Mike Martin

Clearly I need to set the record straight about a few things. First, I've never this this occur on any other Casio model. The first time I recall seeing this issue was during the 1.12 firmware. As 1.13 was addressed released shortly after, I simply asked customers to make sure they had the latest update installed as the logical path with something like this arises. It was a surprise to me when some users reported this after the 1.13 firmware update so that is when I personally started trying to get to the source of the issue. There was never any kind of PR campaign. I have been the only Casio employee ever publicly addressed this and I've simply done my best find a solution. In all of these years, I have personally only encountered the bug one time and have never been able to come up with any way to duplicate the issue. We (Casio America Service department) have taken the opportunity to return / replace units thoroughly check them and try to find the issue and replicate the bug without success. I went as far as to do a user survey to try to find out how wide-spread the issue is, track serial numbers and come up with other common situations when this has occurred. Globally I think there were less than 50 reports and for the majority of those, the problem never reoccured. @Rodan88 if this is in fact reoccurring on yours, please send me a PM and I'll see what I can do. My only guess after all of this is that it is somehow tied to the flash memory or something more random such as static electricity. In many of the cases it was when the keyboard had not been used for an extended period of time. I've been completely transparent about everything written above in this thread on both the PX-5S Facebook group and CasioMusicForums.com as I am here. So while I don't like it, the solution is simple. Keep the latest firmware on a USB drive. If the problem were to occur, it would take about 9 minutes - barely longer than it takes some high end workstations to boot. The chances of it happening seem to be quite rare.

Pretty great deal at Musio. This is a rebranding of the Cinesamples library in their own player, not in Kontakt format. It is $0.99 a month for 3 months, then $9.99 after that or you get the whole library indefinitely for $299.99 I'm trying it right and one of the most unbelievable things is how quickly everything loads. They mentioned their new engine was fast but I've never experienced sample based software engine this quick. I'm still exploring everything it has to offer but there is so much there.

My good old K2600RS has been acting up. It isn't something I use a lot but after so many years working with Kurzweil, this instrument not only has some sentimental value and has a lot of my custom sounds. So the sample RAM was no longer recognized. I swapped the RAM out a couple times and had the exact problem. It was completely functional otherwise. I contacted everyone I knew and searched around the web without any success. I finally stumbled upon a used motherboard on Reverb hoping this would solve my issues but upon installing this new motherboard it wouldn't even boot, put my motherboard back in, no problem except the same sample RAM issue above. I was luckily able to return the motherboard. I had searched over and over but never found this thread until now - I stumbled upon an old thread on Gearspace where someone mentions the exact same symptoms and found the root of the problem in the power supply. So, I found this guy on eBay that will refurbish the power supply for $90. That has been shipped off and I'm anxiously waiting its return so I can put it back together. While the K2600RS was all open, I've gone ahead and replaced the internal hard drive and floppy with a SCSI SD-Card emulator. I'll report back here once I get the power supply is back and installed, fingers crossed.

I had not seen that one @AnotherScott - nice that one has a MIDI out too. Cool

The pedal to USB products from https://www.audiofront.net/MIDIExpression.php are an easy fix for integration in any MainStage or computer based rig. I'll add that the on/off Envelope times on a footswitch that the PX-5S has implemented are simply brilliant. If you listen to that audio example I posted earlier in the thread, all the filter swells in that example were done with a footswitch.

This post made my day! I recently got my PX-5S back out after moving earlier this year. I have put in countless hours programming sounds for this instrument and it still surprises me today. If I had the time, I'd reprogram all the factory presets again although I'd be tempted to make the 90% of them synth sounds after a few the other essentials. It is a dream instrument for pads, arpeggios and other animated sounds. Example of me messing around with the PX-5S and XW-P1 for the lead: https://on.soundcloud.com/DWgpH They're extremely limited, you can probably find them new at some retailers. Regarding the touch screen I think it depends on your use case. For playing piano and doing splits and layers on the fly - no question the PX-560 was fast and probably the best interface I've ever seen. For programming sounds the PX-5S was actually significantly faster. The two buttons left of the display allowed you to page through zones or layers with your left hand, while you'd adjust parameters for each with your right - a faster two handed interface. Brilliantly fast once you understood the architecture. I really can't comment further unfortunately.

The only elements that would be the “same” across multiple Cherry Audio plugins are the effects. They’re all quite different and unique.

I bought Falcon 3 from UVI. $199 is the intro price. Still wrapping my head around it but it is quite a powerful system. Imports my custom EXS libraries pretty well and the synthesis side is crazy deep.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. Because the VA1 had grown so much physically and in features compared to the early spec, I had made an assumption about cost. Those were some crazy years between 2001 and 2005. Miss you my friend.

Surprised no one has mentioned UVI's Falcon 3. Intro price of $199, normally $349.

I was one of the people that started the project. Maybe late 2001, or early 2002. This was a time when virtual analog was big, products like the JP-8000, Access Virus and others were all popular. The initial concept was a less expensive (comparative to most Kurzweil products) yet high performance VA with Kurzweil's unique take on oscillators, effects, modulation and more. The initial plan was a smaller product with 37-keys with a possible larger 61-key version. If my timeline is correct, I left Kurzweil at the end of 2002. Based on the prototype that was shown at NAMM (Jan 2004)...I think it is the one that Dave Weiser still has, the project specification seemed to have grown significantly. I don't know what the target price was in 2004 but I can only guess that development cost, new build cost vs the price it would have to sell for was more than the market would tolerate.

Same action on CT-S1, CT-S400 and CT-S1000V.

I'm pretty sure there is a downloadable demo

Intro price $59 https://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/ob-x/

PS filter is a model of the filter in the actual PS-3300 synthesizer. The MS filter is the filter that Korg had in the MS-20 among others.

Ours just went up, nearly double. We did replace a 12 year old car with a 3 year old car but the increase was insane. So we just switched to a new provider this week. The Home Insurance is a little bit more but the Auto is only up a little over what we were paying previously.

Nice product! The 49-key model is interesting to me. I have an original CME UF5 that sits to the left of my Privia that sometimes chooses not to work at all. Something smaller with better software integration and of course PolyAT is very appealing. I'll be interested to see how well it will integrate with Logic.

The pianos sounds from nearly every keyboard produced today are done this way.

There are many UAD plug-ins for sale for $39

In the case of Omnisphere, if you have a physical controller - Map both Amp and Filter ADSR to the same four sliders. So when you're adjusting the Attack you're changing it for both the Amp and Filter. Combine that with the "shared signal path" feature you can quickly and easily get a Juno vibe.

It exists. https://reverb.com/item/65188036-midi-rock-stone-2023-black

I've actually been in the process of building one of these. It's an Arduino based project. Pitch & Modwheel, 2 sliders and two knobs. My issue with the Atemp MC1 is the size, specifically the height. What I'm hoping to have when I'm done is something with a much smaller footprint. I'll keep you posted.

Hi Tom, The CT-S400 is great and you're correct that the piano tone in the CT-S1, CT-S400, CT-S500 are very similar. I've never done a side by side of the first preset tone, but I'd guess that you're correct. Where it is different is with the other tones, including the other piano tones. The CT-S500 does take advantage of the DSP capabilities which will provide you much more variety. In any case, the CT-S400 is a great choice. Thanks for considering Casio.

I was a die-hard Vegas user. I worked at Sonic Foundry back in the day so it was hard not to like Vegas. So I had 15+ years invested in Vegas. I used to use Bootcamp on my Mac just to keep using Vegas. I used it a while after the Magix acquisition, then I tried DaVinci Resolve. Yes, Video is hard on computers but the first thing you'll notice with Davinci is that your project is rendering in mere minutes not an hour. Although the transition was a little tricky at first, everything I've done in the last several years has been with Davinci Resolve and I can't imagine going back. Only after using it for free for a couple years did I pay for the Studio version. Add the amount of great tutorial content on Youtube you'll be up and running quickly. It's FREE, try it.