Skyscrapersax Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to record and then play back something that came to mind - and to save it, and name it. All I got was "take one," "take two," etc. I failed (I think). I read the directions in the manual. Nothing is intuitive. Nothing would play back, however. So.... Please, some simple, step by step instructions for recording your own playing. Not a phrase, just one's own playing. Just use "start playing" to start recording. Don't need the other methods. This can't be that difficult! Thanks, and please don't say "watch the videos." Unless I'm prepared to spend the next several hours just trying to figure out one thing, that won't help. The videos are great, but they're not a book and lack an index or table of contents. The info in the manual was useless and did not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Someone did do an index of the videos Mike made, but I can't recall who nor where they were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to record and then play back something that came to mind - and to save it, and name it. All I got was "take one," "take two," etc. This can't be that difficult! It's not! Sounds like you already did it. If you see TAKE01 and TAKE02, those are your saved recordings. They cannot be renamed if you want them to play back on the PX-5s. Steps..... Plug a thumb drive inPress audio recorder (do not hold, that's another function)Wait for it to do it's thing (mounting media)From there, it goes into playback mode (audio recorder blue light is on)Press audio recorder button again (blue light flashes and is now in standby record mode)Start playing, press a pedal, move a slider, knob, or wheel and it automatically starts recording. Or press the record button. Press the record button to stop.File is automatically named and saved to thumb drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 BradMZ is absolutely right-every time you record using the audio recorder, it automatically labels each recording with the word "take" and a number. These are standard Windows ".wav" format files and can be transferred to the computer and played like any other .wav file using Windows sound recorder, media player or any other Windows program that can play .wav files such as Audacity, I use something called Goldwave, or any digital audio workstation software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyscrapersax Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 BradMZ, there is indeed a "take01" wav file in the "music.dat" folder, and it plays back on my computer. I tried to record several takes, but the others are not there. That's OK, as I captured the song idea. I renamed it on the computer and, sure enough, for playback on the Casio it said "no file" under "audio select." So, apparently, in order to rename files (and therefore have some idea as to what they are), the workaround would be to copy, rename one (for computer playback use, keeping the take number to correlate with the non-renamed version), and keep one as is, for Casio playback use. Then look to the file folder on the computer to see what's what. As to writing, I followed the above directions and a new "take01" was indeed saved and plays back on the Casio without renaming. Per the above, it is not necessary to utilize the "write" or "ENT" save protocol. That was what was confusing me (page 11 of the the manual). Jokeyman123, I use VLC media player or Transcribe to play files on my computer. I'll check out that Goldwave. Thanks, guys. You should rewrite the manual! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Gold wave is an audio editor, also can "render" a .wave file to an mp3 with something called "lame" which a small .DLL file you can download and put in gold wave's directory. I've used VLC for a long time to play just about anything. Gold wave or Audacity let's you do all kinds of interesting things to a wav file and its been around for along time. Only for Windows though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Also just found this, also for editing and playing .wav files, looks very good. http://www.wavosaur.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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