Originally Posted By: lahawk
Tom,

Have you tried any files from either; previous Casio's, or other external types, such as styles, registrations, and voices?

Thanks for your detailed report, it's very informative.

Curious: Have you tried tweaking styles and voices, and if yes, are you satisfied with the ease, and results?


Larry


I've not yet done any kind of file import but I plan on it, eventually.

I have tweaked voices, but not styles. Tweaking voices is a great feature of this keyboard. Once you change a voice, you can save it to the user bank of sounds.

In general I don't really like any of the Electric Piano sounds, and there's no good way to get a good phased rhodes sound. The build-in phase DSP is really not that good. This is why I want to try to route internal sounds through my phase 90 then back into the Casio. But I have created some nice variations of EP sounds - autopan w/chorus is one I like.

Voice edit comments:

- You can assign the rotary fast/slow switch to the auto-pan speed, giving you two speeds on one patch. That is really nice.

- You can alter the attack and sustain on the amplitude envelope, which allows you to create some nice variations on the built-in analog synth sounds.

- When modifying sounds, you probably would do well to keep a notepad handy so you know which user voice slots are available and which are not. By default, they are all populated, so even on your very first user sound, you are asked "Overwrite existing?" That's because they all exist out of the box.

- The available librarian software (free on the casio site) is a great tool to save your stuff after making a bunch of changes.

I have not yet tried modifying rhythms. Just haven't had enough free time to fiddle with the sequencer on this keyboard yet.

Tom