bob green

You know, it's kind of a drag though. It seems like this has occured often enough (as I say, personally I own two with the issue) that Casio might consider some kind of remedy. I remember having a Yamaha S90 that began to have keys that kind of "leaned" left and right after a while. Yamaha said it was a known issue and shipped me (out of warranty) a replacement keybed, free of charge, all I had to do was pay to have it installed, and it fixed the problem. Guess we would have to hit critical mass on the number of Px5s's with this particular problem for something like THAT to occur, but it sure would be nice to have it fixed once, and fixed right......

My first one is out of warranty, pretty sure.....my second, I purchased used....if that one gets worse I'll probably go ahead and have it serviced anyway. I'm not really a "take it apart and install cotton balls inside" kind of guy, and I gig with this board, a lot and would rather have someone who really knows what they're doing disassemble it 😉

I'm on my SECOND Px5s exhibiting this issue, and honestly, as much as I love the instrument if I'd known I was purchasing a project(s) I might have looked elsewhere.....

I'm on my SECOND Px5S exhibiting this Bb issue, and honestly as much as I love the instrument if I knew I was purchasing a project(s) I might have looked elsewhere.....

Hello all. I bought my first Px5s not long after they were introduced. LOVE this board, so much so so that I purchased a second one lightly used from a friend. Not very long after purchase of my first one it developed the issue with Bb6, where if I hold the key down a bit, when released it triggers a second note, at full velocity. I've read where apparently several people on this forum have had the same issue with the same note. I didn't worry about it much because I only use the board occaisionally. I have it set up with splits and layers to accomodate one specific band I play with, and the issue doesn't present itself very often, especially if I'm careful how I play the note. I use the other Px for all my other gigs, especially piano-centric situations, and have it loaded with many of the downloads from this site. Now however, THIS Px is starting to exhibit the same behavior on the same note (Bb6). My question is, is there any consensus on why this occurs, and is there also any consensus on the best way to remedy the situation? IOW, fix it in a way that it won't happen again, or at least not happen often enough to be prying the thing open all the time? As I said, I LOVE the board, but it's kind pf a PITA to be playing along on a jazz gig and have that one note popping out all the time......

I too like the heavy setting for getting the full range of expression from this keyboard, but I never felt the action itself was heavy. Then again, my former keyboard for practicing was a Yamaha P90.....that thing felt like someone poured molasses on the keys in comparison....

Hello all. I love, repeat LOVE the sound of my Px5S (as well as my other boards) in stereo. I'm toying wih using a pair of speakers on stage and monitor myself in stereo. Trouble is, NO ONE in this neck of the woods runs a stereo PA, so my send to FOH has to be mono. I usually run both boards into a small Yamaha mixer, so no problem getting signal in stereo to me. Trouble is, the mixer only has 1 aux send, so I can't split things up that way...do any of you guys have a similar situation and if so what is the most efficient way you have found to deal with it?

I only really have 2.....an expression pedal input and a fix for that Bb key issue.....

Back in the 80's I lived in and around Atlanta and at one of the more upscale shopping malls there was a Steinway store. The guy that managed the place didn't mind me coming in from time to time and playing the pianos. What I was most struck by (other than the price tags) was how very different each one sounded to the others, even pianos of the same model. When I started down the rabbit hole of searching for a piano via hardware and software, I realized I was not searching for A piano, I was searching for THE piano. I also realized that this was a fool's pursuit, because so many factors were at play, ie, the sample itself, the speakers used for playback, the room, etc, etc, and at a certain point kind of abandoned the quest. It may be the OP is searching for THE piano, and is not finding it in the Px5S's sample set. Ultimately an offering from Yamaha, Roland, Kurzweil, Nord, etc. may better fill the bill. For myself, the Px5S's piano sample, with appropriate EQ, velocity and attack tweaks, gets me about 90% of what I want in most gigging and studio situations. I especially appreciate how adjustable "on the fly" all these factors are in the Casio, which allows me to make adjustments situationally without a lot of menu diving. Good enough for this guy, especially given the $$$....IMO fabulous bang for the buck, but everyone's mileage is going to vary......

This is a KILLER sounding piano, especially in headphones....makes me wish I gigged in stereo. I'm not sure how it will translate to mono, with the panning you have going on, but next to Ivory it has become my favorite studio piano....

No, I've owned one for a while now, and like the action very much. Not like a top notch piano, but good nonetheless. I was mostly curious if anyone here had any problems with the action "deteriorating" after being played for a considerable time

So I was reading a post over on the Keyboard Corner about weighted 88 key controllers, and one person posted that a salesman in his local music store was trying to deflect him off of buying a Px5s. One of his main criticisms was that the action was "flimsy, and prone to deteriorate over time"....anyone out there experience anything like this with their keyboard?

Me too. Same problem, same note.......isn't that WEIRD? Probably just coincidence, but still.....