jibin.jacob3 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Will Casio launch a Higher version of the MZ-X with 76 Keys? Then it should come with some added features like: 1. BLUETOOTH:- - For internal file sharing. -For Wireless Headphones, pedals and other Wireless controls. - Might be even connect with other Bluetooth enabled keyboard for Wireless MIDI. 2. WIFI:- -For doing the above mentioned tasks with greater speed and with an advantage of long distance connectivity. (If no Bluetooth) -Internet connectivity for direct updates, file downloads etc. -Wireless Tablet, PC, Mobile Connectivity 3. MP3 PLAYBACK 4. GREATER EXPANSION MEMORY. 5. MORE TONES & RYTHMS. 6. VIDEO OUT 7. MORE ASSIGNABLE KNOBS 8. BIGGER SCREEN Not all the features mentioned above are necessary but a few features should be added and the price difference should be like it is between MZ-X300 & MZ-X500 and it might set the market on fire! !MZ-X700! THE MIGHTY ARRANGER WORKSTATION KEYBOARD!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 And how much are we willing to pay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted September 28, 2016 Author Share Posted September 28, 2016 ₹10000 to ₹15000 more than MZ-X500 (at least for a few extra features) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvano Silva Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Casio have to refine the system. Putting buttons real-time shortcuts for live use. Volume sliders are well accepted. Adding a DSP especially for the Rhythm. Equalized 3 bands for each instrument rhythm. 500mb manager sampler. 4 Intros 4 Ending. Vocalist Harmonizer. Break custom button to fill in too. Drawbar could become an equalizer frequencies as function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 Users should post such in-depth suggestions. This might help the company to look into these possibilities. And surely the company loves to get some feedback for further improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxfriend Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I'd rather see an MZ-X with 88 keys in a light case à la PX-5S, with 256 notes of polyphony. You can dream, can't you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted September 29, 2016 Author Share Posted September 29, 2016 That is just too much I guess...😀 (for an arranger) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobbard Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 15 hours ago, Silvano Silva said: Casio have to refine the system. Putting buttons real-time shortcuts for live use. Volume sliders are well accepted. Adding a DSP especially for the Rhythm. Equalized 3 bands for each instrument rhythm. 500mb manager sampler. 4 Intros 4 Ending. Vocalist Harmonizer. Break custom button to fill in too. Drawbar could become an equalizer frequencies as function. Hi, I'd like to add my ideas for future improvements: (a) Joystick instead of wheels. (b) More editing options for Audio sample PADS, like chops, fades, reverse, etc (c) More space dedicated to the Quick Palette, which I find too cramped to touch selections. (d) Comprehensive DVD tutorials of all aspects of MZ-X500 functions. Hence a reduced need to clog this forum with my inane questions about basic functions. PS: " And how much are we willing to pay?" Three pounds, five shillings and fourpence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted October 2, 2016 Author Share Posted October 2, 2016 Yes.. there should be some video tutorial. Luckily for CTK6300IN, there were video tutorials on YouTube by "Casio India" which really helped! Thanks "Casio India" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Here's a BIG one for me. All factory tones, rhythms etc should be re-writable by the user. The Korg PAs (including the PA600) have this feature which permits customizing your keyboard to your tastes. Why should I give up over half of the space on the keyboard to those resources I'll never use. Let us recover that "wasted" space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Casio provided user slots that uses all of the re-writable memory available. The factory tones reside in read only memory. Perhaps you are simply asking for more user tone memory? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 3 hours ago, BradMZ said: Casio provided user slots that uses all of the re-writable memory available. The factory tones reside in read only memory. Perhaps you are simply asking for more user tone memory? There's the issue. The factory resources are in ROM so any unusable (for me) resources are "wasted space" if I can not redefine them with something I can use. On my PA600 I can set a global write protect parameter to off that then allows me to write over factory Programs (tones) and/or Styles (rhythms). Perhaps Korg has a patent on this radical idea. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Question: Does Casio really use ROM for factory tone/rhythm resources? If so then updates to those resources are never possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Rick Sterling said: Question: Does Casio really use ROM for factory tone/rhythm resources? If so then updates to those resources are never possible? Hey Rick. ROM isn't really ROM anymore. Pretty much anything can be updated nowadays (not necessarily at the user level, but almost certainly via a firmware update). The main issue with doing this for tone/rhythm updates is backwards compatibility. So ADDING new sound and tone (if thee is available space) is easy and painless, updating existing stuff can cause issues with those who have built up registrations based on those sounds and beats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 But there is always a risk involved in tinkering with the factory Tones and Rythms.. but it sounds good! Increasing the User memory will most probably fix this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 7 hours ago, Scott Hamlin said: Hey Rick. ROM isn't really ROM anymore. Pretty much anything can be updated nowadays (not necessarily at the user level, but almost certainly via a firmware update). The main issue with doing this for tone/rhythm updates is backwards compatibility. So ADDING new sound and tone (if thee is available space) is easy and painless, updating existing stuff can cause issues with those who have built up registrations based on those sounds and beats. So to answer my question, Casio does not use ROM, but EPROM or NVRAM? If they do then there is no real reason why they couldn't offer user rewrite of factory tones/rhythms if they chose to do it. Folks, this is nothing new in arrangers, KORG has been doing it for years and it is VERY useful. The argument that it will screw up someone else's registration doesn't really apply unless you share your custom resources with someone else. re: The argument that it is risky ... No more so than creating any other user tone/rhythm ... If you screw things up just do a factory restore. From a Korg manual ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Removing protection from Factory Keyboard Sets, Sounds, Styles and Pads Factory Keyboard Sets, Sounds, Styles and Pads are normally protected, to avoid overwriting the standard musical resources. You can, however, remove this protection and use any Factory location as if they were User locations. 1 Go to the Global > Mode Preferences > Media page. As an alternative, keep the SHIFT button pressed and press the MEDIA but- ton to open the Media page. 2 Deselect the Factory Protect checkbox to remove protection. This protection will be automatically reset when turning the instrument off. Hint: Should you accidentally delete, change or overwrite some Factory data, reload the Backup data or use the Factory Restore procedure (in the Media > Utility page). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bottom line is ... Casio presently does not let the user over-write factory tones/rhythms (other arranger manufacturers do). Whether that is a hardware or software limitation remains to be seen. I do like it that Casio has provided 620 user tones & 30 user drum kits, but the forced categorization is a little awkward ... that 11th user piano will have to go in another tone category as there are only 10 user "Piano" slots (but about 50 guitar slots) They could have just as easily provided dynamically assigned category space so if I want I could assign user slots as needed to any tone category until I run out of memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 1 hour ago, jibin.jacob3 said: But there is always a risk involved in tinkering with the factory Tones and Rythms.. but it sounds good! Increasing the User memory will most probably fix this problem. I like Korg's new feature in the PA4X where you can have any number of DIRECT keyboard sets (registrations) read directly from USB memory/disk without needing to be loaded into keyboard memory first. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display Name Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Sounds like fun if that's your thing, but I wonder how many users would really want to wipe the machine and load in all their own tones. I don't recall any Casio having "open architecture" for the presets and I really don't expect them to add it in. My stalwart advice for anyone looking at any keyboard (or any tech for that matter): Get it for what it can do today, not what it may be able to do in the future. Otherwise you are setting yourself up for a lot of frustration and disappointment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Stirling Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 1 hour ago, Scott Hamlin said: Sounds like fun if that's your thing, but I wonder how many users would really want to wipe the machine and load in all their own tones. I don't recall any Casio having "open architecture" for the presets and I really don't expect them to add it in. My stalwart advice for anyone looking at any keyboard (or any tech for that matter): Get it for what it can do today, not what it may be able to do in the future. Otherwise you are setting yourself up for a lot of frustration and disappointment. How many times have you wished that all registrations using 0001 GrPnoConcert in registrations directly played your custom piano du jour or you would like GM MIDI files to automatically use your custom tones instead of the factory GM tones (without having to edit every MIDI file!) or you would like to replace many tones you will NEVER use with those you will or you basically like the factory tone but want some changes to the sonic parameters. That is my 'thing' ;-) You don't "wipe the machine", you make piece-meal changes over time that define your customized version of the keyboard. The more customization a mfg provides the user the easier it is to sell a keyboard that is a different thing to different people. Also makes it a lot easier to sell to folks who have no opportunity to get a hands on experience before they buy if they know that the keyboard can be easily customized to their needs. This is not rocket science, it's a proven approach to arrangers that has been in place for many years on other keyboards. Lest anyone here thinks otherwise, I really do love my MZ X500. I just see some s/w enhancements that would REALLY "float my boat". ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XW-Addict Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Wow what a dazzling ride reading this all, I see what the late Steve Jobs meant with what users want. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMak Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Yes please ... 76 keys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 There should be a Fader Switch also for Fading Rythms, in and out. And a Dialer (special number Pads) for dialing the numbers to reach at Tones and Rythms quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted November 13, 2016 Share Posted November 13, 2016 All of this is there already. There is a fade in and fade out button for rhythms. There is also a rhythm volume on the balance screen. There is also a number pad on the screen for dialing in anything directly by the number. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jibin.jacob3 Posted November 13, 2016 Author Share Posted November 13, 2016 Few more suggestions: Audio Recording Quality : 24bit 48khz USB 3.0 MIDI & Flash Drive (Might solve latency issues) After Touch (If possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 On 9/27/2016 at 2:17 PM, BradMZ said: And how much are we willing to pay? Good point Brad and i think this is where people fall short. (I Want it all for cheap, but i Don’t want a cheap Keyboard) If you do your homework on price to play you will see the M-500 well above in terms of all around keyboard, less an app for android like casio has for the apple (ios). Now doing the math, it's hard to get everything packed into a board for at $1,000 usd. Is it the right board for you? only you know when,why,how and where you play. [Side note] I have had a fun time with my XG1 (was real fun 4th July when i made up a ramp-up/decaying police sound.) "Hey,kids---some people have work the next day" . :0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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