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So, my drummer who has an electronic yamaha drum, can play a track, we record it trough midi into cubase. Then we could play it via the midi file on the px-5s with a drum in zone 1? interesting... Probably will have to remap some drum settings in cubase for it to work... But we could play a song, the px-5s doing the drum and the drummer could be doing second guitar..

I concur! I find the px-5s lacking in woodwinds and orchestral sounds.

Thanks Mike, I solved it without using the compressor! And thanks jaspeter for the help! Had to turn down the volume to 25. Now it works like a charm! The stagesetting is uploaded and downloadable here: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/files/file/409-detailed-church-organ/ Next I'll try a synth sound.

Ok, the sound is about finished... You know you got a mean machine if you are able to make it do things it wasn't designed for.. Making a church organ out of stage piano... and quite possible, although i had to turn all volumes very much down and use the compressor. Now the sliders act as organ stops on/off, but you can't add them whilst holding a chord... which you can with the volume layers... so in doubt whether to use the volume sliders or not, but it makes it more non- church organ. So as of now, i'll leave it. At the moment I have 7 stops, without knob 4 as a seventh stop. You can see the organ stops as different sounds which can be added to each other. The stops in this stagesetting: S1 -- 16' principal S2 -- 8' Flute S3 -- 4' principal -- the first 3 stops are making a base layer S4 -- 3' mixture S5 -- 3' nazard S6 -- 8' trumpet -- these 3 give a different blend to the mix K4 -- 8' voix céleste (slightly detuned, to create a wavering human voice effect) Here is a quick example of my (lousy) playing to give an example of the different stops, and possible sounds within one stagesetting. https://soundcloud.com/pieter-jan-lanssens/realistic-church-organ Questions: - If I play with all the layers on, the complete sound is as loud as one solo layer on, which isn't the intention. More layers should mean the sound gets louder. Anyone know a way how to do this? - Still have trouble configuring the tremolo in the DSP, and could it be that the compressor pushes away the tremolo? Suggestions and improvements are always welcome ! After some more tweaking i'll upload the hex files and stagesettings to the casio site..

Thanks! Didn't know about the compressor! You're right about the layers, I'll try to take it on that way! I'll be delving into it, after this weekend

First of all, hi to everyone here! This is a great and thriving community developed around the new casio. Currently I have one at home but i'm considering buying a second for live gigging and studio use.. Now, I have set myself to the task on learning all about the casio, I have watched the clinic's, which I find very helpfull, instead of the manual, which I find is lacking when I have to download it and read it. Thanks Mike for these clinics! As a learning project I have set myself to make a true church organ for the px-5s. Not that the board is designed to be an organ, but still... The setup which I aim for: - all six sliders are stops (on/off). In following order: 16' bassoon (-1 octave) --> oboe [199] 8' principal --> klarinet [202] 4' principal (+1 octave) --> chapel organ 3' mixture --> piccolo [203] on 3 layers 2'1/3 Nazard (still under investigation which sounds best for this) 8' trumpet. Now I have some questions: - the internal amplifier. When i open all stops, I get distortion. So I corrected in all layers the maximum volume to 90 instead of 127. Is this the correct way? I've seen it pass on the facebook group, from other people who had trouble with it, read it and then forgot about it... At the moment what I have sounds good, but the more I add, the more I need to set the volumes lower. This is normal? (I guess so, it sounds logical, but still) - the mixture and nazard stops. Both are sounds composed out of 3 differently tuned pipes. As an example, for the mixture I use a layer for the piccolo +1 octave, another layer for the piccolo + 2 octave and then another layer for the piccolo + 1 octave and then 7 steps (a fifth) tuned up. Now i can only control with one slider 2 layers, not 3. Which is a problem. But when I use in the first 2 zones both a hex layer, i can get around this problem by using the same layer on both zones, with a different hex (the first two piccolo's in layer 4 and 5, zone 1, the third piccolo in zone 2, layer 4. That way i can control with one slider, 3 layers and althus have one mixture stop.) But then I quickly run out of layers for my nazard (which needs also 3 layers). And I need to assign my trumpet to zone 3 for example, but i can't find out if I can control with a slider a single zone on/off? --> my question: is there a better way here? Can i use one layer for piccolo and for example use the arpeggiator to accompany the fifth and octave? Thanks for the responses in advance, although I've come to some boundaries here at what the px-5s can do with my first project , I'm still hugely impressed with what it can do and the versatility. And if this is finished, I will the hex layers and stage settings.