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I will use those stage settings, thanks! I'm on my second day of not playing my keyboards and it's depressing. My hands are only slightly less painful at best. I realize that taking care of them is top priority now. When the pain subsides I will look into piano lessons for better technique and posture. Any ideas of what type of piano lessons or type of teacher to look for? Should I be prepared to start from square one? I'm willing to try whatever it takes though.

Thanks everyone for your replies and advice. I know the first thing I need to do is take a break from playing altogether and even stop using the computer. Hopefully the soreness and inflammation will clear up. If not I'll seek medical help. The thought of a chronic condition is scary. I'm also an artist. I do have bad posture in general, medically speaking it's, Scoliosis and Kyphosis. I'll try to correct this to my best ability and seek out better technique also. Jokeyman, I found your sharing about the "bottom of key travel" interesting. The Px-5s might be too hard for my hands. I like the idea of softening it by adding piano felt to it. I'm hesitant to do that because if it still didn't help, I would have changed the keyboard and might void the warranty. It could also make it more difficult to sell, if that was what I needed to do. I do believe I had less difficulty playing an acoustic piano and some other digital models that have a little softer keybed and a little less key travel. I guess like take first things first in trying to correct this situation. I also welcome any other comments. Thanks! Steve

I bought my Px-5s in December. I have to say that I agree with everyone in saying how great this keyboard is, so many interesting features and sounds. I'm really having difficulty getting use to the weighted action though and I been getting a lot of soreness in my hands after playing it. I didn't really notice it when trying it out in the stores and I can't understand exactly tell what's going on. My hands would occasionally bother me from time to time when using my Nord Electro 3, which has semi-weighted keys, but now I'm getting consistent pain and strain and my hands and knuckles get red. My intent was to buy a weighted action keyboard to play more expressively and use it for the piano and Ep sound and use the Nord for the organs, etc. The Nord is so springy for the acoustic pianos. Also the 25lbs is to max I want to carry up and down stairs. I'd really hate to have to sell it and I'm still hoping to get use to it. This post is no way a knock to the Px-5s quality, but rather due to my own condition. I did try the cheaper Yamaha p-35 which seemed easy to play, but I felt I might not get the real weighted experience and the features were very limited. I have set the action to "light". Could anyone recommend a Velocity setting or something that would make the action even lighter.

Thanks Guys!

After watching the "Basics" video, I was under the impression that the usual way to organize the stage settings was to keep the pianos in the "zero" slots and the rhodes in the "ones" etc., so they follow the catagories of the sound banks in the main catagory. I mostly use piano, rhodes, wurlys and clavs.I decided to reorganize my sounds by stage settings by the bank; such "bank zero" for all my piano sounds and bank one for all my rhodes settings, etc. For now I don't see a problem with that. The more I use and learn about this keyboard the more I'm liking it. I've downloaded a bunch of new sounds from this site that are great and appreciate everyone's creativity and sharing of their work. I plan on watching the other 2 tutorial videos soon. One question: Do any of you set up your stage settings in a similar way and can you see a problem down the road by doing it this way?

thanks, great advice and instruction! I'll do that.

Fairly new PX-5S owner and I occasionally want a tremolo sound on the Rhodes and Wurly tones. I've been using the wheel to do this with a couple of stage settings I'm using. Is this the way some of you do this? I've looked at some of the download sounds and I haven't come across any with built in tremelo. I haven't got into altering the stage settings yet. Sometimes I forget to turn the wheel back down and it effects the next sound I play.

I'm learning this little by little. Thanks for your patience. I use the WAV file quite a bit to learn our bands songs. My next question is how to fast forward of rewind the song once it's playing to find a particular part in that song? I looked around a bit and I can't seem to figure it out. Steve

Thanks for your help Scott! After some trial and error - it to works. Then I was able to find out how to adjust the audio volume. Steve

How do I create a WAV. file for a song I'd like to play along with using the usb drive? My songs are all in mp3 formats. Is there a conversion system? Thanks, Steve