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thanks! Oh, that's interesting - casio is restructuring websites again - on the new 'continental-european' website in 'Casio-online-shop-style' one cannot access no manuals at all, even not the user-manual One has to find the tiny 'service-iink' in the websites corporate section that points to a link that follows a link .... And the midi sheet still isn't there, it can only be found following old cached links to Casio international sites Clever !

long time ago someone asked for the midi implementation afaik there's no official document, but you can use this privat document (unzip and open the .html file in a web browser) CT-S1_Midi.zip

Hi, sorry for reviving this old thread, but I 'discovered' PX5s stretch tuning just now. hard (for me) to hear it 'absolutely' (one doubt if it's real or just 'imagined' - eventually influenced by the psychological effect of touching the +/- buttons ) So the idea was: layer 2 Grands, switch st off on the 1st and change st on the 2nd - and voila: there's massive beats ('saloon type' piano) in all octaves with the center around B4 (H4). The nuances between st 'Piano1-5' are subtile (one can hear the differrence when layering e.g. st Piano1 with Piano2) and E.Piano2 is the largest 'stretch'

OVERVIEW: Added 'sync' to synchronise EDITOR to actual XW solo synth patch, DSP selectable via EDITOR, bugfixes FEATURES: + XW-'sync': added main-menu [sync]-button to synchronise EDITOR Solo Synth params to actual XW solo synth patch + Solo-Synth DSP can now be switches via the EDITOR + introduced '[1>2]' buttons in VCO/VCF/VCA blocks (dublicate 'block' data from syn/pcm 1 to syn/pcm 2) (+ deleted '[set]' buttons) BUGFIXES: + fixed waveform select for PCM and Noise + corrected number scheme in waveform lists + corrected LFO1/2 wave selectors + corrected PWM LFO-depth value range direct downlaod from google-drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1GUGbgq9JgFrb-1cUzX597PDitJbnKpJR or via website: https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/casio-xw-editor

don't blame google, it was my fault - it's accessible now for public. btw. I just finished understanding Casios sysex implementation - there will asap be a 'synchronisation' to XW , so that the pots/faders are initliased with the values of actual XW patch

voila, editor for XW-P1 and G1, for Windows and Mac/OSX. The editor covers realtime editing of: XW solo synth drawbar organ hexlayer 'mixer' Hellas it's yet not possible to synchronise the editor with XW data, so see it as a 'classic' hardware synth (like JD800 ;)) for 'building new sounds' (the day we decrypt Casios quantum-mechanical theory of sysex implementation it will also get 'sync') -- please carefully read: the install instructions on the website (don't get confused, XW-Editor is hosted on Roland V-Combo website until it gets a website on its own) the 'splash screen' or alternatively the [readme] button (in left lower corner) the 'Quick-Guides' in the 'config' PANEL https://v-combo.webspace.rocks/casio-xw-editor Those who cannot access the website: direct download folder (you find a pdf-copy of the website in the folder): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1GUGbgq9JgFrb-1cUzX597PDitJbnKpJR Like Comment Send

just aquired a XW. I'm sure the bright 'clicking' noise originates from the keys tapping against the inner plastic 'guidance' hinge. If the keys are hit from a lateral angle (from left or right), the click increases/disapperars.

personal 'feel' about that presentation: first half was interesting, then it turned into 'langue de bois' as the French would say - all that cool, supercool, megacool, hypercool - too much of cool, too much pathetic PR-blablabla - - I switched the stream off as it got boring (excuse me for being frank) The board: The Year After ... Daft Punk - Casio provides the tool for Daft Punk reproduction - that's --- really cool 😜 Surprising: now, after the presentation, it seems to be even not totally roasted by the real and only synth nerd world - they see some positive aspecs in it

hm, yeah, there's been some (quickly deleted) leaking ... maybe the pot on top of the wheel is an assignable K3 (like on PX S3k...) and it's said to be programmable by an 'app' (there's some space between the user panel and the right speaker to deposit a smartphone ... ?) Anyway, it seems to be something 'besides the mainstream arranger-type keyboard' - let's remember that in ol' days some CTs were 'synthesizers' combined with rhythm section - kind of Yazoo-in-a-box. Maybe Casio jumped on the retro-train?

Hi, some month ago I had the S1 for testing. One target was to exploit its midi capabilities. But then I forgot to publish the results in Casio Forum - finally here it is In short: There's not much that can be done to 'CT S1 keyboard layer'. But CT-S1 has also an inbuild GM sound layer. This layer contains the standard 'GM-1' sound palette but also the CT-S1 'keyboard' sounds (including the vintage synths). The GM layer can be 'played' with external keys (midi keyboard + usb-host) or by sending midi note/on-off from the CTS1 keys back into the GM layer. For the latter purpose one can use e.g. the (free) Android-app 'Midi-Commander' for which I made a little setupfile Using the GM layer offers additional features: 1. increased multi-timbrality: in theory one can layer all 16 midi channels + 2 CT-s1 layers ... in real life, CT-polyphony of 32-stereo makes this soon an end ;)) 2. modding sounds by standard GM midi controllers, as there are: pitch, mod, panpot, damper soft/sostenuto/sustain, filter-cutoff, ADR-envelope, vibrato, portamento, reverb, chorus, master-tune This is extremely nice when applied to the VX/CZ patches - I could create some very nice synth sounds ('glitch': GM filter-resonance does not work - maybe a bug or limitation by performance) Now what does the 'App' do? Connected to the CT, it: - receives Note-On-offs from the CT keys an send them back to a GM layer - allows to use the GM controllers to modify a sound (live) - allows to create 'patches' for loading sounds from GM layer (including 'GM-1 and CT- sounds) and adding GM-controller modifications A resumee of the CT-S1 GM midi stuff and a MidiCommander setup file is included in the attached zip-file (if someone tells me which category to use for CT-1s I can also upload it to the download section) CT_S1_Midi_091.zip