Rick Stirling

Ah! Good to know! Thank you Brad.

Would help to know exactly what this setting does. The Tutorial Manual is not much help. "Init By Wave - Parameter initialization by wave selection. Select “On” to link the envelope and other parameters when a wave is selected or select “Off” not to link." Link to what and what 'other parameters' ?

Thanks Brad!

Just noticed that when you toggle the WAV in a Hex Layer it apparently resets that layer volume to 100. This may not be an issue after all, just a programming thing. ;-) Will play with this some more.

This is a big issue I think as you can not correct it except by using up your USER slots. Unlike the KORGs you can not rewrite a factory tone apparently.

Just noticed something strange with HEX Layer sounds. If I load a HEX Layer sound like #1010 StairwyRecdr it sounds like a single flute. If I then edit it and go to the LAYERS control and toggle each layer (select a different WAV then select the original) I hear an entirely different sound. I have V 1.31, didn't check this with earlier versions as I've only used 1.31. Here's an example. #1010 StairwyRecdr after powering up 1010_StairwyRecdr.mp3 Edited by toggling the layer wavs only .StairwyRecdr_ReProg.mp3 The #1010 sounds like only layer 1 is playing.

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.

Thank you for providing this information. I'm sure it will be helpful to the group!

Did Ralph Maten find out what the issue was with his MAudio pedal on the MZ-X500?

After doing a bit more reading it appears that each TONE can be routed to either of the two DSP effects or neither. Fortunately the System and Master effects do not use the DSP1 or DSP2 channels. Not sure yet how this all works with the HEX TONES. Haven't had a chance yet to read all the manuals cover to cover. ;-)

From the user manual ... Your Digital Keyboard has three types of effects, each of which includes the effects described below. A. Digital Signal Processor (DSP) A collection of versatile Normal DSP effects help to enhance the sound of tones. For example, distortion can be applied to an electric guitar sound to make it sound more powerful. There are 20 different Normal DSP types, and the most appropriate one for the selected tone is applied automatically. B. System Effects (SYSTEM) These effects are shared by all Digital Keyboard parts. The depth of an effect can be adjusted by specifying the send level from the part to each system effect. • Chorus: Combines multiple layers of the same note to create a sound with more depth. • Delay: Delays the input signal and feeds it back to create a repeating effect and give notes more breadth. • Reverb: Adds reverberation to make it sound like you are playing in a room or in a hall. C. Master Effects (MASTER) These effects are applied to the Digital Keyboard master output signal. • Equalizer (Master Equalizer (EQ)): Adjusts the master frequency characteristics. The Master Equalizer can be used to adjust the frequency and gain of four frequency bands: low, mid1, mid2, and high. • Compressor (Master Compressor): Compresses the instrument master output signal. This effect can be used to suppress level dispersion and limit the level of the input signal so it does not exceed the setting value. My understanding is that the (A) effects are on a per tone basis. I'll know better later today when my MZ-X500 arrives. ;-)

All manuals from the Casio site are PW protected. In particular the latest 1.31 Appendix PDF ... Web_MZX500APPEND-131-WL-1A.pdf as shown below. It is trivial to bypass the PW protection however. ;-)

Thank you BRADMZ for the update. This is awesome news!

Thank you. What a pain to discover all the manuals are password protected against data extraction. First step in creating an INS file is to extract the tone list. Just a small bump in the road as removing PW protection is trivial for these files. ;-) I can understand the need to protect against editing the files, but data extraction??? I see Mike Martin of Casio has created a Cakewalk INS file for the XW-P1. Someone should ask him if an INS for the MZ-X boards is in the offing. If yes, then I'll wait. ;-)

Cakewalk SONAR Instrument Definition File Does this file exist yet for the MZ-X's ?

Thank you! This is great as I prefer to work in the 1 Lower - 3 Upper mode ala Korg PA600 (which I still have BTW)

Also found in the User Manual on page EN-50 this ... Position Toggles a tone between Upper and Lower.

Watching this video at 0:56 seems to answer my question. I'll know for sure Tuesday when my X500 gets here. ;-)

I've seen this MZ-X500 specification on the all the Casio and dealer web sites ... Layer Lower 1 - 4, Upper 1 - 4 Assignable (Max 4 Tones) This would seem to indicate that you could assign 3 tones to Upper and 1 to Lower. However I can not find a reference to this in the user manuals. Am I missing something?