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Very nice indeed. I liked it.

OMG NOOOOOOO! Kick us out of the forum! I had no idea that it had such a rule. Now we will have to quit posting here, since we did the unspeakable crime. I feel so badly now.. With my head hung in total shame and humiliation, I leave this forum forever and ever... I wish to thank all of the people that responded to the original posting, and thank them from the bottom of my heart for their kind and informative views on the subject. I will take my Casio knowledge on the four Casio synths I have bought and owned over the years, and find some other venue to discuss things with.. I am a member of the one on yahoo, so that one will have to do from now on. With all of the money Casio has made off of me over the last many decades, I just wish they would see it my way and allow what few of us there are, to do what we need to do. Who came up with that rule anyway? Are they just plain stupid? Talk about a way to get traffic going for once, maybe you should rethink your position on that eh? If I were in Casio' forum's shoes, I'd want all of the traffic I could get and make provisions for us LOYAL CASIO FANS to have a place to buy/sell/trade.. What a concept huh? Think about it.. Thanks for the schooling!

Steplogik is a great buyer too!.. No B.S., he does exactly what he says he will do and does it fast! I tried to keep up to him as best I could.. Glad ya liked the CZ-2000S, and hope it will inspire you for years to come. I loved that keyboard. Talk about a classic! That would be it.. Nice feel to it all of the way around.. Built like a tank too! 24 lbs of classic electronic goodness!

Sorry about that AlenK .. I try to paragraph it so it looks better than just running down the line with no end in site or logic to the return itself, which I am going to let this run on it's own and make it return without my help. Chas, exactly! One thing that irritates a sound man more than anything is to have a performer over adjust what they are doing on stage. I used to do sound in a huge night club venue and once you get three musicians or so all adjusting their own parameters on stage, the sound man has no where to go. This is true, especially in the volume arena. A PA system is supposed to take all of the sounds and mix them together in a nice mix and present it to the audience. When you have stars (ahem) that want to stick out front by blasting their amps, then the sound man cannot use that person in the mix, because they already have out done the PA system. The sound man can only attempt to bring everyone else up to a level to compete with the person(s) who are blasting on stage. So the art of the mix is thrown right out of the window (so to speak). I did sound for one band where the guitar player had no amp at all and went through the PA system.. Wow! That was nice for sure, as you could mix him in where he needed to be, instead of some superstar blasting his notes beyond the PA systems ability to compete. In other words, less amp volume allows for a mix to be done. If you have a real sound engineer, he is going to make you sound great in the mix with the rest of the band. If, on the other hand, you are Mr. "Blast me" (because I am a star), you take away the mix for the entire band. As an engineer, I can't turn your amp down to fit into the mix. You can though, so it is much better to let the engineer bring your toned down amp up into the mix, because he can't make it lower. It's sort of like adding salt as a cook.. If you put too much in, you can't remove it later. Don't add too much salt to begin with and let the engineer adjust your volume. Keyboard players usually don't invade into this area like guitar players do. They are mainly providing background music in most bands and they are smart enough to know to keep the volume right. "I would also add that it you are going to be amplified via a PA system, then the sound engineer needs a much drier source signal from you." <Chas said it Very true.. An engineer plays in the band too. He plays dials, faders, eq's, and effects. He has to know your songs like he is playing an instrument in the band because he really is playing the most important instrument in the band, (The PA system). Without his instrument, you sound like a bad garage band. Let him bring in the lion share of the effects. If your amps are set right, he can add effects to whichever instrument needs it and when it needs it, (which takes some of the monkey off of your back). He needs to practice with the band on every session so that he can get his timing down pat for the entire show. Keep it clean and give it to the soundman!

Geoff, Yep, you should have a small mixer right there next to you to volume up and down as needed... You really should take the band through each song and get the level on each song pegged so you will know where to set your mixer before each song starts.. As you were mentioning, you are having various level changes between brass and whatever. Here is what I would suggest to make it easier on you.. Since you obviously own a XWG1, when you go to do a song, you want to load each song's performance into a new location under the user parameters, and edit the new files to the correct volume when you are playing with the band.. I hope that makes sense... In other words, lets say you are using performance number 103.. Edit that either up or down when practicing with the band on the volume.. When you get the volume just right, save it as a new user numbered performance.. It will be best to do that with every song the band plays in order, then when you play live, just dial the next user performance up and away you go! It is very simple to adjust or Edit the volume on each performance and save it to a new user number.. That would make it very easy to fix what your are talking about above. While you are editing for volume, you can also tweak your reverb or other effects to your liking as well then save it. You can then do the show by just advancing one click to the next performance etc.. Good luck and Good playing!

Geoff, I don't know what you want as far as sound, but what you described above that you are using, should surely do the trick I would think.. Keyboard amps work fine, unless you want to come across in stereo, and then they drop the ball.. If you want the best sound and in stereo, go through a stereo PA setup and ditch the amp. I usually go through a stereo PA head (use it as an amp) then if you are playing live route the signals (stereo) to the mixing console, making sure that you have the stereo maintained throughout the signal path. That is going to get you the best sound, avoiding any mono sources that would drop your stereo signal into mono. Being an audio engineer and recording studio engineer, less is most times better. If you have to use compressors and limiters, you are losing out on lots of dynamics of the sound. Use as few processors as possible to get that big sound. I like to go straight into my stereo PA amp head and put on a demo song to tweak the EQ for the speakers optimization,. and call it good.. All other tweaks should come from the main board operator (and pray he knows how not to screw things up too bad).. As long as you are feeding him a good sounding signal, he can send it out over the mains without much tweaking. People often times want to get too many processors involved that really end up choking sound into a compressed nightmare. There are some videos on youtube that show how today's music is choked into oblivion compared to songs of the 80's and 90's that kept the compression levels to a minimum. That is sound advice too. I once did an album for a band in a studio owned by a famous country band leader's father.. Every sound man in the valley had worked in that studio at one time or another.. It was just my turn right then. I re-wired the entire studio before I even attempted to record this band from Illinois. I began recording them and the lead singer/ songwriter of the band asked "well aren't you going to use the compressors?"... I said "I don't plan on making any mistakes to need them".. He looked at me kind of funny and I went on to record them over the next week and a half.. When the album was done and the studio owner came to the audition over the monitors in the control room, the sound was amazing.. All of the band looked at each other, and the studio owner said "you know I have had every sound man in the whole area in here, but no one has ever made this studio sound this good".. I took my bows and thanked them kindly for their accolades. How I beat everyone else at creating a great sound is to get it right at the source of the sound. When you are recording or when you are playing live, get things tweaked to where, no compressors or limiters are needed.. Don't choke the life out of your music. Let the music breathe, give it life, don't kill it through machine trickery, let it be music with all of the dynamics it deserves.. Simple philosophy, that works great with listeners! If you depend on a rack of choking equipment, you are only showing that you aren't good enough or too lazy to do it on your own. Get it right at the source, and keep the signal path clean and strong. One last tip from me.. A lot of people build their sound systems up from the electronics to the speakers. I do it backwards.. I build it from the speakers to the electronics.. No amount of electronics is going to make bad speakers sound good.. Good speakers however,. can even make bad electronics sound good.. Make sure your speakers are top notch, then use good components all of the way backwards from there, and keep your equipment covered up when not in use.. Thanks for reading, and I hope this helps some of you.. There is nothing in the world that sounds any better than a keyboard that is "dialed in" correctly on a stage.. They are stars without equal if dialed in correctly.. Now dial yours in!

Yes Chas, that one in Japan is exactly like mine! I am selling mine as well. So buy American! LOL.. I am going to post pics of mine below here. If I am not mistaken, the 2000 S is stereo like the CZ-2600 mentioned above.. I think that is what the "S" on the end stands for. When I said it was like a 1000 with a metal case, I was not totally accurate, as it does have some additional features on it over a 1000.. More banks and real buttons. It also has speakers, whereas a 1000 does not too. One more thing too about this one, it knows a lot more songs than my 1000 does.. This one knows twice as many songs!

I'll be darned! That was pretty good.. Bet that took a while to do!

Nice!

Very enjoyable on a Saturday afternoon.

Monzano View File This is a soft string-piano-choir performance. Nothing overly complex, kept it simple. Maybe you'll like it.. Add to it, or change it up a bit for fun if you like. Submitter gtarsoncasio Submitted 06/16/2018 Category XW-G1

High Sierra View File This is kind of an ambient piano choir, strings combination performance I made this afternoon. Notice that with a very soft touch, you can get the choir/strings to sing without waking up the the piano keys, IF you are very soft on your touch. There is some great music hidden inside of this performance patch, and it is your job to pull it out,. so get after it now! (lol) I hope you enjoy this. It's a nice performance to chill out to. Submitter gtarsoncasio Submitted 06/16/2018 Category XW-G1

I was wrong... It is a 2000S and not just a 2000. I had it packed away in a closet and swore that it was a 2000, but after I pulled it out, it grew a S on it for sure! And I have put it up for sale at (as you say) just slightly more than the guy who is selling a 1000 right now on Craigslist.. He is selling his 1000 for 200 and I am at 250 on mine.. I already had a 1000 and destroyed it by leaving batteries in it for a year or two (and forgot they were in there) and I am trying to sell that one for parts.. I have a 101 I bought just a year ago, and I have the 2000s.. I am only going to keep the 101 since that is all I need and it takes up no space.. and you can put it on your lap to play it.. So, I hope to sell the 2000 S sometime soon... Hey thanks for your reply to my post and for your input on values etc.. I agree with you on those opinions.. Young folks are hard to sell these things to.