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Hi, here is a PDF File on the Casio Europe site where the Midi Implementation of the WK / CTK Line is described in detail ! http://www.casio-europe.com/de/downloads/emi/MIDI_CTK_WK.pdf So this is very interesting for programmers, who want to write their own Style editor or other Editing Software. Get it ! Enjoy ! Regards, Stefan.

No Answer ? Are all the guy still on vacations ? Is there any Youtube out there, where these questions are answered ? Many thanks.

Well, yes, you need to have a special brand Android tablet or phone and the right firmware version to get around the latency delays... But it seems Android apps are catching up versus the IPAD apps... Anyway, I just got confirmation from Casio Support Germany, that the WK-7500 is NOT firmware updateable... Too bad !

Hi All, I just found, where you can download 50 new free rhythm styles for your WK-7500 / CTK 7000 keyboard. Have a look over here: http://www.casio-europe.com/euro/emi/rhythmsspecial/ Music to listen to and download:Let CASIO help you discover new genres of music and get your favourite beats on your CASIO keyboard. All rhythms are suitable for high-performance CTK-7000, CTK-6000, WK-7500 and WK-6500 keyboards, as well as for AT-3 and AT-5 oriental keyboards Enjoy ! Regards, Stefan.

Yes, my upper method works, but there is one problem, that the Patterns don´t play, until you pressed a key like C on the keyboard... Also it is a problem to switch between maybe F001 and F050 as you need to tap the PLUS key then 49 times in a row and by that time the measure is already over and you will miss the new User Rhythm... So a solution is to use the Event Editor...but with this I am still struggling...as it seems it is displaying timecode instead of measures and beats...so it is hard to interpret where a new Rhythm must be set up. Also as the Patterns are transposable, you always need to have programmed in the basic key for it, which is another insert you have to dial into the Event Editor... so pretty complex.... Is there still a simpler method like the old Rhythm machines , where you just needed to type in the patterns playlist ? Would be cool, if the Data Manager would support this to make songs this way.. Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

On Android you can use Caustic 2 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.singlecellsoftware.caustic&hl=en for Midi-Recording and Sequencing... and Opus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.als.opus1&hl=en for Sample Playing... But here are a few real Audio Multitrack programs: Audio Evolution Mobile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.aemobile&hl=en and FL Studio Mobile https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imageline.FLM&hl=en and J4T Multitrack Recorder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaytronix.multitracker&hl=en I wonder which software works best to sync with the WK-7500 Sequencer and permits good quality audio multitrack recordings ? Has anybody tried this yet ? How is the syncing done with the WK-7500 Sequencer ? Via USB-MIDI Clock ? Is this possible ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

I think one can do it this way. First make your own User pattern like F001 to e.g. F020 or so, so we have made with the pattern sequencer 20 selfmade patterns. Now go to the Easy Recording mode with the Song Sequencer and then set the first starting Pattern like F001 and then start the easy recording mode by pressing Start/stop button. Now during playback of Pattern F001 press the Plus button to go to the next Rhythm you have choosen in your playlist... Now if your playlist of Pattern is like this: F001 F005 F010 F010 F010 F011 you must start with F001 and then press during Playback of F001 4 times the PLUS button to get to F005 and then F005 will play after F001 has ended... and so on... I think this way it will work. I will now try it this way. Is there any other way you can do this more easily ?? Probably via manual editing via the Step editor somehow ? But how ? Can somebody post a quick tutorial about this ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan

Hi All, I am still trying to figure out how to best go from selfmade User Rhythm patterns to a song by chaining patterns together each after the other.. ?? So what is the best way to copy patterns into a song ? ( so like a playlist of chained patterns ? ) or what is the best and fasted method to get this done ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

Thanks for the Reaper tip. Did you try first other DAW software solutions and then settled on Reaper ? Seems to be a pretty powerful software... What is the difference to Cubase and Abbleton and Fruity Loops for example ? 2. Any Android DAW Software that could be used with the WK 7500 ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

Hi ALL, is it possible to start with the Pattern Sequencer do the basic maybe 250 pattern for a 4 minute song and then copy all these pattern to the song sequencer and then play a solo lead voice over maybe 30 pattern on another song sequencer track ? If you only do pattern sequencing you are pretty fixed, when you want to play a solo over it, so you would have to edit many patterns to include this solo lead voice track otherwise... I am still studying the bad manual... Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

Couldn´t this be controlled via the Mixer in Realtime in the Song Sequencer final mixing ? I have not yet read the Mixer section of the manual yet.. Many thanks. Regards, Stefan.

Put a Mike into the Mike input, turn up the Mike Vol knob to full, press the Audio Rec button until it blinks and then press the START button so the REC lights stays lit and then sing ! There will be a wave file created on the SD card, so you need to insert a SD-card that must be formated in the keyboard. The SD card must be at least a 2 GB card, or maximum 32 GB, only SD and SDHC, no SDXC ! After you have recorded the keybord goes into Audio Playback mode, where it only plays this WAV file from the SD-card. YOu can then still play along with the keyboard tone to your singing, but can NOT use the sequencer to compose a song with it.. So to record a complete song with a solo vocal line you would first make your song complete via the internal song sequencer and then sing along the playback of the sequencer and record all of this to the SD-card.... Just see the SD card like a tape recorder, it can only record ONE stereo track, so you can only record the output of your sequencer to it and only sing along to it and record this all in ONE step as the final recording, so to say... It is not possible to recorded several audio tracks and layer them together...too bad... Hope this helps...

Yes, please do an intense workshop of how to combine the Pattern Sequencer with the Sound Sequencer to produce and compose songs which you start via the Pattern Sequencer and work this into a complete song via the Song Sequencer. Show every step in detail and also show how to effectively use the Mixer Sliders to get a completed Mix and a final song done this way. Would be cool to see everything in detail so it would be easier to learn how to compose songs with this keyboard. Many thanks in advance. Regards, Stefan. P.S: Such a video will also help to sell these complex keyboards much better !

Okay, I see. So the way to go is probably to take my laptop and put it besides my WK 7500 and do the audio choir layering tracks there and sync the WK 7500 to the laptop sequencer via USB-Midi-Clock or something like this... I like it more to compose the music directly on the keyboard and then later import or sync the WK 7500 then with the laptop... Now the question is, which Audio and Midi- Recording software works best with the WK-7500 ? I have tried Cubase onceb at a friend´s place, but it has a steep learning curve, so what about Fruity loops or something like this ? What is the best and easiest multitrack recording program to sync perfectly with the WK 7500, so the WK 7500 will play all the 16 tracks of music from its internal sequencer and the audio parts will come from the laptop ? The Audio Multitrack software should have easy Punch-In -Out capabilities and should also support Realtime Reverb effects during recording already, so I can hear already reverb while singing in the audio tracks and it should work with the buildin soundcard from the laptop or a cheap external USB soundcard. Any ideas ? Many thanks. P.S. Otherwise , I still wanted to say that the WK 7500 is a great music workstation for composing music. P.S.S: If somebody else still could adress the questions about the firmware or any tricks about loading short 3 to 4 seconds audio samples via the USB into the keyboard, please post your infos. Many thankks. Regards, Stefan.

Too bad, yes, normally these keyboards are then more expensive.. Will Casio soon have such a real Audio Workstation keyboard or do we still have a wait a few years for this to come out ? Is it somehow possible via the USB connection to transfer real audio samples into the internal User memory, so I might could record a few audio samples on my PC and then transfer these into the User Memory of the WK 7500 to use these in the sequencer ? Do you know about the firmware updates and how to get with what keys simultaneouly pressed into the service menu to see the firmware version ? Many thanks. Regards, Stefan. P.S: Would be cool, if Casio could release a firmware update from WK-7500 to WK-7600. I would also pay for this, if that would be possible... It seems they only changed some software features in the WK-7600 model, like an added graphic equalizer... otherwise the models seem to be equal, only the LCD display is now at a higher angle...so you can better see it..

Hi All, I have just worked me about 3/4 through my WK 7500 manual, as I wanted to compose my first songs. Well, pretty bad written manual , but okay, this keyboard has so many features, it is hard to write a good manual... Anyway the most disappointing insight I just made is, that I can not use the WK 7500 as a real audio workstation. I can NOT record multiple audio samples via the microphone and layer them together via the sequenzer... I thought that would be possible to do something like a vocal choir song, singing all the voices myself and layering them via the sequencer together... (if I am not wrong with that... ???) The audio part of the WK-7500 lets you just only record the Sequencer output to the SD Card and then INSERT the Live Voice Microphone... So you can only perform the live audio via the microphone via the final recording to SD card... But if you want to record your voice not only in one LIVE step, but want to record parts of it and let it being controlled by the sequencer, no that seems not to be possible ! Damn ! Or is there any trick where I can record several audio sample from the Mike input and then use them in the pattern editor or sequencer tracks somehow ? It seems the audio part is just only there for the final one time recording together as the Insert when the sequencer output is recorded to "tape" ( sd-card). So if you sing wrongly or have a bad timing in a few beats or measures, you have to record all the whole song again and can not edit that out and you only can sing one voice and don´t use audio multitrack recording ! If there is any trick to circumvent this, please let me know... Many thanks. P.S: Before I bought the WK-7500 I watched this video: and there he seems to have just only sampled the whole PRINCE song ( at around minute 2:15) only to play this ONE complete song sample from the SD-Card and he seems to play Live to it with some improvisation to it, but you can only playback from the SD-Card and play live with it with the keyboard, but you are not able to re-record this to the sequencer ! I first thought he had sampled there some loop parts of the songs and just had been playing back all the samples via the sequencer, but this seems not to be the case... So all you can do is playback WAV files from the SD Card and play along live with the keyboard... but not record this via the sequncer again...only play along... What a disappointment... So you can NOT multitrack-record any audio stuff , just only use the internal sounds from the build in hardware sounds inside the sequencer.... 2. What is also not good is, that you still need to convert the recorded WAV files via the Tone Editor on a PC or MAC to a real correct format WAV File. The WAV file it records on the WK7500 keyboard is some kind of bad WAV format and it only has 42.9 Khz sampling frequency and is very low volume, so you need to use this Casio Editor program to get a real 44.1 Khz standard 16 bit Stereo WAV File with the right volume... I wonder then, why it is not possible to also convert it to 48 Khz, as this is needed for DVD audio production sampling frequencies... Also I wonder, why the keyboard itsself does not work internally with the right sampling frequencies of 44.1 or 48 Khz already... Conversion always produces small amounts of Aliasing.. On my Windows XP Machine the Edtor version 6.1 did not work at all when trying to install it... Only on my other WIndows 7 64 bit machine it did work... Why does it need at all to convert these samples first at the PC ? Why didn´t they build it standard PC compatible sampling frequencies and sound file formats ? 3. What about firmware updates ? Are these not possible with this keyboard ? I have been reading about this foot pedal Midi release bug, and this seems still not be fixed ? Can´t this be fixed, cause the WK 7500 is not able to do firmware updates via USB or the SD-card ? 4. How do I get into the service menu, so I can see, what firmware version I have ? 5. The Mike input is humming a lot. There is a noise gating function build in, so you don´t hear it when you don´t sing, but when you sing softly you can hear the humming noise in the background, which is pretty annoying...not good ! Please let me know your comments. Maybe there is still a trick to do audio multitracking somehow ?? Many thanks. P.S: What about the WK7600 ? Does it have the same problems or did they fix some of these problems in it ? Does anybody know ? Many thanks.