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A silly question really. I recorded a melody plus chord accompaniment a few months back and didn't make a note of the acc and tone number that I used. Is there any way to extract - if that's the right word - from a recorded song saved to a song bank my chosen tone, plus rhythm, tempo, sustain on/off etc. Thanks for any help. John

Assuming baud rate is bits/sec and not bytes/sec, then MIDI port speed becomes about 31250 bits/second. With start, stop and parity bits (if indeed required by the MIDI standard), actual bytes/second would be about 3kBytes. Is the Casio keyboard acting as the host? If so, then as Just Alex mentioned above, it is not related to DAW.

Thanks Brad.

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Not being a natural born keyboard player I'm having great difficulty when confronted with a complicated measure during playing. I set up acc and tone and away I go, but when I come across a measure or measures containing for example, triplets or a group of semiquavers I fall apart timing wise. I thought about step inputting the difficult measure and storing it to a phrase pad so that when I reach that particular measure causing the problem I could then just press the appropriate phrase pad button and continue the performance without a hiccup - if you see what I mean. For the life of me I can't see how to achieve this. I realize that I could step input the whole song but to me that seems a bit like cheating! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

And I can make a compass with a sewing needle, a length of cotton and a hammer!!

Years ago, when I was a young whipper snapper, my daily mile walk to junior school took me past an electrical shop. In the window, way out in front, lay a shiny white crystal set with two black knobs set like eyes following me on my school run. It was priced at one pound. With one shilling a week pocket money I was in for a long haul. I feared that one day, what I lusted after would vanish from the shop window, having been purchased by someone with more cash then I could gather together. But that Crystal Set never moved, teasing me as it were. On my eleventh birthday my uncle presented me with a watch and my father gave me a crisp pound note. I was soon in possession of that Crystal Set. This replaced my previous attempts at listening to London's Home Service via a safety razor blade, a piece of lead from a pencil and a pair of high impedance war worn headphones - but that's another story. Some time later, with a few more pennies saved, I bought a single Mullard transistor. A few resistors and a couple of penlight batteries later and I had an audio amplifier. The weekly series Journey Into Space on the Light Program (weaker signal) was within my grasp. Oh what joy! I read somewhere that the new Apple phone has over 10 billion (English billion) transistors fabricated on a single chip. I find this absolutely incredible. I wonder how many discrete components lie hidden within Casio's AIX chip. The way it generates those hundreds of tones and rhythms to me seems magical. The sheer volume of work involved by a team of dedicated Casio Engineers to get where we are today is staggering. What's next I wonder? A CT-X???C series with a color touch screen for under 350 dollars (£300). In my dreams... Keep safe all, John

Jokeyman123, I am in total agreement with you on your final comment. The frustration thing is that the relevant User Guide for whatever instrument we possess covers everything you need to know about it. Are we becoming lazy? Maybe it's easier to pose a question in a user group then plough your way through a manual. How many times have we seen YouTube videos of someone unboxing a new phone, games machine, tv and dare I say it, Casio keyboard, and cast aside the User Guide. Mind you, casting aside a Casio User Guide would result in certain injury to the person in the line of fire! My CT-X3000 came with 4 different language manuals - total paper weight unknown. There's no doubt, without this user group I would be in deep trouble. As you rightly said - look at the wealth of information available. The depth of knowledge is amazing. I only wish my 77 year old brain could grasp a fraction of it. My task tonight is to try to understand how to use Phrase Pads. The question is should I read the manual or watch a YouTube video ??!!

Out of interest, I downloaded the User Guide for the Alesis Fusion. What a well written manual! Every step carefully explained- and where an item is difficult to grasp - accompanied by a well drawn illustration. None of this; (CT-X3000 talk) refer back to page EN-27 when you're on page EN-52 which then tells you to go to page EN-117 for further information! Mind you, after all said and done, the CT-X3000 and it's User Guide is going keep me fully occupied for years to come. Thanks Casio.

Sorry to butt in, but a USB stick formatted to exFat seems to work ok. I've got a 64GB drive loaded up and running fine.

Truly wonderful and inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing. I hope your CT-X gets repaired soon. Regards, John

That was quick ! Thanks Brad. I really must learn to read the documentation.

Another quick question. I've step inputted 6 bars of a melody and saved it. I want to add another bar or two. In order to get to bar 7 to step input more notes, is there any way to jump to bar 7 without having to press 3 (down) continuously in order to reach said bar? Thanks anyone.

Thanks for that. I should have turned over a couple of pages. Problem solved.

Brad, great tip but I can't fathom out User Guide pages 106 - 107. I've step inputted a simple melody on the system track. According to the manual I can change the tone. I feel I'm missing something but can't see what. Note Events Use 2 and 5 (down,up) to display a note event Use 1 and 3 (left,right) to display parameter:- Velocity GateBeat GateTick Then, next paragraph... Tone Number Events Use 2 and 5 to display "Tone"(Tone Number Event), but... 2 and 5 simply moves to the next note event. I'm pretty sure I changed the tone of a recorded melody a couple of days ago but can't seem to repeat it. Perhaps I was dreaming! Thanks. John