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For interest: 

Kris Nicholson seems to stick felt to all his Yamaha and Casio keyboards to dampen noise

Thank you kindly Lobbard but I was thinking of a more chromatic glissando effect. -Ideally descending

 As you say I may have to hunt down a WAV sample from somewhere

The need for a decent Orchestral Wind Chime Pad tone has already been raised on other Casio product forums.  Those embed in the Drum kits are a poor substitute.and are sampled too fast

Has anyone had any success in producing Orchestral Chimes maybe using Sample Manager?    Chimes can be such a useful effect when used between verses of songs.

On 8/20/2016 at 2:39 PM, Rick Sterling said:

I successfully imported a Yammy Style into my MZ-X500 ... I had auditioned some Yamaha styles first in a midi file player to determine if the files had channels 9 thru 16 programmed. I then imported and did the ALL conversion and it worked just fine. 

 

Note re: Korg styles, someone on the KORG forums created a utility that will convert a Yamaha style to a MIDI format for Korg style import. I think this utility could be useful for our conversion tasks as you can swap intros and endings with it. (Yamaha styles tend to have intro and ending swapped from a Korgies point of view) I'll dig trough my docs this morning and try to find the link to that utility in the Korg forums. It works quite nicely.  

 

Found it. Here's a link to the thread.  http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=98741&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 

Here's a link to Amit's program. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzVh3K4aKXmSUnBmZmE4X3FxTjA/view

 

If you have a newer Korg arranger (PA600 and newer) you can export a Korg style as a MIDI file for editing and importing into the MZX. 

Hi Rick- what 'midi file player' did you use to audition and swop midi channels (Sound Forge?) to relocate midi channel parts between CH9-16 for the MZ-X500?

See my post 'KEY RELEASE FAULT'        http://www.casiomusicforums.com/index.php?/topic/13347-key-release-fault/

If you go to Tone Edit - Touch Response and adjust it will also cure the problem -saves rebooting everytime !

Great job !

Were the Yamaha styles earlier than the later Yamaha styles where you have to load them first into YEM (Yamaha Expansion Manager). I would be interest to know how you did the Conversion

To be able to save Registrations collectively by Bank would also be nice where numerous different registrations are used within the same song .

See post 'Safe Storage and transport of a Keyboard' in the Members Lounge

Applying a screen protector might mask also these scratches ?

Interesting Rick.  Here are some of my recorded KEY RELEASE FAULTS:

TAKE00.WAV

TAKE01.WAV

TAKE02.WAV

TAKE03.WAV

TAKE04.WAV

TAKE05.WAV

I too migrated from Tyros 5 and PSR 970 simply because the touchscreen OS logic is so logical and easy to follow and the whole machine is just so fascinating.

We could do with more song cover representation on Youtube like KAMPOS8705 Styles Melody Casio MZ-X500

Thanks Brad, but it's only after extended use the problem occurs, and such occurrences maybe weeks apart?

Rick/Corey:  Invariably Organ Flute Tone 0186

Basically standalone, but I do connect a midi bass pedal which I have proved to myself is not related to the E5 key fault.

Latest v1.50 firmware also installed

In an earlier post I reported that I had experienced an intermittent fault with the MZ-X500 whereby Tones continued to sound after key release  particularly on the E5 Key?   Rick Sterling suggested  I recorded these with the inbuilt Audio Recorder, when they occurred which I did.   In turn my first MZ-X500 was returned for repair/replacement, with the recorded evidence, and a month latter I received a new replacement MZ-X500 under warranty. With no explanation of what fault was found with my first MZ-X500.

I have now had my replacement  MZ-X500 for about four months... and guess what?.... I am experiencing the same intermittent problem yet again with E5 Key Tones still sounding on key release.   I first noticed this fault within two months of ownership and again with the replacement MZ-X500 ....and I class myself as a careful non-heavy fist-ed player with a classical bent.

Repeated pressing the offending E5 key does not resolve the problem  -which obviously cannot be attributed to a doggy key bed switch, BUT WHAT I HAVE DISCOVERED IS THAT WHEN I GO INTO TONE EDIT AND TOUCH KEY RELEASE NOMINALLY SET AT '00' FOR DEFAULT TONES AND RESET IT BACK TO '00' AGAIN, (EVEN MOVING THE KNOB BACK AND FORTH BY ONE DIGIT) THE FAULT DISAPPEARS... until  the next time this annoying intermittent fault occurs which maybe a few weeks/months hence ?   Similarly re-booting the MZ-X500 temporary resolves the fault -as I discovered and reported in my earlier post with my first MZ-X500

What is going on here?

If I am experiencing this same fault on my second MZ-X500 surely other users somewhere must be experiencing the same fault ?

Following my discovery that the fault is related to KEY RELEASE in Tone Edit, perhaps the fault can be resolved by a future Firmware Update ?   Nevertheless CASIO need to look into this fault.

Otherwise the MZ-X500 is a fantastic keyboard I never tire of playing.  -It's just this bug.

Make a MIDI recording of the Demo track....print it out as Sheet music and seek to get it published... then the real composer might come forward to challenge it's publication on copyright grounds !!   However, it could turn out to be an expensive way of finding out because of legal costs .

1 hour ago, BradMZ said:

Short answer, each model is different in it's sound architecture. We can manually port some sounds, others we cannot because waves or synth programming is unique to one model.  

 

ZPF is not really a tone itself. It's a performance setup on the XW series and stage settings on the PX-5S.  In the case of PX-5S, ZPF files can contain edits to preset tones that have not been saved as user tones.  

Thanks Brad for the explanation 

Why are not all Tone Files compatible across all Casio instruments that support the same file derivation?  (ie ZLT, ZPF etc...)

Some ZLT Hex tone files, that have not been generated on the MZ-X500, don't seem to load and a 'WRONG DATA'  message comes up.  Some recent forum user downloads are a case in point.   Obviously ZPF are not compatible with the MZ.

Any comments?

I use a Nano Lucas 300 2.1   It's compact and a nice weight for lugging around. Always use good quality leads especially balanced leads between sub' and satellite speakers as they make a huge difference to any speaker set up

Nice use of Tones and the bringing in of the Rhythm  -Excellent

The Wurli Cruz2 download is a *.ZPF file is this compatible with the MZ-X500 ?

I downloaded some AC7 Rhythms (See under forum MZ-X500 downloads) which I believe Casio did produce some years ago for CTK7000 etc

Thanks Scott.

So.... if I'm preparing a number of song registrations for a gig,,,,,I can save them under 'All Data' to USB...and reload them to the MZ-X500 from the USB, prior to the performance ....and all my song registrations (tones and rhythms) will be there?

It would be good to be able to save and load Registrations by Bank.   -Enabling several registrations to be dedicated to a single song for quick and slick saving and loading of data used within a single song

Future Firmware Update?