Brad Saucier

Audio Demo of this is here: https://soundcloud.com/bradmz/american-bluegrass
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American Bluegrass is a stage setting for playing a Bluegrass music rhythm. It contains a custom hexlayer tone on zone 2. Zone 2 covers Acoustic Bass, Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin. I created a phrase that plays all of the instruments in zone 2's hexlayer. Download the Phrase "Flat&Scruggs" and place it in user slot 141. Start the rhythm by pressing the A2 key. There is a range around A2 that will transpose the key of the recorded phrase. The range is small since the sound becomes unnatural outside of that range. Keep in mind that the PX-5S is not an Auto Accompaniment Keyboard. Auto-Accomp uses chord shifting and detection techniques that the PX-5S was never intended to need or use.
Download Scruggs2 Phrase in place of the Flatt&Scruggs Phrase to eliminate the major 3rd notes.
Sliders 1-4 turn on/off the different instruments in the rhythm.
Slider 6 adjust the overall volume of the rhythm.
Slider 5 turns on/off zone 1 for no good reason.

Concert Grand Piano Shorter Release EQ'ed
This is a modification of the factory preset Stage Setting "0-0 Concert Grand". It has a shorter release time allowing for cleaner note separation during staccato play. I attempted to recreate the same note separation that I noticed in recordings of "Acoustic Piano's". This setting feels really choppy if your used to the original preset but after some time with it you will feel like the original release time was too long.
I've also tweaked the EQ. The low frequency's have been reduced and the high's increased for a brighter sound. Again, I was attempting to get the sound of a real acoustic recording.

Here is Retro Casio for the PX-5S. This is an emulation of the famous VL-TONE Rock rhythm. It also emulates the VL-Tone Piano but with more polyphony and key range (obviously).
The Rock Rhythm is triggered by the upper most B note. It's made with an arpeggio. As a happy accident, variations of the rhythm can be heard on the two adjacent keys.
Enjoy !!

This is a basic Bossa Nova loop to be used with the stage setting of the same name. Place this phrase in user slot 118.

This is a hex layer Tenor Sax. It combines all of the PX5 Tenor Sax samples into one velocity switched tone. It goes from breathy with a very light touch to bright and punchy with a strong touch.

Here are two phrases made for drum patterns.
Recommended settings.
Jazz Swing - Tempo:145 Use Brush Set
5/4 Swing - Tempo:165 Use Brush Set

A stereo string sound good for staccato play. It has an Amp envelope applied as well.  

Recommended Settings for these Drum Phrases
8 Beat Dance - Use Synth Set 2 Tempo 130
Hip Hop Rock - Use Hip Hop Set Tempo 110

If you use this stage setting, please let me know if you like it and how you used it.  I learn music by ear.  This stage setting started as I was learning how to play the song.  I carefully listened to left and right channels of the original recording, trying to hear how it was played.  Once I learned it well enough to play it myself,  I recorded it into the sequencer on the MZ-2000, then converted that recording into phrases for the PX-5S.  The rest of the work involved editing PX-5S tones until they sounded like the sounds heard in the original record.  
 
 
I have recorded an Audio Demo of this. Click the download button to see it in the list of available downloads.
or click here for soundcloud...https://soundcloud.com/bradmz/eurythmics-sweet-dreams-ver-2
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This is a stage setting and sounds for playing the song Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics.
Sweet Dreams is the Stage Setting. Sweet Arp is the phrase that plays the synth sounds. Place this phrase in slot 120 Sweet Beat is the phrase for the drum pattern. Place this phrase in slot 121. Once loaded, make sure the Arpeggiator lamp is lit, then hit any key in the low end to start the pattern playing. The Synth Lead sound is in the upper range for playing the solo.

I recorded an Audio sample of this stage setting. It's on the download page. Click the download button above. ^
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I did it as a test of both my and the PX-5s drum set editing abilities. All drum sounds used in this beat are edited in some way to approximate the sound of the original beat.
Included Phrases for this SS
RT Pop Beat - User Slot 124
RT Bass - User slot 125
RT E Piano - User slot 126

After everything is loaded, press your D2 key to get the beat going.

A powerful improvement to the GM Pizzicato tone. It has large Reverb and an added String staccato layer.
The String Zone can be removed by adjusting expression on slider 2.
The Pizzicato Zone also can be adjusted on slider 1.

This is a Stage Setting that includes a hex layer on zone 1. The Hex tone has 3 split layers of Morse code beep tones that are panned Left, Right and center. Each layer's volume is assigned to sliders 1,2 and 3. Use the sliders for bringing the different codes in and out.
I programmed a phrase that will play 3 different Morse code sequences all at the same time yet are really separate because of how it is arranged in relation to the Morse Beep Hex Layer. The different codes in the phrase sequence are mapped to the 3 Split zones of the hex layer.
Code 1) Left Channel Tone
Code 2) Center Ch. Tone
Code 3) Right Ch.

The phrase is not assigned as an arpeggio in this Stage Setting. Use the phrase player. The Morse phrase is on this download page.

An Audio Demo of this is on the download page.
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I'm not sure what I created here. It's original and built from nothingness. Enjoy!
Sliders 1,2,3 and 4 control Zone Levels.

I created an Audio Example of this drum set using the XW-G1 step sequencer. Click the download button above.
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5 Drum Re-Samples common in most full size Casio keyboards from the late 80's. These are mapped to the original key locations.

Kick High - C1
Low Snare - F1
Gated Snare - G1
Closed Hi-Hat Low - C2
Low Cowbell - D4

Electric Piano layered with Acoustic Piano layered with warm synth strings and some nice effects to round it out.

A huge stack of saw waves with big reverb and delay.

This Stage Setting was started by Scott Hamlin. He asked me for some help in making it sound bigger. This is the end result. Scott created an Audio Demo of it here: https://soundcloud.com/casio-px-5s/orpheus
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Sustain Pedal 1 controls swell for the choir in the high end.
The Arpeggio is in the low end.
Enjoy!!

Here is all of the original user wave data factory installed on the XW-G1. This is here for anyone who lost the original data.

2 sets of popular classic drum sound waves for the XW-G1. Kick, snare, closed hat, open hat, clap in each one

The 3 drum sounds heard in the Casio VL-1.
White noise burst
High blip
Low blip

Check your stage setting filter. Master compressor is ON by factory default. My compressor tweaks in this ss will not load if the master compressor is ON in stage setting filters)
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A concert grand piano with huge warm reverb.
What was tweaked to make this:
Reverb parameters: time, tone, high damp, return
Master EQ: All parts
Master Compressor: All parts
Early Reflection DSP added to piano and tweaked
Thumb piano pitch key follow and amp velocity sense
Air Concrt Grand cutoff and amp velocity sense
And other minor tweaks

Audio Demo here.....https://soundcloud.com/bradmz/toy-piano-demo-for-the-casio
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Thanks to the PX-5's powerful hex layer synth I was able to get a decent approximation of the sound of a toy piano by using 12 layers of other wave sounds.

Audio demo of this is here: https://soundcloud.com/bradmz/updated-new-order-bizzare-love
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This is a stage setting that can be used to play a portion of the song Bizzare Love Triangle by New Order. Load up all the files and hit any key in the low end to start the beat. You may want to set the arpeggiator to hold. The sound here was done with 2 phrases running under the arpeggiator. They are playing a custom drum set on Z1 and a custom hexlayer on Z2. Zone 3 is a bell type sound for playing a melody in the middle section if you wish. Zone 4 is the signature synth arpeggio for fill ins and is in the upper most range of the keyboard.
Slider 1 - Bass on/off
Slider 2 - synth arpeggio on/off
Slider 3 - mute guitar arpeggio on/off
NEWORDER is the stage setting
BIZARRED is the drum phrase - place it into slot 137
BIZZAREP is the hex layer phrase - place it into slot 138

Here it is. Samples of the little sampler from the 80's. These are the drum kit sounds from the SK-1.
There are 8 samples from the SK-1 here so I split them among 2 tones since the G1 only allows 5 samples per tone.
The drum samples in the 2 wave tones are automatically lined up along the lowest 8 naturals when you layer them in 2 zones.

Here's some of my synth tones I've created. I collected them and categorized them. This is a set of 10 saw based tones. These were all inspired by one thing or another. The cryptic abbreviations of the tones hint at what I was going for although now I don't even remember some of them.