Casio XWP1, do the drawbars send MIDI CCs?

[kaptainkeys]

The Casio XWP1 seem like quite a decent synth, and although it has it's own built in organ engine, with distortion applied, it kinda sounds like a baseball organ with improper gain structure.  In order to remedy this, I thought about adding a phone or tablet running VB3m or some other organ app controlling it from the XWP1's internal keybed, using it's master keyboard capabilities, and placing the device on the black panel in the top right corner of the synth.  My only question is if the drawbars on the XWP1 send MIDI CCs so that I could use them to control the aforementioned organ app, or if I need to find some kind of alternative control surface.

[Mike Martin]

Yes! 

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

[kaptainkeys]

19 minutes ago, Mike Martin said:

Yes! 

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

Thanks Mike!

So if just mute the organ part, I can use the drawbars to control another app.  My other idea was to use a NeoVent or GSi Burn, but since the XW-P1 doesn't have assignable outputs I wouldn't be able to also use it's synth sounds being controlled by another keyboard.

[AnotherScott]

The XW does let you pan sounds to one side or the other (you just may have to be careful to avoid things like a stereo reverb effect). So you can pan the organ out one side to your Vent or whatever (and organ is a mono sound anyway, until it gets to the rotary effect), and send your synth sounds out the other side (and apart from the effects, synth sounds tend to be mono as well).

[kaptainkeys]

Just now, AnotherScott said:

The XW does let you pan sounds to one side or the other (you just may have to be careful to avoid things like a stereo reverb effect). So you can pan the organ out one side to your Vent or whatever (and organ is a mono sound anyway, until it gets to the rotary effect), and send your synth sounds out the other side (and apart from the effects, synth sounds tend to be mono as well).

Fair enough, but the combo of an old iPhone I have laying around (free), the camera connection kit ($40), and an AUX cable (>$10) to connect it to the XW-P1's 3.5mm input (and then route it to the output) is about $300 less than a used NeoVent on Reverb, and I can still use stereo effects on all other sounds on the XW-P1.