Jump to content

PX-5S thoughts after a few days


aron

Recommended Posts

I know I am late to the PX-5S party so my thoughts probably have no meaning, but I'll put them out there for the next model.

First off, I love the keyboard! It's so good that now I wish it was $100 more and had reinforced jacks - especially for the power supply and main output jacks. For all I know, I will not have any problems, but knowing a bit of electronics makes me worry about those jacks.

 

One problem I keep running into is how easy it is to overwrite the wrong stage setting. It really should show the name of the stage setting that is being overwritten and also have the ability to change the stage setting location destination at any point in the save.

 

Another minor point is that I wish there was a quick way to audition tones without being in a stage setting. I understand that you cannot really listen to a tone outside of a stage setting so this is somewhat minor point, but I probably need to create a default stage setting that has minimal effects etc....

 

I wish naming was much easier. One thing that would help is being able to press a button and it would instantly default to 'a' or 'A' that way you could type in a name much faster.  Even if pressing one button would toggle from 'a' to 'A' to '1' and ' ', that would make things much faster.

 

I think the keyboard would benefit from an additional row of switches. I like the knobs and sliders, but a row of switches would be great!

 

Finally mono mode. It really needs it.

 

I look forward to using this keyboard on my gigs. Nothing beats the form factor and weight! Finally, thank you for making it 1/3 the price of my Kronos! Low cost and lightweight keyboards rule!!!!! The PX-5S with my Korg Kross make a lightweight setup! All battery powered too!

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

My thoughts after a few weeks with PX-5S.

 

The keyboard touch is very natural feeling, the best -for me- that I have tried, and I have had Yamaha, Doepfer and Kurzweil boards. The sounds are well up to the current state of art and the zone system is flexible enough. The wheel organs are weak, but I use clonewheels anyway. As a general midi controller, very good. All this in a light and quite affordable package compared to competition is remarkable.

 

The wishes of Aron are of course to the point. The matter of editing and saving user setups. You can only see the number of the target setup, not name. So having presets printed in front of you is necessary. I wish that you could print those straight from the editor, or at least copy them to clipboard. Now you can only take print screens. Well, not a big thing but desirable.

 

The global transposing thing, that I was worried before. It is easy enough via a couple of button pushes: Sys Setting/Enter/ + -

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Another weird thing is that the stage setting filter is setup in a wacky way. It's set to recall the compressor but not the EQ. This makes it confusing because the MASTER effects can operate either as per Stage setting or not. But the PX-5S ships so that compressor settings stay the same, but the EQ does not, even though they are in the same MASTER "group". It took me a while before I realized this. Very confusing at first.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.