Bryzzee

I have a useful suggestion and idea that can be done for amplification purposes. This method can be done very cheaply and provide you with extreme volume levels. The main question is how loud do you want to go ? Do you want to blow the windows out of your house or apartment, or perhaps the door off it's hinges ? Instead of thinking of buying those very expensive ilouds or two thousand dollar self powered monitor speakers or keyboard amps, try using this setup instead. I have been using this setup configuration for years without any problems of any kind and I can easily get the loud volume amplification of booming bass and high fidelity that I want or need. What I did is simply purchased at a pawn shop ( years ago for 50 dollars) a old Sony home theater 5.1 amp and pair of speakers (mine are huge 3 way 15") to match for keyboard amplification purposes. Due to the home theater amp having RCA inputs, all you need to do is find yourself a 1/4 inch headphone jack with RCA ends or a stereo mini plug with 1\4 inch headphone adaptor plug for the RCA wire giving stereo output from your keyboard headphone jack to the RCA input line of the CD mode of the home theater amp ( giving 2 ch. stereo ) or any provided mode the amp may have for L & R stereo audio. The RCA wires can come in all types of wired configurations. Some keyboards are already equipped with RCA outputs. If your keyboard doesn't have RCA outputs you can alternatively use the stereo headphone jack output of your keyboard into the back RCA inputs of the home theater amp the sound then goes out to the hooked up speakers of the amp. It really depends on what type of amplifier you prefer to use along with what inputs and outputs and the wire\cable connectors it may provide to use from home theater amps to DJ amps in connection to your keyboard. Most keyboards now have both separate 1\4 inch L&R line outputs and 1\4 inch L&R line inputs to an external amp or even XLR connections. If using a home theater amp as I have, you will need RCA wire with a 1\4 inch headphone plug adaptor connected to one of the RCA wire ends which is connected from your keyboard headphone output jack and the other end of the RCA jacks into the back of the home theater amp. You don't loose the ability to use your headphones as most likely the home theater amp will have its own headphone capability that you can easily switch to use for private listening. Even a mixer can be used and utilized like a DJ or PA sound system setup with your keyboard. This idea or concept for amplification is not new, but it most certainly works very well from simple to elaborate, and can be easily done for much less cost then the alternative of buying very expensive amp and speaker gear just to amplify the sound of your keyboard. There are other less expensive ways or options to consider as well such as Logitech Gaming surround sound amplification with subwoofer, and wireless Bluetooth that can be utilized for amplifying the sound of your keyboard for full rich booming bass and high fidelity sound which makes a tremendous difference instead of using the 8watts per side onboard speakers.

An expression pedal assignment to a tone or tones can make a major difference to the overall sound. The expression pedal is so important when playing organ, strings, brass effects and movie themed music ect. Sometimes touch sensitivity is simply not enough in trying to achieve proper volume swells. Volume expression swells can be done by hand parameter adjustment however the expression pedal allows for much more freedom and convenience.

Is there parameters to set the acceleration and deceleration speed control for the rotary effect, if not, Casio needs to work on this !