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https://www.gearnews.com/superbooth20-home-edition-visit-the-synth-show-from-your-sofa/ ...from this site on April 23 at 2:00 PM. CET Of course it will be virtual later this month so we can’t go to the show and touch the products. There’s no doubt that AiX will become the defacto standard engine in any machine over $100 USD that doesn’t already have it.

Thanks so much!!

I think I can find a good 1/8” mic for that. Thanks!!

Actually I really don’t know. i am so used to modifying tones in the DAW when record so I stopped menu diving in keyboard. There could be a way to modify a sound setting. If I get any mid level DAW at $99 and up, then I could then use any USB Casio and call up a Prophet 5 sound and change the settings in an old school analog way via oscillators and filters in software and literally get the exact sound.

Anyway I am going to work with the great prophet 5 sound on my CT-X which has more depth in the AiX sound chip. The older AHL sound chip is still pretty usable in the WK and CTK series and live there’s very little difference. The closest WK tone I have found so far is a brass with synth bass, #270, and the above video calls the Prophet 5 patch “soft brass”.

Everybody helped me finding the needle in the haystack Prophet synth tone at the beginning of the attached video on the CT-X700, but where is the similar sound in the equally vast WK-245? There are just so many tones and it’s harder finding anything without a tonewheel.

Even though all my recordings are outside patches, of course live it’s easier to use the Casio patches. Any manufacturer makes great sounds in their keyboards but mostly they’re all designed for live instead of recording. Modern recording seems to like a simple bare bones naked patch, often the opposite of a finalized keyboard arranger patch, but then a DAW loves to come in and dress it up. Right now you could use patches from wherever and humble analog signals and use powerful digital technology to edit it. This recent NAMM brought USB 2 and the dominance of keyboard controllers with the goal of working with outside software or modules.

Thanks!! I have a sound bank program I could put it into right next to some Korg Krome Mellotron files. I am building a file in the PC as well as the iPhone. My recordings for YouTube when controlled are done through the Casio WK or CT-X, but the preferred sounds are all outside software patches since there’s so much out there.

I definitely like those drums sounds, too. I could utilize that well since it goes with that prophet 5 sound and can be used pretty seamlessly for many songs. I tend to like simpler analog sounds better than the very specific and direct DX-7 or Korg M-1 sounds. But I grew up on many of those sounds, too with that Yamaha and Korg.

I will look into it. I got so lost in GB’s eq section and it’s ridiculously addictive. I record pretty dry and then digitally manipulate later. I will then send off my files to someone with nuendo, ableton, and Cubase and will soon hear the full sonic potential after they go deep into the mixing and mastering.

I will probably record the sound audio into GarageBand then fool with its internal eq to nail the sound. I don’t want to do that specific song, but get that specific keyboard-synth-like brass sound or basically what I think of when I think of Sequential/Yamaha/Dave Smith Instruments “prophet 5”.

I wasn’t aware it had that many sounds, like let’s say the DX-7. Anyway Phil Collins solo and Genesis “Coming in the Air Tonight”.

Which ct-x700 patch does the prophet 5?

I know that software, hardware, repair, and mods are all different skills but amazing when put in the context of keyboards.