Arpeggiator recording and sequencer

[Tarci]

Hello everybody and thank you so much for every precious information you shared.

I bought my px-5s a few months ago and I must confess I finally realized a dream since I was a teenager while I studied piano,

but I would never hoped to possess a such jewel !!! Now I really feel like an enthusiastic teenager and I'm "re"-moving my first steps into a daw e midi recording after so many years...

 

Sorry for the due intro, the question now:

is it possible to record by the sequencer into my daw the only trigger notes without generate hundreds of midi events when arpeggiator is ON ?

 

I would like to record an hexlayer sound with arpeggiator into audio track coming from the line out of the PX-5S, but record also the midi track so to possibly revise the notes I play.

 

I read it is possible with Yamaha Motif by setting "Main ARP ON/OFF Switch = ON".

 

Thanks in advance

Tarcisio

[Brad Saucier]

Yes.  The PX-5s sends it's arpeggio notes out via midi.  It does this by default.  No need to set anything. 

[Tarci]

OK I Know it sends arpeggio notes out via midi and the sequencer records hundres of notes, but this is not I want....

I would like to record only the notes I really play, not all the notes "generated" by the arpeggiator.

[XW-Addict]

Ah you want to turn the arpeggio generation off with sysex message. Here the site with PX5S midi-implementation

http://support.casio.com/storage/en/manual/pdf/EN/008/PX5_midi_EN.pdf

 

Sysex starts on page 29 , arpeggio/phrase specific from page 53,61. 

Although I cant myself find any specific on/off value/parameters,

Maybe there a way switching with CC ,I'm noobish at this level about this stuff. 

[Tarci]

My target scenario is:

- I play a chord with arpeggiator ON

- I can hear ALL the events generated by the arpeggiator

- I can record in the midi track of the sequencer ONLY the static trigger notes of the chord (so I can easily quantize or change some notes in post production)

 

then

- I can send back the trigger notes from the DAW sequencer to the px-5s via midi

- the px5s arpeggiator is triggered again to generate arpeggio events

- I can record the audio track from the line out

 

Maybe it's impossible, sorry for my english if I'm not so clear....

 

Tarcisio

[Brad Saucier]

Sorry.  As far as I know....this is not possible.   The arpeggiator on the PX-5s only responds to actual key play and nothing input via midi. You will have to record every note the arpeggiator generates in order to hear them play back.    

[Choppin]

A possible solution is 2 midi channels.  Since the Px-5s is divided into 4 zones, 1 of the zones can be the arpeggio maybe set to MIDI out on channel 16 but also turn midi out off for this zone.  Set zone 2 to midi channel 1 or whatever you want played on the other instrument.  Turn the sound generator off for zone 2 if you don't want to hear it from the PX-5s but want the midi data transmitted.

[Tarci]

Thank you Choppin!

It's probably a good and flexible midi solution. I'll try it this week end.