Midijunky

You can do this, press function button, use arrow keys till you see media, press enter, use arrows keys till you see save, press enter, use arrow keys till you see "all", enter. Change the save name to something you can remember, like regist-1. This will save everything you have altered in the keyboard to USB. I find this a better way to do things as you may have tones you created for songs in the registration you want to keep all this together, just makes it easier.

What I did was I got the CTX 3000, and the money saved over the CTX 5000, I got a second Kustom PA 50 watt amp and a speaker stand. So now I have a 100 watt speaker system to play thru and it really sounds great in stereo. Separate the speakers about 8 feet apart and well now, the e-pianos, rhythms, strings sound out of this world...

Well don't think you will have any luck duplicating the problem. I have done allot of rhythm editing since then and it has not happened again. Maybe it was a power supply thing, I don't know, or a sub-atomic particle burst. But now the keys are squeeking, another problem.

Well after using my CTX 3000 for a couple weeks, the keys are squeeking and making noise. Just like the keys on my WK-6600 did. Oh well, wish Casio would look into this recurring problem. Never had this happen on any other boards I've used, Yamaha, Roland etc. If playing loud enough, don't notice it, but at lower volume, well...

Ok, why is my one week old CTX3000 crashing? Its happened twice both times in rhythm edit mode. The keys lock up then about 10 seconds later, the screen goes dark, keyboard shuts off. I can push power button and it come back on OK. The first crash happened on original firmware, and the second happened after the new firmware update. What do you think Casio guys, have any of you had this happen to you? So this is really a bug report I guess.

No nothing new with summerpl yet. I am too busy or lazy to do much keyboard stuff during the week:-D thanks for the tip about the function button, so much to remember! Hey, feel free to add whatever to the rhythm and repost. I think its really cool being able to make you own rhythms on the Casio now. Maybe someday there will be thousands of rhythms posted online just like the psr tutorial website. That's all I've ever done if play by ear haha! Never learned to read. But I've done OK. Played in bands in my younger years doing bars, backyard, and wedding gigs and lots of fun with that! I'm just glad my liver survived if ya know what I mean. Now considering the nursing home circuit but that means a one man band gig and not use to that, haha, stage fright.

You are a life saver and just increased the value of my keyboard quite a bit! That syncho start first to save variations to registrations works perfectly, thank you so much! Where ever did you learn how to do that? I hope Casio includes this info in their next manual printing. I did listen to the mp3s you posted and was quite impressed! Good job for only a week of learning. The phrase pad issue has me thinking. Could be a few things. Maybe the last bar you recorded was void of data the last few beats? Could be the beat you selected was wrong? Which brings me to my next complaint. When selecting a time signature, all it shows is the beat number. 1, 2, 3...etc. So you have to guess where you are. I was doing a 12/8 time and had to try a lot numbers before finding the right one. Anyway, I'm posting the rhythm I worked on this weekend. Its not complete yet, , only variation 1, no intro, fills, end, etc. Its called A summer place. Load it into your keyboard and see what you think. 🙂 SUMMERPL.AC7

Hi Ken, Also got a CTX 3000 a couple days ago and spent most of the weekend learning how to do a user rhythm from scratch. I managed to succeed but took a while to get the hang of all the long press stuff and unlabeled buttons! I do think this is a great machine but one thing bothers me...can't save a rhythm variation to a registration button. While playing a song, would like to change tone and variation by just pushing a regist button. Any ideas to pull that off? I know Yamaha e-series boards can do it but not Casio? This seems to be a big goof on Casio's part.