Jokeyman123 Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Just picked up one of these used on eBooey. Fantastic. Even though I've been playing the PX350 for awhile and the XW, this is a very fun keyboard to mess with. I just did a little paint mod to spruce it up a bit-too much gray and the end caps were a little scuffed so.... Bizarre thingy on top is a dual LED clip-light, another addition to my collection of Chinese merchandise. Also discovered it is way easier to add felt strips if the hammer action gets too clunky (it isn't thank goodness!) A long panel underneath fastened with a gazillion screws comes off and both top and bottom felt cushion strips are right there-very handy for DIY lunacy if you need to replace the worn felt. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 7, 2015 Author Share Posted June 7, 2015 Also discovered Casio is adding some new tehnical personnel since so many new keyboards are being released. Here's an exclusive picture I captured of the new team being broken in. I think that's Mike Martin in front, but I didn't want to hang around to find out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKtwlHV1-O8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Null Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Here's the team preparing for Summer NAMM displaying the latest in the Privia line. Gary : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 8, 2015 Author Share Posted June 8, 2015 Wow one of my all-time favorite scenes! Thanks guys and good night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 This thing is turning out to be more fun than a 3 Stooges festival. Getting the IDES 4.0 installed, connected and running is very nice-has a virtual drawbar window that really works, with leslie fast/slow, percussion in an out and drawbars that work. and had no trouble installing the driver to Windoozy 7. Managed to port several rhythms and tones with wavfiles into the PX575. One weirdness- when I want to transfer a rhythm to a user slot, unless I allow the IDES software to delete the user memory first, then transfer the rhythm from the computer it shows insufficient memory-even if there is nothing (no memory usage) in the user slot I've selected to transfer to. May be a function of the buffer memory. So although the PX350 is better (IMO) as far as piano sample and key action which seems more capable of nuances in dynamics, this is a really fun keyboard to mess around with. Too bad there is no IDES for Windows for the other newer Privias as the PX350 at least certainly has all the internal capabilities for accessing DSP, leslie effects, settings for the crude PX350 mixer and other settings and i'm sure several of the other Privias can (hint hint Casio). repeating another post-I even tried the PX5s editor connected to the PX350 (so many internl similarities) but no luck there either. Could be as simple as changing the manufacturer's ID in software, I'll have to compare the 2. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Deleted question about smf files see following post. And just created a multi-sample created with IDES 4.0 about 500k sample and worked perfectly. Hoo-ha what fun! I had no idea these older Casios could do things like this. Took about 4 minutes to transfer the sample, a little slow but not terrible. Off to make a custom percussion kit. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Just found the manual reference, songs can be saved as SMF or Casio format to SD card. Jumped to conclusion this older Casio would not have that option. Another pleasant surprise in a world of sometimes unpleasant ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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