Joe Muscara

Are you saying that you want to keep using a drum pattern while changing stage settings? I think you'll need an external drum machine for that. 

This suggestion might not be possible depending on the sounds you're using, but if you can set up one stage setting with everything you need for the song, that might solve your problem. For instance, you could use the faders to change the primary sound you're playing while the patterns continue to play.

Otherwise, I doubt Casio would put any effort into changing what you describe. Nothing against them, but I think the idea is each stage setting is meant to be for one song. On other keyboards the similar feature is called a Performance. It may not be possible with the hardware to keep the timing between switched stage settings.

Glad to hear it! Enjoy your PX-5S. 

Did you format your USB drive on the PX-5S or on your computer? You may need to try formatting it on the PX-5S, then bring it to your computer, put the files on that, and then try the process on the PX-5S again.

There should be no problem having the firmware as well as the tones and stage settings on the same USB drive, as long as they're in the correct locations on the drive. It sounds like you're doing this correctly.

There may be a general compatibility issue with the USB drive. I don't recall if the PX has this issue, but I've seen where some keyboards don't like USB drives of certain sizes or brands. You might want to try another one if you have access to another USB drive.

They sort of tried that with the Privia name a couple of years ago. I think they're better off sticking with Casio. It will take time, but they've been chipping away at it. It's working.

Funny, I hear the same thing from everyone.  ...that you should get lost.   Sorry Joe.  I like you. I really do. Your a great guy.  You're the only person I know that can walk around that face and get away with it.  

I wouldn't call this getting away with it.

In case you're wondering why so many developers go to iOS and not Android, this is a good analysis.

http://daringfireball.net/2014/03/ecosystem_chess_game

Note that I'm not trying to start a platform war here. I'm just an interested observer. Perhaps Android support is coming, but it seems like there's better ROI with iOS. I hope Android users get what they need.

Get discovered? I'm trying to get lost. At least, that's what everyone tells me I should do.

I remember this song.  It's a good song but maybe not good enough to listen to multiple times to try to unravel this mystery.

 

But wait, what's that I see at 0:51 in the second (live) video?  A keyboard player.  And what is he doing?  He's banging on the keys in exact time with the pulsing the OP is talking about.  Mystery solved.  At least when playing live in this instance no arpeggiattor is being used.  How they did it in the studio is anyone's guess.  I note that the sound of this pulsing is different on the studio recording heard in the official video. The version played live by the keyboard player is missing the gradual loss of volume and high frequencies as the notes repeat.  For the studio recording a guitar though a delay line would be my first guess but as Mike says there's no reason you couldn't replicate this on either an XW or PX-5S and in several different ways. Obviously in a live situation they're not going to get another guitarist just to play that track so they relegate it to the keyboard player who otherwise isn't doing dick in that song. Notice in the first live video they didn't even bother with this sound. Perhaps the keyboard player was off getting a drink. ("Hey, we're on. Where the f*** is Jerry??" "Dunno. Last I saw him he was trying to pick up a girl at the bar." "Screw him, let's play.")

 

PS. This band doesn't/didn't seem to like keyboard players very much, judging by how far back on stage they pushed the one shown in the second live video and how little time he gets on camera (he is barely there).

That's what I get for not watching the videos and only listening to them! 

The second video was for Austin City Limits, which is a high-profile show. They probably hired the keyboard player for that gig. I'm guessing that most of the rest of the time, they wouldn't bother.

A keyboard playing friend of mine, Kevin Anker, produced their most recent album. He's done some live dates with them since then, but unfortunately not all of them.

I've been wondering if it originally was a synth or if it was some sort of guitar effect like a delay. Not that it's not reproducible on a synth if it was a guitar effect.

Until this very moment, I never ever thought about a synth on there. I've found some YouTube tracks of them doing it live, and sometimes they did that sound and other times they skipped it. When they did do it, I don't see anyone playing it.

Personally, if I were in a band that was playing this, I'd find a "real" keyboard part (piano, organ, EP) part to play instead, but that's just me.

Anyway, like Mike says, let us know what Casio keyboard you're trying to recreate that part on.

The editor software might be able to do it somehow, but it would be a little different. If you were creating the edits there it could be possible.

As much as I like your suggestion, I bet it's not possible. I suspect there would be a hardware change necessary.

Do any other programmable keyboards do this?

Is the USB drive formatted correctly? Do you have the firmware file unzipped and put in the root directory of the USB drive?

Better yet, follow Mike Martin's instructions here on how to install, and let us know if you have any problems along the way.

http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/4267-privia-px-5s-firmware-update-v111-available/

There's lots of good links at http://px-5s.com

If you want to update the firmware, you'll have to put the software on a USB stick and put that USB stick in the PX-5S. The detailed (and assuredly more helpful) instructions are around here somewhere...

Or you should be able to follow the instructions from Casio's page.

http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=436

Its crazy, I see young kids playing a keyboard with both hands and doing quite well.  Maybe its my age but I just can't play chords and melodies together. My brain can only give directions to one hand at a time not both, doing different things. I try to make use of the auto accompanyment and some tunes don't sound too too bad!  I just wish I could do better and get that satisfaction of playing something with meaning and not a garbled mess. I will be making lots of use with this forum! Tom

Welcome Tom!

What you're talking about takes time and practice. You start out simply and slowly and build from there. It doesn't happen overnight, far from it. But if you keep at it, one day, you'll think it did!

P.S. Try it with GarageBand just to see if you can get that working. If it and the above app show that everything is okay, the problem is Finale. You may have to change some preference or setting in it.

Try this app. It will tell you for sure if the MIDI data is making it to the computer.

http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/

How are you connecting the CDP-120 to the iMac?

Yeah, Chas wins. 

This subject gets discussed quite a bit over on the Keyboard Corner as well.

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1

Ha! I'm glad you got it figured out. 

My first keyboard was a CZ-3000. I did buy it for its piano sound.      I seem to think I had a hard case for it, too. I replaced it with a Korg SG-1D and an Ensoniq EPS-16+, both of which I had for many years. I gave the CZ-3000 to a friend's kid who was learning to play.

I just remembered that the first keyboard I ever really played on was a Casio as well. It belonged to the guy who lived upstairs in our dorm. He and my roommate both played guitar and jammed, and I'd join them on this little Casio. My roommate had taken some piano lessons so he showed me some chords I could play. That was the start of me playing keyboards.

(I had one or two "organs" as a kid growing up but I never took to those for whatever reason. They might have been cheesy.)

Here's a photo of another dorm resident playing the CZ-3000. He loves this photo. 

That should not be an issue. What kind of lead are you using (not brand but type)?

There are several great iOS metronomes that I use. But the one I consistently use the most is this one.