I have played the Privia 400 many times at my store and have demonstrated and sold many of them. The tones are found by simply selecting a catagory using the buttons on the front panel and then using the data wheel to select the different tones within the catagory selected. I find the tones mostly pleasing although not the best. I don't know how to tell you if your keyboard is malfunctioning or if you just don't like Casio's voices. Comparing these sounds to other keyboards, I would give them about a 5 or 6 in a 1-10 rating. For it's price, I think you get more then you pay for.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

December issue of keyboard reviews the px-400r. The review is mediocre - the main complaint seems to be the GM tones. The 300 got a Keybuym award, however, earlier this year and the reviewer then like the EP and other main tones too. He didn't consider the GM as being more than an extra considering the price value of the 300.

Just thought I would add that the reviewer of the 400 was especially negative on the non-GM bank sounds. His judgment confirmed my sense that, except for the main button sounds) they are hardly more than slightly polished sounds from the GM bank. Advertising them as additional sounds seems deceptive to me.

Hello,

I bought a Casio px400r, and there is something that I find a little bit negativ:

example: I have a memory card with 1000 midi files, and I'd like to hear the last one, but I can't scroll through the file titles and choose witch one should be loaded, because all files will be automatically loaded when I go through with the dial-jog. And it will be even slower, so to reach the files about 20, tooks a LOT of time. I means, there's no chanche to use the real capacity of a 64Mb card, or you need hours, to reach all the files.
Is it so, or I make somewhere a mistake?
Thank you for your replay.

fischnek

i know nothing about the PX 400 but maybe you can store the midifiles in subdirectories?
So you;ll have a dir for Rock, another one for 80's pop, another one for latin etc.
This way the files will spread.
Does the PX allow directories

I'm not sure I understand what you are doing. I am at home right now and not with the 400 at my store. I have a smart media card in my keyboard. I don't have to load a file to play a midi file on the card. I can scroll through all of them and play the file direct from the card. I can also load a file which then resides in the flash memory. Which are you trying to do?
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California

Hi George,

thank you for your replay! Of course, I can play midis from the card too. But when I choose the first, second third... file, I get always the message "please wait", for 5-15 secs. I can't choose directly the 20th file, I have to go through from the first one. So, the 20th file tooks 19×5-15 secs.
For example, I have an old Roland E-66, and when I put a disk with midi files, i can scroll to all files, without waiting. I hope I could now tell you correctly, what I mean.
If not, I will ask my friend to help me, my english is terrible poor. (I'm a guy from Hungary, Europe)
Thank you for your kindness.

fischnek