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The best that you can do is to modify one of the existing EP or strings tones to your liking and save it as a User Tone, or download a User Tone from another user, but if it is the base wave sample that you do not care for, there is nothing you can do about that, as the wave samples in CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX units are stored in Read Only Memory (ROM) and can not be changed or replaced, and none of these keyboards is equipped with flash memory for the storage of expansion wave samples. One of the best strings treatments is to reduce the level and increase the attack and release times a bit for some overall "softening" to reduce their obvious brashness. You might also want to check through the user submitted tones in the file section of this forum to see if there is anything that would suit your needs. The best alternative, short of purchasing a different keyboard would be to connect the CTK-7000 to a PC or laptop equipped with software for the playing of VST instruments and installing Rhodes and or strings samples on that. If you should decide to change keyboards, you might want to consider a Roland unit. The Fender Rhodes design was ultimately purchased from Fender by Roland, so most modern Roland keyboards have a fairly ample selection of vintage Rhodes tones. Roland units are also known for their superb strings sounds. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Kevin The fact that the volume knob does not work and that the power cord was missing tells me that this keyboard was most likely already sold once, was returned for a defective volume knob, and that the original purchaser neglected to return the power cord. I would recommend returning it to the place of purchase A.S.A.P. for a refund or replacement. My condolences for the disappointment. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Kelsen When any of the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX family of keyboards is NOT in SPLIT or LAYER mode, the top line of the display shows the UPPER-1 tone. When the keyboard is in LAYER mode, the top line of the display shows the UPPER-2 (LAYER) tone. When the keyboard is in SPLIT mode, the top line of the display shows the LOWER tone. When the keyboard is in SPLIT/LAYER mode, the top line of the display still shows the LOWER tone. If the keyboard is in SPLIT and/or LAYER mode, you need to temporarily exit SPLIT and/or LAYER mode to see which UPPER-1 tone is selected. This is not something you would want to do during live play, as I will cover in a moment. Your other choice is to press the MIXER button. The MIXER panel should come up showing the "A" tracks (channels). If not, LEFT ARROW as many times as necessary to switch the display from the "B" tracks (channels) to the "A" tracks (channels). The arrow beneath the track (channel) numbers indicates which track (channel) is selected at any given moment. When Track-A1 is selected, the display shows the UPPER-1 tone. When Track-A2 is selected, the display shows the UPPER-2 (LAYER) tone, and when Track-A3 is selected, the display shows the LOWER (SPLIT) tone. However, this is also something you would not want to do during live play. As soon as you enter MIXER mode, whatever track is selected will be soloed and spread across the entire keyboard, even though the keyboard is still in SPLIT and/or LAYER mode - just as exiting SPLIT and/or LAYER mode to see the UPPER-1 tone will solo and spread the UPPER-1 tone across the entire keyboard. Once you go into SPLIT and/or LAYER mode, there is no good way to tell what tone is selected for UPPER-1 without a huge chance of disrupting live play. If you are asking this for switching tones during live play or recording, just the simple selection of tones on these keyboards is a little too intricate for live play. Most modern keyboards tend to suffer from this. Tone switching during live play or recording is best handled through the use of REGISTRATIONS. Regards, Ted

Glad to be of help, Scott ! I just posted this as my closing entry to another thread that Brad and I have been working on: It is nice to have something to contribute for a change. All of these CTK/WK boards have been out for a while, so we don't see much traffice here any more, except for the guys who are experimenting with things their boards really weren't designed for, which I am just not into. Since I sold my XW some time ago, I don't have anything to contribute over there, so it does get a bit lonesome around here at times. Ted

No problem, Brad. It is nice to have something to contribute for a change. All of these CTK/WK boards have been out for a while, so we don't see much traffice here any more, except for the guys who are experimenting with things their boards really weren't designed for, which I am just not into. Since I sold my XW some time ago, I don't have anything to contribute over there, so it does get a bit lonesome around here at times. In this case, I wish I could find that stuff I wrote up a couple of years ago. It was a lot more in depth than this and covered several associated items. Its got to be out there somewhere. Ted

Lois 038 Disco Soul is an accompaniment rhythm - not a song. If you are seeing that in the display, then your keyboard is set for you to play a new song in real time with Disco Soul as the accompaniment rhythm. It is not set up to play back a previously recorded song. To play back a previously recorded song, press the RECORDER button. A song number will appear in the upper left corner of the display for a few seconds. While it is there, use the 10-key pad to enter the number of the song you want to playback. I think you will need to enter the song number as 01 through 05 or 001 through 005 to get it to register properly. You only have a few seconds to do this, otherwise you have to start the procedure over. Once you have entered the song number, press the START/STOP-PLAYSTOP button to start playback. At this point, do not, do not, do not press the RECORDER button or you will overwrite your song with a blank recording, which, if you are losing songs, may be what you are doing. Keep this in mind - press the RECORDER button and enter a song number and press the RECORDER button AGAIN to record a new song OR press the START/STOP-PLAY/STOP button to playback a previously recorded song. Also, for security/privacy/safety reasons, it is NEVER advisable to post your phone number in ANY forum. I suggest you edit you original post and remove it. Best of luck and wishing you loads of enjoyment with your WK-240. Regards, Ted

Brad Ric is correct. Toggling from CHORUS to DSP turns CHORUS off, but disabling DSP automatically turns CHORUS back on, both in reality and in what the display shows. He is trying to disable both CHORUS and DSP in an attempt to turn them both off globally, but it doesn't work that way, as he has already discovered. To be certain, I applied a max CHORUS send of 127 to an EP tone and saved it as a USER TONE. The display showed CHORUS on and the CHORUS effect was obvious. I toggled from CHORUS to DSP. The CHORUS indicator went off, the DSP indicator came on, and the CHORUS effect went away. I then turned DSP disable on. The DSP indicator went off, the CHORUS indicator came on, and the CHORUS effect was obviously back. So, any time DSP is off, or disabled, or unavailable in any way, CHORUS will be on, by defaullt. CHORUS/DSP availability is a strictly toggle operation. When one is not available, the other will be. I have now verified this on my CTK-6000, my CTK-7000, and my WK-7500, and I will gaurantee that Ric's WK-7600 will operate the same. I thought I covered all this in another thread a couple of years ago, but I can not find it now. Maybe that was in a different forum. Now - Ric I think you are misunderstanding what you are seeing in the display. The REVERB, CHORUS, and DSP indicators only show that that effect is AVAILABLE to that particular TONE, if it is applied in the SEND levels. It does not indicate that that effect is being "forced" upon that particular TONE. For example - the default StreoGrPno preset (TONE A:001) has the CHORUS indicator on, but if you press the TONE EDIT button and RIGHT ARROW over to TONE EDIT Page 6/8, you will see that the CHORUS send level is set to 000, meaning that no CHORUS is actually being applied to that TONE, even though the CHORUS indicator is on in the display. The only way to determine if REVERB, CHORUS, or DSP is actually being applied to a particular tone is to go into the MIXER or the TONE EDITOR and check the SEND levels. I think you would find that most of the acoustic instrument emulating tones have very little, if any, CHORUS applied, but if a particular tone has CHORUS applied that you do not care for, you can go into the TONE EDITOR, set the CHORUS send level to 000, and save it as a USER TONE. You've got a WK-7600, so that means you have 100 USER TONE slots. That should be enough to last you for a while. I do not understand why Casio did not provide us with a global on/off for CHORUS and DSP as they did for REVERB, but this is what we got and how we have to live with it. Best of luck with that 7600. Regards, Ted

Xera The new Casio CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX models can not import MIDI files as rhythm files. The IDES Data Management software for the old WK-3XXX units and their equivalent CTK models included a stand-alone module that would import a properly formatted MIDI file and convert it to a rhythm file in the old "CKF" format, but this was not an easy process. The computer based DAW that created or edited the MIDI file had to be set up with markers to properly (and exactly) demarcate the various rhythm sections - Intro 1, Intro 2, Variation 1, Variation 2, etc, etc, etc - or the entire process would fail, and even then, when you thought you had done everything correctly, it would often still fail. For what you want to do, you would need to save your rhythm as a MIDI file; load the old IDES-4 software onto your PC; load the MIDI file into your DAW; make your modifications; save it as a MIDI file; import it into the "Rhythm Converter" in the IDES software, and convert it to a "CKF" rhythm file. When the CTK-7200 loads the CKF rhythm file, either from an SD Card or from a Data Manager download, its operating system will convert it to the new "AC7" rhythm file format. There are several members here who have done this successfully. Hopefully, one or more of them will chime in here and share their experiences in this with you.

jirka For what it is worth: Several years ago, when I replaced my failed Vista-32 system with a Vista-64 unit, I lost communications with my WK-3800, because Casio never wrote a Vista-64 driver for the WK-3XXX units. Several years later, when they did release the current Win-7/8 64 bit driver for the WK-3XXX models, I tried it on my Vista-64 system. It installed and ran just fine, and is still running just fine today - even though Casio still insists that it is not compatible with Vista-64. When I say "runs fine", that includes basic communications between the WK-3800 and the PC and the IDES Data Management software. Typically, Windows checks drivers for compatibility prior to installation, and if there is an issue, it will refuse to install them.

David Please do not try what Scott has stated will not work. Depending on how that "blue" adapter you show in the middle of your proposed setup is wired, it can cause a turnover in the USB data transmission leads, resulting in the transmit leads being connected to one another and the receive leads being connected to one another, which results in no data transfer. You need transmit connected to receive in both directions. BUT . . . WORSE . . . it can also cause a turnover in the USB power leads. The keyboard's USB power lead gets shorted to the ground terminal in the iPad's USB connector and the iPad's USB power lead gets shorted to the ground terminal in the keyboard's USB connector, resulting in possible electrical damage to the USB power circuits in both devices. In the early days of USB, more than a few enterprising individuals, who didn't want to go the price of a computer-to-computer file transfer "kit", and decided to fashion their own "cheater" cable found this out the hard way and paid a very dear price.

Check each of the buttons in the area of the keyboard where you laid your notebook and make sure that one or more of them is not permanently "stuck" down. The heavier the notebook and/or the more you slid it around while it was on the keyboard, the greater the chance that this might be your problem. The soft "rubberized" type of buttons are most susceptible to this, as they can be compressed and partially slid under the control panel. It is really a good idea to never lay foreign objects on the keyboard's control panel. Good luck !

At first glance, the 76 key Casio WK-7500/7600 Workstations, and their CTK-7000/7200 61 key siblings, with their 16 track linear "Song" and 16 track looping/overdub "Pattern" sequencers and audio recorder would appear to provide all the functionality of a PC based software DAW program, but in this case, looks ARE very deceiving. The linear "Song" sequencer actually includes a 17th "System" track that operates similar to an internal Type 0 MIDI file comprised of an additional 16 tracks dedicated exclusively to the MIDI recording of the various Auto Accompaniment parts. The audio recorder simply records the composite final stereo output of the keyboard's audio system in a one-pass, erase-as-it-records, process directly to the SD Ram Card. Any attempt to overdub with the audio recorder will result in erasure of any previously recorded data. Other than combining any audio signals present at the INST IN and MIC IN jacks with the internal sounds generated by the sequencer or Auto Accompaniment Arranger signals, there is no synchronization between the sequencers and the audio recorder. Sequencer playback and audio recorder playback are mutually exclusive, so while multi-track MIDI recording is possible, any type of multi-track recording that includes the audio recorder is not possible. The Roland Juno-Gi (now discontinued) contained an 8 track overdub audio recorder similar to what you are asking about, but it lacked the Auto Accompaniment Arranger features and MIDI sequencers of the Casio units. I believe their current FA-06/08 units include the audio record features you seek along with a competent set of sequencers. They can generate rhythm tracks and arpeggiations, but still lack the features of full Auto Accompaniment Arrangers. Full arrangers with the recording features you seek are still limited pretty much to the high middle-of-the-line and top-of-the-line units selling for roughly $2000 USD and up, and even then, their overall MIDI/audio recording capabilities are somewhat limited when compared to those of the non-Arranger pseudo-synth/ROMpler workstations like Yamaha MO/Motif, Korg Kronos/Krome, and Roland FA models.

Bogie You are so welcome, sir ! Glad you got it all sorted out. Hope it works out as well for Fred. Enjoy your 6500 ! Regards, Ted

Bogie See this discussion that we have been having with another user on this matter over the past couple of days. It does work for live play and live play with accompaniment. You just need to ignore the references to the sliders as your WK-6500 does not have them, and for you, the chart that shows the various parts assigned to the different Mixer channels is on Page 39 of the manual. As with Fred, it is the "A" channels in which you are interested, not the "B" channels - those are primarily under control of the sequencer: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/7970-wk7500-change-volume-on-layer-part/ Regards, Ted

Fred The Arpeggiator and the Auto-Harmonize feature share the same control and the same selection menu, so things can get a bit convoluted, and there are several pit-falls that you can drop into if you miss one or two items that neither the manual nor the video stress very well. You begin by pressing AND HOLDING the Auto-Harmonize/Arpeggiator button until the "Type" selection menu comes up, and then use the DATA/WHEEL or the - / + buttons to make your selection. Be aware that selections 1 through 12 are Auto-Harmonize types. If you select one of these, you will not get an arpeggiator type. You need to get into selections 13 and above for arpeggiator types. Once you have made your selection, press the EXIT button to get back into "play" mode, but at this point, the Arpeggiator is still not turned on. All you have done so far is selected the "type". To turn the Arpeggiator ON, you MOMENTARILY press the Auto-Harmonize/Arpeggiator button. From this point on, what momentary presses of the A-H/Arp button do depends upon the selection you made. If you selected an Auto-Harmonize "type", then momentary presses of the A-H/Arp button turn the Auto-Harmonizer on and off. If you selected an Arp type, then momentary presses of the A-H/Arp button turn the Arpeggiator on and off. This can be verified by checking for the indicator blocks at the far left of the display. An indicator block next to the Auto-Harmonize label indicates that an Auto-Harmonize type is selected and the Auto-Harmonizer is turned on. A display indicator block next to the Arpeggiator label indicates that an Arpeggiator type is selected and the Arpeggiator is turned on. No indicator blocks show that the A-H/Arp feature is off. If you momentarily press the A-H/Arp button and get the wrong indicator, just press and hold the button to bring the "type" selection menu back up and make the proper selection. Now that you have all this down, see Pages 131 and 132 of the manual for using the FUNCTION menu to set the various Arpeggiator parameters - such as speed, and straight/swing feel, and whether it plays on the UPPER or LOWER side of the split point and whether it stops or plays on (HOLD) after you lift your hands from the keys. Have fun ! Regards, Ted

Sorry, Fred ! I left out the final two steps that you need. Once you get into MIXER mode and use the LEFT/RIGHT ARROW buttons to select the MIXER channel (Part) that you want to adjust, you need to press the DOWN ARROW button ( V ) TWICE so that the display shows [Volume] selected, then you use the DATA WHEEL to adjust the level. While you are at this point, as long as [Volume] is still selected, if you want to adjust the level of any of the other MIXER channels (Parts) you can just use the LEFT/RIGHT ARROW buttons to select them, then use the DATA WHEEL to adjust the level. This includes the Auto Accompaniment channels A-09 through A-16, as well. So if you want to adjust the level of any of the rhythm parts (including the drums), just LEFT/RIGHT ARROW on over to that channel (Part) and use the DATA WHEEL to adjust the level. At this point, you have a 16 channel mixer at your disposal. The only drawback is that, while you are in MIXER mode, the display only shows the static max level set for each channel. To see the actual instantaneous real-time level coming out of that channel, you have to hit the EXIT button to come out of MIXER mode. Now, if you go back into MIXER mode to adjust more levels, check to be sure that [Volume] is still selected. It should be, but if it is not, you will need to press the DOWN ARROW button TWICE again to get back into [Volume] adjust mode. With a little practice, you will get to the point that you can pop in and out of MIXER mode and adjust channel (Part) levels pretty much on the fly. AND . . . NOW . . . To put a nice topping on all of this: While you are in MIXER mode with [Volume] selected, Sliders 1 through 8 can be used to adjust the channel (Part) levels. Slider 9 normally acts as a Master volume control. Use the button immediately to the left of Slider 1 to switch the complete 8 slider set between Mixer Channels 1-8 and 9-16. This is VERY convenient for adjusting the mix in real-time as you play - much like adjusting the draw-bars on a draw-bar organ as you play. Just make sure you do not come out of [Volume] mode while doing this. If you do, the sliders act to change the various tones (voices) assigned to the different Mixer channels - something you would not necessarily want to do during real-time play. See the chart on Page 36 of the WK-7500 manual for the different "parts" assigned to the various Mixer channels. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Fred See my reply to your post on combining tones. I think it will answer this question for you as well http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/7971-wk-7500-joining-two-sounds-into-one-workflow/?view=getlastpost Regards, Ted

Fred The keyboard's Mixer Channels are as follows: A-01: UPPER-1 part A-02 UPPER-2 part A-03 LOWER part A-04 AUTO-HARMONIZE part Press the MIXER button to bring up the MIXER and ensure that it is on the "A" Channels (NOT the "B" Channels). If it is on the "A" Channels, press the LEFT or RIGHT ARROW buttons ( < > ) to move the Channel cursor to the "A" Channel that has the organ tone. If it is on the "B" Channels, press the LEFT ARROW button ( < ) as many times as necessary to move the Channel cursor to the "A" Channel that has the organ tone. Adjust the level of the organ channel to suit your tastes. Press the EXIT button to exit MIXER mode and save your adjusted mix to a registration. Good luck ! Regards, Ted

Fred The dual-sound "tones" (Piano/Strings, Piano/Pad, etc) on the Casio CTK/WK units are separate wave samples (recordings) that were combined into a single tone at the factory. Each tone in the CTK/WK tone libraries can have up to three separate wave samples. For some of the piano voices, the wave samples are switched on depending upon how hard (velocity) you hit the key. The assumption being that the harder you hit a key the faster (velocity) you press it down. If you hit the key softly, wave sample 1 in that tone is switched on, while samples 2 and 3 remain off, and you get a soft sound. Hit the key a little harder, and only sample 2 is switched on and you get a little harder sound. Hit the key really hard and you get the hard sound from sample 3. This is to more closely emulate the different sounds you get from a real piano as you strike the keys with different hardness. Some of the piano tones use only two samples, while still others use just the basic single sample. For guitars, sample one gives regular guitar tones but with a hard hit key you get a string-bend tone or a hammer-on tone or the regular tone with a finger/fret noise. Here again, most of the guitar tones use only a basic single sample. For saxes, we can have a normal sax tone, but hit the key a little harder and you get the typical sax bark, but most of the brass voices just use basic single samples. Multi-sampled tones, as they are called, can get very pricey very quickly. Tones like Piano-Strings and Piano-Pad are just another use of the multi-sample tone feature. Here there is no velocity switching. Both samples just come on together, but some keyboards do use velocity switching to only bring in the strings or pad for keys struck above a preset velocity, so you can turn the second sound on and off with just your playing style. Some orchestral ensemble tones have a velocity switched orchestral or timpani hit. On the CTK/WK units, the sustain pedal increases the decay time of the non-piano sound for the Piano-Strings and Piano-Pad tones to infinity so they never decay (like an organ tone) as long as the pedal is held down. OK ! That's the background. Now the bad news. While the CTK/WK keyboards' sound engines can access and manipulate the individual wave samples in multi-sampled tones, we as users, have no direct access to the individual wave samples in a tone. Higher end professional units do allow this, but we only have access to the complete tone. When we edit any tone - even the multi-samples - we only have access to the parameters that affect the entire tone globally. So we have no way of combining individual wave samples and saving them as new User Tones. The best we can do is to LAYER tones and save the layering into a registration. Sorry ! Regards, Ted

Sadly, "workstation" is just a word - nothing more - and a visit to several manufacturer's websites will quickly indicate that the word "workstation" has vastly different meanings to different manufacturers. Roland's current offerings in the field of "workstations" are the FA-06 and 08 units, but if you had paid the going rate of $1200 USD for an FA-06 expecting it to do what the WK-7600 does (since they are both called "workstations"), then you would have been sorely disappointed, because for all it does do, the FA-06 can not do what the WK-7600 does. While the FA-06 can generate rhythm tracks, after a fashion, it is not an ARRANGER, which is exactly what the WK-7600 is and is intended to be - it is an Arranger Workstation. Like all arrangers, it is intended to be used primarily as a "one-man-band" entertainment unit. The FA-06 alone would not fair very well at this. A few drum and bass loops and an arpeggiator do not an arranger make. Yet they are both called "workstations", and the Casio WK's were using that moniker many, many, many years before the FA-06 was even a glimmer in its designer's eye. The lesson here is that you can not assume what a keyboard's capabilities are based upon what it is called. As for Casio, the WK stands for Workstation Keyboard which has 76 keys. Each WK unit has a 61 key CTK equivalent with all other features being identical. CTK stands for Casio Tone Keyboard, indicating that it is a portable arranger keyboard, and that is exactly how the Casio websites list them. So, in this case, "workstation" is used to indicate a 76 key unit in its particular (CTK/WK) model line. As I think of all the different workstations through the years (many of which I have owned), every model had its own set of limitations or short-sighted design quirks with user comments that were strongly positive or negative. To some, it did what they needed/wanted it to do, while to others, it was just a cheap piece of junk that they could not do anything with, so I guess the lesson at this point is that no one keyboard will be all things to all users at all times, and that is not necessarily the fault of the keyboard, If you are really that displeased with the WK-7600, perhaps it is time to move on to something that better suits your needs, but I think you are going to find that at a much increased price, unless you can find a used unit in good condition. As for your latest problem: "BTW when I play with a split + layer and 1 beat, i can here some beat skip like if it's unable to deliver it while playing many notes. Is that a limitation too?" I am not certain what it is that you are trying to do, but I layered strings with a string ensemble on the upper keyboard and put a string ensemble in the split lower so as to really stress the polyphony capabilities of the sound engine, then turned on Accompaniment and played triads and four note chords with with both hands with four or five different rhythms on both the CTK-7000 and the WK-7500 and did not detect any problems. I was really surprised that I did not run out of polyphony somewhere in this process,

The limitations you are refering to are pretty much typical for boards in this price range. In order to avoid them, you will need to get into the $1000-$1200 USD price range, and even those will have some limitations compared to the $1500 USD and above units. Not that it will change anything for you, but you might want to read through the following thread, as well as some of the other threads in this sub-forum for hints and tips on how others have tried to deal with some of these limitations. For those of us who are/were owners of the older pre-CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX units, we tend to see the new models as a line of "trade-offs", where some of the more convenient and "pro" (?) features of the older models were "traded-off" for rhythm editing, advanced (?) MIDI sequencing capabilities, audio recording and a set of sliders on the 7XXX units, all of which suffer from their own set of somewhat short sighted limitations. As for myself, I am fairly content with my CTK-7000 and WK-7500, as they perform pretty much as I expected for keyboards in this price range. http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/6555-my-first-thoughts-on-wk7600plus-grand-piano-setting-need-some-help/ As for the lack of 5-Pin-DIN MIDI connectors, mentioned in the above thread, even Yamaha has begun dropping those from their keyboards in this price range and below. I think the main driver of this is the attitude of the younger generation (the main target market for these units) that any keyboard that is not connected to a computer is totally useless and have expressed no understanding of or interest in 5-Pin-DIN MIDI. They want a simple, quick, single plug and play connection to their computer. I think most keyboard manufacturers, rather than catoring to this marketing demand, are actually taking advantage of it for cost savings. The typical comment about 5-Pin-DIN MIDI being cheap only considers the material cost of the MIDI UART chip while ignoring the cost of the connectors as well as the design and manufacturing costs of physically mounting this extra hardware. While owners of the older models had developed successful methods of gigging professionally with them, the new models seem to speak volumes about Casio's attitude of relegating them further into the home-hobbyist market, but then even the Yamaha forums are replete with similar owner comments about their middle and top of the line arranger keyboards. I guess the rule of thumb here still remains "if it has a lot of knobs, sliders, pads and other real time controls without rhythms and onboard speakers, then it is a "pro" unit, but if it lacks most of or all of the real time controls and has rhythms and onboard speakers, then it is a home hobbyist unit, and those who are unaware of or ignore this are bound to be frustrated, at least, or disappointed, at worst. Best of luck with your 7600 ! Regards, Ted

Yes ! It works fine. See the following YouTube tutorial link for what you are asking about. It shows the WK-7500, but for this feature, the WK-6600 is the same. Keep in mind that Jared only shows using the iPad (Garage Band) as a tone module for the keyboard, but if the iPad has a MIDI player or sequencer app that outputs MIDI data to the connector, it can be used to play MIDI songs [ Standard MIDI Files (SMF)] on the keyboard - using the keyboard as a tone module for the iPad. https://youtu.be/V52wSTUxCw4

It depends upon what tone you assign to the LOWER (LEFT) side of the split point. The delay in the Dance Piano 2 tone is an effect. You can only have an effect active on one side of the split point or the other, but not both at the same time. If you assign Dance Piano 2 to the UPPER (RIGHT) side of the split point, and take the default 056 Acoustic Bass 1 tone for the LOWER (LEFT) tone, then you should still have the delay on the UPPER (RIGHT) side of the split point. If this is not the case, then you may have a problem with your keyboard, or you may need to do a factory reset. You can see how this works by assigning Dance Piano 2 to UPPER and Acoustic Bass 1 to LOWER and verifying that the UPPER still has the delay. Now, assign Dance Piano 2 to the LOWER as well. You will notice that the LOWER now has the delay while the UPPER no longer has it. At this point, you can not automatically restore the effect (delay) to the UPPER by assigning a "non-effect" tone to the LOWER. To restore effects to the UPPER, you have to back completely out by turning SPLIT off and starting over from the beginning. If the LOWER tone uses an effect, it commandeers the effects engine and terminates it for the UPPER tone. This is a limitation of the effects engine, not the SPLIT feature. In your case, it appears that you are assigning a LOWER tone that uses an effect, thereby terminating the delay for your UPPER tone. If you really want that tone for your LOWER tone, and can do without its effect, you can edit it to remove the effect, save it as a USER TONE, and assign that USER TONE as your LOWER tone, leaving the delay intact for your UPPER tone.

Mike While the WK-240 has a very basic "sampling" feature that will allow you to create your own "tones" (so to speak), it can not load additional pre-set tones (like the factory pre-sets), because it has no "User Tone" memory. See that table on Page 62 of the manual to see what types of data can be loaded into the WK-240. By the way, so that you do not feel too bad about the tones, I have three Casio boards that DO have User Tone memory, and should be able to load new tones, but there is a real scarcity of them. There are a few member submitted tones here on this forum, but even though Casio provided some after market rhythms, they never did the same with after market tones. So, unless I want to sit here and spend "playing" time designing my own User Tones, that User Tone memory pretty much goes to waste. Tone "sharing" is just something that has never caught on in the arranger market like it has in the synth arena. I did have an XW-P1 for a while, and there are quite a few member submitted tones for it (even some from Mike Martin), but they will not work in the CTK/WK units that I still have. I really liked the XW, but it spent most of its time just sitting here gathering dust, as I am primarily an arranger workstation person, so when a friend made me an offer for the XW that I could not refuse, I let it go, and have been sorry for that more than a few times since. Oh well ! Like Joni Mitchell says - you don't know what you've got till it's gone ! Regards, Ted

Mike Pages 59 thru 62 of the WK-240 Owner's Manual give instructions for connecting the keyboard to a computer and for setting up both to communicate with one another. In particular, the table in the left hand column of Page 62 shows the type of data that can be exchanged, while the right hand column gives instructions for downloading the Data Manager software and installing it on the computer so that it can communicate with the keyboard. To save you some time poking around in Casio's webpages, here are the direct links to the Data Manager software and its User's Guide download pages: Data Manager 5.0 program: http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=71 (Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the [ I agree ] button.) Data Manager 5.0 User's Guide: http://support.casio.com/download_files/008/DL/DATAMANAGERE1C.pdf Casio has not updated the User's Guide recently, so it does not list being for the WK-240, but these are the downloads recommended for it by their webpages. The WK-240 is MIDI Class Compliant, so it will work with the generic drivers that are built into Windows. No other driver installation will be necessary. Just "Plug-N-Play". Good luck ! Regards, Ted