as a midi file.

 

Nowadays every software has such feature / tool in it I occasionely use Korg m01 software on my Nintendo DS-XL which

support the piano roll and also converts to a midi file. That way I can create phrases on the run.

 

Tablet or phone are also good devices which have lots of supported music creation tools.

 

This is just one example how to find you're tools in creating phrases making you're own workflow and make it to an

production process. 

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Interesting, I have not even thought about or even gotten far enough into this to think of using a handheld Nintendo, something I do have access to.

I have not gotten any further than this but I had narrowed it down to deciding that something on my smartphone would be best as it is always in my possession.  An app with a piano roll feature hadn't occurred to me yet either.  I think I am going to look for an app with a step sequencer that closely resembles the step sequencer of the XW-PD1 software editor.  Hopefully one like this exists.

Thanks fellow users of this forum for the enlightenment that I have received in this thread as it appears to be pointing me in the right direction for how I want to proceed!

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When I have the time and get it pretty well figured out I will probably get more indepth into a workflow that I am trying to create on the XW-PD1 but currently it isn’t using the 8 different patterns per sequence.  I am still in the process of deciding if to use samples, resamples is what I am currently working with, or phrases for this workflow though it doesn’t have to be one or the other and if I can use both, as well as utilize the 8 different patterns, that will be great.  An advantage of a sample or a phrase for this workflow I am working on is that they can be started and stopped at the touch of a single pad and it can be longer than the 1 measure length limit of the XW-PD1 without having to use (the workaround of) multiple patterns in conjunction with one another.

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