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Your way too kind words are appreciated m10538. I really liked what you did with "Are Friends Electric". Inspiring! Going to spend some time Monday with my PX560 trying to do some sort of cover variation of it.

Windham Hill stuff from the 90s? I wish. But thanks for the kind words Tsquare. Yeah, the 17 track midi recorder is where it's happening. My next thing is to try to do a variation on the Gary Numan tune that you did such a great job on. The PX560 is beyond fun. It's metafun!

Both versions are great! I especially like how you did it, Tsquare -- very clean, somewhat heavy, excellent groove that inspires movement. I also like that you listed the stuff you used. What's the difference between how the two versions were made? I'm going to try to do a version on my PX560. Never done anything like this before. I can play it on the piano now, sort of. But it doesn't have the forcefulness, or whatever, of either your or m10538's version. It's the lack of percussion partly, of course partly the way I play it, but mostly the lack of the synth stuff, I think. I love that synth stuff. Especially the 'heavy' synth stuff. I'm considering doing it with a string quartet, or something like that. Cello(s) and maybe bass (fretless!?) for the recurring heavy stuff, violins for the overlays. Maybe some percussion. I don't know. This could take me a while, hahahahaa. I tend to ramble when tickling the synthetic ivories. Anyway thanks to m10538 for the definitive Android app plus Human (on MiniMoog?) version, and you for the definitive Casio (PX560?) version!

I like how you and Tsquare did this tune, m10538. Inspired to try to do some sort of variation of it. On the PX560. Should be fun. Thanks. Just found out what a DRC is. 😎

I'm familiar with the Beach Boys' most popular hits, but not sure if I ever heard this one. Nice work. I don't know anything about midi, but I should probably take the time to learn it some day.

TAKE05121220.mp3 TAKE00121420.mp3 Very short practice things on PX560. Main piano preset. Exported as MP3 from Audacity. First one is electric piano on one track, solo piano on the other. Second one is solo piano. My first experiment with multitrack recording in the sequencer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit Rate Mode: Variable Quality: 220-260 kbps Variable Speed: Fast Channel Mode: Joint Stereo

Thanks Tsquare. How does that work for a lefty? Is the right hand stuff really that much harder than it would be for a righty? Are you able to do much more complex bass runs and rhythms and stuff? Left hand stuff is hard for me. Especially when it's sort of 'independent'. Anyway, I very much like what I've heard of your stuff.

Hahahaha, yeah excellent m10538, and the words 'incoherent' and 'sloppy' should probably be added in the title somewhere. Truth in advertising. I can hear Leonard Pinth Garnell (from SNL) commenting after playing it for his audience, "There now, that wasn't so good was it?" My consolation is that my future path is clearly laid out before me, insofar as getting noticeably worse might just be impossible given current laws of physics. I was going to delete it, but since you and Tsquare have been kind enough to give some positive comments, (and I don't care if you did it just to be nice), I guess I'll leave it. 😎

Thanks for your informative reply Jokeyman123. I enjoyed reading it. Sounds like you have quite a collection of musical instruments. Spanning decades. Have fun with your latest acquisition. I used to acquire, 'fix' or try to, and warehouse, all sorts of musical stuff from violins, horns, banjos, guitars, even a small harp, etc. to ... whatever. But these days I just want to keep things simple. The only instruments in the house, except for a few guitars, are the WK7600 and the PX560, and they should keep me busy enough for a year or two. Regarding bickering, whining, spam, complaining, etc., I haven't encountered any on CasioMusicForums so far. Maybe the occasional suggestion of a desired modification or whatever. But that can be constructive. I guess that means that, as you mentioned, the people who run CasioMusicForums are doing a good job in keeping things organized, civil, on point, and helpful. It also helps that there are, quite a few knowledgeable and conscientious users, such as yourself, who regularly post insightful and informative stuff here. Anyway, I try to avoid complainers. Must get to practicing on my fantastic PX560 soon today. Next recording step is to do some multitrack stuff on the sequencer, then record audio, and maybe post to this forums. Slept late because of playing tennis last night. (I'm in Florida) Still recovering. hahahaa

I wish I was more technically oriented. Regarding being somewhat "touchy", that goes with being an artist, I think. I myself am sensitive as sh*te. But we can't let stuff weigh us down. Who knows when we will come up with that tune or layered tone or phrasing or whatever that just makes our day, or our month or year even. I should talk. I took the better part of 20 years off from keyboard musical explorations. Just had a bunch of other stuff to do. No time. BIG mistake. Anyway, better late than never -- better to learn slowly than not at all. Thanks for the search tip. I did find a couple of the things you posted in the "post your own stuff" forum. I will henceforth explore the PX560 forum as time permits. Must break off from forums soon to massage my wonderful PX560 for a while. I think I'm in love with this keyboard. OK, maybe that's a bit much, but I definitely like it way more than any other musical instrument that I've ever played.

Thanks for clearing up that Cheese thing. Also, probably, the reaction limit thing. Hopefully it's just some sort of anomaly. I was able to "Like" your above post. The idea of a Tone Of The Week pertaining to all programmable Casio keyboards seems like a good one to me. I will eventually be getting into layering with my PX560, and what you and methodman propose would probably increase my motivation. It would be a fun enhancement. I'm gonna watch some Richard Cheese videos now. Just kidding.

I watched/listened to a few Richard Cheese vids, including on the Jimmy Kimmel show doing the hip hop song "Baby Got Back" in very upbeat lounge lizard style. It's hilarious. Your brother is Richard Cheese? Not to change the topic, but I was going to "Like" some posts and have been getting the message "Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today." I don't understand. There's a limit on the number of "Likes" you can do on this forums? I didn't see that in the guidelines. Was there a problem with too much "Like"ing here in the past? Anyway, this is not a whine. I'm just curious. I was going to be sarcastic, but that's just a different form of whining, sort of. Do you know about the like limit? Like, whoops I mean such as, what it is? 10? 20? Thanks for any info on this.

Nice work. I like Celtic stuff.

Don't remember exactly when this was done. Somewhere in 2001 to 2003. It was played and arranged on a Casio workstation keyboard that had lots of tweaking and recording capabilities. Might have been a WK3000, or maybe whatever similar workstation keyboard came right before it. Anyway, it's the second half of a tune called October Passage. It's synth (maybe some guitar?) and drums/percussion. There's a few tunes made with the same Casio keyboard on the same YouTube channel, but I don't remember exactly which tunes, or parts thereof they are. I had both Casio and Yamaha keyboards at the time, and most of the stuff was done on a Yamaha DGX-300. Below is at least one of Casio pieces.:

Ok, yes, Devo. The rhythmic interplay of their tunes. Very catchy. Nice work.

Very nice Jokeyman123. I really like this kind of music. You play well.

Nice work Jokeyman123. This sort of music was all the rage back in the early '60s. I think you captured the essence.

I normally don't listen to vocal music, but I can appreciate anything that's well done, and I enjoyed listening to this. The way you did the lyrics on the screen was cool also.

That's really beautiful music. Well played. To my ear, the PX560 version seemed clearer, and the piano stood out more. But, yes, the Omnisphere choir voices are exceptional. Both versions are great, but (maybe, as a new PX560 owner I'm a bit biased) I prefer the PX560 version. I never heard this piece before. Nice work Tsquare.

Just got the PX560 several days ago. The upload is just solo piano on the PX560 using only the main preset piano voice. The touch control was set to "Normal". Not sure if any other info is required. The original .wav file was encoded to .mp3 using Audacity. The settings were: Bit Rate Mode: Preset Quality: 320 kbps Variable Speed: Fast Channel Mode: Joint Stereo It's pretty sloppy playing of nothing in particular. Just rambling. It's a lot of fun to play this keyboard, but it's going to take a while before my fingers are strong enough to play it properly.TomT120920.mp3

Thanks Jokeyman123! From what I'm learning about the PX560 I would say that it is a formidable, "almost complete", workstation. One of my 'subgoals' is to learn something new re the PX560 every time I sit down to play/practice on it, instead of just rambling more or less aimlessly -- even though the more or less aimless rambling often results in learning some new (for me) spiffy chord progression(s) or fingering(s) or whatever. My main goal is to keep improving re playing, and to make at least 12 new (for me, that is) tunes using the PX560's capabilities (and also the WK7600's) during 2021. One per month, more or less. Yesterday I remembered to record a few minutes of more or less aimless rambling. I noticed that there's a specific place on this website to upload stuff that's been done on various Casio keyboards. I also notice that there's a mechanism for attaching files to posts in this thread. I suppose there's a guideline on this, so next for me is to read up on it, and then upload accordingly. Then will seek out your stuff that you said is "uploaded around here somewhere as an mp3 on this forum". Is that this PX560 forum, or the upload forum? No problem, I'll find out.

It takes a bit more effort to play the PX560 than my WK7600, but my fingers are getting stronger. I absolutely love playing it. The main piano sound is way better than any keyboard I've ever owned. It even sounds better to me than the Clavinova I used to play a few years ago. So resonant, and so expressive. It has a very substantial feel to it. Very well built. Just a joy to play. The color display is fantastic. Navigation is so much easier, somewhat intuitive even. I've explored some of the voices -- electric pianos, guitars, and basses so far. There's at least a couple from each category that I especially like. I've already logged more hours on the PX560 in just a few days than I did in the entire first couple of weeks when I got the WK7600. It's going to be fun working with both keyboards, however I will probably be spending the bulk of my time (maybe even all of it) on the PX560 for the foreseeable future. Next step is to do some recording with the PX560. Hopefully will remember to do that very soon, and also upload some stuff to this forums. I'm also very much looking forward to exploring the layering capabilities of the PX560. I'm very glad that I went ahead and got the PX560 now, even though I got the WK7600 just 7 months ago. The PX560 is marketed as primarily a stage piano, sometimes with the mention that it also has certain workstation/arranger capabilities. I'll be using it to make some original (for me anyway) tunes, and also to do some covers of stuff I like, and maybe also redo some of my old stuff. Everybody be safe and well. Wear your masks and mind your distance. We can beat these little virus critters. They don't even have anything even remotely resembling a brain. All they do is latch onto cells for a free ride and reproduce. There's just, apparently, a lot of them.

Thanks Brad Saucier. Going now to watch some more PX560 vids.

Thanks Jokeyman123 for another great reply. I'm sure that I will be referring back to stuff you've written in replies to me and in other threads. It's a lot for a lightweight like me to take in. But much appreciated. Regarding pedals, I use a Casio SP-20 with my WK7600. It's a nice unit, rather 'light' on the sustain, but enough for most of my music. There's probably a way to tweak that (or maybe not), which I will eventually learn. The main reason that I like it a lot is that it's got enough rubber underneath that it doesn't move at all on my tile floor no matter what my foot does. All other sustain pedals that I've used are all over the place, and I've used lots of velcro to keep them in place. I will be getting the Casio 3-pedal unit for my PX560. I expect that half-pedaling will become important to me. After I asked the questions in this thread, I found out that the PX560 is considered primarily a portable or stage piano. But it has everything that a hobbyist composer like me needs -- with the added plus of feeling and sounding like a really nice acoustic piano. I especially like that Casio textured the keys. Regarding MIDI, I haven't yet felt the need to learn it, though I have a basic (novice) understanding of how it works. I don't (sight, i.e., fast) read music either -- just fiddle around on the keys until I come up with something that sounds good to me, then try to expand on that, and subsequently try to remember what I did. That's where the MIDI sequencer comes in very handy, actually sort of a necessity for me. Lots of little ideas waiting to be developed, though I do have around 100 finished tunes on various internet sites like YouTube, SoundCloud, SoundClick and maybe a few others that I don't remember. Maybe some day I'll take the time to get more into MIDI. Regarding, trustworthy retailers, ok, no names. There's two not too far from me that I'm going to visit. Might end up ordering from internet though. Plenty of time to decide on that. But I definitely want a brand new one. Thanks again.

Ok, I think I have the answer to question 2. It's yes. Thanks to Jokeyman123, in a different thread, for that.