Rick Stirling

Tiger, Go to MIDI DEVICES and be sure to check and enable all the OUTPUT devices you want to use. Note: These midi devices must have been previously recognized by your computer system. Then in the Sonar console, for each track select a device, channel, and instrument. I just tested this on my system using channel 1 for my Microsoft Wavetable Synth and channel 1 for my MX-500 ... Worked fine.

I created the X500 INS file. It took about a week. ;-) I think that is why you do not see a lot of instrument definition files about. re: #3 I have Sonar artist and can have as many MIDI tracks as I want. (I just created a new work with 36 tracks) I believe you can only assign a maximum of 16 tracks to a single MIDI device, but you can have multiple devices defined in Sonar. This outfit seems to have some tools that would help you create an INS file for your MX61 http://www.jmelas.gr/motif/bundle.php

Silvano, Could you tell us exactly what you want to be able to do? Like, "I want to press these keys and have this result". Your post it is a bit confusing to me. Fingered 3 mode works for me, I usually play 4 note chords but 1 and 2 finger chords also work in that mode for me. Rick

I think you would need hardware support for 2 way audio over USB ... doubt very much they could add this feature with just firmware.

+ 1000 !!!

Got a reply from Casio Europe ... They do not have a timeline yet for release of the EDM content. We need a couple hundred folks to email her and say please! ;-)

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.deyours ralph"

If this was a promotion by Casio Europe then you would need to contact them. If the content was created by Ralph Maten then you could contact him to see if it is available. Ralph is on Facebook here ... https://www.facebook.com/AmpMedia?fref=ts

These are good diagnostics. Can you use the on board Audio Recorder and record the noise? If you can record the noise then the noise is being generated early in the audio chain, possibly in the DAC. If you can not record the noise then it is being generated in the audio output amplifier sections. How would you characterize the noise? White noise or hum? If I were you I would get the keyboard back to your dealer as soon as possible with as much documentation of the issue as you can create. The only background noise I had on my MX500 came from an external audio source. I fixed that easily. ;-)

I interpret your "silent noise" as noise you are hearing when no sound is being played on the keyboard. The name for this is commonly called "background noise" or "noise floor". I also interpret your "quiet noise" to mean a low level noise. Turn your AUDIO VOLUME on the REAR PANEL to minimum. If the noise goes away then the noise is coming from your external audio input.

Don't those 'added' resource files come with the 1.31 and up OS updates? They just gave out the SDCard to the first purchasers as those resources did not make it in the first batch of keyboards sold.

1. Cakewalk Sonar (INS file I created allows easy interface to MX500) 2. Should be fully compatible if the Yamaha files are Type 0 or 1 MIDI 3. Currently using integrated sound on my Alienware laptop but I audition the midi directly to the MX500 from the PC with Sonar via USB Midi cable

Thank you for sharing your work. I think it would be nice to have these samples available as individual tones. I did create 6 hex layer versions where each had just one layer turned on so I could use the pipe tones with MIDI. Separate tones might be more efficient. cheers, Rick

Yes. I've just compared the 500 to the 300 tone mapping and they appear identical. Check the tone mapping starting at page two in each of these documents ... http://support.casio.com/en/manual/008/Web_MZX300APPEND-WL-1A_EN.pdf http://support.casio.com/en/manual/008/Web_MZX500APPEND-WL-1A_EN.pdf

Very doable. My approach has been to take a target Yammy style and play it as a MIDI file (change the file type from .STY to .MID ) If when played as a MIDI you can hear the style elements play decently, then you can convert that style easily. If you hear things like a piano playing the rhythm channel then you will need more work to convert the style.

I only ran mine max for about 45 minutes. I would guess that by the numbers you might get 1 1/2 to 2 hours + it's a question of voltage drop and where the keyboard stops working because of the reduced voltage. This is a spec that is hard to come by from the battery manufacturers. They tend to use a very low cut-off voltage in order to maximize the amp-hour specification. The batteries I have are APC RBC9 AP600RM UPS 12V 7.5Ah SLA Sealed Lead Acid AGM Deep Cycle

Yes, I know. Turns out dealing with charging 2 batteries was more trouble than it was worth for me. One larger 12V or my car is easier to deal with and using the factory power adapter has its advantages. ;-)

I retired my home brew solution and am using a 300W inverter with my car's 12 volt system. The inverter can be used with a standard deep cycle 12v battery too. Now I just run the keyboard with its own AC adapter plugged into the inverter.

EXACTLY! We're adults here. It might not make musical sense to most of us to swap in a Tin Whistle for the Stereo Grand in Slot 0001 - but it might be great to swap out the GM mono piano in slot 1563 for a copy of the stereo one from slot 0001. Or perhaps I'd like to make sonic changes to a copy the Stereo Grand from slot 0001 that WOULD then be used by "every registration, rhythm and midi sequence programmed to use that user tone number." How glorious would that be? ;-) From an engineering standpoint it should be trivial to provide a link parameter for every factory tone slot (a) that could point to a user slot (b) so that every call to (a) would be replaced with (b) - if you don't like it just remove the link, no harm no foul. We could even have a system parameter added, "Links ON/OFF" to turn all links on or off. ;-)

OK ... I think I have corrected the file error. Great! Re: the tremulant, I gave it the typical Wurlitzer trem. I think it's a bit heavy myself. ;-)

OK ... I think I have corrected the file error.

Let me check it out.

Here you go. As noted these are just a first attempt ... I'm sure myself or others can improve and add to them. cheers, Rick