Peter

The "Wah" DSP does something like that I think. If you turn off the LFOWaveform, then you can manually adjust the resonance with the DSP sliders, in real time.

File Name: Saw Lead, Saw Lead II, Tyrian, VA Thing File Submitter: Double P File Submitted: 27 Aug 2013 File Category: XW-P1 Tones from a beginner All tones except VA Thing are made by layering the same wave and playing with detune and fine tune. "Tyrian" is an attempt to emulate the sound from Alexander Brandon's music from the good old space shooter, Tyrian 2000. Set the cutoff to -40 for a more subtle tone. VA Thing is a bit unfinished, since it uses only 3 layers, the others are muted or turned off. Any constructive suggestions on how to improve these sounds are more than welcome. Have a nice day ! Click here to download this file

Thanks for the answer, Mike ! Are you planning to make a similar app for the sequencer maybe?

Mike, you mentioned that there will be a benefit for us, without iPads. Can you be more specific? Will it be some kind of PC software or maybe some kind of hardware? Personally, I would like to see a Casio-made controller similar to this:

Hi Patrick and welcome to the forum ! I started "composing" a few years ago on my piano, and got the XW-P1 a year ago. The most beautiful thing is when you scroll through the different sounds and try to compose a short piece for each sound. Every sound is different, and for every sound there is a different melody that sounds good. And that is the beautiful thing about synthesizers, because you have unlimited sounds at disposal. I suggest you start making your own sounds with HEX LAYER, that is ideal for synth beginners (like I). Use the appendix, there is a list of PCM sounds which you can layer together. Play with detune, fine tine, attack, decay, cutoff filter, DSP effects and the other parameters. And once you mastered this tone mode, you can move on to the SOLO SYNTH, which gives you much more tweaking possibilities.

Now I'm listening to some youtube music and both speakers are working, as allways. Just when I play my P1, then only the left one is working. I use an adapter to merge my two 1/4 cables into one 3.5 mm. I tried to pull one out and left the other in, (and vice-versa) but the result is always the same. I will download the CCleaner, that is a good advice . I would really need a detailed tutorial on sound recording from my synth to my PC, with all the hardware and software .

I use Audicity, and I installed ASIO4ALL. But only one speaker is working when playing. I adjusted the balance in control panel, but still only one speaker working. And there is still a small lag when playing.

I was once also trying to record music from my P1 to computer. The sound quality was ok, but there was a noticeable lag between the key being pressed and the sound output. Any help?

Thanks for the advice, David ! My goal for the start is to emulate the sounds of my favorite musicians, like Jean-Michel Jarre, Alexander Brandon or i. The HexLayer is currently enough for me, it's polyphonic and not that complicated like the SoloSynth. Maybe it's better to master the HexLayer first, and then move to SoloSynth.

I agree. The XWs are not just good keyboards for the pros, they are maybe the best keyboards for synth beginners (like me ). And this manual is not that beginner friendly. I didn't even dare to touch the sequencer for almost a year since I bough my P1, because I didn't really understood what is the manual telling me. Then I just started to tweak the sequencer on my own and I think I made good progress (although, there is still a lot to learn), all without the manual.

A better manual would be appreciated, it is a little to technical for people like me, who never used electronic keyboards before. I find it hard to make good SoloSynth sounds, I never did those kind of things before. I would like a good tutorial on soundmaking with the XW-P1, not just the list of functions, but with examples on how to do this or that kind of sounds, with tricks and hints.

Thank you very much for the reply, I will try it as soon as I can.

I use mostly HexLayer sounds, and the detune would be for them. In Tone mode, detune is assigned to Knob 2. Also if I layer three more sounds in performance, is there a way to detune them all at once in Preformance mode?

Am I blind or there is no way of assigning Detune to one of the knobs in Performance mode? There are a lot of assignable controls to knobs, many of them blank, but I can't find detune.

I thought something like that. Sadly, electronics are not my strong side . Well yes, but I find my 66 key XW-P1 sometimes a little "crowded". An 88-key instrument is arguably more spacious. Yes I did. Don't have the money . My goal is a good 88-key controller keyboard, with all those knobs and sliders.

Thanks Mike for the reply, I am well aware of the SPLIT function . The P1's performance mode is excellent when I have a precise composition in my mind, but not so great when improvising or composing (at least for me, I'm still a learner). When doing that, I never know exactly which harmonies or chords I'm going to use. Or am I going to modulate from one key to another. And the splits cannot foresee these things, so I am often limited by them. Of course I can always adjust the splits and arpeggio zones in settings, but that sometimes breaks my "inspiration". So that is the reason why I come to the idea for this topic. And the hypothetical keyboard doesn't need to be intelligent. Let's assume every key had a small in-built magnetic detector. I put on my left hand a glove which has tiny magnets built on the fingertips. When I press a key with my left hand, the keyboard detects the magnet and plays TONE A with an arpeggio for example. When the same key is pressed again by bare hands, it detects no magnetic fields, so it plays a different tone, TONE B without arpeggio but with a phrase for example. I don't know how silly does all this sound, but my goal was to imagine a keyboard with much more flexibility and control. And I think it would be cool .

I think it would be incredible if I could assign one kind of sound to my left, and another to my right hand. Or even set different sounds to each of my fingers. And most importantly I could assign the arpeggiator/sequencer only to my left hand while the right can play all the keys without triggering the arpeggio or sequencer. I suppose the player must wear some kind of special gloves, or other wearings on his hands, and the keyboard must have sensors in each key to differentiate the left hand from the right. Does something like this exist? Would it be more practical than just using two separate keyboards? What do you think?

Interesting. I tried it too. At first it just ignored the "Tie". Then I used the mixer to change the sound to an organ sound. Set the note length to 100%. I don't know which one of these actions solved the problem, but my chord now holds for the entire pattern. After the pattern ends, the chord is played again.

Select a note for step 1, then for the next steps select "Tie".

SIX SAWSynth, originally a PAD sound, adjust the attack and cutoff, and you get a great lead sound. Add a little detune (from 1 to 8) and it gets even better.

First the gold one, and now the orange. Actually, I see this as a sign how popular the P1 is. Well done Casio. They all look great!

Well, the SoloSynth is not very beginner friendly, especially for people like me, who never created tones with a synthesizer. However, the PC software editor gives you a bit more overlook. But the HexLayer is much more easy to use, you just need to experiment with different layer combinations. Even if you layer the same tone six times, with a little fine tuning and global detuning, you can get some nice (and sometimes unexpected) sounds. And it is polyphonic .

When I downloaded the official new sounds for the XW-P1, there was a PCM tone "TB Vint EP 1". Was it created by using the XW's existing PCM waves or is it a completely new thing? The description says that it was programmed by Tom Brislin. Now the question is, how he did it? Edit: Silly me, probably he just edited an existing tone .

I always wondered if I could make a nice HexLayer tone, and save it as a PCM. Of course I couldn't edit it like a regular HexLayer tone after that. I noticed that many PCM tones have two layers. When you are browsing the PCM waves in HexLayer you can spot many of these tone "pairs". If I could make even my own two layer PCM tones, that would be great. And this brings me to an interesting conclusion: in performance mode, if I use a HexLayer tone, and three PCM tones, that's in fact (theoretically) a 6 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 12 layer tone???