Phil Elliott, Jr.

I will consider this discussion or thread or whatever it's called to be closed.

After a bit of experimenting, I discovered how I could modify the SP-2

pedal so I can use it for both full- and half-pedalling. With two more

SP-2's, I was able to make my own pedalboard: much cheaper and a lot

better than Casio's SP-33.

Thanks to Jokeyman123 and BradMZ for their help. I'm not sure why

sslyutov's posts quote me saying something I didn't say.

I use the pedal that came with it for the una corda/sostenuto jack,

but I got an M-Audio SP-2 pedal for the sustain operation. I have

the switch set to the proper (i.e. normally open) position, if that's

where your question was leading to. Don't be worried about

insulting my intelligence - I'm so scatterbrained that I once thought

it was broken when it wouldn't start up: turned out that I didn't have

the power cord plugged in. 

     Thank you for the responses, BradMZ and Jokeyman123. Now that you mention it,

the carryover is much more pronounced in the lower ranges. I have attached an

MP3 file where I play a C major triad in three different octaves with the pedal down,

let it run for a few seconds, then release the pedal and put it right back down. 

(You'll have to excuse the USB ground-loop buzz.) I am currently working on

Satie's Gymnopedies and Glass' Metamorphosis (all five parts, so maybe that

should be Metamorphoses.) I'm not sure what I can do to keep them from sounding

choppy and disjointed unless I use the pedal, but I don't want the low notes bleeding

over into the next measure until clearing the pedal again. On the other hand, it's

good to know that my machine is malfunctioning, although that probably means

that the operator (myself) is a lousy player.

20160912_0926_50.mp3

Greetings, everyone.

     I don't like my first post to this group to be a gripe, but I guess that's the

way it goes.

     I am a young kid (oh, all right then, I'm 52) who has been playing for just under

a year. I purchased a PX-350M in December of last year, and was (operative word)

very pleased with it. Now that I'm starting to play some more advanced pieces, I

have discovered a serious flaw - quite often, when I release and immediately reapply

the damper pedal, it picks up the release samples, as I believe they are called, from

the previous chord and sustains them, which often causes a hideous-sounding mush

with the next chord or note I play. This occurs both with the internal sounds, and through

the USB cord to a VST. Is this a design flaw, or a problem with my machine? (Not the latter,

I hope, since there is no Casio repair center in my state.) I thought it might have something

to do with the reverb setting, so I turned off the reverb, but to no avail. Might there be some

sort of menu setting that I am overlooking?

     I see now that I forgot to mention that this occurs with all of the grand piano sounds,

     I will greatly appreciate any assistance you may be able to offer.