DaveMcM

Right before the gig, I made some controller assignment changes. First I assigned the CV Pedal to control Portamento Time. Doing so made it easier to activate it as opposed to playing the notes and trying to get over to the Mod Wheel at the right time. Which allowed me to assign Pitch LFO Amount back the the Mod Wheel. I then set Knob 1 to Filter Cut Off, Knob 2 to Filter Resonance and Knob 3 To Delay Amount. I actually had the same idea to place the Magic Man patch on Upper 2 and detune a bit to fatten it up but that didn't match the original sound so I opted against doing that. So now, after the first section of the solo and the dive bomb, I can increase Filter Resonance and play around with the Filter Cut Off as is done in the original recording. It's a shame the Pitch Env Gen couldn't do what I had in mind, but there is always another way to pull things off. I really hope Casio comes up with an updated model of the PX-560/PX-5. I'll upload my revised settings soon.

I have uploaded what I came up with. Let me know what you think. https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/category/23-community-created-files/

Absolutely. I've got to get this done prior to our Saturday night gig. I was actually going to use my CT-S1000V for this sound. I bought the S1000 to have something easy to carry to rehearsals and was able to come up with something very useable but it required activating Portamento at just the right time (pun ) and I don't trust myself to accomplish that during actual performance. Plus I couldn't figure out how to increase the LFO rate for the final line of the solo. So the PX-560 to the rescue. ADDED: Regarding LFO (vibrato) Rate on the CT-S1000V. I just went with the novel approach of looking in the manual. Seems that rate is adjustable after all. Go figure.

(Originally posted on the Keyboard Corner) My band has learned Magic Man by Heart which has a short but distinctive synth solo toward the end of the song. I was trying to figure out how to pull it off since I don't happen the have a Moog System 15 or a couple of Minimoogs lying around. Then it came to me that my Casio PX-560 has 3 separate envelope generators for Amplitude, Filter and Pitch. My programming plan is this; Find a waveform that works, create a gate with a soft attack and slight release for the the Amp Env, a semi-quick decay on the Filter CutOff with a little increased resonance, and then a delayed response on the Pitch to make a dive once the key is held for a specified time. Should take all of 10 minutes if I stop to open a refreshing beverage. Now as long as the tempo doesn't stray too much my dive bomb effect should work our great. I keep trying to decide if I should upgrade my main board, but then the PX-560 shows me how capable it is.

It would not be fair to compare the CT-S500/1000V or any rompler from any company to a dedicated organ clone. On the other hand, some of the organ tones in the CT-S500/1000V are certainly useable where organ is not going to be the featured sound. The rotary effect is pretty good and there are a good number of tones to choose from. But the one thing that will distinguish a rompler from a real organ every time is the percussion. On a Hammond the percussion is polyphonic single trigger. When a key is pressed, or multiple keys as long as they are played at the same time, the percussion will sound the note or notes and decay out. As long as at least on key is held down, newly played keys will not trigger the percussion sound. On some romplers it helps to gain a bit more realism to assign a percussion sound to a layer and set that layer to monophonic. this won't give you the poly/single trigger of a real organ, but at least when you do a slide up or down the keyboard, or hold a key while playing other keys you won't hear percussion on every keystrike. How hard would it be to add a polyphonic/single trigger mode to the O/S? Maybe there's just a small number of folks who know or care about this. If a feature like this was included it would definitely make the instrument stand out from the crowd, or maybe not.

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Thanks Andrew. I'll give that a try.

Well if I want to take the easy way out. Translation, "why didn't I think of that?" Then again it would still require taking a hand of the keyboard but at least it's easier to press a physical button versus the touch screen. Thanks for the idea.

Another thought. I remember a feature on one or more of the Nord keyboards from way back that would allow the mod wheel to morph between two drawbar settings. Worked well especially since the drawbuttons were not the easiest to use for on-the-fly adjustments. Maybe that same idea could be accomplished on the P-560 since the continuous controllers can be scaled with Min/Max values and even reversing the range. Just a thought.

I have a gig this Thursday with a trio where I will be playing left hand bass part of the time. In fact I'll need to turn on and off the split multiple times within certain songs. Having to read charts and sing into a mic makes it hard to quickly (accurately) press the appropriate area of the touch screen. So.... does anyone know if it is possible to assign the pedal to turn the bass split on and off?

I'm pretty sure you can assign the 3 knobs to control individual layer volumes. I'll have to review the organ patch I created on my PX-560 since it's been a while ago that I made it. The Knob 1 adds a 4' drawbar, Knob 2 adds a 1 1/3' drawbar and knob 3 turns on 3rd harmonic percussion. I use a dedicated clone wheel on gigs but this patch has helped a couple of times when only using the PX-560. I used the mod wheel to control rotary speaker speed.

Ah ha! I knew it was somewhere. Forgot about the hex layer tone list. Thank you so much. I'm still loving my PX560.

Is there a white noise waveform lurking underneath the hood that I'm not finding? Filling in with a band this weekend and need to re-create the white noise filter sweep from Edgar Winter's Free Ride. Thanks in advance, Dave.

A quick thought. Can you just copy the entire preset to another location and then simply change the waveform to whatever you want?