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  1. The user manuals located here ...

     

    http://support.casio.com/en/manual/manualfile.php?cid=008010003

     

    will answer a lot of questions.

     

    As far as I know, the MIDI and Audio tracks are very separate entities and will not sync. MIDI tempo is easily changed but audio tracks are always in the tempo they were originally recorded in. Having said that there may be some "magic" you could do with the PADS. I haven't had time to do anything with PADS yet. ;-)

     

    cheers,

    Rick

  2. 4 minutes ago, Rick Sterling said:

    Isn't "Left Hold" the default? You need to press SYNCHRO STOP to have it not hold. Maybe I'm missing something here?

     

    Perhaps you should assign HOLD 1 in CONTROLLERS to  Pedal 1 then enable it for Lower only?

  3. There is a way to do it by setting the Filter function for the FREEZE Button

     

    Go to page EN-40 for details. Go to main menu REGISTRATION and press the FILTER EDIT and set the FILTER to ON for everything except TONE.

     

    Now when you press the FREEZE button (lit up) you can change only TONES with the registration buttons.

     

     

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  4. 16 minutes ago, Tony Boy said:

    Hi Guys I am in the UK and have a CTK 7200 keyboard, and was looking at the MZX 300 as an upgrade for the touch screen now not sure after reading your problems

     

    Wouldn't bother me. If this is the only bug I'll see in the MZ-X I'll be thrilled! ;-)  The reboot time for this instrument is measured in seconds. It takes me 12 seconds to cycle the power on the X500.  By the way, there is a LOT more to the X300 upgrade than the LCD touch screen! 

  5. On 5/18/2017 at 1:13 PM, Tony Boy said:

    Hi I am currently testing out the Casio CTK 7200, and am looking at the Casio MZ x300 which one is better ?

     

    X300 without question in my opinion.

     

    Polyphony 128 vs 64, Tones 900 vs 800, Virtual Tone Wheel Organ 9 drawbars Yes vs No, Touchscreen Yes vs No,  Pads 4 vs 0, Audio Power per Channel  40 vs 7 watts. See the specs here ... MZ- X300 Specs  CTK 7200 Specs

     

    In my opinion though it isn't that great a leap in $$ ($200 at Amazon) from the X300 to the X500 ... Do yourself a treat and get the X500 ;-)

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  6. On 5/18/2017 at 1:40 PM, Allanon said:

    Hi @pete ! and welcome!

    I'm having great fun with my MZ-X500,in these days I'm converting some nice styles I will publish soon on the download area, I've also made some experiments creating new HexLayer tones and... wow... this baby can bring incredible sounds!

    I'm coming from a Korg Pa600 and there is no comparison on how much fun can bring to the player the MZ-X :D

     

    That's great Allanon! My poor PA600 has been languishing in a closet ever since my MX500 came to play! ;-)

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  7. Reminds me a bit of hung MIDI notes where there was no matching MIDI OFF to a MIDI ON control. Perhaps something similar is happening in the DtoA converter memory stack. The system put something in there to convert then forgets it so it plays on forever.

     

  8. I made this post in another topic back in January of this year...

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    I spoke with Ralph Maten and he told me that the EDM tones he created will be released by Casio Europe at some indeterminate time in the future.

     

    quoted by permission ...

     

    " hi rick, i would like to give everyone the data. but it is not allowed to me to do that. casio europe will upload this data but i can not tell you when. 😞if you want you can contact liza from the marketing department, fedorova@casio.de
    yours ralph

    <------

     

    I just checked the Casio Europe web site and did not see Ralph's EDM samples there yet. Sorry. You might try contacting Liza as Ralph suggested.

  9. I just had a similar fault occur on my MX500. While playing with ACCOMP on there was suddenly a background tone that started. I went through every system parameter I could to see if anything would turn it off. Nada!  Funny thing was that I was not using organ tones, but the artifact does sound 'organ like'. I was able to record a few seconds of the artifact, here it is for your analysis. 

     

    MX500 Fault

  10. Can you identify any particular tone you have used before the fault appears? Can you do anything that will cause the fault to appear consistently?

     

    Although I have never seen this fault myself, it doesn't mean it is not there. These systems have millions of degrees of freedom, so we might never see the fault that you have found as we never use the instrument in the same way.

  11. I haven't used the sample manager yet, but intend to get into it soon. I have had some fun creating custom tones (sounds) from the X500's tone bank samples. Amazing what you can do with this instrument. I also have a Korg Kronos 2 that does the "heavy lifting" ;-)

  12. Just checked to see if it had anything to do with MIDI file type 0 & 1 as I know my VanBasco midi player will show track names for MIDI type 1 files but not for MIDI type 0. Didn't make any difference on X500. I can see what instrument is assigned to each track in the Mixer Display though. 

  13. 2 hours ago, cruiser59de said:
    
    
     

    Greetings from Bavaria,

     

    I try to record on the MZ-X 500 (actual OS 1.5) via MIDI in port, from another keyboard or computer into the pattern sequenzer or midirecorder.

    The trackindicators shows the signal, I can hear the sound, but it doesn't record. I tested all Midi-Ports A,B,C the same behavior.

    It only records via the internal keyboard.

    Seems to be a bug, has anyone ever tested?

     

    The second bug I found is in sound edit, effect "drive rotary".

    For example you choose an organ sound, go to edit, effect, algorithm rotary, and chooe drive rotary, the parameter overdrive gain, doesn't work.
    It should work togehter with the overdrive level, but it only gets louder no distortion.

     

    When I do this on the PX-560, I get a heavy distortion organ, depending of the settings of these parameters.

     

    Please help.

     

     

     

     

    You can only record live keyboard data to MIDI. It's not a bug as it is clearly stated in the manual. 

     

    I think you're right about the Overdrive parameter. It mostly increases the volume on my machine too. Gets a little 'dirty' with chords

  14. 2 hours ago, dalekwars said:

    Hi again just to add to my first post...here is an example of what an arranger can do....this track which is based on Variations on a theme by Paganini I used as the opening for my last concert here in the UK. One arranger...no tricks ...obviously I do have many years of classical training but all tracks sequenced using the keyboard which was the PSR S950 ...can't wait to see what I can do with the Casio!!   This tune is obviously copyright free, but the arrangement by me is protected by copyright bu do feel free to share.

    16 - paganini.mp3

     

    Nice! Of course Nicolò would have a fit! ;-)

  15.  

    Mr. Rick Sterling

    How do I add a User Drum that we made ourselves into INS file MZ-X500?
    Thank you very much...

     

    Open the X500_DRUMS.ins file in a text editor. I recommend TEXTPAD at textpad.com as it wont screw up the line terminations in the file. Scroll down to [Casio MZ-X500 USER DRUMS] and edit the line where you have stored your User Drum kit. 

     

    For example if you stored a user drum kit at User 621 you would change the line '0=USER 621' to '0=MyDrumKit' where MyDrumKit is the name of your kit. Then reload the INS file into your Sonar program.

     

    Have fun! 

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