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When you setup reaper you change the keyboard settings to midi what I wanted to know is when you come out of midi does the ct-x5000 go back to its normal settings hope this makes sense. Chris🤩.

Can you expand on your question? I'm not sure what "come out of the midi format" means.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "come out of the midi format", but if that means playing MIDI data from a computer or flash drive via USB, then no, there should be nothing to reset. It could theoretically depend on the content of the MIDI -- like I suppose if it contained certain Sysex commands, it's possible it could change something. Most MIDI software I've seen, when it detects a MIDI file contains Sysex commands, asks whether to send them (generally you should not unless you know they are appropriate for the keyboard). But in most cases, I would think the most it would require is selecting a registration to set things back to a "known" configuration state.

Do you have to reset the casio ctx5ooo when you come out of the midi format.😛thanks Chris.

That is good enough! As long as the emulation core is accurate, and open source, and it's not boring.

MAME has some emulated CZ-synths. Likely latency is too high for live performance, but they do produce sound.

Some CZ-series synths are already emulated in MAME. The latency may be too high for live performance, but at least they do produce sound.

Having different pin count means not necessarily a different die inside. Particularly COB, but also other custom ICs were often released in several different package variants (e.g. to fit on different PCBs or to enshroud what they are based on). While the silicon die stays the same, packages can have unused pins omitted or for configuration internally bonded to nearby pins ("bonding options"). Also one of the supply voltage inputs (negative, 0V or positive) often covers the whole bottom of the die; so this pin may be placed anywhere (also as multiple pins among others). Packages that are too large for a particular die sometimes have many pins (often every n-th pin) internally not connected; such NC pins will show high resistance (also in diode test mode) in both directions against all others. Additional pins may be also internally connected to their neighbours. (E.g. FM sound ICs in Chinese keyboards had many additional NC pins to distract from that they were copies of much smaller Yamaha sound ICs. But even Yamaha himself proudly created a "16 pin" sound IC YM3427 with 8 of its pins NC.) To identify camouflage IC variants, it is most important to know that despite possibility of omitting or inserting blank or duplicate pins, the pin order will stay the same (at least unless the die was redesigned too, or a complicated adapter built into the package). Regard that the placement of pin 1 still may differ when the die was installed rotated or the numbering was changed. So it can be a good idea to compare the actual order of function pins around the chip rather than their absolute positions. (Of course this tip is only valid for classic ICs with pin rows along their rims, not modern packages (like BGA or Pentium CPUs) with hundreds of contacts covering their entire bottom.) With COB the pins typically count anticlockwise when looking at the blob side. Of course sometimes type numbers printed on chips are just deceiving to enshroud what is actually inside to complicate hardware piracy.

ah, alr. I will try this again, I was having a hard time getting it smaller even with compression

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It kinda sucks that there are not any open source emulations of Casios PD and iPD synths. Maybe someday? Even an emulation core of the sound source itself would be good

Working For The Weekend - Loverboy - Hex View File Need this patch for an upcoming gig. Took a stab at it while not perfect, I think, it's better than I had. It is my first patch so feel free to let me know if something is missing/wrong I will try to do something similar on the PX-5S as I'm trying to avoid bringing 2 keyboards to the gig. Submitter Greg-Montreal Submitted 05/08/2024 Category XW-P1  

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Now I know! Thanks! (btw, how do you get that high quality image in the tiny size requirements?)

However, it allows you to change the transfer the AC7 data from one keyboard one other keyboard so that you can use that data into all over the Casio keyboards.

@silent Was 6 posts in a row necessary? Please don't do that. You can always edit your post to add more if no one has replied yet.

Greetings I am looking for some accurate and open source emulation cores of casio synths, iPD and older. If you can find them, please provide links to them in the replies to this post. If you've made one and are willing to allow it to be used freely, please also share it here. Thanks!

Hey! Dear visitor! Please note that a lot of these modules are very rare! (And also I am now counting Rackmount Modules) While I myself are looking for and listing them as I find them (I should make a post with the ones I do find and edit it as I go.), I am only one person, I can't really do this by myself very well. (please do not try to read this sentence too much) You know what, this post is the one that gets the list, I don't want to make a separate post just for the stupid list. This will be marked as the solution so it's easy to find. GZ-50M GM sound module, rather small. GZ-70S GM MIDI speakers, Japan exclusive GZ-30M smaller GZ-50M and also Japan exclusive. WP-150 PCMCIA midi module, similar to the GZ-50M VZ-10M Uses Casio's wonderful iPD sound source. It's a VZ-1 but as a MIDI module. You can link multiple of these together to create a larger, more complex synth. CSM-1 Casio Sound Module. It was an older one that came out in the 80s. Also, Japan Exclusive AFAIK. CSM-10P a CSM-1, but only for certain instruments, might have been designed to be paired with the CSM-1. It's a piano module. VZ-8M Essentially half a VZ-10M in multiple ways. Could connect to the VZ-10M and VZ-1 synths to give them more functionality.

Casio happens to have a few desktop midi synths and sound modules. I've listed a few of them in the solution, but I was wondering if there are more I don't know about. Feel free to share what you know about them! I've been looking for a VZ-10M btw, if you happen to find one up for sale, I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks!

Hello! Hant7 Greetings from Carson. I have Casio keyboard ctk-501. A year 1996-97 model. It had some interesting rhythms. Is it possible that you maybe having those rhythms with you!? If you could share those as a zip file in .ckf or .ac7 extensions. I am very grateful for sharing the Lambada rhythms. One particular rhythm that was interesting was ' Township '.ckf If not asking for much please share all the rhythms of the ctk631 And ctk6200 keyboards so that I can use them on my Ctx-9000I keyboard. Thank you very much and Best regards from India Cheers hant7 Carson Mendes

I was away from here for some time. I lost both my parents and So a lot had to be left behind to settle matters. Sorry friends could not be on touch for a very long time. Back to good ol music once again. Thank you every one here. Happy to be back. Cheers! everyone.

Thank you very much hant 7. Much respect and gratitude. 🌴😌🙏👍

They're similar, they're both DSP chips, they're proably jsut running different DSP masks. Though it is possible that the limits it has *are* hard limits. seeing as the MZ-2000 had to use 2 DSP chips to get it's functionality.