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Jokeyman, sorry I've been away from this discussion for a few days. Hey, that's great news. Glad I could contribute something to this forum. I'm in the Windows 10 environment and ran into the same problem with the missing MSVCR120.DLL. Found the download here, thanks to the Polyphone forum: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 Windows Elephant and Platypus similies...truer words rarely spoken. I am not that far away from you...near Reading, PA. My brother used to live in Port Jervis, across from Matamoras. Ian B, that motion is seconded. Finally, CYBERYOGI, thanks for the great suggestions regarding the Casio CT-660, 440, 460 and the Casio CSM-1/MSE-1. Had no idea those units were in the same basic family. My original MT-240 was a 1988 Christmas gift from Mom after I'd shown an interest in Jan Hammer. About 15 years later, its on board DC supply socket failed due to battery leakage that wrecked the board, so eventually I replaced it with a used one in 2008. At those times I knew almost nothing about MIDI keyboards and was too timid to attempt board level repairs requiring ironing. Additional thanks for the "Sausage Fingers" description. Could be my new nickname...HA HA, I am still laughing over that one! For me, solution #1 is finding a used CT-660/440/460 and a CSM-1/MSE-1 for our real keyboard player and me. Solution #2 is I will learn PolyphoneNightPeople-SSongC10-Take2(remix122603).mp3. Everyone, many, many, many thanks for very helpful information!!! Attached here is the original 1990 "demo" that started this quest. Try not to laugh too hard. The band says they want to record this thing with full instrumentation.

Jokeyman123, thanks. Yes, I meant MIDI soundfonts. Worst case, I suppose I can record each note in high quality audio and create a soundfont for eacg tone with something like this: https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/ Of course, that doesn't address what goes on via the softsynth, but I am guessing I can use analog effects to get close if I can't figure out how to make it happen digitally. The Synth Ens voice in particular does some pretty interesting things when multiple keys are struck quickly enough in a song. I have an old quasi-demo recording using that voice that has a kind of overlapping, shimmering effect from the velocity and timing of the key strikes. It's almost like accumulated delay with distortion in an effects pedal. Chas, thanks. I do have a working MT-240 in great shape. I may pick up another one, especially if the soundfont idea doesn't pan out. The reasons I am even thinking about trying to migrate the tones are that, A.) my older, fatter and damaged fingers can no longer play the mini keys and, B.) our real keyboard player plays full size keys only. (Reason B.) led me to pick up a used WK-3000 a few years ago.) CYBERYOGI, thanks for the idea to look for MT-540 sounds, which I will do. I researched the MT-540 and found this site: http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/Casio_MT-540.html Information there is probably old hat to you guys that work at board level, but was enlightening to me. To everyone, thank you for responding with some great information!

Hi, I am new to the forum. I have a late 1980s Casiotone MT-240 which I used to record several song demos between 1989 and 1994. I have been trying without success to track down MIDI fonts for the stock instrument voices on this synth (and other MT models from the same period) or locate someone who has successful migrated them to a current/recent keyboard somehow. I hope to find them in a format that can utilized with a full-size keyboard, such as my Casio WK-3000. When contacting Casio, one of their customer service people told me "We do not currently produce a keyboard that contains the tones from the MT-240. Also, we do not offer tones similar to the MT-240 tones as downloads for any of our keyboards." He suggested the Casio forum, so here I am. (The MT-240's Piano voice seems identical to the version on my WK-3000, but there are no other voice matches between the two keyboards.) The voices I am particularly interested in are Elec Piano & Synth Ens, but would welcome information on how to get others. Has anyone had success doing anything like this?