Px-560 accompaniment timing..?

[Piano Jones]

Hi all and how do you do, I just signed up here! I just bought a new Px-560 right before they were discontinued...I'm coming from the Yamaha world of arrangers but have owned a Casio Privia in the past. My question is; is there any way to adjust the timing of the left-hand accompaniment? I find it lags on chord changes therefore always reminding the listener this an arranger...with what I consider to be a fatal flaw...the response of the accompaniment on many styles reacts "late"! Is there a way to adjust and improve this?

Thanks very much and all the best, P. Jones

[Brad Saucier]

Welcome to the forums.  To begin, we should make sure you are playing the chord just before the beat rather than slightly after the beat.  Can you confirm this?  Is this your first scaled hammer action piano?  

[Jokeyman123]

Hmm...just checked mine again-this doesn't sound right, mine has always been in sync perfectly with whatever downbeat I hit the keys on-will always change chord on next quarter note beat exactly right, so something might be wrong with yours.

 

What you can't do with the 560, unlike a few other arrangers is to divide the beat to "jump" a beat subdivision-to interrupt the normal 4/4, 3/4 or whatever time signature you are using. the 560 always falls directly on the next quarter note beat. Brad might be onto something with the weighted keys-unless you anticipate (at least it may feel like that) the downbeat-the weighted keys can give a slight sensation of delay-i have to be pretty firm when I trigger the left hand chords with the weighted keys to get it right.