Mike Martin

It is the same keybed as the CT-S300. If you've played the CT-S300, I can only suggest that the CT-S500 will feel better as the sounds are a lot better.

The specs we have from Tokyo say 3 hours continuous.

Rule of thirds mostly but I'm always just looking for leading lines towards the subject.

Yes! If you put it in Drawbar organ mode the sliders send CCs. You can also map the switches and other controls.

You can load samples directly in from a USB drive, or sample through the audio input.

I'm biased but CT-S500 is a great choice. It weights 11 pounds, can run on batteries if need. Comes with Bluetooth MIDI. Lots of great sounds with some real-time control. $375.00

No that is not possible. There are the knobs, expression pedal and the pitch bend wheel. The SP-34 3-pedal option could also be configured to do things in your software.

This was an instant buy and I LOVE it. I do like some of the classic instruments they do but this is awesome and unique. Seriously deep but easy to navigate and killer sounds.

Travel photography was a big part of what I used to do. I was on the road almost every week prior to March 2020. I took my camera everywhere. I would always make the most of my time away from home to take photographs. Whether it was NYC skylines or amazing autumn scenes in the northeast, all over California and everywhere in between. My job would also take me to Japan at least twice a year and photography was always a big part of each visit. I might be going to Japan in May 2022, that will be my first big trip in a very long time. My portrait work didn't slow down at all in fact both 2020 and 2021 were busy years because people were looking for something to do outside of the house. I have a few sessions booked for this spring already. The last couple months with winter and no travel has been somewhat stagnant for me. My wife and I are traveling soon for a trip to Florida, so looking forward to a change of scenery, some bird and landscape photography and some sunshine.

Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88 MKII

To my knowledge despite the Roland rig, everything is being run via MainStage. At least it was on their last tour a few years ago.

Not Available Maybe May

It is truly amazing. The options can get overwhelming at times. The trick that they show at the end with Back Button Focus gives the most flexibility.

The best overview of everything in the R6 and R5 focus system.

I have the "Platform" desk from Output. The keyboard tray has worked great for me. That is two 27" monitors side by side.

Exactly the same.

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Not really possible. Do check the way the "advanced organ" tone responds to velocity. Obviously not exactly the same thing but a unique approach to getting a variety of drawbar sounds in one patch that is very playable.

@Przemodae It would sound identical to the 1/4 outputs on the CT-S500. All of the audio demos you've hard online by us were recorded via the headphone output.

CT-S500 has all of the CT-S1 tones and more. It also has control over cutoff, resonance, attack, release and full editing over effects. The CT-S500 also has 1/4" audio outputs. The headphone out on the CT-S1 one is fine for connecting to mixers or external speakers.

My $0.02 since we run the same software for the Casio Forums. The forum software allows for it but it is highly not recommended. They will be discontinuing user name login in the future.

I can't duplicate that behavior. I tried it on Safari and Chrome and to test I also installed Firefox on my Macbook. It may be an issue specific to Firefox for Windows but I don't believe it is an issue with "lots of bugs" in the forum software. You may wish to double check any Firefox preferences or plug-ins. I'll add, while testing these, I've had drafts and previews in all three browsers, my text in each was cached in the browser so I could preview, close the browser entirely, open it back up and resume where I left off seamlessly. The content remained unique for each of the browsers so the data is cached locally. For the record, the Invision platform used here is what we've been using over at Casio Music Forums for almost 10 years. While there are preferences and adjustments that are still being tweaked, I've personally never experienced bugs. The situation here at MPN is unique because the entire database was migrated over so there may be some lingering issues with existing content and dialing in site preferences but this platform is lightyears ahead of UBB.

I don't see how that is possible based on the way the system works. As a matter of fact. I started writing this post with your quote above then closed by browser entirely. When I came back to this thread, just clicked in the reply area and my draft re-appeared. So you can complete start something, leave and come back and it keeps track of your progress. You just have to click in the reply area.

There is an option to change this to plain text. I'll check with dB on making this change.