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As far as a Patch Library, I was not surprised when I was unable to find an existing one for the PX-5S, so I downloaded the Cakewalk (Sonar) Instrument Definition (.ins) File from the file download section of this forum, but when I tried to import it into Anvil Studio, I got a pop-up stating that I needed to upgrade to the paid version to do that. In the meantime, you could use Anvil Studio's default GM patch library, and it will use the PX-5S's GM tone bank, but that will most likely not sound any better than the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth that is on your computer, because GM tones are GM tones are GM tones. When you've heard one GM tone bank, you've pretty much heard them all. The Roland GS tone bank and Yamaha XG and XG-LITE tone bank proprietary versions might have a slight edge over generic GM tone banks, but not by much. While there are a lot of Anvil Studio tutorials on YouTube, I am sure that video tutorials for the more popular high-end DAW's (Cubase, Sonar, Ableton, etc) would be more numerous, but unless you purchased a professionally produced video direct from the DAW manufacturer, I'm not sure its quality would be much better than the average amateur produced YouTube video. Unless you are prepared to invest several hundred dollars in a high-end DAW, I would recommend Cakewalk's Music Creator. You can download Music Creator 7 from Cakewalk's website for $49.99 USD. Music Creator is a subset of Cakewalk's top of the line DAW Sonar. When it comes to MIDI and basic audio recording capabilities, Music Creator and Sonar are essentially identical. The difference comes in Sonar's advanced audio and digital effects handling capabilities. So, Music Creator 7 would be my recommendation for your current situation, and if you can find a copy of Music Creator 6 at a substantial savings, I would recommend that. Another viable solution would be to combine your phrases and tracks into songs on the keyboard, itself, with the Song Sequencer, then play those back on the keyboard as you record them to wav files on a USB flash drive. Port the USB flash drive to your computer and convert the wav files to MP3 files. With MP3 files on a USB flash drive, you essentially have your PX-5S in your pocket. You can play them back on any MP3 player, and they will sound exactly as they did when you recorded them on your PX-5S - no amateur sounding GM tone banks - because you have digitally recorded your PX-5S's own high quality tone banks. Once I got my CTK-7000 and WK-7500, with their audio recording capabilities, my computer pretty much just gathered dust, except for converting the Casio wav files to standard wav files, and then converting those to MP3 files. The ultimate would have been for the keyboards to have converted the wav files to MP3 files on the USB flash drive themselves. Regards, Ted

Terence The instructions you are looking for begin with Item 1 at the bottom of the left hand column of Page E-120 in the manual and continue through Item 4 at the top half of the right hand column on that page. Be sure to read the "IMPORTANT !" note, preceding Step 1, which states that this procedure only works when all instrument parts for the section (NORMAL, VARIATION, etc) being edited are empty. That is to say, the editor is not sophisticated enough to delete or insert measures into sections that already contain instrument note data. To do that, you would have to first use the preceding procedure at the top of the left hand column of Page E-120 to clear instrument note data from the section(s) whose length (number of measures) you want to change. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Go to the Anvil Studio "MIXER" page. That is the default "home" page that comes up when you first start the program, so if you just started it, you will already be there. On the track that you want to record to, verify that the track is "armed" for recording, as indicated by a red check mark in the far left hand column. If there is no red check mark there, left click in that box to "arm" the track for recording. This needs to be done before you click the "REC" button to start the recording process. On that same track, go to the 7th column from the left: "Channel", and note the channel number that is in that box. Now, go the PX5S MIDI setup menu and verify that it is transmitting the part that you want to record on that same channel. If those numbers do not agree, you will need to change one end or the other so that they do agree. If you want to change the channel that Anvil Studio is receiving on, just left click in the "Channel" box for that track and select the appropriate channel number from the drop down menu. I have a WK-3800, so I can not help you with the PX5S MIDI set up, but there are others here who can help you with that, if you need it. I notice on your Anvil Studio setup pages above that you selected Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth as your MIDI output device, You can do that, and it will work, but playback will not sound anywhere near as good as the PX5S native sounds, GS Wavetable sounds are generic small, economy and polyphony saving wave samples that are around 20 year old technology. Typically, you would play your recordings back into the PX5S to use it as a high quality sound module. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Still suspecting that your WK-500's Sustain jack has an internal electrical short, making it appear that the pedal is permanently pressed, I realized that I should be able to mimic its symptoms on my WK-3800 by just holding the pedal down. Knowing that many Yamaha arranger keyboards get very confused about the pedal, if they are powered up with the pedal depressed. I tried that on the WK-3800, but it came up and behaved completely normal. So, that situation does not affect Casio boards the way it does Yamaha boards. I then selected a tone, pressed the pedal and pressed a key. The tone was sustained, as expected. Then with the pedal still depressed and the original note still being sustained, I changed tones. There was a momentary glitch in the original note, but it continued to be sustained with the original tone. When I repressed the key, the original tone was truncated and the note was now sustained with the new tone, This is not the behavior you are getting with your WK-500, and has convinced me that your problem is most likely NOT an electrical short in the Sustain jack. So, I now suspect that you could have a bad circuit board ribbon cable connection or possibly a defective chip on one of the circuit boards. I wish I could be of more help, but that is about the best I can think of, for now. Good luck ! Regards. Ted

You can not use the current Data Manager 5.0 or 6.1, software versions as they are only for the newer models, and will not work with the WK-3000. You need the IDES 2.0 Data Manager software, Here again, do not attempt to use IDES 3.0 or 4.0 software versions. They are not upgrades to IDES 2,0, but rather are versions for other Casio models and will not work with the WK-3000. You can download IDES 2.0 from: http://music.casio.com/e/data_ex2/before.html#software2 Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on wk3-20en-c.exe. Don't bother downloading the individual parts, this gets you all six parts in one file. Then go back up a few lines and click on Download to the right of Application Manual to get the User Guide. Now, the WK-3000 is too old to be Class Compliant, so you are going to need drivers. You can download them from: http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=20 Scroll down to Drivers and select the appropriate download for your version of Windows. I have IDES 2.0/3.0/4.0 all running on Windows XP 32 bit, Vista 64 bit, and Win-7 64 bit, but I can not guarantee that they will run on Windows 8 or 10. Also, the 64 bit drivers work, but really were not designed to work with the older models. My WK-3800 works fine with my XP 32 bit laptop, but with my 64 bit systems, about one out of five data transfers results in a transmission error. I just do a retry, and it always goes the second time around. If you have 64 bit Windows, do not attempt to install 32 bit drivers, as that is not possible (not even with Compatibility Mode). If you have MAC OS, I am afraid you are out of luck, as Casio never wrote any IDES software to work with MAC OS. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

No! The Key Lighting feature of the LK keyboards is not that sophisticated. When Key Lighting is ON the keys will light when a "Note On" signal is received from any of the three possible sources - the key board, the internal song player, or an external sequencer (PC, etc), but it can not differentiate among the sources - that is ON for one of the sources while OFF for the others.

Peter Actually, most sequencers, even simple ones, have been able to "merge" MIDI note data from two separate tracks into a single track since their earliest inception. What they have problems with is going the other way - to automatically "split" right hand and left hand notes into separate tracks, although the more sophisticated ones developed that capability after a time, but if your sequencer does not have this capability, there was a way to accomplish the same end manually, You just copy (clone) the dual (left/right) track to a second track, then perform a batch delete of all notes above a certain point from one track (to leave a left hand note track) and a batch delete of all notes below a certain point from the other track (to leave a right hand note track). Here again, most sequencers have had the ability to perform "filtered" batch deletes since their earliest days. The trick here is to make sure you do not leave a "common" note on the two final tracks or delete the highest intended note from the left hand track or the lowest intended note from the right hand track. That is what the fellow in the YouTube video was doing, He was using the sequencer to perform a manual note data split from a single track into separate left and right hand note tracks.

When you assign the pedal jack to something other than sustain, do you then get that other effect continuously, even without the pedal being plugged in ? If so, that would indicate that there is some kind of physical electric "short" inside the pedal jack. If not, then something is causing a logic problem with the sustain function. Normally, you would check this by performing a factory reset or initialize, but some Casio keyboards (including the WK-500) do this when you power off/on. That's why Casio Support asked you if you had done that.

Sounds like a defective ribbon cable connector - not where the connector plugs onto the pins on the circuit board - but where the connector crimps onto the ribbon cable or possibly a "cold" (crystalized) solder joint on one of the circuit boards. This is becoming more of a problem since manufacturers have migrated to leadless solders.

See the discussion in this thread. It pretty well covers all the bases: Jared Beaney, who responded to the original poster in that thread, was a member of the Casio Australia Sales team, and did quite a few demos for them, until they were disbanded several years ago: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/104-cannot-use-external-midi-files-in-learninglesson-mode-casio-lk215/ The Key Lighting function only responds to MIDI note data on the assigned "Navigation" channels and ignores all the rest, so data on the "other" channels will not affect Key Lighting. Your problem is going to be that, in order for Key Lighting to work properly, the right and left hand keyboard parts must be on adjacent MIDI channels, with the right hand part on the higher numbered channel. Most MIDI files made for lighted key systems are simplified for training purposes, while most 16 channel files are quite involved and have both the left and right hand keyboard parts on the same channel. Those files will "play" on the LK series, but will not work properly with the Key Lighting feature. Here is a link to a YouTube tutorial on using DAW MIDI sequencer software to modify MIDI files (if necessary, and if possible) to work properly with the LK Key Lighting Lesson feature. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+modify+midi+file+to+work+on+lk280&view=detail&mid=E7E903C9BF44083CD740E7E903C9BF44083CD740&FORM=VIRE Good luck ! Regards, Ted

OK - Glad you got it sorted !

Make sure you are using the "PLAY" instructions in the left hand column of Page 58 of the manual. If you are trying to use the "LOAD" instructions on Page 56, that only applies to Casio proprietary "SONG" files, not Standard MIDI Files (SMF) with the ".MID" file extension.

You can download Standard MIDI Files (SMF) from your computer to the WK-245's internal memory with the Casio Data Manager 5.0 software. See the right hand column of Page 62 of the manual. You can download the Data Manager 5.0 software from: http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=20 Make sure you get the Data Manager 5.0 software as the Data Manager 6.1 software will not work on the WK-245. You can download the Data Manager software User's Guide from: http://support.casio.com/download_files/008/DL/DATAMANAGERE1C.pdf

Without proper test equipment and experience at repairing these devices, it would probably be best to take or send it to a repair center.

In real life, an organ's tones do not "fade" like a piano tone. They are at a constant level as long as the key is held down and stop abruptly as soon as the key is released. A music keyboard just emulates that. The sustain pedal just simulates you holding the key or keys down, so you get the cacaphony that you describe. For the most part, strings are similar. Their output is constant as long as the bow is moved across the strings. Wind instrument output is constant as long as the player blows into it. None of these devices have outputs that "fade" like a piano tone, and these tones on music keyboards were not intended to be used with the sustain pedal. The sustain pedal is intended to be used with "hammered" tones (piano, harpsichord, clavi, dulcimer, etc) or "plucked" tones (guitar, harp, etc) that have a natural "fade". If you really want to use the sustain pedal with other types of tones, then Randelph's suggestion is best, if your keyboard's pedal has the sustain/sostenuto option.

Instead of trying to reduce the drum track volume to zero in the Mixer, have you tried just turning it OFFand ON with the Mixer ?

Yamaha has its Musicsoft library site with files for its arranger keyboards. Those files will not work on Casio keyboards, and to my knowledge, there is no equivalent library site for Casio products. However, here is a link to a YouTube tutorial for converting Standard MIDI Files, that can be downloaded from the internet, so that they are compatible with the "Lesson" features in the Casio "LK" keyboards. As stated in the tutorial, the downloaded files must have right hand and left hand note data on separate MIDI tracks/channels. If that data is combined into a single track/channel, it is next to impossible to separate it to make it compatible with the "LK" Lesson features. The procedure is to simply shift the MIDI note data to the correct tracks/channels that are recognized by the "LK" Lesson features. You will need DAW or sequencer software on your computer to perform these modifications. If you do not already have this software, I recommend "Anvil Studio" that is mentioned in the tutorial. It is a free download, and is fairly simple and straight forward without the large learning curve of most commercial packages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Bzlu-16dI You can download Anvil Studio from: http://anvilstudio.com/ Good luck !

jibin.jacob3 is correct. The "Phones" jack on the WK-240 doubles as an "Output" jack. That jack contains a contact switch that automatically cuts off audio to the internal speakers when a plug is inserted into it. There is no way to defeat this without opening the keyboard and rewiring the Phones/Output jack.

As far as I know, all music keyboards that have accompaniment rhythms, drum tracks, arpeggios, etc. come with permission to use those features in your own performances, public or private, with or without remuneration - without royalties. What you can not do is copy or export them, as separate entities, and pass them on, with or without remuneration, as your own entities.

Jacob If you transfered the RM7 Registration Bank files to your SD Card with your computer, they have to be in the MUSICDAT folder on the Card, or the keyboard will not be able to find them. Then, in Step 3 of the "Load" instructions on Page 104 of the manual, you have to press the C-8 (BANK) button before you perform Step 4. The "Save" instructions are on Pages 102-103. Again, in Step 3 on Page 102, be sure to Press the C-8 (BANK) button before you perform Step 4. The RM7 files will be stored in the MUSICDAT folder. Good luck!

When you modify synth settings, you are actually "Creating a User Tone", so synth settings are saved as "User Tones", not "Registrations", but you can then call up your "User Tones" with "Registrations". The WK-3000 will store up to 100 User Tones in Tone Numbers 600 to 699. See Page 57 of the manual.

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No ! Reverb Type. or Chorus Type, or DSP Type are selected globally for all Parts (Tracks). In addition, you can not have Chorus and DSP active at the same time. So, you can have Reverb plus Chorus or Reverb plus DSP, but you can not have Reverb plus Chorus plus DSP. Likewise, when DSP is active, you can only have one DSP Preset or User DSP active at a time. You can use the REVERB SEND and CHORUS SEND parameters of the MIXER to adjust the amount of each of those effects applied to each Part (Track) or the DSP Line parameter of the MIXER to turn the selected DSP on or off for each Part (Track).