dc2k

29 minutes ago, Jokeyman123 said:

Have you tried a few other USB thumb drives, does the same thing happen with others, could be as simple as bad contacts in the USB port? There are unfortunately many counterfeit thumb drives in the marketplace-I have several posts here regarding my experiences with a few of those-that report false amounts of storage, have a defective internal chips, but use firmware to disguise the true specs. Sadly, many of the new and newer Chinese "smartphone" are suffering the same fate-8GB of RAM turn out to be...1GB. Android 10 turns out to be ...Android 5. Octacore CPUs end up being quad-core older or worse.

 

I'd suspect the drive as much as anything. Sandisk, Kingston, all the majors are being duplicated fraudulently. Especially suspect-the "no-name" Chinese brand thumb dives, even the logos get counterfeited. i speak from experience.

The problem seems fixed and I'm not that interested in unfixing it 😁
just wanted to suggest some possible causes.
it's a 32GB sandisc drive I was using. don't think it's counterfeit. 
It's possible that using the drive had something to do with the error. I don't use it often. 
But like I said, the last time I used the audio recorder function, I maxed the PX5s' capacity to record one track.
did that cause the glitch, I don't know. 
maybe if it happens to someone else they might see similarities. 

I got this 'no media error' the other day and saw Mike's sticky on the issue.

It wasn't happening every time I turned the PX5s on but more times than not. 
I thought it might a PC issue as I'm connected via usb. Windows updated recently. 
I plugged the usb cable out but it didn't solve the problem. 
My USB key wasn't plugged in either.

I followed Mike's instructions and downloaded the 1.3 firmware, stuck it on my usb key, put it into the keyboard and turned it on. 
It briefly flashed the usual "no media" error but then it said "don't touch, updating".  

After several minutes, I checked the keyboard and it seemed to have worked. 
Unusually though, instead of keyboard loading the 0-0 stage setting like it usually does when you turn it on, it had loaded 1-4 (a custom one).
This is a stage setting I've been using a lot. It was probably the last stage setting I used. 

Recently I used the onboard audio recorder to record two tracks to my USB key using this stage setting.

I was playing one for so long (maybe around 20 minutes I think, perhaps longer) that the PX5S stopped the recording and told me I'd reached the limit of what it could record as one track. I'd never done this before. 

Mike was saying he couldn't recreate the glitch so I thought I'd mention these things because they perhaps have something to do with it.

EDIT: autoresume was switched to on. not sure if the firmware reload did that or if I had changed the settings.
So that's why stage setting 1-4 loaded.
 

3 minutes ago, Brad Saucier said:

It appears everything is on channel 10, as drums should be in a MIDI file.  Try setting the data editor to channel 10.  That should do it.

Got it. Thanks Brad. 
Never used midi much. 
getting back into figuring this stuff out and messing around.

okay so the midi is on channel 10 so I set the editor to channel 10 and I think that's what solved it.

1 hour ago, Brad Saucier said:

The manual says this about that error message; "The conversion start point or

end point could not be specified because there is no valid event in the MIDI file, etc."

 

Are you sure track 1 of the file has data on it?  

here's what the midi looks like in reaper. 
maybe if I delete some of the first items?

edit: doesn't seem to have worked.

1 hour ago, Brad Saucier said:

The manual says this about that error message; "The conversion start point or

end point could not be specified because there is no valid event in the MIDI file, etc."

 

Are you sure track 1 of the file has data on it?  

not sure, Brad. I was just taking mike's suggestion in his last vid and downloading some random drum midi sequences off the net. 
how do I check?
I opened one in reaper and resaved it to see if that would sort it but it didn't. 

I've done this before but not in a long time. 
I don't have it connected to the board at the moment. 
all I'm doing is dragging midi files into the left column from a folder then from dragging them from the left column into the right one. 
I get a phrase convert error. 
thought it might be the midi file but I've tried a few from different sources. 
Can you see if I'm doing anything wrong?
maybe something with the options on the bottom. 
what should they be set to?

So you think maybe somehow the update caused choir1 and choir2 (tones 141 and 142) to be displayed as britstrings 1 & 2 in the choir hex tone. 
Think maybe you're right. The choir1 tone on 141 gives the same tone and if you change the tone and then reselect bristrings1, it's completely different. 
It's an interesting hex tone when you mess around with it, like the sample seems to change if you go from EFlat2 to E on layer 1 and at a different key on layer 3.  

If someone could check this out on your PX 5s, I'd appreciate it. 
Load up the HEX tone 089 which is called Choir Tone. 
Edit it and you'll see layer 1 and layer 3 are on. 
They're both set to different BritStrings tones (1 & 2) which I'm guessing stands for brittle strings. 
But how are they being made to sound like a choir?
They clearly make clearly vocal ahhh type sounds like a choir. 

I think my number 1 feature request for a px 5s successor would be to increase the number of banks from 100 to 1000. 
There are so many great stage settings out there, plus I'm always tinkering with something but don't have the space to save it the board. You have to remove something else that's useful to make space. 

I'd love for it to be backwards compatible too so you could just import existing stage settings. Bet that would be hard though unless they just decide to keep the same architecture which would be fine. 

I get nervous they're going to discontinue this board but then you search for it on youtube —  hundreds of recent videos from South America featuring it. It must have made a big splash there plus the gospel music guys love it after levi king did his three videos on it. It took a long time but it gradually got the attention and praise it well deserved. 

I like that. nice one. reminds me of 80's tv. Tales of the Unexpected or something.

Skip to 6:15 to see the PX-S3000

https://youtu.be/h0kO6AdjW8g?t=376

The Casio PX-S3000

This is the first I have heard about this new model. All I had seen on Casio's youtube channel was the announcement of the  Privia PX-S1000 which is a basic digital piano with a handful of tones and effects with inbuilt speakers, three pedals, clever companion apps and caters to people who want a quality, inexpensive simple piano in their home. It's $599 retail in the US. I hope they sell a ton but I'm coming from a PX-5S and am interested in something a bit more.

So I was watching Sonic State's video on the Casio booth at NAMM. After demonstrating the PX-S1000, the Sonic State guy asks what's the model on the other table.

Turns out it's a PX-S3000 and has 700 tones ,  200 rhythms, an LED display that looks like the one on the PX-5S, pitch time and real-time controls (looks like just two knobs) and it retails for $799 in the US. Don't think it has the same sound-sculpting abilities as the PX-5S but the demo was so short, maybe it does? Maybe a PX-5000 is in the pipeline?

Skip to 6:15 in this video

Never added this info from the Privia blog so in case someone is searching for this subject:

On the PX-5S itself, waveform #418 Sawtooth 2 and waveform #420 Sawtooth 4, are inverse waveforms. When combined with any of the other sawtooth waveforms in the PX-5S you can get a nice PWM effect simply by detuning one of the two.  

This can create some wonderful rich and thick sounding waveforms.  You will however reach a point detuning the two waveforms from each other where it will sound less like a PWM effect and more like two waveforms that are simply far out of tune from each other.  Luckily there is another method that can be utilized to achieve a PWM effect with a faster cycle.

Another method is to create a HexLayer tone with two identical sawtooth waveforms on two of the layers.  

One one of the Hex layers, turn the pitch LFO depth to 0.

On the other put it to 64. 

Then for the Pitch LFO, choose pulse 2:2 as the type. 

Set the rate to 64 and the depth to 20. 

You can adjust rate and depth to taste but now you have a faster PWM.

https://priviapro.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/creating-pwm-on-the-px-5s/

Also Mike's PX-5S PWM Strings

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/file/713-px-5s-pwm-strings/

14 hours ago, Brad said:

Some new waves were added in a firmware update early on, changing the list of waves by number.  It's likely related to that.  The wave number which was white noise is probably now the number for sawtooth, causing the name to display incorrectly but still sound like the original design with white noise.  It's been years since I looked at the old list compared to the new, so that's my best recollection.  

Ah, thanks Brad. I'll keep that in mind when I'm playing with other stage settings. 

I was editing the stage setting called "On The Run" today.  

Mike made it so you could play Pink Floyd's track of the same name:  

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/file/12-on-the-run/

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/544-px-5s-pink-floyds-on-the-run/

I wanted to see how Mike made it and was checking out the helicopter part.  

He used three layers of a hex tone with an LFO on the filter, some pitch envelopes and dynamic panning. 

However one of the three hex layer tones (the middle one) is SawtothWave1.  

It sounded very much like white noise though and acted like it — no matter what note you press, it sounds the same.  

So I wondered how that was done.  The Keyfollow setting was all normal. 

"init by wave" was off so I changed the wave to something else and then changed it back to SawtothWave1 and this time it did sound like SawtothWave1.

Then I changed the hex layer tone to white noise and it sounded like it did originally.  

So I was wondering: 

Is it possible that the hex layer tone was saved with the wrong name some how and it is the white noise wave but for some reason it's called SawtothWave1?

I attached a hex layer tone with just the helicopter part so you can check it out. 

helicopter.ZLT

On 2/10/2018 at 5:06 PM, Greg-Montreal said:

Hi looking for the XW-P1 Blade Runner Version, can somebody help me pls? Cheers! Greg

Wonder if it's in one of the packs available here:  

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/category/37-xw-p1/

Not sure, sorry.  

Wonder if it's in one of the packs available here:  

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/category/37-xw-p1/

Not sure, sorry.  

On 10/18/2017 at 3:04 PM, parisonic said:

Hello Casio Friends,

I recently made an album with only a Casio CZ 1000 and some drum machines.

Perhaps it might be of some interest to fans of the CZ series of synths.

 

https://parisonic.bandcamp.com

 

Thank you,

paris

 

 

Some cool tunes there, nicely done. 

They should demo a ton of the new sounds people created and tell people how easy it is to share stage settings.

There are some amazing stage settings out there.

They also need to hype up the hex layer function.  

33 minutes ago, AlenK said:

No replies. So here's an idea: To effectively enable the arpeggiator send a MIDI message to change from a stage setup with the arpeggiator off to another with the arpeggiator on. The two stage setups would be otherwise identical.

not sure how I'd get reaper to change the stage setting on the PX5s.

On 11/19/2014 at 3:17 PM, Brad said:

Auto resume remembers and restores every tweaked parameter on the keyboard after a power restart.  

 

The exception is this. When auto resume restores settings at power up, it recalls the last SAVED stage setting in use.  If that stage setting was in the process of being edited, but those changes were not saved, those changes will be lost at power down.  

 

Note:  It's important to understand what is written in memory as a stage setting so as to know what constitutes "editing" a stage setting.   As dc2k pointed out above, the best way to do this is to look at everything that can be found after pressing the EDIT button.  This includes the stage setting and tone submenus. The tones used in the 4 zones of a stage setting are stored in that stage setting if you edit the tone, then save the stage setting.  

 

One more thing to understand....  There is an interaction between stage setting filters and auto resume.  

 

For example:  If the master compressor stage setting filter is ON, stage settings no longer have control of the compressor.  For filters that are on, auto resume takes over the duty of remembering the last saved state.  When the stage setting filter is OFF for master compressor, the settings for it are recalled from the last saved stage setting.  

Hey Brad, I was going through the system settings today and I realised In the stage set filters, compressor is set to ON

I think this is the default for the board and it gets set to ON every time I turn on the board even when I turn it to OFF.
 

If I understand you correctly, the compressor paramaters will be universal and be whatever they were when I last saved any stage setting unless I have the compressor in the stage set filters set to OFF. 

These are the current parameters set for the compressor and I guess they are applied across all the stage settings:

Compressor:

Threshold | 004

ratio | 000

level | 53

attack | 0

release | 127 

position | postEQ

What would you suggest the parameters be set to if I wanted to bypass the compressor or what would be the best universal params to set them as if it is not possible to bypass it? 

I'm guessing I probably messed around with the compressor parameters and saved a stage setting at some point so these params are used across all stage settings.

If I initialised the board, would all the stage settings have different compressors parameters? 

On 10/27/2017 at 5:16 AM, skyy38 said:

Wow!

Very nice work!

Fanboy music and interpretations thereof, are ALWAYS my favorite kind to listen to.

Maybe YOU should have scored BR 2049!

Oh one little note.

Mike Martin did the BLADE RUNNER titles on a XW-P1 ONLY, at least to MY knowledge.

If I'm wrong or mis-informed, please let me know!

 

 

Thanks so much. MM also did one for the PX5s. Stage setting 3-3 is Deckard's theme. There's video somewhere I believe too of him playing it. 

I have a midi chord sequence in my DAW playing it out to the PX5s which has the arpeggiator turned on for a few zones but it just plays the chord sequence without arpeggiating them.  

Is it possible for the arpeggiator on board the PX5S to be triggered by external midi?

Maybe there is a system setting I need to change?