Kyoto92 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Hi everyone, What presets can be tweaked to sound like the CT S line’s V and F organs? Or what could come closest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoto92 Posted February 4, 2022 Author Share Posted February 4, 2022 Anyone? I'm trying to figure out what archetypes of organs the CT-X line has. Are there are only 3 types of organs but just many presets and each one with DSPs or more than that and are just too colored by the DSPs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 I am only guessing as I have no CTX models-but several other PX's. "V" may stand for Viscount-a 60's era combo organ similar to the Farfisa-which must be what the "F" stands for. I think the Viscount was used by many English bands early on, most notably I think it was used on "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals but it could have been something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 3 minutes ago, Jokeyman123 said: "V" may stand for Viscount-a 60's era combo organ similar to the Farfisa-which must be what the "F" stands for. You're right about Farfisa, but V is usually a Vox. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 I thought the CT-X line already had Vox and Farfisa organs presets. Maybe they're under a different name, like electric organ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherscott Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Right, V would typically stand for Vox. Vox and Farfisa were the two most widely used transistor organs used in 60s pop. I don't have a CTX either, but looking at the tone list, there aren't too many to just go through and listen to, to see what comes closest. And right away, you can pretty much eliminate the ones which, by their name, would be based on other kinds of organs... i.e. I would say that ones that are NOT Vox or Farfisa would include patches whose names include OD (overdrive typically not being associated with transistor organs), DP (I'm guessing Deep Purple), Jazz, Perc, Gospel, Drawbar, click, 70s, pipe, chapel, theater, flute, or puff, so that eliminates over half of them right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokeyman123 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 and if it's a "C" that stands for cheez.....I've played a few of those. Instead of tonewheels, they used 'pinwheels" to get that rotating speaker effect..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 9 hours ago, Brad Saucier said: I thought the CT-X line already had Vox and Farfisa organs presets. Maybe they're under a different name, like electric organ? They are definitely NOT under names like F-ORGAN or V-ORGAN if they're in there. The listings don't show any name like that nor did I find them when scrolling through the presets. @Kyoto92would have to figure out which other organ sounds closest. (I once saw a video of a guy playing one of those red keyboards and he managed to tweak it to sound like a 60s combo organ. I think I asked him how he did it, or maybe talked about it on the Keyboard Corner, but I don't recall where nor what the settings were.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyoto92 Posted February 5, 2022 Author Share Posted February 5, 2022 12 hours ago, Joe Muscara said: They are definitely NOT under names like F-ORGAN or V-ORGAN if they're in there. The listings don't show any name like that nor did I find them when scrolling through the presets. @Kyoto92would have to figure out which other organ sounds closest. (I once saw a video of a guy playing one of those red keyboards and he managed to tweak it to sound like a 60s combo organ. I think I asked him how he did it, or maybe talked about it on the Keyboard Corner, but I don't recall where nor what the settings were.) Yeah the red one is from the CT-S line which has both Vox ("V") and Farfisa ("F") style organs built into it. I tried using my headphones to listen more carfeully and go tone by tone on my CT-X5000 but the only new thing a found is that the headphones out has a constant hiss in the background.. Kind of a shame that the CT-X5000 costs more but since the CT-S line came a bit after it has some nicer tones. I'll keep you posted if I find something else. In the meantime all the electric organs sound kind of the same - a low-quality muffled B3-ish, with some EQ/DSP here and there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick McCallen Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 On 2/23/2021 at 4:28 PM, Synthwave said: Ctx and firmware updates ..... hahahaha forgive me for laughing, start thinking about going to another brand .... for what you intend to do, the horizon of Casio is not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick McCallen Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 Presets 078 & 081 sound closest to a vox organ to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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