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"Rocky" Since I am unsure of your experience with all of this, I apologize if some of the following gets a little too basic. On the PX-350M (or any keyboard, really), USB-MIDI and 5-pin-DIN MIDI are two entirely different circuits, so it is very highly unlikely that both would be defective. I suspect a subtle set up problem, somewhere. Let's start with USB-MIDI. Since the 350M can send audio to your DAW, we know the DAW has the proper "Audio Device" selected in its audio setup menus, but if you have not already done so, you need to make a similar selection in your DAW's "MIDI Device" set up menus. In there, you should see and select the device labeled "Casio USB-MIDI". The 350M is "Class Compliant", so you should not need to install any drivers, over and above those which are already built-in to your operating system (Windows or MAC-OS), and which will load and activate automatically the first time you connect the 350M. While we are on the subject of operating systems, what operating system are you running? Some combinations of keyboard/PC hardware can have USB-MIDI problems with Windows-8/10, particularly Windows-10. You also need to ensure that the 350M is tranmitting on the same MIDI Channel that the DAW is "looking" for data on, and vice versa. See Item 7-1 "KeyboardCh" under "MIDI Group" in the Function menu (Page E-45 in the manual). This applies to USB-MIDI as well as 5-pin-DIN-MIDI. Again, sorry if this seems overly elementary, but it is something that does get overlooked from time to time, especially in the heat of frustration. Now, 5-pin-DIN-MIDI is a different story. I'm not really sure what is going on there, so we need to set up a trouble-shooting connection. Since your "other" keyboard is able to communicate with your DAW, we know its 5-pin-DIN-MIDI is working OK. Connect the 350M and your "other" keyboard's 5-pin-DIN-MIDI connections together, set both to transmit and receive on MIDI Channel 1 and see if they will communicate with each other. If they do, then you know that the 350M's 5-pin-DIN-MIDI is operating OK, and you have a set up problem somewhere between the 350M and your DAW. If the two keyboards will not communicate, you know there is either something wrong with the 350M's 5-pin-DIN-MIDI set up or the 5-pin-DIN-MIDI circuit is defective. This assumes that your "other" keyboard has full MIDI IN/OUT capabilities. If it is a "controller" with just a MIDI OUT, at least connect that to the 350M's MIDI IN to see if the 350M will receive MIDI data from it. Also, I strongly recommend a MIDI test utility. It can save a lot of time when trouble-shooting MIDI problems: for Windows: http://www.midiox.com/ for MAC-OS: http://macdownload.informer.com/advice/Midi_Utility.html Good luck! Let us know how things work out.

Hmmm ! It's working OK for me. I just downloaded the PX-560 .INS file for Sonar. I am running Windows-7 (64 bit) with the latest version of Firefox.

Are your headphones equipped with an 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch adapter on the end of the cord? If they are, and you unplug only the 1/8 inch connection, leaving the 1/4 inch adapter in the phones jack, the presence of the 1/4 inch adapter in the phones jack will keep the speakers cut off. You must remove the entire phones connection, including the adapter.

The information you seek can be found in the Appendix that came with the WK-240/CTK-4400 manual. You can download both the manual and its appendix from: http://support.casio.com/en/manual/manualfile.php?cid=008001061 The WK-240/CTK-4400 (The WK-240 is the 76 key version of the CTK-4400.) actually have four different harmonica tones. From the high quality tone bank, you have tone numbers 128, 129, and 130, and from the lower quality, polyphony saving, GM tone bank, you have tone number 478. For proper attention, future questions regarding your CTK-4400 should be posted in the Other CTK/WK Models sub-forum below.

You will probably have better luck coming up with a 1/4 inch to 3.5mm adapter and use a mic with a standard connection.

Jacques See Page EN-70 of the PX-560's manual. Use the BALANCE Screen to adjust the Line In Volume.

Typical of most (ALL ?) Casio keyboards equipped with an "Audio In" connection, signals applied to that connection can not be recorded with that keyboard's USB Audio Recorder. See the "NOTE" in the right hand column of Page EN-9 of the CGP-700 manual. Casio seems to prefer this design in order to avoid litigation for complicity in the piracy of copyrighted materials. So, voice recording would have to be done with computer/DAW-software or a stand-alone audio recorder (Tascam, Fostex, etc). It might be possible to connect a "dynamic" mic to the CGP-700's Audio In with a mono-to-stereo adapter and use the keyboard as a sort of "mixer" to mix the voice signal with the keyboard's output and send them to a computer/DAW or stand-alone recorder, but the level and impedance of the Audio In would not match those of the microphone, so the recorded voice quality might suffer. The "proper" connections would require a Mic/Stereo-Line or straight 3/4 channel mixer. It's too bad the CGP-700 does not have a MIC IN connection like some of the CTK/WK models.

Ali, To recap some of Scott's comments: If you are trying to power the LK-41 from the USB port, that will not work. Power the LK-41 from batteries or the proper power adapter. Most keyboard drivers have a Manufacturer ID embedded in them. If the ID in the driver does not match the ID in the keyboard's firmware, they will not connect, so it is not surprising that the Yamaha and Korg drivers would not work. In the early days of Vista-64, Casio did not write a 64 bit driver for the WK-3800, so I had to modify a Roland-Edirol 64 bit driver. All I had to do was replace the Roland ID in the driver with the Casio ID, and it worked fine. Speaking of drivers, the bit depth of the driver MUST match the bit depth of the operating system. Drivers are essentially "plug-ins". You can not connect a 64 bit "plug-in" to a 32 bit socket and vice versa - and Compatibility Mode can not correct for this. Compatibility Mode is for programs, not drivers and plug-ins. Here again, in the early days of 64 bit operating systems, those who were quick to upgrade found that suddenly none of their 32 bit VSTi plug-ins would work anymore. They had a choice of back-leveling their OS or doing without their VSTi plug-ins until the plug-in authors could write 64 bit versions. Also, speaking of drivers, before proceeding further, you may want to uninstall any of those "tons" of erroneous drivers that may still be on your system so as to avoid any unseen conflicts. Go to the following site: http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=20 Scroll down to the Drivers section. Since you are now running Win-7 64 bit, you want the following driver: Digital Keyboards/ Pianos/ Key Lighting Digital Piano PL-40R Windows® 7(64-bit)/® 8(64-bit)/® 8.1(64-bit) Version 1.2 When you click on that driver, you will get the following message: [Drivers] Windows® 7(64-bit)/® 8(64-bit)/® 8.1(64-bit) - Version 1.2 Supported Models CTK-710/ CTK-720/ CTK-800/ CTK-810/ CTK-810IN/ CT-599/ CT-799/ LK-90/ LK-92TV/ LK-180TV/ LK-280CDTV/ LK-93TV/ LK-94/ LK-95TV/ LK-201TV/ LK-202TV/ LK-203TV/ LK-300TV/ LK-41/ LK-200S/ LK-210/ LK-301BB/ LK-70S/ WK-110/ WK-3300/ WK-3800/ WK-8000/ PX-400R/ PX-200/ PX-320/ PX-410R/ PX-575R/ PX-800/ AP-80R/ AP-500/ PL-40R/ Notice that the LK-41 is specifically listed as one of the compatible devices. Many Casio users are successfully using this driver for Windows-10. The only reason that Windows-10 is not listed is because it had not been released yet, when this site was posted, but as you have already discovered, certain combinations of Windows-10 and some computer hardware have problems with USB-MIDI. I suspect it has something to do with the computer's firmware bios. The LK-41 is not "Class Compliant". It will not work with the driver that is built-in to Windows, so download and install the above driver onto you Win-7/64 system. In closing, the Audio-to-MIDI converters you asked about are pretty gimmicky. They work, after a fashion, for simple, single note at a time, passages, but for complex scores with full chords, harmony, passing tones, etc, they usually fall flat. Best of luck - I hope this gets you going!

OK Mark ! To save Mixer setting changes/corrections after the fact, as you are trying to do, you need to perform a "Panel Record" after you have made the changes. See the right hand column on Page E-72 of the manual. This will write the changes into the Song file header.

You will not find any "downloadable" drivers for the CTK-6300IN, as there are none. The CTK-6300IN is "Class Compliant". It is designed to work with the drivers that have been built-in to Windows since XP Service Pack 2 (including Windows 10) and the last several iterations of MAC-OS. That is to say, the drivers you seek "should" already be part of your operating system. Admittedly, Windows 10 has more than its share of problems with USB-MIDI, but these are typically due to damaged or missing files in the operating system build. By far, the majority of these problems appear to be with systems that have been upgraded to Windows 10 from earlier versions, and often require a re-install of the upgrade. Try a Google or Bing search on "USB-MIDI problems with Windows 10" for ideas on how to deal with the problems, but as a start, if your computer has both USB-2 and USB-3 ports, make sure you are using a USB-2 port, as many (most ?) USB-3 ports have problems with USB-MIDI. Keep in mind that, while the problem you are experiencing, is not unusual, it is also not generic or "across the board". There are many Casio (and other) owners whose keyboards are working fine with the "Class Compliant" drivers that are built-in to Windows-10. .

You do not state which "Parts" the Mixer volumes are not being saved for. See Note 1 at the end of the Parameter List in the right hand column of Page 127 of the WK-6500 manual. The only Mixer volumes that are saved as power-on or power resume defaults or as part of a Registration are for Parts A01 through A04, which are UPPER-1, UPPER-2, LOWER, and Auto-Hamonize, respectively. Mixer volumes for all other Parts - that is: Parts A05 through A16 and B01 through B16 are saved by the Song Sequencer as part of a Song. If your Mixer volumes for Parts A01 through A04 are intermittently not being saved, then you may have faulty flash memory, but if this is the case. it seems that items other than Mixer volumes would also be intermittently not getting saved.

Matt I would have a very difficult time answering these last questions from personal experience, as I am strictly an instrumentalist. I have absolutely no voice as a vocalist. So when I work or play alone, and want to record, I have only to concern myself with a simple instrument stereo pair, but my old HP desktop (tower, actually) here does have an 1/8 inch dynamic MIC IN on the front and an 1/8 inch stereo LINE IN on the back. So, when friends come over for a jam session, and want to record vocals, my old mediocre Audio-Technica dynamic mic, plus a handful of Radio Shack 1/8-to-1/4 inch audio adapters, and the PC running Sonar as a multi-track audio recorder get us by fairly well, but once I got the Casio CTK-7000 and WK-7500 I really got spoiled. With their internal audio recorders, I could record a vocal (dynamic mic), a guitar, and the keyboard's own performance to an audio file on an SD Card completely within the keyboard, itself - no connection to any other device required. Now that I no longer have the CTK/WK-7XXX units, I have gone back to doing my instrumental recordings with a stand-alone Fostex 8-tracker, that records two tracks at a time to a 2 Gb Compact Flash card. I got it about 10 years ago to go with a Motif XS that I had for a while. Prior to all this, it was analog mixers and cassette tape decks, and going back a little further it was analog mixers and reel-to-reel tape recorders. So, i have never found myself with your current dilemma, but as for your question about the sound quality of a USB interface connection vs. direct analog connection to a computer's sound system, I think that would depend, to a great extent, upon the the quality of the computer's sound card or sound chip set. I have never tested this, personally, but I strongly suspect that the sound quality of a decent USB interface would be at least as good as, or better than, the built-in sound system of the average computer. Now, your comment about connecting equipment line-outs to computer mic-ins is every bit as valid as my original comment about connecting keyboard phones-out to either PC line-ins or mic-ins. You can do it in a pinch, but it is always much less than ideal. So, I guess if I were in your position, with your obvious interest in making quality recordings, I would opt for the four channel USB interface with the capability of using quality condenser mics, but then. I have always been very adept at spending other people's money.

No! The UMC-204HD is a "two-by-four" (2X4) device: 2 inputs and 4 outputs. All of the connections on the back side of the unit are outputs, with the exception of the INSERT jacks, which I assume you are thinking about using as inputs from the keyboard, but those jacks do not work that way. They are, in fact, bi-directional connections for external effects processors. Here is a link to the Wikipedia description of how these connections work. From the UMC-204HD spec sheet, it appears that its INSERT connections are the type described in the third paragraph, which starts with the statement " Most modern entry level and medium format mixers use a single TRS phone jack for both Send and Return.", with INSERT 1 being for input 1 and INSERT 2 being for input 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_(effects_processing) For what you want to do, you need a three input device - a left and a right line input for the keyboard and a mic input, but all of the multiple input units I know of have inputs that are multiples of powers of 2, that is 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, except maybe the Behringer Xenyx 302 5-input unit, so you are probably going to have to go the expense of a 4 input device - either a 4 channel analog mixer or a 4 input USB interface, but that gives you an input for a second mic, if you need it at some point in the future. Of course, you could always go with the direct analog connections from the keyboard to the computer with the adaptor cable I described earlier and a simple one input USB interface, like the Focusrite "Solo", for the mic, but that is not in keeping with your "single cable to the computer" goal. If you are located in the USA, both Sweetwater Sound and Musicians Friend are currently selling the Behringer UMC-404HD (4-IN/4-OUT) model for $99.99 USD. It normally retails for $149.99. So, it is currently only $20 more than the UMC-402HD. Sweetwater is currently out of stock, so if you order from them, it would be back ordered, but it looks like Musicians Friend currently has them in stock.

For decent quality recordings, use of the keyboard's PHONES jack is not a good idea, as it is neither the correct level nor impedance and runs the risk of severely overdriving the recording device's input, plus it cuts off the keyboard's internal speakers for use as monitors. If you are talking about the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, you would be better off connecting a dynamic mic to the keyboard's MIC IN jack, then connecting the keyboard's LINE OUT jacks to the 2i2's inputs. This would deliver a composite voice/instrument signal to the 2i2's inputs, plus has the advantage of using the keyboard's effects and mixer sections to process both the voice and instrument outputs, but use of a USB audio interface, at all, is not an absolute necessity, as you can make a direct analog connection to your computer's LINE IN jack with the proper dual 1/4 inch mono to 1/8 inch stereo adapter cable. This avoids the cost of an interface and circumvents the latency and USB ground hum that can be inherent in some USB audio interfaces, although I do not believe that either of these would be a problem with the 2i2. Amazon is currently offering a professional 15 foot model for $18.99 USD: https://www.amazon.com/gp/slredirect/picassoRedirect.html/ref=pa_sp_atf_aps_sr_pg1_1?ie=UTF8&adId=A086954223MDLIPQ1XIUX&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUGREEN-Splitter-Computer-Multimedia-Speakers%2Fdp%2FB00ZKM3SDO%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1496836805%26sr%3D8-1-spons%26keywords%3D%221%2B4%22%2Bmono%2Bto%2B%221%2B8%22%2Bstereo%26psc%3D1&qualifier=1496836805&id=664798925482380&widgetName=sp_atf See the right hand column on Page E-11 of the WK-6600 manual for connecting a microphone to it. but if you are considering a profassional quality condenser mic, then you would need to go with the Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, or equivalent, and connect the mic and keyboard separately to its inputs, since the keyboard's MIC IN jack is not compatible with condenser mics..

Storage position should not really make any difference. There are no hard drives or loose parts to take into consideration in these keyboards. I had a CTK-6000, a CTK-7000, and a WK-7500 for several years and still have a WK-3800, and all were stored in their original cartons in various positions (even on end) at different times with no ill effects. The only exception to this is when they were in a gig bag for transit. In that case, they were either laid flat, in a normal playing position or placed on their back edge, with the keys pointing upward, and secured to keep them from falling over.

The XW-P1 can play audio files only from the SD Card. The XW-P1, itself, is basically just a MIDI device, not an audio device, so its internal features deal only with MIDI data, not audio data. The ability to play audio files from the SD Card is just an "add-on" feature, primarily for those who may want to use audio backing tracks to play along with. Here are links to info for the differences/similarities between the XW-P1 ane XW-G1: http://www.casio.com/products/electronic-musical-instruments/digital-synthesizers/xw-p1 https://www.casio.com/products/electronic-musical-instruments/digital-synthesizers/xw-g1 Probably the two most prominent differences are that the XW-G1 is an audio sampler, while the XW-P1 is not, but the XW-P1 uses Hex Layers to create massive sounding synth stacks, for either new or vintage synth sounds, while the XW-G1 does not use Hex Layers at all. Aside from the Sampling engine, its primary sound sources are a Solo Synth sound engine and a PCM Instrument sound engine. So, in a sense, the Sampling engine of the XW-G1 replaces the Hex Layer sound engine of the XW-P1, while they both have Solo Synth and PCM Instrument sound engines.

While the audio file player in the XW-P1 will allow you to Chain play songs on the SD Card, it will not allow you to "loop" a particular song for continuous play. That is more a function of a standard MP3 player. One work around would be to copy the "song"/"sample" linearly the number of times you want it repeated with external audio editing software, before converting it to a Casio audio file. Another would be to copy the "song"/"sample" you want "looped"/"repeated" to "File1", "File2', "File3", etc, on the SD Card, the number of times you want it repeated, then "Chain" play those with the XW-P1's audio file player, but there may be several seconds delay from the end of one "song"/"sample" to the start of the next. Now, since you used the word "samples" in your original post, if you are talking about looping samples and playing them from the keys, you have the wrong keyboard, as the XW-P1 is not a "sampler". For that, you need the XW-G1, but even then, the XW-G1 does its sample looping in internal memory, not directly on the SD Card.

Eddie There is no actual LCD Display "brightness" control, but there is a "Contrast" setting available through the "Function" menu as covered in the next to last item of the right hand column on Page E99 of the manual, but it may not be of much help to you. This is a common problem with most keyboards under bright stage lights or in bright daylight in outdoor venues, so many players take to fashening their own "visors" out of various materials (plastic, aluminum, cardboard, etc) and fastening them at a (hopefully) useable and (hopefully) effective angle over the display panel with masking or duct or double adhesive tape or Velcro. It is not unusual for those keyboards that do have display birghtness controls to experience early display and/or power supply failures when the displays are run continuously at full brightness. This makes a good case for relegating as much of your set-ups as possible to Registrations, in order to keep the number of "on-stage" button presses to an absolute minimum - the idea being that the fewer the button presses, the less you need the display.

Sounds to me like just a regular concert grand with some effects processing - some compression to enhance the attack, some brightening with EQ, and some reverb, but I am not sure the WK-7600's piano wave samples are high enough quality to match this.

Some Win-10 users have had luck using the Win-7/8 64-bit driver with their older, non "Class Compliant" Casio boards that need specific drivers. There don't seem to be any guarantees with Win-10. Success appears to be somewhat dependent upon what hardware the Win-10 is running on. If it doesn't work for you, you can just un-install it, but it has fairly broad compatibility, as I have been using it for several years to connect my old WK-3800 to my Vista-64 PC, even though Casio's specs still list that as "incompatible". You can download it from here: http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=72 If you can get the driver to work, you can download the SMF Converter mentioned on Page 48 of the manual from here: http://music.casio.com/e/smf/ USE the "Batch download" link - NOT the "Download in parts" link. (Here again, no guarantees with Win-10.) Oh! If you need a manual, you can download a PDF copy from here: http://support.casio.com/en/manual/manualfile.php?cid=008016018 Good luck!

Dave Yes! That should work for you. I used to connect my iPad-2 to my WK-225 quite often with the 30-pin Camera Connection Kit.

Any MIDI file that conforms to the General MIDI (GM) voice (tone) mapping scheme should "play" on the LK-280, as far as the sound is concerned, but they will not properly use the LK "learning" or key lighting features unless they follow a specific format. I am not aware of any sources of "ready made" LK compatible files, but you can see this reply I made some time ago on this subject for doing your own conversions: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/13044-16-midi-track-songs-lk280/&do=findComment&comment=37423

Demo songs are strictly that, and nothing more. They are either written by the manufacturer's staff for the specific model that they appear on, or are hired out to a contractor (like Tech-Note), or are selected and purchased from a contractor's stock pool of such tunes. These things don't come off the Rolling Stone Top 500 list, and the only place you are ever likely to find a particular demo song is on one of the keyboard's that it originally came on, so your purchase of the WK-3300 is most likely your best bet. Although, anyone with a WK-3300, 3800, or 8000 should have been able to make you an audio copy, but then, that gets into possible copyright infringement, plus it puts you at the mercy of how meticulous the person making the copy is with their audio recording equipment and procedures At any rate, enjoy the WK-3300 and the tune.

In all honesty, I strongly suspect that keyboard demo songs are mostly just a day-to-day, run-of-the-mill, pay-the-bills, activity that are long forgotten by the next production run. Maybe not by their author(s), but certainly by those who select them, pay for them, and arrange for getting them included in the keyboard's firmware. To those individuals, they are just another step in the process, and in the case of the WK-3300/3800/8000, we are talking a model line that is some 11 or 12 years old.

Bloomberg lists essentially the same address for Tech-Note International as is shown for Technote International, except that they appear to have relocated from Brigade House to Vemon House and dropped the hyphen from their name at some point: https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/0238954D:LN-tech-note-international-ltd http://www.technote.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=165 You can email Technote at: sales@technote.com If they are not actually Tech-Note, they would most likely be willing to point you in the right direction. I doubt very much that any of those demo songs for the WK-3300/3800/8000 model line are public domain. If Casio included them under license from Tech-Note, then Tech-Note retains the rights, but if Casio bought full rights from Tech-Note, then Casio now owns them. In either case, rights owners are not usually wont to give them up without substantial monetary compensation.