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And so I rest my case LOL! 😄

Indeed! But he got some things wrong.. Casio CZ1 was used in Salt N Peppa's Push it and as we all know, Human League with the M10 and VL1 and that German group with the VL1 in DA DA DA. So yeah.. There were other groups using some Casio in their recordings in that time too but I forget who

Hi, you mentioned the ribbon cables. Check the cables again. Especially the section of the control panel where the rhythm section is. You may have inadvertently loosened one of the cable in there as that has happened to me with my unit that was wayward.

Highly Liquid UMR2 boards for midi. Check Ebay and google. As for CV or alternate midi boards, Check into ANALOG SYNTH or PIPE ORGAN midi retrofit kits. The Synth kits obviously will allow you to control the Casio internal sounds but the pipe organ kits can allow similar function. I know nothing about how to program Rasp Pi boards since I do not have one for free or cheap to try. But others in this forum should be able to help there.

Ohhh! This no good my friend! I just tried to check for PA based repair shops and seems only one has a website and the link is dead lol! I am personally in the process of starting my own Keyboard repair shop here in South Western PA but I am not an "authorized" Casio dealer or repair shop. So.. there is that. I love my keyboards and have circuit bent and repair, modded and collected Casio and Yamaha home keyboards since my first ever keyboards when I was a kid: Casio PT1/MT11/MT52/CT310/MT205/MT46/PT50/VL1/HT700/SK1/SK5/MT210/MT520/SA1/SA21/SA39 and Yamaha PSS270/PSS470/PSS480/PSR12/PSS130/PSS30/YPR7/YPR9. Quite the collection of boards throughout my teen years for sure! As an adult, the list is too long, but needless to say, I have dealt heavily with all manner of CASIO and YAMAHA branded keyboards with a few other brands thrown in for good measure! As such, it makes sense to finally open a shop to fix, mod, and sell/buy/trade such things as I love so much! I will let you know when my shop is up and running and my website(I am NOT a web designer soo.. there is that issue now lol)is err, up? I used to have a shop and site in Jacksonville FL years ago in 2010-11 but I moved and thus have had to deal with life changes that prevented me from starting up again anew. Now is time. Sadly NO.. There are no VINTAGE CASIO repair shops anywhere in the USA because in the USA, the business model is to sell and service only the newest and latest of products with a very wasteful attitude towards reuse and recycle/upcycle of older vintage gear. Oh yes, now vintage is paired with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ but in actually tangible brick and mortar businesses? NOPE! Alot of shops are actually closing down now...I am basing this on my LOCAL observations of course.. I could be wrong. I pray I am wrong please..

Ok @Brad Saucierhas said it! So you would have to do the above but switch the keyboards lol! So only the WK7600 can make custom beats? Wow, I need to buy that model then lol!

Assuming you mean that your PX-S3000 allows you to make your own custom rhythms and accompaniment patterns, what you would need to do is plug the midi out of the WK7600 to the Midi in of the PX-S3000. That is the first step IF both units have 5 pin din midi sockets that is, if not, abort mission! Now you will enter the PX custom drummer or user rhythm section(I do not have said unit so I am guessing by old keyboard models from YAMAHA that do custom beats and old Casio HT700 that does it too), and make sure your first rhythm track(main drums) is set to Midi channel 10 and you test this by playing the keys on the WK7600 while it is also set to midi channel OUT to channel 10 so you hear drums on those keys. Now go back to the PX and set your unit to midi clock EXTERNAL, so that the WK7600 will control the PX-S3000 rhythm start stop and record start stop. MUTE all the other rhythm tracks in the WK7600(bass, chords,obligato,arpeggio,etc)and only have the main drums playing as this will be the first track you will record via midi onto the PX custom rhythm user rhythm, track ONE.. drums. Now the tricky bit is that you set the amount of steps or measures on the PX's user rhythm to match that of the rhythm you want to record over from the WK7600. For example, Disco 1 on the WK is 4 bars or 16 counts or 4 measures, etc before the rhythm loops and in the rhythm you have at least one or 2 fills or a variation in the beat before it loops while you count from 1 to 16 before it loops. Classic Casiotone keyboards like the HT700 uses 2 bars or measures of a count of 8 before looping with only ONE fill or variation in the beat before looping. Once you have set that up, then you press record on the PX and it will STANDBY waiting for the WK for you to press the start button in the WK's desired beat. Know, once you record ONE full loop you have to quickly and on time press that stop button on the WK like you are the quick Robot you want to be lol! You need to repeat the steps of recording the next tracks by muting the main rhythm and unmuting the bass line now, and so on.. I believe on the Casio, Bass is set to midi channel 2 or 9.. SO again find the part of the pattern's track on the WK you want to record next as before, by setting the next midi channel on the WK midi out channels, until you hear the BASS sound on the keys, and thus set the midi receive or midi in channel on the PX for your next track BASS. It is so much easier to show these actions but typing will have to do. Hope you can understand.

Hi, welcome and congrats on your find! If you are able, please attach a audio file of the keyboard playing with the noise or a youtube link if you have youtube account to post a video of your problem keyboard. Now, is the noise ONLY from the line out and Headphone out jacks? Or is that noise preset also in the internal speaker? Make sure your POWER SUPPLY is 7.5Vdc CENTER NEGATIVE TIP 500mA or higher mA. Make sure the power supply is 7.5 volts DC not AC!! AC will give you a hum and will cause the keyboard to pulse or not work right. Also, if you try to use a wrong polarity power supply, you will kill the keyboard. The Casio MT keyboards that use 7.5V DC can take 9VDC as well but only for a short time!! 8VDC or 6.5 to 7VDC can work too as long as the power output is 1A to 2A or 1000mA to 2000mA. Other things to search for if the PSU is right, main volume pot/knob and the rhythm/accomp pot too. DO NOT use regular contact cleaner on the Casio! It needs lubricated electronics contact clear that is safe for plastics.

oh @Jokeyman123! We can only dare to dream! It is actually kinda crazy, you CAN reproduce ALL classic Casio keyboard vintage sound waves and presets if you have the patience and time and the right keyboard synth, without having to reengineer the Casiotone. My Korg PA 600QT can do the PT1 piano sound and a few others by me fiddling with the built in samples of simple pulse waves and envelopes. I know a Casio VA synth would possibly be the ticket for a reproduction of the CZ/VZ/PT/MT/SK and HT series keyboard sounds and presets. The big one however.. for us nostalgia nerds.. is the reproduction of the RHYTHMS and Auto accompaniment patterns of all the Classic Casiotone keyboards of the 1979-1989 keyboards, before over orchestration of beats and accompaniments took over the keyboard industry on ALL brands. Again.. on my Korg PA600QT Arranger workstation, I can reproduce to the best of my ability, the beats and accompaniment patterns and progressions of the CLASSIC Casiotone boards.. A labor of pure love indeed as I remember alot of those beats and accomp patterns by heart to this day lol!

Yup, looks like either google service is out or the account is not valid or something. I normally just attach a pic right in the forum response area here where the little paper clip icon is that says Drag files here to attach, or choose files...

I am thinking the same @Chas but until we get some pictures, I venture to guess it is the MT36 renumbered and different color layout like the MT11 which is also called the MT15 with a different color/graphics design and obvious model number difference but same actual keyboard(MT11). But who knows? It could be a unique model like my CPS201 vs CPS210. Only pictures can tell as I did try to find info in the USA with google and it is a no go.

Could you please take a picture or pictures of the actual keyboard and post them here and we can see what it actually is and give you more info.

I have several of the this model keyboard so thankyou for that @Revenant! Basically just like with the Roland and Yamaha keyboards with the Back CC select.

The relay is just switching off and on with the supply of power. The random shutting off is a power supply failure issue or worse.. CPU failure? Did you by chance leave batteries in the memory back up battery compartment? Are they beyond corroded? If no batteries then Look at the Power supply section and take photos of the boards both top(component side) and bottom(circuit traces side). Lets deal with that first before the LCD upgrade shall we? I too have a CZ3000 and a CZ5000 slated for LCD upgrades but for now my units work(FWEEEW). Make your next post count! Post pictures with it! Thankyou and Welcome to the forum! Oh, the relay is for the Audio amp section btw, not the power supply)

LOL LOL! I like what you did there LOL!

If only Casio made such return of the much beloved synth tech, we would all be happy! I Promise! But from what you say @Jokeyman123m they are on that trend of discontinuing actually good products that have the word "SYNTHESIZER" on them.. Why oh why Casio?

maaannn! I will believe it when I see it! These jokers been talking about and teasing about these $100 and $50 micro mini synths since the 2020 and nothing.. Vapor. With inflation getting out of control and SYNTHFLATION even worse, I doubt it.. But we can all dream..

Hi, congrats on the nice Casio purchase. YES! The unit does use a music stand. It is a metal wire stand. Look at the top back edge and you will see 2 small round holes in the vertical ridges. Now where to find one? eBay, reverb, craigslist, fleamarkets,etc.

Exactly.. what you said lol! Yes, that Brass Ensemble sound from the SK1, CZ1, CZ230s, CZ3000/5000 and CT6500 is a prime example of Casio fm/pulse/triangle wave mix trickery.

You will need to find a listing on eBay or syntaur for those buttons. Sadly the whole keyboard is impossibly expensive even broken so you may not find a solution anymore in 2023 with the synthflation going on right now. Fleamarkets and pawnshops. thriftstores and online markets outside eBay is your only option for a lower reasonable price for a parts board or dare I say, a complete working one.

I had the same issue with my CZ101. Open the unit up and check for battery leakage damage like corrosion on the circuit boards, even the little one in the middle between the mainboard and the power/audio board. The all lights on is a CPU issue which usually is a failure due to batteries being left in the unit to leak all over the boards. I still have parts of that dead CZ in my stuff and that unit was purchased and parted out back in 2010 or 2011. Someone else here may be able to shed better light on the symptom though, but yeah, check for blacked circuit traces on the boards where they are normally green..check that battery compartment and any boards, even the ones not near the compartment..

You are correct! Most keyboard manufacturers and synth manufacturers use some form of custom compression to fit as many "sounds" or wavetables as humanly possible into their custom LSI chips in order to dole out as much bang for the buck as possible. Straight sampling will not recreate those "tones" though they may SEEM like easy to recreate tones. Take Casio SK1. The Brass Ens tone is my favorite, and it turns out it is the Synth Brass Ens tone found in the CZ230S as the first preset and also found in the CZ2000S, CZ3000/5000 and CZ1. It can be recreated in the CZ101/1000 BUT, only because those boards use the SAME kind of LSI and sound generating tech and algorithms as the other CZ keyboards with that preset burned in. The CT6500 also has that Synth Brass Ens sound I love. Now, I have tried to SAMPLE it to recreate it and indeed it NEVER sounds the same! Heck! Many software synth developers have tried to recreate the CZ and PD synth engine and that ONE tone is the only one missing from all those soft synths! Why? Cause there is hardware electronics compressions, wave mixing and so on, going on that can not be recreated with soft synths or straight up sampling. You can do it, but it will not sound the same. Again, back to the SK1 and CZ230S Brass Ens sound... The SK1 version was a sampled version and sounds good but not as heavy or consistent across all the keys because as you get up the scale, you hear the loop point get faster. In the CZ the sound IS consistent because it is the true tone made inside the Synth using the custom LSI and wavetables and sound compression, etc. It is not sampled. Oh I want the Yamaha PF80 and Casio CZ230S presets recreated but unless you have the original chips and electronics used to make those sounds, you are stuck with close but no cigar replicas.. Just sayin.

I saw both and loved them! LOL! The calculator watch! Oh I remember what a blessing those were when having to cheat on math class lol!

@ChasWell sir, I thankyou for your input indeed. I can tell you as a Casio lover, that the CPS101 would have been released a year after the CPS201. See, the fabled CPS210(midi version of the CPS201 but with CPS101 case and buttons), was played in late 1987 or early 1988 shortly before the CT370 came out which has NOTHING to do with the CPS or CV but I noticed that keyboard having auto harmonize like the CPS210 but a much simpler interface and different tones from anything I heard prior. The CPS101 has those same keys as the CT6000/CPS201/HT6000 and the CZ1/FZ1/VZ1 but without the key weights of course. Yeah Casio made ALOT of INTERNATIONAL or REGIONAL Models that are not found in the Mainland USA but were found in catalogs and stores outside the Continental USA. For instance, like that maybe unreleased HT-X10? I also SAW a 73 note touch responsive Casio digital piano maybe a CPS model that was in Argentina and has never been seen before in the USA. It was from the mid 80's so 1987 and the keys were the same as the CT6000/CPS201 but 6 straight octaves(73 keys) instead of 5(61 keys)So that was a unique thing that stood out to me back in 1998 when I visited Argentina. Now the CPS210(midi version 201) Was sold in the Navy Exchange in Puerto Rico back in 1987-88 so again, not in the mainland USA so the hunt and mystery continues. The CPS101 and CPS201 have very different builds but same sounds. The CT6000 was older. There is a fully weighted CPS2000 76 note digital piano and a lesser CPS700 76 note and BOTH have the same sounds but very different builds as well so go figure.

Casio MZ2000.. wow.. Now that is a nice keyboard! Be nice if I could find one for me!!