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Thanks for video. I haven't heard an obvious deviation of an hammer voicing of B4 and C5 as it is heard on PX-5S. The sound of a PX-5S is really similar to the original. :-)

I love PX-5s. I bought consciously, having listened to many other models EP and PX-5S for a magnificent sound and opportunities has chosen. I am grateful for the help and offers. Specially I don't wait for any updates, but surprises what in PX-5S still is what to improve, but it isn't made more than a year of 3 years of existence of model. I apologize if has offended the remark.

Bad B4 and C5 hammers voicing of an original grand piano?

Hi guys, I distinctly hear a strange "glass" timbre of several notes, especially B-4 and C-5, too . And it afflicts me. I like to play slow music with a melody in the right hand. And these notes strongly spoil a melody an unnatural "glass" timbre. But in fast dynamic music the "glass" timbre is almost imperceptible. TAKE05.WAV - gamma from C-4 to C-6 with repetition of problem notes of B-4 and C-5. TAKE06.WAV - an example of sounding (a tonality C major, therefore the first note - problem C-5). Listen on good acoustics or in earphones. Then difference of notes of B-4 and C-5 from other lower and high is well heard. I have tried the different Privia models with the built-in speakers - from PX-150 to PX-750 and A-800, and also PX-5S in shops. On the majority of models of a note of B-4 and C-5 sound similar as my PX-5S. This "glass" sounding of notes is inherent in all timbres of an "acoustic" piano in PX-5s. Is a little less noticeable on Mellow piano and Mono piano, but all the same is available. Settings of an equalizer it is possible to hide a little a "glass", but then the sound of a grand piano becomes unnatural. I tried to change all settings of a sound through Data Editor for PX-5S (Version 1.0.1), but it is a timbre of problem notes haven't improved. I think that in PX-5S only one grand piano is sampled, and other timbres of grand pianos by means of program processing from this basic sample . And sampling was made not on each note separately. Because it is difficult to make samples from 88 notes and there will be large weight of basic sample. Therefore samples of several notes and their resampling for the others became. And "extension" of samples on the next notes became noticeable in octaves 4 and 5. Therefore notes of B4 and C5 have timbre suffered from such stretched resampling. And I am sure that Casio won't be able and won't solve this defect further neither programmatically, nor hardware. I so think that the basic grand piano sample is written down in a chip at production, and it is impossible to change him. (More than a year Casio doesn't do new versions of firmware. And Data editor was never updated, though at the program the interface is inconvenient.Therefore I have no hope from Casio to wait further for the improved basic sample of a grand piano.) I two times addressed to the service center of Casio with this problem of "glass" sounding of some notes. In reply there were only apologies and a reminder that PX-5S is only the electronic simulator of the real grand piano and it is impossible to demand from him sound of the real grand piano. excuse for my bad English. TAKE02.WAV TAKE09.WAV

Hi Martin, Thanks for Cakewalk / Sonar Definition Tool for PX-5S. I opened the file "Casio Privia PX-5S.ins" in notepad, find the section of the controller and change the "0 = 0 Bank Select MSB" to "0 = 112 Bank Select MSB" : .Controller Names [Casio XW-P1 Controllers] 0=112 Bank Select MSB ... Cakewalk and Sonar works with banks of PX-5S now. For Cakewalk: Select "Instruments..." in "Options" menu, Press "Define...", "Import...", select file "Casio Privia PX-5S.ins", press "Open", then "Close". Select one or more Port/Channel destination, then click on an Instrument (Casio Privia PX-5S, or other), press OK. Need select '"Bank Select Metod - "Controller 0" for instruments of PX-5S in window "Track Properties". If select "Normal" - for instruments of GM. Sorry my english.