The Raw Basics of the PX-S3000 (Sound Navigation)

[PX-s3000]

   Hello all, and forgive me for being a newbie both here and with my new instrument,

 

      I now own a Casio PX-S3000 I LOVE the look of the instrument, and I like the few stock on-board easily accessible sounds that have come from the factory.

That being said, 

I must say, sorry,  don't like the instruction manual at all, and the online instruction manual looks exactly the same.

It's not laid out well, with tiny, tiny words, and I find it to be confusing, and not user friendly at all. 

What ever happened to a book with a table of contents, pages containing a walk-through sounds list,  , and an index in the back of the book? 

 

It has been stated that this instrument has 700 on board sounds, GREAT, but so far, I've not found an easy way to access those, NOR have I found an online page,  where 

all of those are listed, categorized, along with (and most importantly), an easy walk-through on how to access those.

 

This instrument came with 5 stock on-board surface sounds, and on the far right a 6th button that says "other" 

 

If I say select EP I see "001 Galaxia EP" .. if I hit that button again, I see "025 Amp Clavi" 

if I hit the button a third time .. I see "031 Ambient Vibes" ... If I hit the button a fourth time .... I'm back to "001 Galaxia EP" 

With the exception of the button on the far right that says "other" which scrolls through 14 sounds ...

the first 5 buttons only scroll through about 2, or  3 or sounds each, before returning to the original. 

 

This is frustrating, and therefore, to me ... so far ... this instrument only has about 30 sounds.  I feel very stupid asking for help on this, but please help me. 

I'm willing to bet that I'm not the first person to have this problem, and I probably will not be the last. 

 

Checking YouTube, I've found several more advanced videos, on how to edit the sounds of the instrument, and those are quite good, but HOW in the world do I say,

easily scroll through, and one by one, audition,  all of the Rhodes sounds that this instrument has (I'm guessing there are at least 5 STOCK Rhodes sounds) , or all of the synth sounds,

or all of the acoustic piano sounds? I'll bet there are at least 20 acoustic piano sounds. Where are they? 

 

If you please, is there a video that covers the absolute RAW BASICS on how to navigate this instrument, explaining how to access the many sounds it has? 

 

OR, almost as good, can you just tell me how to access all the sounds  here?  Once I can do that, THEN I can go on to the edit sounds videos,

and experience all of the other wonderful things this instrument can do.

Information on how to access, and navigate through the many sounds of the Casio PX-S3000,  is what would help me tremendously at this point, and I would be very grateful. 

                                  Thank you all, and have a great weekend!

                                                                       Joe

 

 

 

 

[Brad Saucier]

1 hour ago, PX-s3000 said:

What ever happened to a book with a table of contents, pages containing a walk-through sounds list,  ,

 

Hi Joe.  Sorry you're having a hard time with it.  Perhaps you are looking at the basics manual instead of the other two manuals.  The PDF manual found here has a table of contents and step by step guides for many things.  Also, here is the PDF manual for tone charts as well as many other charts listing everything in the PX-S3000.  All of these can be found by the pinned post in this forum section or by going to the Casio support website directly.  

 

Here is one video that may help you and a second one below it that may also help, in addition to the recent tone editing video it seems you have already watched.  Hope this helps.

 

 

 

 

[Joe Muscara]

And simply put, use the + - keys to navigate to the other 695 sounds.

[PX-s3000]

         Hi Brad, and Joe,

 

     Thank you guys! Believe it or not, my Casio PX-S3000 did not come with those two manuals.   Are they online only?   I would really love to have hard copies of those,

so that I could read them at my leisure ... old school style (NOT off of a phone or laptop). 

    Anyway, now that I have those links, the whole thing became clear.

As soon as I went to those links, I was able to to do what Joe said, and now I have access to many,  many sounds to have fun with, as well as other useful information on the keyboard.

 

                                               Thanks again guys, and have a great rest of your weekend!

 

                                                                                          Joe

 

 

         I do have one que

[tom m]

I TOO want a printed version of all this. I don't have an iPad and I'm not about to buy one just for this! In fact I get the impression they aren't even available in Chordana. So the only way to use these instructions is to somehow take multiple screenshots of the ENORMOUS pages, and print them off. Or am I wrong?

[Brad Saucier]

Are you asking for a manual for Chordana?  Chordana has a manual found by pressing the ? mark icon in the app.  How are you running the app?  PDF files can be viewed on any computer or smartphone.  It doesn't have to be an iPad.  

[Trooplewis]

Both the printed (very small!) manual and the online PDF's are weak.

The online one, if  you try to fit the left-right margins onto the screen, is even smaller then the printed manual. SO to navigate through it you have to constantly be mousing around and scrolling from left to right. Someone needs to re-invent the Casio manuals for the PX-X000 to make them a lot easier to read and also a lot more user friendly.

 

For instance, the steps you need to take to layer Tones and then also to control (Pan?) that layer (with a knob or expression pedal) are in totally different locations making it hard to actually accomplish what you want to do without a lot of frustration.

[tom m]

Yep- still waiting and hoping that common sense will prevail, and that a USABLE printable version of these enormous charts will be made available. Say, a set of a4 size pages that I can put on my music stand and consult whilst playing. I'd even be prepared to pay for it.

 

But as things stand I fear my wonderful Casio PX-S3000 is full of potentialities I will never be able to explore because they are completely inaccessible.