Controlling the PX-5S: iPad vs Behringer BCR2000 vs PC Editor

[Peter]

I'm thinking about buying a Privia PX-5S, primarily for the HexLayers and sound design, secondarily like a digital piano (for nostalgia). This keyboard is very powerful, but it suffers from the same thing like the XW-P1: poor control. You have to navigate through series of menus to change what you want. To counter this problem, there are some solutions like controlling it with external devices like an iPad or a midi controller like the behringer BCR2000. Probably the cheapest solution is the PC Editor (well, its free).

What do you guys use for control? What are your experiences with those things ? 

[Display Name]

1. The PC/MAC Data editor
2. iPad running the MIDI Designer app.
3. Anything else.

 

 

If you are doing sound design and don't like menu diving, the Data Editor is the way to go. MIDI Designer is useful to give you real-time performance controls like transpose, tuning, favorite stage settings banks, etc.

 

[Peter]

Can you please show me a screenshot of the HexLayers in the data editor? I'm interested about all those parameters. 

Can I synchronise, for example layers 1,2 and 3, and then when I change the filter ADSR for layer 1, it changes the same thing simultaneously for layers 2 and 3 ? It can be done in the data editor for the XWs.

Do the HexLayers have a global DETUNE like in the XW-P1 ? Knob 2 controlled it in the Tone mode. 

[User 29303]

give it a try and downlaod the Manual ,,,you will find lot of information ,,,,i also worked with the editor at the begining now i only programm the beast on the fly ...with the buttons ...

 

 

http://support.casio.com/en/support/download.php?cid=008&pid=58

[Peter]

Thanks ! I found everything in the manuals !