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Depending on where you live the Casio warranty might provide a technician that comes directly to your home. I believe it is the case at least in US and Germany.

I confirm that my PX-560 charges an iPhone. This isn't very surprising really. Both devices have to adhere to certain USB standards. The charging is most likely slow (at 500 mA I guess).

It sounds like some hardware issue. If the drives do not light up, maybe the USB port is missing power. You could try to charge your phone with it to verify.

How big is your flash drive? You might be hitting some limit. Please check this out:

keef, As per PX-560 Manual Appendix page 13, the Grand Piano button isn't supposed to restore the controller settings, so this is an expected behaviour. If you want to restore more settings, you can use a registration.

Also check out the hints from:

arcutus, The information you have found on pianoworld doesn't apply to PX-560. Together with SP-33 it provides continuous pedaling. Please read the following thread: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/9192-px350360-with-sp33-half-damper-function/ I think Brad is right. Proper expression pedal is a much better long-term solution.

As far as I know, it isn't possible. As a test I set both the Pedal and one of the knobs to control Volume. On the main screen I can see the value of the Volume parameter and it is changed by the knob, but not by any of the pedals. It's the same with Pedal type set to Foot Switch and Exp. Pedal. I believe the "Pedal edit" menu controls only the pedal connected to the expression pedal input. Unless Casio provides an improvement in a firmware update, a solution might be to modify the wires and connect part of SP-33 to the expression pedal socket, but that really depends on how SP-33 works in detail.

This information is available in the manual on page EN-76 in a somewhat abbreviated form. Also take a look at the Appendix, page 14. I like the idea of this table quite a bit. I tells you which settings are stored in registrations, which are restored after restart, when you press the "Grand Piano" button etc. It helps to figure out how to set things up. As far as Line in volume is concerned, it isn't tied to a registration. It's sort of global and it can be restored after restart if you enable the "Auto resume" option. Note that the Line in in PX-560 accepts a pretty low signal. Manual specifies 200 mV (page EN-92), which is -11.7 dBu or -14 dBV. I found that it can take a bit more maybe 300-400 mV. If the signal is hotter, it clips, which can be heard as distortion of the high-volume content. Adjusting Line in volume does not help with that, since the clipping seems to appear before the volume is applied. You need to adjust the volume of the source appropriately. You may also want to take a look at the diagram on page A-6. It shows how the input from Line in flows, also in comparison with the simpler Audio in. I can add that Line in has an adjustable noise gate (3 levels), while Audio in doesn't. Also, Line in is recorded by the internal audio recorder, while Audio in isn't.

Simone, I believe PX-560 can go louder than it is out of the box with factory settings. It seems there's some headroom left for processing such as EQ. Did you try the stuff I mentioned in the other thread? It applies especially to percussive instruments such as piano. Organs get much higher average SPL without tweaks.

I didn't try. I need someone with PX-5S to team up and provide the data. It would be an interesting exercise - we would see if and how well PX-5S tones translate to PX-560. The devil might be in the details.

Old Man Tom, As far as the volume is concerned, you can increase it by doing the following steps: - Go to Tone -> Edit -> Amp and increase the volume of the tone (it works on the tone basis) - Go to Master Equalizer and increase the input level. It works globally.

I have PX-560 and can help, but I don't have PX-5S I have an idea, though. What about opening the tone/stage setting in the data editor and taking one or more screenshots? That would provide all the data necessary to recreate the tone, wouldn't it? The thing is that the data editor doesn't let you open PX-5S files unless you have an actual PX-5S hooked up to your computer.

Turning the speakers off doesn't change anything in the measurements. I have one more data point. The maximal output voltage on open circuit is about 1.18 Vrms. It's not extremely much, but not bad either. It should be enough to drive headphones with low impedance and reasonable sensitivity. There's another article from nwavguy that I can recommend: http://nwavguy.blogspot.de/2011/09/more-power.html Max voltage + output impedance combined with relevant headphone specs and one of the formulas from the article gives you enough information to calculate the peak SPL.

Just performed an update. Everything went fine. Contrary to what I thought, the user-created stuff and setting are actually untouched after the update.

Hi, This might me useful for people interested in the technical side of digital pianos or headphones. I measured the output impedance of the headphone out in my PX-560. It's about 4 ohms. I think it's a good or even very good result considering it's not a product specialized in driving headphones. If you wonder what it is about, you can check the following links. It appears that the general consensus is that lower output impedance is better and you want it to be at least 8 times lower than the impedance of the headphones. However, some people seem to prefer how their headphones sound with high output impedance. If that is the case, I believe adding impedance is far easier than removing it. http://nwavguy.blogspot.de/2011/02/headphone-amp-impedance.html http://www.innerfidelity.com/search/node/output%20impedance

+1 on the PX-560 user download section. I could upload some tones, but can't do that at the moment. Admins?

It is supposed to be like this. Somewhere at the end of the manual or its Appendix there's a table which precisely specifies which settings are saved and recalled in different circumstances. The acoustic simulator settings aren't tied to a registration. I can look it up if you can't find it. However, I tend to agree with you. The piano effects generated by the acoustic simulator appear to be kind of independent of the tone itself. You can make a little experiment. Set the GrandPianoConcert tone, go to Edit->Amp and lower the tone's volume to zero. Now press the sustain pedal and play some notes. It turns out that you will hardly hear the notes that you're playing, but you will hear the resonances. That's simply an exaggerated volume imbalance between the piano tone and simulated resonances. Therefore, editing a piano tone might require editing the acoustic simulator settings, but they aren't saved in the tone or even a registration. It might also be an issue when sharing custom tones over this forums. The tones will sound slightly different if the author and the user have different resonance settings.

I recorded all white keys with the NylonGuitar1 tone on PX-560. Black keys do not provide different sounds (except for pitch change). There seem to be some additional sounds. Is it what you're looking for? NylonGuitar white keys.mp3

Can't wait to see it on youtube! It would be cool to have a PX-560 webinar scheduled earlier, so that it's reasonably accessible for European folks. 7PM EST is 1 AM in most of the Europe

Welcome to the forum Lumpy! I'm not able to answer all your questions precisely, because I don't use multiple tracks. However, I believe the following videos might give you an impression on how things work on Casio: Also, this thread looks relevant: http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/8571-adjusted-parameters-for-port-c-reset-upon-start-of-midi-playback/ As for question 3, the typical workflow is to collect data on board first and then export to USB. What I typically do is to record to midi on board, then play the midi with audio recorded turned on which effectively renders a WAV from midi data. Then I export WAV to USB and normalize it in Audacity for proper volume.

I tried to reproduce it on PX-560, but the user rhythm remains unchanged. It's either fixed on PX-560 or I am missing something.

I did the same thing with my PX-560 and SP-33. The midi stream in Pianoteq clearly shows that the sustain pedal sends a full range (0-127) of values. It appears to be well spread over the physical movement of the pedal. The other two pedals are on/off. While SP-33 is clearly capable of producing continuous pedaling, it might be the PX-350 that fiddles with the values and alters the data on MIDI out. Maybe it's something that was fixed in PX-x60 series?

I must admit that I had the same problem and spent a lot of time trying to figure it out. In the end, I realized that the modulation wheel should be in the down position. The thing is that even factory reset doesn't help if you have your modulation wheel in some random position. Also, there's no information about the current value of the modulation parameter on the screen. I don't remember exactly what led me to the solution, but I think I assigned one of the knobs to modulation and then saw the actual value on the main screen and realized it looks like a wrong one. It's interesting to hear that Paulei hit the same issue and found a different solution for it. All in all, I consider it an usability issue, at least for beginners. It is such a bad experience when you take your brand new piano out of the box, turn it on, press the "Grand Piano" button and hear that it sounds so bad. Even worse, when the issue doesn't go away after factory reset. It think there should be a warning in the manual or a firmware update that will set things up, such that "Grand Piano" sounds good out of the box even if an inexperienced or absent-minded user doesn't initially care about the modulation wheel. You may argue that this is a pro board and pro users would like the modulation wheel enabled, but I think it deserves some attention.

This is my first post here, so I'd like to say hi to all members! Yes, PX560 provides a possibility to update firmware. You can find it in the system settings menu. However, as of now, there are no updates provided by Casio. PX560 is still a fresh product. Hopefully updates will appear at some point.