Privia PX-330 Seems stuck on Omni

[Turn off Omni on Privia PX]

I've recently re-started using my Privia PX-330 with my protools 11 system. I'm recording piano, bass and drums  on  midi tracks . I'm using midi channel 16 for drum sounds which come out of an Alesis D-4. I'm using channel 1 for piano. Midi send and receive are OK but the Privia seems stuck on omni. It plays the piano parts but also the drums parts. You'd think "Omni omni/OFF" would be in the menu or explained in the manual but it isn't. The manual refers to "mode 3 " being omni off/poly on  but doesnt tell you how to switch to mode 3. I called 800 706 2534 and talked to some nice guys that tried to find the solution in the manual but its just not in there. When I tried a factory reset it stuck on "please wait".  After an hour and 20 minutes of waiting I turned it off and it restarted OK but same problem.

An online search came up with "Navigate to the function menu then use the arrow keys to select layer/omni and press the enter key, from there choose off to disable omni" this sounded promising but layer/omni does not show  up in the function menu so no help

 

[Brad Saucier]

Let's see if I understand this correctly.  You're playing back a MIDI recording from your DAW.  In this recording you have a track for piano transmitting channel 1, and you have another track for drums transmitting channel 16.  Your computer's MIDI output is to both instruments, although I'm not sure what your hardware configuration is to accomplish this (not sure if it matters either).  During playback, the Casio is responding to channel 1 piano, and channel 16 drums, so you're hearing piano and drums from the PX-330.

 

If that is what is happening, it sounds like everything is working as expected.  There are some Casio models where you can turn off sound generator parts for specific MIDI channels, but unfortunately the PX-330 isn't one of them (at least not with any configuration settings in the keyboard itself).  The 330 will generate sound on any channel it receives data on.  You'll probably want to find an external solution that blocks data from being sent to the Casio.  

 

The fill MIDI Implementation manual below may be helpful.  I'll add it here just in case it is.  

 

https://www.casio.com/intl/support/electronic-musical-instruments/manual/?model=PX-330

[Turn off Omni on Privia PX]

Yes you understood correctly. I've used and owned dozens of midi devices, if what you say is true, then PX-330 is the 1st one I've ever seen that does not allow a voice to respond to only one channel. Controlling which part is played by what instrument is the point of having

16 midi channels and is heart of how a multi unit midi system works. 

To put it another way....... my D-4 is not playing the piano part. Why? Because the D4 is set to midi channel 16 and omni is turned off.

The drum part is on midi channel 16.  D-4 ignores data on all channels but 16. 

The piano parts midi track is set to send on channel 1.  PX-330 plays piano part but piano sound also plays the drum part that it should ignore since drums are on chamnnel 16.

 

The main PX-330 manual has this on the last page of the addendum

Mode 1 : OMNI ON, POLY
Mode 2 : OMNI ON, MONO

Mode 3 : OMNI OFF, POLY
Mode 4 : OMNI OFF, MONO

I think mode 3 would fix my issue but I have not been able to find  anyone who can tell me how to switch modes.

The manual does not explain how. I can't be the only guy who wants to use this unit for basic midi stuff.