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    Bought one today....

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Muso7 said:

    Thanks Steve, Rick & Ronald

    Having a ball with this MZ and it's only 2 days old!!

    Can't believe how brilliantly it MIDI's up with my PA4X - using the PA4X to give me 76 keys to play the MZ too.

    And yes, whilst my PA4X is also an arranger (which I love!!), I refuse to "compare" them as the MZ is a very different and brilliant keyboard - doing many things the Korg doesn't

    For me, these two arrangers are a perfect match in that there is very little overlap.

    Got to get into the Pads and some recording on it now but maybe some sleep first.....:boring:.

     

    This forum is superb - the help and info is excellent - hope I can return some help sometime soon too.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete :)

    👍

    Good going Pete. I use my Kronos 2 with the MX500. Works great! Have you seen the new analogue 16 channel keyboard from Korg? 

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    Versatile Tones / Articulations / Realism

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    On 1/4/2018 at 7:30 AM, AlenK said:

    I think the more apt comparison would be to arrangers like Korg's PA line. The PA600 is the lowest cost PA model to feature Korg's DNC (Defined Nuance Control). Although the MSRP of the PA600 is a couple of hundred US dollars more than the MZ-X500, it currently "streets" for a hundred dollars less. So it's in the ballpark, pricewise. Besides the DNC sounds, which are a good example of the kind of articulation control I'm talking about, the PA600 gives you a bigger (7-inch), higher-resolution touchscreen and Korg's second-generation Guitar Mode 2. On the downside it has half the polyphony of the MZ-X500 (128 vs 256), lacks the MZ-X500's 4x4 matrix of velocity-sensitive pads, doesn't do its own audio sampling and has less memory for user samples (96MB vs 256MB). Although the PA600 doesn't have a equivalent to Hex Layer mode it allows up to 24 oscillators per voice before filtering.  

     

    Could Casio add something like DNC to the MZ-X500? Technically, of course they could and it shouldn't cost much to do because the MZ-X500 apparently has most of the required samples already included. It is only missing the logic for selecting them in real time based on player actions. 

     

    The whole point of including sampled sounds in a keyboard is to emulate real instruments. It's been clear almost from the beginning that you need a variety of articulations in order to do that adequately. Unless you are content controlling those articulations over MIDI then a keyboard needs to provide intuitive ways to trigger them during live play. In other words, the emulation has to act as much as possible like a real instrument. 

     

    MX500 polyphony is 128 ;-)

    TUTORIALS

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    4 hours ago, moontom said:

    I know a bit of Portuguese and Spanish but these are helpful without language -- when they show the sequence of button-presses and commands....

     

     

    Absolutamente correto! ;-)

    TUTORIALS

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    55 minutes ago, MrSteveVee said:

     

    Only the titles Rick?! You mean you didn't go and learn German to translate it all for the rest of the community!!
    HAHA. Thanks Matey, they are very useful a key guide
    Steve

     

    Actually they speak Portuguese in Brazil.  Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, and has kept some Celtic phonology and lexicon. I speak a bit of Spanish, but find I can only understand about 1 in 5 words or Portuguese, perhaps a bit more when the speaker is talking about the Casio MX500. ;-)

     

    Many of the tutorial videos on that page can be auto-translated (loosely) to English by turning on Subtitles then turn on subtitle translate to English. 

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    Are there any styles/rhythms available?

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Timzcasio said:

    I haven't seen the above screen, it also says "MP3" does that mean an audio type of file?

     

    Yes, an MP3 is an audio file. By the way, DO NOT load any of the ZAL files above before you save all your current settings and custom tones/rhythms. A ZAL file will over-write all user data in your keyboard so be sure to back up your work first!

    Are there any styles/rhythms available?

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    TUTORIALS

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    6 hours ago, Casiokid said:

    Hey there's some great MZ tutorials on this website: http://www.casioteclados.com.br/mundomzx

     

    Who can we get to narrate them in English ?

     

     

     

     

    Here are the 19 video titles translated  to English ...

     

    CASIO KEYBOARDS I CONCEPTUAL I MZ-X500  (Overview)
    CASIO KEYBOARDS I CONCEPTUAL I MZ - X300 (Overview)
    MZ-X I Overview
    MZ-X I Overview
    How to play wav and mp3 files
    How to edit your tones and your drum kits
    How to create your own tones and drum kits in Sample Manager
    How to Create New Rhythms
    Creating and Saving Records and Performances
    Pedals, Connections and Mid Controller
    How to use the Pads
    Organ Functions with Drawbar
    Midi and Sequencer
    Layer Split and Hexlayer
    BR Kit
    Factory Reset and Update Firmware
    Balance and Metronome Settings
    Enable Arpeggiator function
    Changing touchscreen applications

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    CAKEWALK/SONAR INS FILE for X500

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    17 minutes ago, RSBass said:

    Thank you for your INS File for the MZ-X500. This is very helpful for convering all my midi files in Casio Bank (Sound playback). I use the PSRUTI for change GM, Yamaha Midi Songs in special Casio Midi songs for Playback with the MZ-X500. I wished this service officially from Casio, as with Roland or others.

    Thank you so much for your time and work!

     

    My pleasure. I'm glad you have found it useful.

     

    cheers,

    Rick

     

    ps. Just downloaded PSRUTI and it looks quite useful!

    2 ( and a bit ) Hours to go!!.......

    in MZ-X500 / MZ-X300

    Posted

    On 12/29/2017 at 6:11 PM, Songwriter2015 said:

    Hey Randy - Nice one, my friend! 😊

     

    Can I say that, of all the many things you've ever written on this forum, nothing, imho, has been as significant, as your final paragraph, above, when you talk about the stuff you're currently discovering with the X500!!

     

    Without this Group, a young musician, purchasing an X500 ( IF he can FIND one!! ) has NOWHERE to go to discover that his new keyboard is even CAPABLE of doing the kind of controller things you're talking about, let alone HOW to begin trying to emulate them!!

     

    Hopefully, anyone, and everyone, who's purchased an X500 will discover this Forum.

     

    And, hopefully, this Group will continue to be a place they can come to for REAL help, REAL information, and, yes, REAL help and sympathy for the problems they may encounter!

     

    Here's to 2018, and the future that we know the X500 still has in front of it!

     

    Take it easy Randy

    Chris

     

    Amen!

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