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Hello! here a short original track on Casio HT-3000, no mods, no effects. It's my first experiment on soundcloud, hopefully it works! Thanks for listening!!!

Hi all! happy 2020! here some winter thoughts The HT has no VCF/DCA tracking so many patches will sound properly only on a limited keyboard range; take for example the following e-bass: PAR 00 01 02 03 04 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 24 60 70 VAL 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 29 00 05 20 00 19 05 13 31 01 -5 It is basically dead beyond middle C, but who cares! At the end, a bass voice needs primarily to work in the low range, a pad in the middle and a lead in the middle-high. BTW the cymbal sound mentioned above is based on the decay phase of Waveform 29 which is very rich in harmonics and whose envelope contains a useful metallic noise component. At the same time there is also an unwanted audible square-like part, which anyway fades out at high frequencies and fully disappears when playing the top C by highest transpose setting. The top C is in fact the only usable note of the patch!

@Chan Thanks! happy that you like it I have not used the preset drums: all drum sounds are custom programmed HT3000 patches, recorded straight on the PC from the HT output and then loaded on DVS for convenience of playing; to my ear they sound much warmer then the presets. The cymbals and cowbells were a pleasant surprise, big kudos to whomever defined the HT waveforms!!

Hi, here some more drums on the HT3000! Cymbals are a nightmare to program , but why look for realism if I can have character @Brad Saucier Thanks! @Antelephant Good luck for the XW, it must be mighty compared to the HT3000! HT3000_Analog_Drums06.wav

Hi again! I have programmed some drum sounds on the HT3000 and played them on a simple riff (I have used the free DVS drum sampler VST). It is surely no 808 but the HT never lets you in the rain! My tip for Xmas: give some old HT out there a new home HT3000_Analog_Drums04.wav

Yesterday I was playing around and ended up with the following bass sound: PAR 00 01 02 03 04 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 20 21 22 23 24 60 70 VAL 17 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 25 00 20 26 00 17 00 14 31 01 -5 It is a very simple patch, based on wave 17 (a squary static waveform but a bit more lively than 02 in the low range), with no LFO, very simple VCF and DCA envelopes and some chorus. Also, since the HT3000/700 are not strong on bass there is no resonance because this would remove frequencies in the low range; the patch works best when transposed low and played in the lowest octave. Try a simple bass riff with your left hand while changing cutoff frequency up and down!

wow that's a nice collection! I am sure each one has got his personality... I have uploaded a few patches from mine, enjoy! HT3000_Examples.zip

Hello All! While the HT6000 offers broader synthesizing capabilities, I love the simplicity and robustness of the HT3000. Its limitations make it such a nice synth to program and play. Any more HT3000 enthusiasts out there? Greetings from Munich, Germany

I think it worked i have also uploaded the user samples and some of your other sounds and samples, very nice!! the other files still don't work but I don't care!!! Now it's time to get to work! Thank you very much BradMZ you've helped me a great lot! cheers

hello BradMZ, still no success - I also tried to load some some sounds I found on internet but I get the same error message. Do you think it could depend on the Firmward (I still have the original 1.0)? In any case, after all the synth is working perfectly so I guess I'd make a better use of it by playing!! cheers!

Hi! yes - I have followed the instruction to the letter. still no success unfortunately...thx!

Hi Forum Team, I am a fresh new XW-G1 user from Munich! This synth is just great Congratulation for the great Forum! I bought it second-hand and I am trying to restore the factory content; I have copied the "INITDATA.ZAL" from the Casio website on an SD card, and followed the instruction but I always get some "Wrong Data" error message when I try to transfer it. Any idea about what I could be doing wrong? BTW I have tryied to save/reload the current Synth setup and that seems to work. Thanks in advance from Germany, Gian