pax-eterna Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Pretty much any of the acoustic guitars from the Motif XS and XF series in hardware Brad, (the Kronos gtrs just never quite got there for me - and one or two Roland hardware guitars are passable) Then there is some guitars by Bolder Sounds (again for the Motif) and of course Real Guitar, which although dated one can still coax a nice gtr sound out of it. There are others this was just a couple of examples. In the case of Yamaha they really did a proper job on the sampling side, so that even without effects the bare sounds are pretty good! Again this is all strictly acoustic nylon and steel gtrs. Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 29303 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Funny because for me the Nylon and Steel are the only usable sample in the Px5 for Guitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padking Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 I totally agree Pax-eterna, we are wishing here,and it's a personal thing, Mau Van seems to like the guitars...so it's impossible to satisfy everyone. So I think we will have to continue to have more than one or twoor........... Padking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 Are we talking about the same keyboard? I think this sounds great. Acoustic Guitar Strum.wav 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax-eterna Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 that is not all that good compared to : http://www.boldersounds.net/acoustic-steel-guitar-motif-xs-p-111.html select in the Audio Demo box at top left...the Venezuelan is a solo demo. And there are better guitar sims than Bolder as well. The PX-5 guitars have a LONG way to go 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 29303 Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 hahaha you are talking about a 700MB sample Lib ,,the PX5 has a 128 MB sample space for all Waves....what makes me cry because a 1GB chip cost less then 3 Euro and i really dont understand why casio did this...having a more and better samples......does not cost so much ....and would made the PX5S a Killer Machine so now please dont tell me it is a Stage Piano the latest Kurzweil StagePiano is playing with 19GBof Flash Samples ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piano_71 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I think the power of the PX-5S mainly comes from the synth functions (hex layer, AiR, effects). While 128MB is a lot of WAVE memory compared to 10-15 years ago, it is small compared to today's ROMplers and virtual instruments. Maybe this is why Casio was so secretive about the sample memory size and never published the specification? However, size isn't the only thing that matters for sample playback quality. The quality of recording of the sample to begin with, as well as the manipulation of samples to get the playing characteristics right, means that there can be bad large sample libraries, and good smaller ones. If you don't believe me, try out some of the ultra-large SoundFont libraries; I haven't found one that's compellingly better than the PX-5S. I think the Yamaha MOXF6/8, particularly if equipped with a 1GB flash RAM board, is a good addition to a PX-5S if you want to add a higher-quality ROMpler to your rig. Load some big libraries in there, or use virtual instruments in a studio setting. I don't think there's any one keyboard that does everything perfectly. Even the $4K Nord Stage 2 gets criticized around here for keybed feel, some of its samples, and of course ... its high price. And people gripe endlessly about computer problems and latency when using virtual instruments. Those Bolder libraries sound nice though. Wish I had a compatible instrument to make use of them... Hopefully, someday in the future, Casio will release a PX-7S or PX-9S that has 32-64GB of 96/24 audiophile-quality samples. That would entice me to upgrade... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choppin Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 Where is the figure for 128 mb of sample data coming from anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 29303 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 From the technical sheet ...the pianos in the px are great and for it bucks it is a top masterkeyboard. Of course this is only a discussion about the possibilty of the px and i really love it more then this it is a challenge to programm top sounds on it and the hex section is a playground. Guitars are the most difficult instrument to reproduce for the resonance chancing over time and the different ways to play it Immagine we could play Bolder Samples from the Use Stick or a external SSD ,,Yeahhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 29303 Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 please how do i upload a MP3 inside a post ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 please how do i upload a MP3 inside a post ?If you go to the full reply editor ("More Reply Options"), there are controls at the bottom to Attach Files. However, for me it says, "You can upload up to 439.76KB of files (Max. single file size: 439.76KB)." So unless you're uploading a short clip, that might not be enough to upload a file that's a few megabytes such as a typical song. What you can do is create a SoundCloud account if you don't have one already, upload your MP3 there, and link to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knuckles Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I have a suggestion, which I make it from the comfort of my position of total ignorance of all things computer, so it may not be even remotely possible...... However, I have never been one to allow practicality to get in the way of imagination..., so.... What would be extremely useful would be if certain settings / parameters could be linked to a single registration set. It occurs to me that as the USB drive has to be physically installed and the "all load" routine gone through each time a registration set changes, it might be possible in so doing for the PX to also check and adjust certain registrations specific settings.Things like: pedal settings. In some situations it is incredibly useful to scroll though the SS's with pedal 2, but not in others. This feature being global is a problem for me (means I will have to manually adjust it when installing every new registration set from now on). There may well be other global settings which would also benefit from being slightly less global - and once the feature was implemented they could also be included. Of course, this all depends on whether it is possible to do this at all ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc2k Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Are we talking about the same keyboard? I think this sounds great. Acoustic Guitar Strum.wav Hey Brad, where did you get that sound, is it a default tone/setting somewhere or did you create it?Sounds great to me. How did you make it sound the way it does with the dampening strings effect? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax-eterna Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Well, sorry to say, but the basses and guitars on this are so bad, that I am selling mine. You cannot create a silk purse from a sows ear - which means the basic fault (for me) is the quality of the samples are so low that one cannot create anything decent. Only so much can be done with effects That, and I also think there is only one decent piano and that is the preset 0-0, and even that has decay length issues (for me - YMMV) the EP's, while sounding okay on online demos, are not really all that convincing on my PA or cans - I can get better results from my iPad EP's and AP's. The PX5 is okay for those at home (as a sole lounge piano) but for live work, I find I need to use both the laptop using VST's and the iPad apps. So it really is an expensive controller for me. And not a very good one either (as far as ease of programming is concerned). Anyhoo, I am sure all the fanboys (and girlz) will continue to rave about it and that's fine. Different strokes and all that. For me the PX5 was a waste of time, and money, to be blunt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Hey Brad, where did you get that sound, is it a default tone/setting somewhere or did you create it?Sounds great to me. How did you make it sound the way it does with the dampening strings effect? Thanks. I custom programmed it. The guitar sound itself has added pick noises and then I created a muted string sound which is a takeoff of the Ukulele Strumming Stage Setting I uploaded a while back. I will upload it eventually. Stay tuned. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Thanks. I custom programmed it. The guitar sound itself has added pick noises and then I created a muted string sound which is a takeoff of the Ukulele Strumming Stage Setting I uploaded a while back. I will upload it eventually. Stay tuned. LOL - I will admit I thought you were shining me on when you sent me the demo. No way I believed all that was PX-5S. You are an awesome programmer, Brad. I have long said a good programmer can do some SERIOUS damage with this instrument. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc2k Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Thanks. I custom programmed it. The guitar sound itself has added pick noises and then I created a muted string sound which is a takeoff of the Ukulele Strumming Stage Setting I uploaded a while back. I will upload it eventually. Stay tuned. Very much looking forward to seeing how it was put together! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pax-eterna Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 LOL - I will admit I thought you were shining me on when you sent me the demo. No way I believed all that was PX-5S. You are an awesome programmer, Brad. I have long said a good programmer can do some SERIOUS damage with this instrument. Seriously?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Very much looking forward to seeing how it was put together! LOL - Good luck. Brad keeps his programming secrets held close. I tried waterboarding, sodium pentothal, Justin Beiber recordings... I got nothing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 LOL - Good luck. Brad keeps his programming secrets held close. Thanks Scott and....Haha! I did some more work to it since then to make it shine even more. That whole thing was a rough quick rework of the Ukulele. BTW....Bieber? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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