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As a non-user of Chordana Play, I can not answer your question regarding song transfers, but . . . . Those of us here, who have worked with adapting generic MIDI files from the internet to work with the Casio LK and other "learning" series boards over the past several years, have never been able to get the fingering display to work with those files. It appears that the fingering display requires additional programming that is only available in the built-in songs. In essence, that programming would tell the keyboard "when you play this song, play this note with this finger. Certainly, that type of data is not part of a generic MIDI file, and the keyboard's operating system does not appear to have an algorithm for figuring it out on its own. That is, that data needs to be hard coded (engineered) into the song data itself. In addition, the "Wait/Listen" phase of the "Lesson" feature does not work reliably with generic MIDI files. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not, all within a given MIDI file. Basically, only the key lighting scheme, properly done, for the LK models, works reliably for generic MIDI files. All other "Lesson" features are either "hit or miss" or "not at all", but in my experience, most LK owners, who are interested in this, are really only interested in getting the key lighting to work properly, and are willing to just figure the rest of it out on their own. That is to say, they just want the LK to show them which key to press when, and then they will decide which finger to do it with, and these owners typically show little or no interest, at all, in the "Wait/Listen" phases of the "Lesson" feature.

OK Brad, thanks! So it's really not a question of will the LK-280's old operating system work with Chordana, but more a fact that Chordana was designed to tap into Casio's existing "learning" system that has been around and enjoyed a reasonable success for quite a few years now. I hope that the two original posters in this thread see this, so that they will know that their LK-280's will, in fact, work with Chordana Play. And . . . . this means that Chordana Play should also work with the learning features of the WK-1XX and WK-2XX (WK-225/245) models, even though they lack the key lighting of the LK models, for those that prefer 76 keys. I will send a PM to @Majek Skateboards, as he was wondering about this very thing for his wife's WK-245 quite some time ago, but due to that 4 board compatibility statement, we decided it would not work.

Romanian to English translation: Who ami give and me this converter syle STYTOCKF that does not let me download?

But does the LK-280's rather old operating system have the programming to actually "work" with Chordana for Piano, or does it merely "connect" via MIDI?

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Did you verify that your audio files are in the AUDIO folder on the flash drive? Also, Casio keyboards with audio capabilities need to have the flash drives formatted on the keyboard thar will be recording and/or playing them back. In order to complete your project, you can very closely approximate what you have been trying to do, if you have an available device thar will play MP3 files (phone, tablet, MP3 player, etc). You will need an 1/8" to 1/4" stereo adapter and cables to connect the MP3 device's headphones output to the PX-350's Line In jacks. If you don't have any, you should be able to pick them up at any big-box store, most of which are staying open during the virus crisis. Pick them up while you are doing your grocery shopping. Use Audacity to convert your files to MP3 and play them through the PX-350's built-in speakers. If you were going to use them as backing tracks, you can play along with them on the keyboard. Good luck!

Do you have another flash drive that you could format fresh in the PX-350 and try? I am suspicious of the one you are currently using, because you say that the one song that does play is a 32 bit song. There is no way the PX-350 can play a 32 bit song. It is like either Audacity or the PX-350 or both are just not reading that flash drive correctly. Even though your current flash drive make work with other devices, the PX-350 is being picky with it for some reason, . It may be the USB device port in the PX-350, or the PX-350's OS, but the only way to know for sure is with a different flash drive. Something has obviously changed since the last time you used that flash drive with the 350. Hmmm! It seems the only file the PX-350 is seeing is the one you recorded directly to the flash drive. The keyboard would have recorded that directly to the AUDIO folder on the flash drive. Are you certain you have the other files in the AUDIO folder? If not, the keyboard can not see them, and is just playing a 16 bit song form where it was originally recorded to.

Try this: Load the file you want to convert into Audicity. Go to the upper left corner and click on File. Come down and click on Export Audio. You will get a pop-up window where you choose the folder in which to save your converted file Choose the folder where you want to save your converted file in. Come down to the File name field and rename the file, if you desire. NOW - Come down to the Save as type field. If that field does not show WAV (Microsoft) signed 16 bit PCM click the down arrow at right and select that type. Click the Save button. Try the converted file in the keyboard. In that Save as type field, if you choose AIFF, instead of WAV, you will get an AIFF file that can be burned to a CD and played back in any CD player. If you choose MP3, you will get an MP3 file that can be played back in any MP3 player, and so forth. This is how I have always converted files with Audacity. I always just take the predefined conversions offered in the Save as type field.

In all honesty, not really . . . . but that answer has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not the recorder (sequencer) "loops". When you "program in" a passage "note-at-a-time" you forego any semblence of the dynamic expression that is possible when you "play-in" that same passage, in real time, with your hands. Oh, you can fake it by manually randomizing ("humanizing") the individual note velocities as you "type" them in, but then that is exactly what your finished passage will sound like - like you were faking it by manually randomizing ("humanizing") the individual note velocities as you "typed" them in. BUT THEN . . . . dynamic expressiion was never the strong suit of "loopers", anyway. Loopers are nothing more than tools that allow for the quick and dirty throwing together of a few tracks of a few bars that repeat over and over and over, ad nauseum, while you play, or improvise, or chill, or jam, or groove over the top of them. In my previous reply, I used the terms STEP sequencing, or STEP recording, or STEP entry, but a more accurate term would be STEP EDITING, and even more precisely EVENT EDITING, as that is exactly what this feature was designed, and provided, and intended for. It was meant as a means of correcting those occasional "bloopers" that creep in when a passage is "played-in" in real time by hand - adding in that missed note, correcting the pitch of that wrong note, or deleting that extra note when your pinky hit two keys at the same time. It can also be used to add in some enhancing "bells and whistle's" that are beyond your current playing expertise, but it was never meant for the arduous, immensely tedious, and error prone entry of complete passages or entire works. Never-the-less, lack of a sequencer's ability to "loop" does not preclude you from making decent backing tracks. Seasoned keyboardists were generating absolutely beautiful 6 and 8 part backing tracks a couple of decades before 'loopers" were even heard of. You just "play-in" 2, or 4, or 8, or 16 bars on each track, in real time, and then use the Song Sequencer's edit features to copy and paste bars out to the full length that you need, keeping in mind that none of this will "loop" - not even in playback mode. If you want 96 bars to comp or improvise over, then you need to generate a 96 bar backing track set. NOW - Applying this specifically to the CTK-6250 (or ANY of the CTK/WK-6XXX/7XXX models): the Song Sequencers in these models are actually 32 track sequencers - 17 real "hardware" tracks, with Track 17, the System Track consisting of 16 virtual (software) tracks - the "A" tracks, which are responsible for recording of ALL elements of an Auto-accompaniment performance, including the Right Hand Upper 1 and Upper 2 and Left Hand Lower parts, using the EASY RECord method. The other 16 real "hardware" tracks - the "B" Tracks are for ad hoc track recording with the track at a time recording method. The "B" Tracks are not accessed at all by the EASY RECord method, which is limited exclusively to the virtual "A" Tracks. I mention this, because there is a huge caveate here. You can start your work with the EASY RECord method to the virtual "A" tracks, then add any additional tracks to the real ("B") "hardware" tracks, or you can record everything to the "B" tracks, but if you record anything to the virtual "A" Tracks with the EASY RECord method, be aware that that method is a one-shot erase as it records method to the ENTIRE System Track - all 16 virtual "A" tracks simultaneously. While you can use the Event Editor to correct data on the "A" Tracks, any attempt to record or re-record data on ANY of the "A" Tracks will erase ALL previously recorded data on ALL of the "A" Tracks. The Song Sequencers of these models save their data to a Casio proprietary "CMS" song file. As long as this data is maintained intact within the CMS Song File, even if transfered to a computer or SD Memory Card for back-up storage, all 32 tracks will remain separate and available to you. And NO! There is currently no computer based software that will play CMS Song File data from the computer back to the keyboard, and the keyboard will not play CMS Song file data directly from an SD Memory Card. To play CMS Song file data, it MUST be properly loaded back into the Song Sequencer and played only from there. The problem with the 32 track CMS Song file comes into play when you want to use the keyboard's converter feature to convert it to a Standard MIDI File (SMF). SMF's are limited, by the MIDI Spec, to 16 tracks, but you have a CMS Song file that may contain up to 32 tracks, so something has to give. During the conversion process, this is controlled by the Mixer: any "A" Track that is ON in the Mixer will prevent the equivalent numbered "B" Track from transferring its data to the converted SMF file, even if that "A" Track contains no data of its own. This comes up again and again. Someone records a performance entirely to the "B" Tracks, with no data on any of the "A" Tracks, yet an SMF conversion comes up completely empty. That is because, by default, ALL of the "A" Tracks are still ON in the Mixer. Once they are turned OFF, the SMF conversion will proceed as normal. If a CMS Song file has data on both "A" and "B" Tracks, some shuffling of data between different "B" tracks may be necessary to accomodate all of the data. Personally, I am not a fan of CMS to SMF conversions, as all of the Casio high quality tones and effects are forfeited in favor of the low quality General MIDI (GM) voice set. The converted SMF file will, in no way, sound anything like the original CMS Song file. If I want/need to share a CMS Song file with others, I will record it to an audio file with the keyboard's audio recorder (7XXX models) or with the audio recorder in my computer based DAW, so that I can maintain as much as the original tone quality as possibility. Sorry to be so long winded with all of this, but I have tried to show you that you can still accomplish what you wanr, even without a PATTERN SEQUENCER (looper). If you feel that you absolutely need one, I would suggest contacting a reputable local dealer and see about trading your CTK-6250 for a 61 key CTK-7200, or a 76 key WK-7600. I think there may still be a few new ones available, but from comments on this and other forums, I take it that used 7XXX boards are pretty rare because of both the Pattern Sequencers and Audio Recorders. AND . . . . about the Pattern Sequencers (loopers) on those boards, the intent was still that you would 'play-in" the notes in real time with your hands, rather than programing them in with the Event Editor. See the followng YouTube tutorial by Mike Martin on creating a User Rhythm pattern (loop) on the 7XXX models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVdFRBmNID4 All of the step-by-step how-tos on the above items are in the manual under the key terms I have used above. I have just included here, some of the more important areas that are not covered in the manual at all, or are not stressed enough to reduce the risk of losing many precious hours of hard work to unforeseen pitfalls. Best of luck!

What you are describing is known as STEP recording, or STEP sequencing, or STEP input. See Page E-93 of the manual for the procedure.

Setting the bend range to 00 is how you essentially deactivate the pitch bend wheel. To completely disable it, you would need to open the keyboard and remove the wiring to the wheel.

Please see my response to your "moved" post: https://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/17969-wk-7600-factory-reset-options/&do=findComment&comment=57766

Please refer to Column 5 of the Parameter List on Page E-162 of the WK-7600 manual. Any item on that list that has a circle in Column 5 will be reset on a Parameter Initialize, or more importantly, any item that does NOT have a circle in Column 5 will NOT be reset by a Parameter Initialize, There are 8 items that are NOT reset by a Parameter Initialize. The most important of these are the first two items - the User Data: User Tones, User Rhythms, User DSP settings, Registrations, etc. NONE of these items are touched by a Parameter Initialize. If you want to reset your WK-7600 to a pristine "out of box" condition, you need to do an Initialize ALL.

Most likely, this is a problem with the internal circuit boards or connections within the CTK-5200, and will require it to be taken/sent to a Service Center, but just to be certain that it is not a problem with the AC power adapter, insert a fresh set of batteries, If it does power up properly with batteries, then you need to replace the AC power adapter, otherwise, it will need to go for repair. The "factory reset" feature requires you to be able to access the menu system, which you can not do if the board does not power up properly.

Have you tried the TC Helicon Support site? https://www.tc-helicon.com/brand/tchelicon/support#googtrans(en|en) Also, there are quite a few members, over on the General Arranger Keyboard Forum, who have used TC Helicon products professionally for the past decade or so, and who might be able to help you: http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/37/1/General_Arranger_Keyboard_Foru

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