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Thank you for the information.

As a follow up to my Casio CGP-700 story. The keyboard now continues to make the loud distortion sound when any key is pressed. Where the keyboard was intermittently working,it is now unusable and not working at all. Looking for advice on how to get a replacement keyboard as this is under warranty. Who should I contact and how to proceed. Thank you. Steve

I wanted to thank Mike Martin for his response to my post. I have watched a number of his videos about Casio products and found them very helpful. Again, my intent was not to say this was not a good digital piano- it is, overall.

Thanks for your reply. Let me say that as a digital piano, the Casio CGP-700, has a lot of functionality for a keyboard in it's price range. Especially the touch screen for navigation - a nice selling point. However, due to the problems I've been having with this keyboard I'm switching over to software based recording with a midi-controller keyboard approach. Yes, the MIDI recorder does have 17 tracks - 16 tracks + the System track. Beware however, when you record with MIDI, the default will set to record on the system track. It contains MIDI data but no notes when transmitted if I understand it correctly. If you play back what you recorded on the keyboard you will hear what you recorded. But, if you save it as a MIDI file and port it to another program for processing, things get interesting. Example, I ported a saved MIDI file from The Casio CGP-700 into Finale to play and notate an improvisation. Because it was recorded on the Casio System track, no data comes over.Also, if you use the accompaniment for drums, it records to the System track. If you want to record percussion parts and have them port to another product you have to 'play' the drums on the keyboard. I'm passing on information I've learned while exploring hoping it may save some folks time working with this instrument.

Brad, Thanks for your input. It sounds like an amp with a max setting of 10 playing at 20!! It happens on any key depressed. Comes and goes.

Greetings. I have had the Casio CGP-700 for a little over a year ago. I purchased it originally because of the keybed action which is fairly piano like and the recording capabilities, MIDI and Audio. After using this keyboard for the previously mentioned time, I have some comments and observations. First, and let me say this is MY opinion - if you're mainly a pianist and want to do some audio recording with a few decent sounds, and you don't mind dropping $799, then by all means think about buying this keyboard!If you're a pianist/musician who wants to record using MIDI, I think you'll be disappointed. Yes, you get 17 tracks and all that, but the MIDI implementation on this instrument is sorely lacking and frustrating. In fact I believe there are some bugs, surprise, surprise! Also, the sound engine is not the AIR engine in PX models. The piano and electric piano sounds are not too bad. But for brass, strings and other orchestrals- NO! Now, this could be just MY keyboard, but the most frustrating thing is the audio output, intermittently, makes a loud, very loud sound when any key is hit.Turning the keyboard off, doesn't fix the problem. It seems to go away by itself at some point. The biggest drawback for me with this problem is that as a pianist/composer, to capture ideas quickly, I want to hit record and play Once the idea is gone - it's gone! Again, it is not my attempt to malign this product, but in my case. for the reasons I've stated, I am not happy with it and am currently looking to replace it. I would welcome any comments from users as well as Casio. Thanks.

Will try that. Thanks so much.

Greetings, I purchased the CGP-700 for it's ease of touch screen control for the keyboards features. Important to me are the recording capabilities -both WAV and MIDI. However, my issue with the MIDI recorder function is that it appears to not record in an actual MIDI format but a Casio proprietary format. You can play back MIDI recorded data through the keyboard, but can't port it to other applications for playing/editing. Am I crazy or not? Is there a way to tell this keyboard to store the data as some standard MIDI file.