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I assume you have been using batteries instead of the AC adaptor, because of noise/hum on your WK-3500's output. I find this strange, because if you are using the WK-3500's original standard AC adapter, that was a transformer power supply, that are almost dead quiet, with very little of the noise and hum of these new switching power supplies, which tie one side of the AC line directly to the keyboard's internal circuits. This makes me suspect a mismatch between your WK-3500's output and the venue's sound stage input, or at least a bad connector or cable somewhere in the signal path. Your WK-3500's 1/4 inch output is a 2 conductor unbalanced circuit. If the venue's sound stage 1/4 inch input is a 3 conductor balanced circuit, which is pretty typical for most sound boards, then those two connections are totally incompatible, and I am surprised that they ever worked for you at all. Inserting a 2 conductor plug into a 3 conductor jack shorts one side of the balanced circuit to ground and makes it an unbalanced circuit, which is extremely difficult for a balanced sound board to handle. Ask the venue's sound support personnel if they need a balanced input to their sound stage. If they do, then you need to obtain and insert a "DI Box" into the line between your WK-3500 and the sound stage's input. You said that you could not go through the venue's sound stage. Do you mean there was no sound at all, or there was sound, but it was noisy with a lot of hum and/or low level ? If there was no sound at all through the venue's sound stage, was there sound from the WK-3500's built-in speakers ? If not, then check the WK-3500's MIDI setup to see if "LOCAL" is set to OFF. If it is, then the WK-3500's internal sound circuits are muted. Set "LOCAL" to ON. If "LOCAL" is set to ON, but there is still no sound from the WK-3500's built-in speakers, then you probably have an internal circuit problem within the WK-3500. Normally, for a mono connection to a venue's sound system, you use the LEFT/MONO LINE OUT jack, but if there is no sound there, try the RIGHT LINE OUT jack. If there is sound there, but not on the LEFT, then it is most likely a defective LEFT LINE OUT jack. Good luck!

Hey "Kid" ! Long time - no talk ! It has been quite a while since we had a topic in common here. There are a couple of videos on YouTube that explain how to download MIDI files from the web and modify them so that they light up the keys on an LK-280, but these guys just modify the MIDI files and put them on an SD Card and plug it into the LK-280's SD Card to play them back with its onboard MIDI File Player. They make no mention of using MIDI applied to the USB "To Host" port from an external source to light up the keys. I pretty much figured that should be possible, but did not want to say anything here until I checked it out. So, I dug my 15 year old Radio Shack (believe it or not) LK-1261 out of the back of the closet and set it up. It says Radio Shack in big letters on the case, but when you flip it over, it is stamped "Made by Casio" on the bottom plate. This thing is a bottom end, bare bones, entry level model that doesn't even have velocity sensitive keys. There is no USB port, but it does have the old 5-pin-DIN MIDI-IN/OUT ports. The local Radio Shack store had been stuck with it for over a year, so they had marked it down to $30. I bought it to noodle around on, while all of our belongings (including my keyboards) were locked up in a moving van in a warehouse while we lived out of a motel room until we could negotiate a closing/occupancy date on this place. I connected it to a USB port on my Win-7 laptop with my Yamaha UX-16 5-pin-DIN-to-USB-MIDI adapter, and verified that MIDI data from Sonar would, in fact, light up the keys on the LK-1261, when transmitted on the correct MIDI channel(s). I then connected my USB-MIDI Class compliant Yamaha PSR-E433 Arranger to another USB port on my laptop, and using Sonar as a MIDI channel translator (Omni receive to Channel-1 transmitting), I verified that the keys on the LK-1261 lit in correct accordance with what I played on the PSR-E433's keys. I could also start an Auto-accompaniment rhythm on the PSR-E433, and the LK-1261's keys would even light up in accordance with that. So, if this little old guy can do all that, I think it is safe to say that a top-end LK-280 should be able to do the same. If you decide to get into this, and decide to go with some other model than the LK-280, be sure to check the specs to ensure that it has a USB port (or at least 5-pin-DIN ports). Not all LK models do. If you go with 5-pin-DIN ports, you can connect it directly to other devices with 5-pin-DIN ports, but will need an adapter and a "host" translating device (computer, etc.) to connect it to other devices that have only USB 'To Host" ports. Casio controls key lighting on the LK models with what they call the Navigate Channel, which contains MIDI data for what is the LEFT hand part of a two handed piano performance, while the immediately adjacent, next higher numbered MIDI channel contains MIDI data for the RIGHT hand part. On the lower priced and older LK models, the Navigate Channel is pre-assigned (unchangeable) to Channel-3 for the LEFT hand part, making Channel-4 the RIGHT hand part. On the really old models (like the LK-1261) these are fixed at Channels 1 and 2 respectively. On the newer high-end, and several of the MOTL LK models, like the LK-280, and its predecessor, the LK-270, the Navigate Channel defaults to Channel-3, but is user assignable to any Channel from 1 to 15. There again, the RIGHT hand channel then goes to the next higher adjacent channel, and that is NOT changeable. That is, the Right hand channel is not user assignable separate from the Navigate Channel. This is where at least one of the guys on YouTube did not do his homework research before making his video. He says you have to modify the MIDI files so that the LEFT part is on Channel-3 and the RIGHT part is on Channel-4. That is not entirely correct, if you are using an LK-280, LK-270, or one of the other models mentioned above. You only have to do that, if you do not want to reassign the Navigate Channel on the keyboard. Good luck and best wishes with this, if you decide to go this route. You mentioned using it as a training device. There may be some merit to that, but there is a mountain of disagreement over using key lighting systems for music training. As for me, I have enjoyed playing around with it to see what all can be done with it, but I am an old-schooler. When I go to learn a new song, I want the printed dots in front of me on the music rack. I find that much easier than chasing flashing red lights around a keyboard. Regards, Ted

Back-up any User data you may have in User Tone, User Rhythm, User DSP, or Song memory to an SD Card or a computer and perform an Initialize - All, as described on Page E-135 of the WK-7500 manual. This will over-ride any erroneous power-up default settings that may have resulted from random "button pushing" and return the WK-7500 to its original factory settings. If this does not resolve the problem, then there is an internal connection or electronic circuit or keybed contact problem that will require the WK-7500 to be sent/taken to a Service Center for diagnostics and repair.

James I have downloaded and installed the 30-day free trial version of Finale 25.5 onto a Windows-7 64 bit laptop and connected it to the following: A Class Compliant Yamaha PSR-E433 using the Windows-7 built-in Class Compliant USB-MIDI driver. A non-Class Compliant Yamaha PSR-3000 using the Yamaha proprietary USB-MIDI driver. A non-Class Compliant Casio WK-3800 using the Casio proprietary USB-MIDI driver. In every case I was able to record and print/playback with no problems. I was not able to detect any "generic" problems between Finale 25.X and Windows-7, or Class Compliant or proprietary USB-MIDI drivers, or Yamaha or Casio keyboards, but I did come up one additional suggestion. On the Finale MIDI setup dialog box, uncheck the Auto-detect box, then click on the down arrow at the right end of the "IN" field and select the keyboard manually from the drop-down list. Try that and see if that resolves your problem.

Andrew I am sorry, but you have just re-stated your original statement without giving us the additional detail that we need in order to help you. We need to know specifically what you are doing - with specific track/channel numbers. For instance, are you sending a program change on channel 1 then a different program change on channel 2 that is also changing the program on channel 1 ? I assume you are recording the keyboard's MIDI output with the MMT-8. Is that correct ? I am not certain what you mean by the above statement, but if you mean you record a drum track into the MMT-8 then play it back while you play along with a piano tone, but the piano tone gets changed to drums, if you play that drum track back to the keyboard on Channel 1, then yes, that drum track will change the keyboard's Channel 1 back to a drum tone. You need to play the drum track back to the keyboard on Channel 10, which is the keyboard's default drum channel. The tone for "live" keyboard play is controlled by Program Change data received on Channel 1. So if you play a recorded drum track back to the keyboard on Channel 1, the keyboard's "live" play tone will be changed to a drum tone. If you want to record anything that you intend to play along with later, you can record that to any track of your choice in the MMT-8, but when you play it back to the keyboard, it needs to be played back on some channel other than Channel 1, but without more info, I do not know if this is your problem. Are drums and piano on the same track/channel or different tracks/channels? If they are on the same track/channel, then that is your problem. If they are transmitting on separate tracks/channels, but the receiving tracks are set to the same incoming channel, then that is your problem. If you are recording the keyboard's output with the MMT-8 and a program change on one track/channel changes the program on another track/channel, that indicates that the MMT-8 is receiving in OMNI mode (if it has an OMNI mode) where incoming data on one track/channel affects all receiving channels. Many devices that had/have an OMNI mode were set to default to OMNI mode, and need to be manually set to Multi mode, but here again, without more info, I can not determine if this is the problem. These are the kind of details we need in order to help you. We need to know exactly what you are doing and exactly the results you are getting.

James If the MakeMusic folks are recommending a total re-install of Finale, then there may be some merit to that, but I am not 100% certain that that will help. All too often, that is a magic catch-all solution for help-desk folks who lack the experience, expertise, or patience to do a proper analysis. If they are suggesting a total re-install of Windows, then I would definitely be opposed to that. If you are seeing the "Casio USB MIDI' message in the "IN" data field, then you do have a connection between the computer and the keyboard. Windows and its driver have done their job. Any problem beyond here would have to be with Finale. If you want absolute proof of this, beyond what MIDI-OX has already indicated, you could download and temporarily install the sequencer Anvil Studio and/or the MIDI player VanBasco's Karaoke player to see if they will exchange MIDI data with your keyboard. Any problem with Windows or its driver would prevent them from working, as well. More often than not, Windows re-installs create many more problems than they cure. If you are interested, you can download Anvil Studio from: http://anvilstudio.com/ ; and VanBasco's player from: http://www.vanbasco.com/ Really, if you are getting into doing computer work with your keyboard, both of these are handy utilities to have. Good luck ! PS I have asked the Admins if they can shed any light on the "unsecure connection" message you are getting. As I told them, I had that problem for a while, just with this site, several years ago, but it turned out to be an upgrade problem with my ISP provider's system software, so I can not help you with that. We need to keep that as a separate issue, so that comments and suggestions on that do not dilute further discussion, here, of the Finale issue. Regards ! Ted

Song #2 is Peer Gynt Suite #1 Op. 46: In the Hall of the Mountain King https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peer+gynt+suite&view=detail&mid=F2F632C42C20C1245BEDF2F632C42C20C1245BED&FORM=VIRE

I have seen that same question on any number of different keyboard forums - "Hey ! I saw this on YouTube ! What is that rhythm called on my XYZ keyboard ?" and the answer is always the same - "Sit down at your keyboard and start auditioning rhythms and let us know what you find out, so we can pass it on to the next guy that asks that question !" And then, there are those who ARE looking for the be-all and-all bible that tells them what rhythm they MUST use for a given song, and for those, most manufacturers provide their keyboards with Music Databases and One Touch Settings and the like, but for other than a small percentage of songs like Let It Be and Hey Jude and Let It Be Me, that require their original rhythm to sound anywhere near right, these features are just suggestions. The bottom line rule of thumb is you play what feels good to you and your audience. You'd be surprised how much zip you can put back into a dance floor by taking a 4/4 beat and adding some swing to it. The only real rule is whatever works at the time. Nothing expands your horizons like experimenting. Most of the 30 to 40 year gigging/busking survivors over on the Yamaha PSR-Tutorial Forum will tell you that they seldom ever use the "original" rhythms provided by the keyboard's Music Data Base or One Touch Settings. They just go with what feels right at the time, or with what they have had success with in the past, but back to your original question. Identifying a rhythm from a public source on a particular keyboard is really a formidable task, especially with today's keyboards and their repertoires of hundreds of rhythms. It is most disappointing when, after hours of searching, you confirm that that particular "sound" (to paraphrase Mr. Miller) is just not on your keyboard. Believe me. I've been there. More than once (I'm a slow learner.), but if those rhythms are on your LK-43, there is every likelihood that they are used on several other models - most likely under different names - manufacturers don't like getting caught duplicating too many rhythms from one model run to another - it is just a matter of finding the right needle in the right haystack.

You asked. I gave you a simple answer. So what is the point you are trying to argue ? The fact that the links have a ".wav" file extension tells me they are audio files. What bothers me is the fact that you did not know that the .wav file extensions would tell me they are audio files and that if I do not know that, I have no business being on this forum, and that leaves me wondering where you are really coming from on this. Are you trying to use the CTK-495 Rhythm List as the be-all end-all bible of music genres. If its not on the CTK-495's Rhythm List it is not a legitimate genre ? Music genres had their Big Bang at the end of the Miller/Dorsey/Lombardo/Welk era and are still expanding and gaining momentum all the time, and keyboard manufacturers extract from that plasma whatever they think will make their product sell. It would not surprise me one bit if they even made up a few genres of their own occasionally.

Polka: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Polka+wikipedia&go=Submit+Query&qs=ds&form=QBLH Tex-Mex: https://www.bing.com/search?q=wikipedia+tex-mex+music&go=Search&qs=ds&form=QBRE Latin Fusion: https://www.bing.com/search?q=latin+fusion+music+-+definition&go=Search&qs=ds&form=QBRE You are probably seeing multiple occurrences of them in your song bank because they are not song specific (not easily identified as belonging to a particular song) and are generic enough to be used with any number of different songs. On the first wav file, the instrumentation, especially the accordion, give it the Tex-Mex flavor, but the oompah effect of the over-powering bass alternating with the very prominent snare beat give it a strong polka feel. Plus, accordions are synonymous with Polka music. On the second, a nice jazzy beat with a Latin feel, but the steel drums (pans) give it more of a Caribbean or West Indies flavor than anything.

James On Finale's MIDI Setup dialog box, did you select Casio Keyboard as your MIDI Input device? If the Auto-detect Input Devices box is checked, it should be showing up in the Device field on the left (Input) side of the dialog box window, but even if it is, and is the only input device showing, I think you may still need to left-click on it to "select" it. If it is not showing up there at all, then that means that Finale is not seeing it at all. I use the term "Casio Keyboard", as that is how they show up in most software MIDI device selection dialogs, or it may show up simply as USB Device or USB MIDI. If the Auto-detect Input Devices box is not checked, you may have to check it, then close and re-open Finale in order for it to take effect, at least that is how the Cakewalk products work and most of these products work very similar at the basic setup level. If you have not been to the MIDI Setup dialog box yet, I got this from the Finale online manual: How to get there Choose MIDI/Audio > Device Setup > MIDI Setup.

Andrew Are you trying to set up the Bank Select and Program Change MSB/LSB's in the file header on the MMT-8 for the tracks in a new song, or are you trying to do a Program Change mid-track on a particular track?

GGTS Following is a re-post of a write-up I did here several years ago on the design and use of the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX Song Sequencer. I have edited and updated it to correct a couple of very serious errors and to customize references to manual page numbers specific to your CTK-7300IN. I think that most of this will be a ways ahead of where you currently are with your CTK-7300IN, so I recommend copying it to a file on your hard drive for future reference. Of course, there should always be a copy here, but data does sometimes get lost from the forum archives. Basically, this is just a very dense condensation of important information that is spread over many chapters and many pages of the manual - to the point that the logical flow can easily be lost. So, I apologize if some of the more difficult concepts come a bit fast and furious. The CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX Song Sequencer saves song data to a .CMS file. It IS a MIDI file, but it is a Casio proprietary MIDI file, because it has some very unique features. Casio touts the Song Sequencer as a 17 track sequencer - 16 data tracks and a SYSTEM Track, but then they drop the ball and do not fully explain what that SYSTEM Track is really all about. Tracks 1 through 16 are just regular old hardware sequencer tracks, the same as any other 16 track hardware sequencer. These are referred to in the manual as the "B" Tracks. Their use is pretty much at the discretion of the user for "track-at-a-time' (Individual Track) recording [Page E-72], but Track 17, that SYSTEM Track is something really special. It is like what we call a Type-0 MIDI file. It contains an additional 16 virtual tracks. These are referred to as the "A" Tracks and are pre-assigned by the keyboard's operating system to the recording of all data associated with the Easy RECord function [Page E-68] - including the UPPER-1, UPPER-2 (LAYER), LOWER (SPLIT), HARMONY, and all Auto-accompaniment RHYTHM parts. That is to say, the virtual "A" Tracks are solely responsible for the recording of all aspects of an Auto-accompaniment ("One--Man-Bander") performance. See the chart in the right hand column of Page E-70 of the manual for the various track assignments. So the Song Sequencer is actually a 32 track sequencer and generates a 32 track MIDI (.CMS) Song file. This is in keeping with, and explains the reason for, the keyboard's 32 channel MIXER feature. Those 32 tracks will be maintained separate and intact as long as they remain within the .CMS file, but when we try to export all of that data to a Standard MIDI FILE (SMF) we run into a problem. The MIDI Standard specifies only 16 tracks in an SMF, so something has to give. When we convert the .CMS file to an SMF, the virtual "A" Track data is extracted to the real "B" Tracks, the virtual "A" Track data is discarded, and the real "B" Tracks with the extracted data are written to an SMF in the MUSICDAT folder on an SD Card. That file can then be uploaded to a computer with the Data Manager software or just physically ported to the SD Card reader slot on the computer, but the actual process is a little more convoluted than that. The real "B" Tracks are there for simple ad-hoc individual track recording or for the user to add any additional tracks to an original "A" Track recording, because the "A" Track (SYSTEM Track) recording is a one-shot "erase as it records" process. Aside from some very basic edits, any attempt to add anything to an existing "A" Track recording will result in total erasure of ALL existing data on ALL "A" Tracks (A-01 thru A16). Added tracks have to go on the "B" Tracks. So, the "B" Tracks are necessary, and we therefore have to deal with them, if we want to convert our 32 track CMS Song file to a 16 track SMF. Oddly enough, at extraction/conversion time the "B" Tracks have priority. By default, they are all set to ON in the MIXER panel. Any "B" Track that is ON in the MIXER panel at extraction/conversion time will NOT accept extracted data from its correspondingly numbered "A" Track. If you have not used any "B" Tracks, the conversion process is simple, just go into the MIXER panel, turn OFF ALL the "B" Tracks and run your conversion, but if you have used any "B" Tracks, you may have to move that data around to avoid sacrificing any data. So what "B" Tracks are safe to use? Any of them, if you have not recorded any "A" Track data. Otherwise: during normal "live" play, Tracks A1, A2, and A3 are used for UPPER-1, UPPER-2 (LAYER), and LOWER (SPLIT) data respectively, but during the record process, those functions are transferred to Tracks A5, A6, and A7, so in the finished recording, Tracks A1, A2, and A3 will normally be empty, meaning that Tracks B1, B2 and B3 should be available for use. If you do not use Auto-Harmonize, Track A4 will be empty. If you do not use LAYER or SPLIT, Tracks A6 and A7 will be empty. Track A9 is for non-drum percussive sounds, and is not used by most Rhythms, so it most likely will be empty. So, all of this means that Tracks B1, B2, B3, B4, B6, B7 and B9 might POSSIBLY be available for use, while any other "B" Track use may require the sacrifice of important "A" Track Auto-accompaniment data. This caveat is covered in the NOTE at the top of the right hand column of Page 139. If you are interested in the original conversation that led to the above, you will find it here: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/12318-help-ctk-6200-how-to-export-song-sequencer-files/ I would recommend that, as there is additional information toward the end of that exchange that might be of future interest to you. Best of luck for your endeavors with the CTK-7300IN. Regards, Ted

But we have already stated, several times, that you can not do that. The audio that you want to play on the XW-P1 must first be converted to a Casio proprietary format with the XW-P1 Data Editor, which will also load it into the correct partition on the SD Card. As for the screen shot you posted above, you will find that screen on Page 25 of the Data Editor User's Guide and the instructions for it on Pages 24 thru 27. If you are using the instructions on Pages 28 thru 31, those are for the XW-G1 and will not work for the XW-P1. Just go back to that screen, that you posted, left-click and hold on your wav file that is showing in the left pane of that screen, drag it to the right screen, and that should give you what you want . . . . BUT . . . . The following quote is from Page 24 of the Data Editor User's Guide: "Even if a particular WAVE file satisfies the above format, it may not be able to be converted properly due to other reasons." There could be something proprietary about your Ableton Live wav file that prevents the Date Editor from using it . . . . SO, IF THAT IS THE CASE . . . . The noise you get when connecting a phone to the XW-P1's Audio In jack: You could be getting RF (radio frequency) interference from the phone's radio circuits. I recommend just a cheap straight (non-phone) MP3 player running on battery to eliminate a ground hum loop. I had a WK-225, for a while, that I could connect any of several straight (non-phone) MP3 players to with no problem, but could not connect a phone to it .because of excess noise.

alisson You must be looking at the wrong page in the Data Editor User's Guide. The screen you posted is exactly where you should be for wav file conversions/transfers. If you have an SD Card that you have formatted in the XW-P1, you just need to insert it into the computer's SD Card slot, click on that file in the left hand pane, and drag it to the right hand pane, and the Data Editor will convert it and store the conversion on the SD Card. In the Data Editor User's Guide, make sure you are looking at the audio conversion/transfer page for the XW-P1 - not the XW-G1 - it looks completely different. However, the picture for the XW-P1 screen DOES show some files on it, but those are just examples in the picture. Your screen will obviously look different, depending on what files you have on your PC. How did you create that 24 bit 44.1 KHz track that you want to export? Is that what you are trying to convert and store on the XW-P1's SD Card?

Hmmm! It appears that USB-MIDI and other USB problems are a common occurrence after Windows-10 updates. Just do a Google or Bing search on "USB-MIDI problem after Windows-10 update" and pick the fix of your choice. It seems that there are any number of favorite fixes to this recurring problem.

Hmmm! It appears that USB-MIDI and other USB problems are a common occurrence after Windows-10 updates. Just do a Google or Bing search on "USB-MIDI problem after Windows-10 update" and pick the fix of your choice. It seems that there are any number of favorite fixes to this recurring problem.

We now have a second complaint similar to this, so there may be something to a Windows update: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/14988-usb-midi-connection-to-pc-worked-at-1st-now-not-working/&tab=comments#comment-45802 If this continues, we may want to start collecting them under a common Win-10 USB-MIDI problem topic under the General Discussion section so they don't get scattered all over the forum, as this would not be a model specific problem.

This is the second complaint, within a few days, of a USB-MIDI connection in Windows-10, that was working fine, suddenly not working. The other complaint mentioned that the problem appeared after a recent Windows update, so there may be something to that. The other complaint is at: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/14964-midi-keyboard-worked-friday-didnt-work-sunday/ If this continues, we may want to start collecting them under a common Win-10 USB-MIDI problem topic under the General Discussion section so they don't get scattered all over the forum, as this would not be a model specific problem.

If I remember correctly, the XW-P1 Audio File Player can not handle audio files in the raw Windows standard 16 bit 44Khz format. They have to be run through the XW-P1 Data Editor, which converts them to a Casio proprietary format usable by the XW-P1's Audio File Player and stores them in a special partition on the SD Card, so the SD Card has to be formatted in the XW-P1, not in a computer. See the "Audio > Ent" section of the table titled "Auto Playback Types" in the left hand column of Page E-72 of the XW-P1 manual. Also refer to the XW-P1 Data Editor User's Guide. You can download a copy of the Data Editor software and its User Guide from: https://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=64

GGTS Welcome to the Casio Forums, and welcome to the world of electronic music. Yes! The Casio CTK/WK keyboards are not good at switching Registrations to change Tones (voices/instruments) mid-song. The switches are not quantized to the beat clock, so if you are not exactly spot-on with your switch timing, you can get a noticeable glitch. My old WK-3800 here also suffers the same thing with simple chord changes within the same Registration and same Rhythm when using the Auto-accompaniment. If your timing on a simple chord change is not exactly spot-on, you get a noticeable glitch. At least that was corrected on the newer boards. You should be able to record a single track in one pass, with a single Tone (instrument), then go back with the Song Sequencer's Step Editor and embed a Bank-Select/Program-Change event to change the Tone (instrument) where you want it, but the Step Editor is not that sophisticated. It only allows the entry of note data, not control data. The CTK/WK Song Sequencers like to have their Track voices (Tones/instruments) assigned only in the Song File Header at the beginning of the Song File. There are those who would recommend porting your "song" or phrase to a computer-based DAW/sequencer software program to make that edit, but doing so would require converting the Casio CMS Song File to a Standard MIDI File (SMF) format. When that is done, all of the Casio high quality voices (Tones/instruments) are replaced with the lower quality GM (General MIDI) voices, so your song sounds like it is being played with the computer based Microsoft Wavetable Synth, even when played back on the CTK-7300IN. The CMS-to-SMF conversion process is one-way only. There is no going back to the CMS Song File format, after the edit, to recover the high quality voices. So this is not an option. Then there are those who would recommend doing the whole thing on a computer based DAW, instead of with the keyboard's Song Sequencer. That is, just play the keyboard and record what you play with the DAW, make tone (voice/instrument) changes in the DAW, and play the result back to the keyboard, using the keyboard as just a simple sound module. This requires having a computer on stage with you, and may, some day, be the solution of your choice, depending on how deep you decide to go with electronic music, but I do not think you are at that point, at this time. There is a work-around that is more akin to what you have already been trying. Let us assume that you want a 32 bar song or phrase that uses a clarinet lead for the first 16 bars and a sax lead for the last 16 bars, and you want to do it on tracks 1 and 2. Set up Track-1 for a "Single Track Recording" per the instructions on Page E-72 of the CTK-7300IN manual, and assign a clarinet Tone to it. Play/record your clarinet lead for the first 16 bars, and then just stop playing, but DO NOT PRESS THE STOP BUTTON. Doing so will insert a permanent end of song marker, and you will not be able to record beyond it. Just let the Song Sequencer continue recording for 16 more bars, and then press the STOP button. Now, rewind the song and setup Track-2 for a "Single Track Recording" and assign a sax voice to it. Press the START button, and you will hear your previously recorded clarinet lead playing on Track-1. At the end of bar 16, begin playing/recording your sax lead on Track-2. At the end of bar 32, press the STOP button, and you have an apparently "switchless" instrument change. If you want to combine this with any Auto-accompaniment features, such as drums, bass, or chordal accompaniment, let me know, as we will need to discuss the Song Sequencer's design, capabilities, and pitfalls in a little greater depth. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Christopher The compatibility of the data, on the Casio website, with your CTK-6200, has nothing to do with the type of Windows you are running (32-bit vs 64-bit), so you can go back to Windows-7 64-bit, if you like. The ONLY data on that website that is compatible with your CTK-6200, or any of the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX models, is the "CKF" Rhythm data. All other data on that website (CKF Tones, Tones with Wave, Wave, Drums, Drums with Wave, DSP, etc) are totally incompatible with the newer models, because of the advanced features of their new sound and DSP engines. The CKF Rhythm data is usable directly, as is, on your CTK-6200, and the other newer models. You need only to download them to your computer, then copy them to the MUSICDAT folder on an SD Card and load them, one-at-a-time from there into the User Rhythm memory, or use the Data Manager 6.1 software to bulk load them from your computer into the User Rhythm memory. In either case, as the each CKF Rhythm file is loaded into User Rhythm memory, the keyboard, itself, converts that CKF Rhythm file into the new AC7 Rhythm file format. If you upload those files back to your computer for future use, or backup storage, they come back as AC7 Rhythm Files. You can not load anything from that website into the CTK-6200 as an AL-7 file, as here again, that data would contain CKF Tone, Wave, DSP, etc data that is not compatible with the newer keyboards. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

James The CTK-6000, and most Casio keyboards manufactured in the past 10 years or so are "Class Compliant" (Windows) and "Core MIDI Compliant" (MAC-OS/iOS), which means that they work with the generic drivers that have been built-in to Windows since XP Service Pack-2 and all recent iterations of MAC-OS and iOS. These are the only drivers that these keyboards recognize and work with, and include both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. It should not be necessary to download and install any other drivers. I have a Windows 64-bit Vista desktop and two Win-7 64-bit laptops that worked fine with my CTK-6000, CTK-7000, and WK-7500 without the need for any additional drivers. Granted, there have been USB-MIDI compatibility problems with some Win-8 and Win-10 OEM builds, but not with Win-7, to my knowledge. For problems like you are having, I recommend downloading and installing the MIDI diagnostics utility "MIDI-OX". If MIDI-OX indicates receiving MIDI data from your keyboard, but your software (Finale) does not, this normally indicates a setup problem with your software (Finale) and can usually best be discussed on your software's (Finale) forum. I suspect that the output driver message you receive when closing Finale is just Finale telling you that you have not told it what MIDI device (keyboard/sound module) you want it (Finale) to direct it's output to, and has nothing to do with MIDI input from the keyboard. By the same token, the UPPER-1 (right-hand/treble), UPPER-2 (right-hand/LAYER), and LOWER (left-hand/SPLIT) parts, played on the CTK-6000's keyboard are output on MIDI Channels 1, 2, and 3, respectively. If you are not using the LAYER or SPLIT function, the CTK-6000 will simply output all notes played on its keyboard on MIDI Channel-1. Have you told Finale's setup to look for them there? I would think it would look on MIDI Channel-1 for some of this data, by default, but it is best not to assume anything with MIDI. Also, are you trying to output live (real time) play from the CTK-6000's keyboard or previously recorded data from its Song Sequencer, to Finale? That makes a difference in how you need to setup the CTK-6000's MIDI output. AND . . . . are you using a fully licensed retail version of Finale, or the free download Finale NotePad version? At any rate, MIDI-OX can certainly save a lot of time, effort, and frustration by avoiding second guessing. You can download Version 7.0.2 from: http://www.midiox.com/ Download it, install it, and see what it tells you. Then come back, and we will see where to go from there. Regards, Ted

Bill Once a Micro-SD Card is mounted in its adapter, there is no reason it should not operate exactly like any other full sized SD Card. If anything, I am more suspicious of that Card's 4K-UHC-U3-A2 technology, that gives it 4K high speed video capabilities. The Casio CTK/WK-7XXX models use a special formatting procedure that creates a hidden partition, on the card, for audio files. I suspect that that procedure may not be compatible with the latest 4K technology memory cards. Some years ago, SanDisk swore that the "program launcher" software they were putting on their SD cards did not interfere with normal storage, and that was true - unless you were trying to use it for audio recording (and any number of different camera models - that DID use "normal storage" - but could not format the Card). SanDisk finally had to offer a downloadable program for removing their "launcher" software, and eventually abandoned that technology, altogether. Now, not to add to your concerns, there is still the outside chance that your problem is with your keyboard, itself. With that in mind, I would hesitate to recommend investing in yet another high speed memory card, which is why I asked if you had just a regular old 2Gb card (out of an old camera, maybe), lying around somewhere, that you could try. I have every confidence that the SanDisk 16Gb Ultra should work. The 32Gb versions of those worked fine for me, in my CTK-7000 and WK-7500, but if your problem turns out to be a keyboard issue, the investment in yet another Card would be a pure waste. Be guided by your own wisdom. - T -

Perhaps that is why it was pulled from all the Casio sites. It originated on the Casio-Europe site, just like all the after-market Tones, Rhythms, Songs, etc. for the older WK-3XXX boards, but they are all still online. It is obvious that Casio Corporate was not the source of the new "50-Pack", and that it did not have their blessing. If it was, and did have, it would still be available for download from all of the sites. It has even disappeared from this site a couple of times, but somehow, it keeps magically reappearing. The set that is here now has lasted the longest. - T -