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Thanks, Brad ! I had the impression that the PX-5S was not as vulnerable as the XW's, but why take the risk when there is an alternative (batteries). I have always been a "belt with suspenders" kind of guy.

Joe brings up a very good point. You may want to try running on batteries first to see if that stops the unexpected shutdowns. If it does, that means you probably have a bad power supply or cable or a bad power supply connector on the keyboard. The main thing to keep in mind is that an unexpected power down that interrupts a firmware upgrade may require the unit to be shipped to a Service Center to have the firmware reloaded. Quite often, it is not possible to recover from a failed firmware upgrade locally. Good luck !

Mary Your main problem is that the WK-110 provides no direct way of exporting its preset rhythms for importation into other Casio models. On models that allow editing the preset rhythms and then saving them as User Rhythms, it is possible to bring up a preset rhythm in the editor, as though it is going to be edited, but then immediately saving it, unchanged, to a User Rhythm that can then be exported to a computer or an SD Card. Since the WK-110 does not support editing of its preset rhythms, this process is not possible. The next alternative is, using a C Chord, recording the various parts of the desired rhythm (Intro, Variations, Fills, Endings) to a Casio proprietary User Song, and then exporting that to a computer as a Standard MIDI File (SMF), and then converting that to a Casio CKF rhythm file for importation to a CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX model, but here again, the WK-110 does not support the exportation of its Song files as Standard MIDI Files. The Standard MIDI File Converter that comes on the CD-ROM that was included with the WK-110 is for converting and importing Standard MIDI Files FROM the computer TO the WK-110, but NOT the other way FROM the WK-110 TO the computer. So, the next alternative is to use, basically, the same recording process, only recording from the WK-110 to a computer DAW/Sequencer software program as an SMF via the WK-110's USB port, but now we enter into an unknown area. The WK-110 would need to output its rhythm MIDI data to the USB port. Not all CTK/WK models do this, and the WK-110's manual does not specify one way or the other, so you would need to experiment on that. If it does not output rhythm MIDI data to the USB port, then this method would not be an option either. Any of these methods can get quite involved, and the results quite often leave a lot to be desired, if they work at all. If you are interested in pursuing any of these, you may want to read through the following thread: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/6236-rhythm-conversion-yamaha-to-casio/ This thread discusses, mainly, Yamaha to Casio rhythm conversion, but the basic process is the same. As a final resort, you could listen very closely to the various parts of the desired rhythm as you play it on the WK-110, and then recording it (one part at a time) manually in real time with the WK-7600's Pattern Sequencer and saving it as a User Rhythm. Again, this requires a fairly in depth knowledge of rhythm file structure and pretty much necessitates being a fairly accomplished musician. If you are interested in pursuing this method, you may want to view this tutorial, by Casio's Mike Martin, on the CTK/WK-7XXX Pattern Sequencer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVdFRBmNID4 The caveat here is that, due to time limitations, it presents a much simplified view compared to the development of a complete, multi-part, fully instrumented rhythm. I realize that I have not presented a very encouraging scenario, but I have tried to avoid an over-simplified "You can't get there from here!" answer. You may be able to get there from here, but it certainly will not be easy. Best of luck !

Sorry ! Posted in error. Please disregard.

Jokeyman Don't trade your 350 in on a 7600 yet. I suspect that the PX's, being primarily piano voice units, have audio systems that are factory tuned to those piano voices and piano voice release times that are a little more like those of a real piano. Without some aftermarket user tweaking, the CTK/WK piano voice release times are a bit abrupt in order to save a tad on the polyphony when the Auto-accompaniment is running. They can also make very good use of the EQ'ing of the latest models. When I run my 6000, 7000, 7500 outputs through my old Realistic 10 band stereo equalizer, I can come up with some piano voices that sound really great.

Jokeyman A very good comparison, indeed - especially of two instruments that are so enormously different, but one point of correction - the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX models do have the triple-strike voice design on several of their piano voices. If I recall correctly, Mike Martin commented, when all of these units were first released, that the CTK/WK pianos were of triple strike design, while the piano of the XW-P1 was of a double strike design, although I, personally, have a difficult time hearing the difference, but that could have a lot to do with my age. This was just a little before the release of the new PX units, so no reference was made to them at that time. Bill Because of the vast differences of these two models, it would really be to your benefit to visit a music dealer and play both, if at all possible - not just to hear the sonic differences, but to experience the "key feel' as well, and then compare the features of each model to help determine which unit best fits your needs/preferences. I have a very difficult time seeing either one of these units as a "substitute" for the other. Best of luck on making your choice.

Sorry Paul, I just saw this post from you today, as I was rummaging through some of the older posts. Don't know how I missed it. What is it, exactly, that you are looking for: orchestra sounds plus string sounds (strings, brass, woodwinds, etc), or just better orchestral string sounds (strings only) ? Perhaps I could conjure up something on my WK-3800 here that would work on the 3000/3500, as long as I don't use any tones or parameters that they don't have, but we may still run into a difference in tone numbers, in which case, I would just have to provide you with a text description of what I did.

notebynote Glad you got it all sorted, and you don't need to apologize for missing the bit about the SYNCHRO button. I don't think it is there to begin with. Casio could use a couple of good sessions in how to write manuals. Believe it or not, these things have more similarities than they have differences, so I am drawing on about 25 years of experience when I run into these situations. If at some point in the future, you should decide you want to be able to add additional tracks, come back and we can cover that at the time, but just a few words of caution for the interim. What you are recording now, is going to the System Track - the "A" Tracks. You can not add anything to the System Track - the "A" Tracks - EVER. That is a one pass recording system. Any attempts to add anything will erase all previously recorded data. Added tracks must be added to the "B" Tracks, which is basically just your standard 16 track linear sequencer with multi-track/multi-pass capabilities, but if not done properly, can result in loss of data from either the "A" or the "B" tracks. BUT . . the most important caution of all is to never work with previously recorded data without having a backup copy somewhere. Best of luck and enjoy that new WK-6600 !

notebynote Those extraneous piano notes you are hearing appear to be some kind of a short recording test done by Casio before the keyboard is shipped. I had the same thing on my CTK-6000. For some reason, they recorded it to one of the "B" tracks. Easy Record records to the "A": tracks, so when you try to do your recording, the keyboard thinks you want to ADD your performance to the test that Casio left on that "B" track, so we need to clear that off for you. My CTK-6000 only had it in the Song-1 User Memory slot. So that we know where you are starting, power your keyboard OFF and back ON. It should be at what I call the home display screen. Momentarily press the SONG SEQUENCER button. The top line of the display should show [[ SONG ]] ------- 1. Now. PRESS AND HOLD the FUNCTION button as you again momentarily press the SONG SEQUENCER button to go into the song EDIT mode. The top line of the display should show - EDIT -. Press the DOWN ARROW button TWICE to select SongEdit (the bottom item in the menu)..It should now have a large blue dot to the left of it, indicating that it is selected. Press ENTER. The top menu item ( CLEAR ) should already be selected with a large blue dot to the left of it. Press ENTER. Use the Data Wheel or the - / + buttons to select the song you want to clear. Most likely this should be SONG 1. Press ENTER. Press the YES button. Your song is now clear. Press the EXIT button FIVE times to return to the home display screen. Now, if you have an accompaniment pattern playing when you press the RECORD button, the rhythm stops, because the first press of the RECORD button stops everything and places the keyboard into the RECORD STANDBY mode. This is indicated by the flashing of the RECORD button. The keyboard is waiting for you to press a chord, but if you press one at this point, you will only get a static chord, because when you went into standby mode, you knocked off the accompaniment sync start. You would need to press the SYNCHRO button before you press your first chord, but we are coming into this in the middle of things. Let's start from the beginning. For you, at this stage, I strongly recommend the REASY RECORD method. The auto accompaniment will only record to the System Track (the "A" Tracks). The EASY RECORD method sets all of that up for you and ignores the "B" Tracks, which you do not need at this point. That will come later, when you want to add additional parts to your performance. See the table in the right hand column of Page 66 of the manual to see which "parts" of your performance are recorded to which tracks. Make sure you are at the home display screen. Select the right hand tone(s), rhythm, tempo, etc that you want. Press the ACCOMP ON/OFF button to turn it ON. ACCOMP should appear in the lower left corner of the display. Press the SYNCHRO button. NORMAL should be flashing at the bottom of the display. If you want to start with the VARIATION pattern or an INTRO, press the appropriate button and the associated indicator should flash at the bottom of the screen. Press the RECORD button ONCE and it should begin flashing. Use the Data Wheel or - / + buttons to select the song number you want to record. The keyboard is now waiting for you to begin your performance. Start playing, and the RECORD button light turns steady. When you are finished, you can press the STOP button for an abrupt ending or you can press the ENDING button for an outtro pattern. In this case, recording will end automatically when the ending pattern is finished. No special SAVE procedure is necessary. Your performance is saved automatically to User Memory when recording is stopped. Good luck !

Paul To begin with, the manual (as usual) is a bit (?) confusing about Auto Resume and Power On Defaults. Depending on how you read it, it can appear that you need to have Auto Resume turned ON in order to save Power On Defaults, but that is NOT CORRECT. Auto Resume automatically saves the current state of the keyboard as you power it off as the next power on condition, and can change from one time to the next, depending upon what condition the keyboard was in when it was powered off. For a static Power On Default, as you are trying to do, make sure that you have Auto Resume turned OFF. Now, that said, I was concerned that you may have a problem with your keyboard, as I was able to save your setup as a Power On Default in both my CTK-7000 and WK-7500 with no problem, but with a little experimenting, I began experiencing the same problem. If you are doing what I think you are doing, it is not so much a problem with saving Power On Defaults, but rather a problem with your choice of the Lower Voice. DrawBar Organ Voice 055 turns on Fast Rotary when you select it. You can verify this by noting that the Rotary Slow/Fast button blue light at the left end of the keyboard comes on when you select DrawBar Organ Voice 055. Rotary is a DSP effect, as is Chorus. You can only have one DSP effect active at a time. If the chosen Lower Voice uses Chorus or any other DSP effect, this will override the Rotary effect for the Upper Voice. String Voices 001, 002, and 003 as Lower Voices work fine with a Rotary effect in the Upper Voice, but String Voice 004 uses an effect setting of its own and knocks off the Rotary in the Upper Voice. Here again, you can verify this by noting that the Rotary Fast blue light goes off when you select String Voice 004, but just going back to String Voice 003 does not restore the Rotary. You have to momentarily drop the Split and allow the Upper Voice to turn Rotary back on. Then you can turn Split back on. When you go from String Voice 004 to 005, the Rotary blue light stays OFF. If you turn Split off, the Rotary light comes on, but as soon as you turn Split back on, the Rotary light goes off, indicating that String Voice 005 also uses its own DSP or Chorus setting and is not compatible with Rotary in the Upper Voice. When you go to String Voice 006, Rotary works fine, and so on. I think you get the point. The Piano Voices as Lower Voices work the same way. Piano Voices 001 through 008 work fine as Lower Voices with Rotary in the Upper Voice, but Piano Voice 009 uses the Compressor DSP effect and overrides the Rotary in the Upper Voice. Your Stadium1 Reverb in the Upper Voice is not a problem, as Reverb has its own effects processor and does not enter into the Chorus/DSP priorities. As a quick check of my assumption, set up DrawBar Organ Voice 055 in the Upper just as you have posted, and select String Voice 001 as the Lower Voice and save that as a Power On Default. Power the keyboard OFF/ON and see if your Default saved correctly. If it did not, check your setup and save procedures step-by-step with the manual to ensure that you are not missing something. If not, then you may need to do a Factory Reset, but you would certainly want to make sure you had any of your user data backed up to the SD Card or to your PC hard drive before doing so. Good luck with this !

Jokeyman NO ! You are not off-topic at all ! This is a really big issue with iPad users trying to do keyboard-DAW integration with their iPads. The iPad is locked into the Class (CORE MIDI) Compliant drivers, but DAW integration relies heavily on very large/complex Sysex messages for some of the controls, so there are some really frustrated iPad owners out there. To make it worse, there is not a hard "line-in-the-sand" division between what will or will not work. What works for one person will not work for another, even though they have identical set ups, or what works one time for one person will not work the next, again with the same set up. This is why Yamaha and Roland now offer optional "full support" drivers for their models that hype DAW integration. I don't know about Yamaha, but the Rolands now require you to make a MIDI menu set up selection as to whether you want it to connect to a Class Compliant or proprietary full support driver. So far, I have not been able to determine if it is a buffer SIZE problem or just lack of proper flow control, but buffer overflow is the end result. The worst is when you do not get a discrete error message, and just find out later that you lost a bunch of data in the transfer. So that everyone understands, these problems are not unique to Casio, but it tends to appear that way because Casio relies so heavily (or exclusively for many models) on Class Compliant USB-MIDI. I think it is obvious that the people that designed the "Class Compliant" drivers are not keyboard people, but rather, computer operating system people who have no concept of DAW integration and totally underestimated the interest in it. I think they thought we all would have thrown away our keyboards by now, and would be playing our PC's and tablets like Steinways, Bosendorfers, Teli's, Strats, and Stradivarius's (Stradivarii ?). As for the CTK/WK-7XXX units, when Casio went from Data Manager 6.0 to 6.1 for better audio support and pulled the 6.0 version and everybody blew away their original 6.0, the new 6.1 increased the timeout error problem about 10 fold, but Casio has yet to address that. Thank the Maker that I kept a copy of my 6.0 Data Manager. Glad you found this of some help.

The IDES-2 Data Management software was designed to work with the WK-3000 via its 5-pin DIN MIDI-IN/OUT connections connected to a Roland MPU-401, or similar, AT-bus interface card in older PC's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roland_MPU-401AT.jpg Note: IDES-3 and IDES-4 and new versions 5.X and 6.X Data Management software WILL NOT WORK WITH THE WK-3000. IT MUST BE IDES-2. The IDES-2 software can be downloaded from: http://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/emi/music_casio/en/wk3-20en.exe and the IDES-2 User's Manual from: http://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/emi/music_casio/en/wk3man-20en.zip As Gary has already said, you should not need any drivers. That is because the only thing that needs drivers are the devices that CONNECT DIRECTLY TO THE PC. In this case, the WK-3000 does not connect directly to the PC. It connects to the USB-MIDI adapter. Since the USB-MIDI adapter connects directly to the PC, it is the device that would need a driver, but if it is "Class Compliant", it will work with the driver that is already built-in to Windows and should not need any additional drivers. However, the "Class Compliant" driver provides only limited communications buffer support and therefore does not support large file or large or complex sysex message transfers. If you are, in fact, running IDES-2 software and still getting "time-out" errors, then you may be running into buffer support problems from the USB-MIDI adapter "Class Compliant" driver. Your only way around this is if the USB-MIDI adapter manufacturer offers a "full support" driver that can be installed in lieu of the built-in "Class Compliant" driver, or you need to find a USB-MIDI adapter that is NOT "Class Compliant" (That may be difficult these days.) and comes with an installable driver that supports the full MIDI Spec. I saw mention above of the M-Audio MIDI Sport. A Bing search turned up a lot of hits for "MIDI Sport drivers", so that tells me that it is either not "Class Compliant", or that M-Audio has already recognized the need for optional drivers, so that may be the ultimate solution to this entire IDES-2/WK-3000 dilema. As an interim workaround, if you are only getting timeout errors when transferring large numbers of small files (rhythms, voices, etc) between the PC and the WK-3000's User Memory, cut back on the number of files you are trying to transfer at one time. Because of the "Class Compliant" driver limitations, if I try to send 100 files from my PC to my WK-7500, I get no error messages, but 14, 15, or 16 files consistently just get lost, and I end up with only 84 or 85 or 86 files at the other end, and that is with a direct USB-to-USB connection. Others have reported intermittent timeout errors on various actions. For me, I just limit my file transfers to no more than 15 files at a time. Good luck !

I thought that this thread might answer your question, but to rephrase the above, if you have a ZPF file that will not work in the XW-P1, then it is a ZPF file for either the XW-G1 or the PX-5S, and no, there is nothing you can do to make them work on the XW-P1, and you would not even want to try as they address parameters and define functions that do not even exist on the XW-P1. If you are staying within the XW-P1 sub-sections of the file download main section, you should not be having this problem. If you are getting a lot of files out of the XW-P1 sub-sections that give you the file format error, then there is some other problem than just the wrong ZPF files for the XW-P1. In that case, post the names of a couple of the problem files, and one of us with an XW-P1 will download and try them, but if you have downloaded files from the XW-G1 or PX-5S sub-sections, then you need to discard them. They were not intended to be used on the XW-P1.

See the 4th (final) entry (from BradMZ) in this thread: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/6828-downloadable-files-are-often-zpf-what-it-this-extension/

Kenneth On the WK-7500, momentarily press the FUNCTION button to bring up the "-Function-" menu. Press the RIGHT ARROW ( > ) button to go to Page "2/2" of the menu. DOWN ARROW to "MIDI". Press ENTER. If "KeyboardCh" is not set to "01", use the DATA WHEEL or the + / - buttons to set it to "01". Press EXIT twice to return to the home display screen. Make sure that your iPad app is set to receive on MIDI Channel 1. If you are using Garage Band, it defaults to Channel 1 and should work. If that still does not work, you may have a connectivity problem. Try a different USB cable from the Lightning adapter cable to the keyboard.

Casio's endorsement of "Class Compliant" keyboards began with the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX and XW-P1/G1 Workstation models, the various smaller CTK portable models, and the various Privia and Celviano models released at that same time. The WK-3XXX units were some of the last of the models which were not Class Compliant, and they can not be upgraded to be Class Compliant as their hardware does not support firmware upgrades. For PC/MAC/laptop users, this just means a need to load aftermarket drivers, but for the iOS market, sadly, it means no connectivity, as there is no provision for installing aftermarket or third party drivers. I share your frustration, as I have a mint condition WK-3800 which is not compatible with my iPad.

Stratus To adjust the accompaniment volume, just put your manual aside for now, and follow this step-by-step procedure. It has everything that you need in order to do this. After each button press, take some time to study the display screen to determine what it is telling you and to keep track of where you are in the procedure. Once you get all the way through this the first time, it will become a lot easier after that: Press the FUNCTION button to bring up Page-1 of the -Function- menu. Press the RIGHT ARROW ( > ) button to go to Page-2 of the -Function- menu. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW buttons to select the first item on the list ( Volume ). (It will probably already be selected.) Press the ENTER button once to go to the next display page. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW buttons to select the first item on this list ( AccompVol ). (It will probably already be selected.) Use the DATA WHEEL or the + / - buttons to set the desired level. Press the EXIT button twice to return to the home display screen. Disregard what I posted about reverb and chorus as I copied that over in error from an earlier thread on this topic. Perhaps you should also ignore our comments about the mixer for now, until you become a little more accustomed to the keyboard, The steps I have posted above will help you adjust the accompaniment volume, which was your original question. We all find the Casio manuals more difficult than they should be, so good luck, relax, and enjoy !

Stratus To adjust the overall Accompaniment Volume of the CTK-7000/7200 or WK-7500/7600: Page 133 of the manual starts you out on the very last display page you need to do this, but it does not tell you how to get to that page to begin with. So: Press the FUNCTION button to bring up Page-1 of the -Function- menu. Press the RIGHT ARROW ( > ) button to go to Page-2 of the -Function- menu. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW buttons to select the first item on the list ( Volume ). (It will probably already be selected.) Press the ENTER button once to go to the next display page. Use the UP/DOWN ARROW buttons to select the first item on this list ( AccompVol ). (It will probably already be selected.) Use the DATA WHEEL or the + / - buttons to set the desired level. Press the EXIT button twice to return to the home display screen. Whether you use a mono or stereo audio system is pretty much a matter of personal choice, but current conventional practice can provide some guidance. Certainly for gigs at medium to large venues, a single amp mono setup is the system of choice, as this type of venue does not lend itself well to stereo listening, but for home, studio, and very small venues (parties, etc), a mono system would deny you and your audience of much of the rich sound fullness that was designed into your keyboard. The problem with many keyboard amp/speaker systems is that they lack the overall frequency spectrum to faithfully reproduce a keyboard's output, and/or exhibit annoying resonances at various bands in the spectrum, so it is best to audition your choice, if possible, before purchase and to make certain your vendor has a decent return policy, in the event you are disappointed.

Radek On your connections at the keyboard: normally the converter MIDI-IN should connect to the keyboard MIDI-OUT and the converter MIDI-OUT should connect to the keyboard MIDI-IN. If that is what you have, try reversing the converter cables as some converter manufacturers reverse the cable labels.

You may have a point about the backward compatibility. When I upgraded my old Compaq laptop from XP-SP2 to XP-SP3 the USB 1.0 ports and USB 1.0 SD Card reader became intermittent. Oddly, the EIDE CD drive became intermittent also. After numerous complaints, Microsoft (after pushing the upgrade) finally admitted that there might be various driver issues with some brands of older hardware. Apparently they knew this going in, but never told anyone until things started blowing up. Withdrawing the upgrade would not work. I had to format the drive and install SP-2 from scratch. XP-SP3 was a major redesign and a sort of stepping stone to Win-7, and I am sure the overall USB driver design from XP-SP3 to WIN-7 was pretty much the same, so it would make sense that what I experienced with XP-SP3 could carry over to Win-7 machines running old USB 1.0 hardware.

Some tablets do not provide enough power on their "Host" ports to drive something like a USB-MIDI adapter.

Kenneth I am not certain what you mean by "control", and you do not state which model of keyboard you have, or which iPad app you are running. If you are talking about the sliders on the CTK-7000/7200 or WK-7500/7600, then they only transmit MIDI Continuous Controller ( CC ) messages when the keyboard is in Drawbar Organ mode, and in that case, you would need to check the keyboard's MIDI Implementation Manual for the specific CC messages they transmit and program the iPad app to respond appropriately when it receives those messages. The Pitch Bend wheel and Modulation button should work, but the keyboard's sequencer Transport controls ( REW, FF, PAUSE, PLAY/STOP ) do not transmit MIDI CC messages at all, so you will need to do that yourself directly on the iPad app. As for the other buttons on the keyboard's front panel that may transmit CC messages, the iPad app would need to be programmed to respond appropriately to the CC messages they send as listed in the keyboard's MIDI Implementation Manual.

Jokeyman Drivers interface the specific direct connected device to the computer. If you are connecting a keyboard via a USB-MIDI adapter, then you need drivers for the adapter - NOT the keyboard, as in that case, it is the adapter that is directly connected to the computer, not the keyboard. In a sense, the drivers interface the adapter to the computer, then the adapter interfaces the keyboard to the computer. If, as Brad says above, the adapter is Class Compliant, then the drivers are already built-in to the operating system, and you do not need to install aftermarket drivers. The same applies to the keyboard if it is Class Compliant and connects directly via the "To Host" USB-MIDI connection. The fact that your adapter has worked with other keyboards indicates that you do not have a problem with it and do not need to worry about it or its drivers. Your problem appears to be with the PX-350. You need to check its MIDI setup. Most keyboards that have both 5-pin DIN MIDI and "To Host" USB-MIDI have a MIDI setup menu where you select whether you want it to route MIDI signals to the DIN connectors or the USB "To Host" connector. Once the DIN connection is establish, it will show up in your DAW MIDI device selection menu as the adapter NOT the keyboard, as here again, it is the adapter that is directly connected to the computer and not the keyboard, so the DAW software "sees" the adapter instead of the keyboard. It will usually show up there as something like "USB-MIDI". As for the computer, it is possible for it to be running both USB-MIDI adapter and direct USB "To Host" MIDI connections side-by-side simultaneously to two different keyboards. BUT . . . I am wondering why you are bothering with the DIN connections on the PX-350 as long as it has a "To Host" USB connection that works. You should be able to make MIDI recordings just as well via that connection as you can via the DIN connection.

radek What make and model of "MIDI converter" are you using, and how are you routing your connections ? (Hope you can translate this OK.)

These days, "wireless" typically means "radio", but it could also mean optical, although that now is normally referred to as optical. The 1000 EURO headset would be radio, but whether or not it suffers the typical Bluetooth latency, I can not say. If it uses the same analog/digital-digital/analog transmission scheme as Bluetooth, then there could be some latency, but it could be a straight analog system, in which case there should be no latency. If it is analog, the precaution is to determine if it is AM or FM. If it is AM, it would be subject to electrical interference, both man made and natural (electrical storms, etc), but if it is FM, it would be fairly impervious to that type of interference and should have no detectable latency. Most of the better analog wireless devices today are FM. Like anything else, the more you pay for something the better performance you should be able to expect, but 1000 EURO seems like a lot of money for a wireless headset. I would certainly check out the return policy before investing the money, in case it does not meet your needs. You might try posting the make and model on the "gigging topics" section of various forums to see if you can get some first hand reviews and opinions before investing. I hope you can return the Bluetooth device you got. Good luck !