rockitman

I am so dammed frustrated. I've looked at many videos, but still have no clue how to proceed with tweaking preset sounds to my liking. There are just too many variables to know where to start. I just want to make some sounds for the songs our band covers. I was told this board was a very user friendly device but I beg to differ. I so want to learn and understand but feel there is just no resource to do so. Where can I learn about synthesizers? To understand what an OSC is, a LFO? all these terms are just foreign to me. This manual is terrible. It just makes me more frustrated trying to understand. Mike Martin, if you are listening, I would pay you good money to come out here for a weekend and teach me about this X1. As it stands now, I have no use for it. I don't understand it and am ready to return it back.

I am familiar with going through the presets. But if I can't find the tone I'm looking for on the presets I need to learn how to create it. So for example, the synth in this song by the Cars "Let's Go". How does one go about creating this? And how come I can't paste a youtube link here??

You are the man happy rat!! My unused microphone inputs were turned up. That did the trick. THanks!!

Just got my new P1 and have it hooked up but this thing is NOT as easy as people have claimed it to be. I am new to synths and had hoped that this board would give me some sounds I need for the music we play in my band. I will give an example, we like playing The Cars. The song "Let's Go" has a cool synth in the beginning and I can't find anything on this board that is close. I do not understand the difference between the Tone presets and the Performance presets, nor the difference between Solo Synth and Hex Layer. I love the freaky sounds this thing makes but I am so frustrated with trying to learn this board, the manual just makes me go "Huh?" And what the heck is Sequencing??

thank you for the drawing. This makes sense now. I already have a Behringer Eurorack UB1002 mixer, was hoping I could use this, but when I plug my lines into my powered speaker, I get a loud hiss that I can't get to go away unless I turn down the main mix volume down to nothing. What could be causing this? www.behringer.com/en/products/up1002.aspx

I am not understanding what you're saying. Sorry. I am a total newbie at this stuff. You first question about mono outs? I'm not sure what you mean here? I only have one monitor speaker and my guitar player says it's pointless two run to cables to the PA mixer, no appreciable difference. I dunno! I don't understand your third statement at all. Second mixer?? I have described my current hookup with my single Roland board. Can someone tell me the best way to add this new Casio so that it also plays to my monitor as well as the PA mixer? Do I need my own personal mixer??? Or can I "daisy chain" these two boards somehow?

Hello everyone. I just ordered an xw-p1 to compliment my other rig, a Roland RD700SX. I have been playing keys for this rock cover band for a few months now and am finding it very hard if not impossible to find the sounds I need to cover many of the songs we play. I do hope that this Casio will help me. I have an initial question for you all: I believe the Casio has a Line In jack, meaning I can connect my Roland to the Casio? My Roland has both XLR and quarter inch Line Outs, and I run one XLR to my powered EV speaker to use as my own personal monitor, and also run a single quarter inch to our PA Mixer. With the addition of this Casio, how do I connect the two together and still maintain my single connection to my monitor and my PA? Do I need a mixer?