MUSICMAN

Thank you so much for the information.  They're both outstanding instruments !

Well I just love my PX 5S, Will there be a new version of that with a touchscreen coming. Or is the PX – 560 M a replacement / Or just another version , For the PX 5S..  I just got to watch a video of the PX – 560 M and it sounds just outstanding ! Plus so many amazing upgrades great touch screen, Backing rhythms, Auto compliments.  .  Any input you could give ,  Would be very much appreciated.  It seems Casio keeps on hitting the ball out of the park !  Mike Martin, thank you again so much for your great videos.  Mike  Martin is just one kind person that really cares about the customer. Best regards to all 

Thank you- got my sticker put it on, looks great !

 I ordered my Casio PX -5S right after Namm.  And I have said this in another posts, in my almost 40 years with synthesizers and keyboards this is one of the most , Outstanding sounding playing keyboards I have ever owned.. It really has a place of its own in the keyboard synthesizer world ! And I truly think the support with new sounds and updates have just been , Amazing!    I have played many Casio instruments for many years and they have always inspired, Were easy to use and just a whole Lotta fun! But can there be improvements, There can be improvements on just about everything we own. But I think Mike and the whole Casio team has gone far beyond many other companys, trying to make the customer, artist happy !! I do respect your views and what you ask for.  But for me,, Happy happy happy happy ! Thank you Mike and to everyone at Casio forgiving us just one killer synthesizer, keyboard..  PX-5S.  I look forward to the new editor and more of those killer sounds that you make, Wow-- For free !!!    And any updates you do, Will make what's already great ever ,, Greater. Kind regards.

Just absolutely beautiful !! Thank you thank you thank you.....

Thank you so much for all your TIME !!  you put into all so many GREAT new sounds !!  Just another great sound set !!!   I have been working with my PX-5S this week , and with so many other keyboards I own. I find this Casio PX-5S always ready to inspire me as a composer..    The Casio PX-5S has to be one of the best , Keyboards to come out in so many ways !!!   The more I play it the more I fall in love !! I see for CASIO , A future with just more great things to come !!    Thanks again Mike for all you do !! For all of us ..  From Great new sounds, Great Videos, and so much help !! Oh and one Great forum , also lots of kind good people here!!  GodSpeed and best , Regards,      PS, I was getting into you music , I just enjoyed it a lot , you are also a very good composer.. So much TALENT !!

I agree with you so much it's just won outstanding keyboard!... 

I am not SURPRISED ,, And this is very well deserved ..   As a very proud owner,  A BIG CONGRATS to everyone at CASIO ! ;) Best Regards, TotallyKenny

 Thank You !!!!!!!!  Mike,,  just another GREAT SOUND !!    I just cant wait to have these new sounds in my CASIO  Priivia Pro PX-5S.   The sounds are like nothing on the PLANET !     WOW :D  Like I said just one amazing keyboard that keeps getting better and better  

Thank You Mike for the example :D

Rachael's Ballad  is just Beautiful !!  

This is just OUTSTANDING news new sounds are coming to our LOVED CASIO PX-5S. Mike Martin at NAMM , Tells us new great sounds are on the way !!   And to me and I am sure many others that is just great !!!  But it even gets better they will be FREE !!!!!    I just want to say thank you Mike for the info   And I just cannot wait to hear the new sounds that I am sure will be just as good if not better than what we have now in the PX-5S ..   In my over 40 years with Synhs / Keyboards , I am very proud to have this work of art PX-5S in my studio !!    I want to take the time to say thank you to everyone at CASIO that put there HARD WORK  into just one OUTSTANDING CASIO PX-5S ..  There is just so so much in this keyboard and all the sounds are AMAZING at a unreal PRICE !! Plus just so many Free downloads from Mike Martin and so many great people on the FORUM here.  Mike , Thank You so much for the info , I do look forward to these new sounds , That I am sure so much work is going into them   I will soon be going on my 2d year with my PX-5S and it has and still inspires me and keeps me saying -- WOW !! I LOVE THIS KEYBOARD !!  Regards, to all you CASIO PX-5S LOVERS. TotallyKenny ...  PS Mike Martin , Another great job at NAMM 2014 ..  Thanks Again ..

OK Mike no problem , when I have the time . I will enjoy writing about my new GREAT !!! PRIVIA Pro PX-5S !!   And post user reviews, As I think many of us would love to get the word out . How happy we are !!    Thank Again, Kenny.  PS I just love your new presets !! And look forward to more !   Mike , the HEX LAYER presets are just unreal , they just go on forever ,   I just love all your work !!

Hi Mike , YES !! for sure I got My new CASIO from frank  ,,At audioworksct.com and I will review with him how happy I am with my ,PRIVIA Pro PX-5S !!  Frank at audioworksct.com is one great guy to work with !! He really cares about the customer !! And gives full support to CASIO .. 

 Again thank you Mike .. Just uploading more presets tonight and more to come soon. Mike you sure do some great sounds !! The Future looks to be lots of fun , as time gos by with our , GREAT PRIVIA Pro PX-5S .. ;) 

Received my new PRIVIA Pro PX-5S today ... Let me start out with... REMARKABLE ! This keyboard really Impresses me beyond all expectations !!  Just playing the 88 key piano keyboard with touch response /hammer response along with the amazing keyboard feel of the keys ...  Because this keyboard has so much to offer, for the price , OH yes lets not forget a 3 YEAR WARRANTY. Lets just look at the specs...from its massive polyphony 256 notes, to its outstanding sounds , which I have not heard one bad one as of yet and the many new hex layer sounds are just unbelieveable !! I have been playing keyboards for over 30 years as a professional composer/artist . I own many keyboards/synths ,new and vintage . And after playing the PRIVIA Pro PX-5S , for just a few hours ,I knew I was being inspired and pulled into directions much different than any other keyboard I own. If someone is just thinking about buying this PRIVIA Pro PX-5S

think no further for there is no where on the planet you can find a keyboard packed with so much for the money!! The PRIVIA Pro PX-5S just sitting there in its beautiful white package is a work of Art !! and says Play Me !!!  I also want to thank Mike Martin ,who from NAMM inspired me to purchase the PRIVIA Pro PX-5S I was ready from that time on to do my preorder . Lets also look at support  I also have one word..OUTSTANDING !!  Mike Martin has given an enormous amount of time to this project and you can tell its from his heart . One kind person ....So you ask , Am I happy today with my new PRIVIA Pro PX-5S ? HELL YES !!!!!!! :D  As a young boy , I played Casio's ,as a professional composer I am proud to say I still do !!!!! I urge all my fellow PRIVIA Pro PX-5S

owners please post your positive stories about your PRIVIA Pro PX-5S.

I see the future for Casio to be remarkable in its innovations  in NEW KEYBOARDS and SYNTHESIZERS . I want to say thank you to Mike Martin and all at Casio for giving me this wonderful happy day and many more to come with my PRIVIA Pro PX-5S

Regards Kenny :D :D

Mike , You did a great job with Your  video directions,,

  You seem always to make things easy and with all the info we need ! Thank You .   Kenny.

OK MIKE

I just finished reading this post.

The PX-5S is only part way there. And not a big way.

The first big step would be After Touch in a hammer action. Korg can do it with the RH3, so it can be done. Make a special edition, PX-5S-AT and throw on whatever the after touch modification costs. This might sell better than you first think.

As it stands, the PX-5S is a reasonable MIDI controller with a moderate synth engine and some minor league performance features - the arps and phrase sequencer come to mind.

The phrase sequencer is near completely misunderstood and absolutely poorly explained in terms of its intended purpose and functionality. Any money pissed away on "celebs" might better be spent explaining how this thing actually works, and where it's beneficial and what it can be used for, via both demonstration and instruction. Right now it's a black box, to most, and it seems nobody is willing to upload videos of themselves showing others the fuller capacities of this thing. This is as true of the XW's as it is of this, but it shouldn't be so.

Is there anyone that doesn't own an XW-P1 that can explain the Hex Layerings? I've watched all the videos and am still not exactly sure how it breaks down, or what it's 14 layers and not 12 or 18 that are available on the full keyboard of the approaching PX-5S.

The four programmable arpeggiators are much the same. Surely moderately powerful, but nobody knows how or in what way. This is as true of the XW's as it is of this, but it shouldn't be so. We know it's there, a bullet point on the promo sheets, but what does that actually mean "4 programmable arps"? How many notes in an Arp, what range, how many of them can the PX-5S run on one key press? How are the synced, how can they be played "unsynced" how can they be modified on the fly? Can their output be recorded as MIDI either on the device or out to a DAW? In what ways can this be coordinated with phrase sequencing for more complex pattern play?

Yes, Mike, I've seen your videos on youtube that touch on the surface of the XW's step sequencer, phrase sequencer and arpeggiators.

Here's one of them, but, as it rightly states, this is a QUICK tutorial. Why isn't there more:

// On another note, there's unanswered questions below this video from some time ago - WHY are they not answered? This is the CASIO youtube account, there's really no excuse for this kind of monologue type communication in this day and age.

In German we get a guy doing a "workshop" that's 4 minutes long. I've never been to a workshop that was less than 4 hours long: youtube.com/watch?v=IIM4Ua_9GU8

This is not to say that these things can't be basically understood in 4 minutes, they can. Just like the layers in Photoshop can be grokked in 4 minutes. However the greater power of these things, and their applicability to the Hex layers, the arps and other coordination they can have with the other features of these keyboards, means that fuller explanations of integrating them into creativity on these keyboards should be done - both the for users and as marketing. It's vastly better marketing than using "celebs" in this manner: youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZMdLJBJXk

In support of my argument that celebs are pointless for such products, the explanatory videos from Mike Martin (with near ZERO production quality) have as many views as the "celeb" videos. Yet which do you think have much more influence over both existing and potential purchasers?

Why not put some of that celeb budget into giving Mike both time and a film crew to make really good instructional videos? It's clearly a more productive use of time and money, for both marketing and consumer satisfaction.

Celebrity endorsements instantly become a ridiculous race to the top - of nothing. They don't explain anything. Watch any Jordan Rudess 30 minute demo of a Korg Kronos to see a guy say nothing for a very long time. You can't find a celeb that appeals to everyone, and there's no musician that does either. The best way is someone exactly like Mike Martin simply going through and explaining how to use everything, to the fullest possible advantage of the feature in isolation, in combination with every other feature of the product and then in conjunction with outbound and inbound connectivity as provided by the product. THAT IS ALL YOU NEED. And it's much fuller than simply skimming over things.

But that's all they do, these current videos, they only tickle the surface. Photoshop admittedly sells vastly more copies than these synths do, but it's priced about the same, whilst of similarly all round complexity and functionality. Why not think like software packages and actually really, truly delve into explaining the benefits of something? It's not like the other manufacturers are doing it. So you'll get a "point of difference" out of it, at the very least.

And this guy: youtube.com/watch?v=BVr9HgEURb8 He's good as well, but let him go into much more than superficial introductions. It doesn't cost anything to stream a video a 100,000 times, or a million. It's free. The only cost is making the videos, and that's MUCH cheaper than any single celebrity endorsement.

And these brilliant guys already work for you!

Pay them extra, give them the crews and time they want to work with, and let them present the gear as they know it to be, from the inside out. Far more beneficial to everyone than any faux celebrity being paid to say "uhmmm... yeah, Casio... Good! ... where's my donut?"

  AFTERTOUCH !! On the next CASIO will be nice to have .. And I think Mike Martin would do a great user video !!!  Mike knows how to explain the ins and outs of the PRIVIA PX5S.. I am sure there is lots of future support on the way !!

.What do you think of aftertouch