A heads up for Casio PX-5S/Kronos users...

pizzafilms · Post by **pizzafilms** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:48 pm

I use a Casio PX-5S Midi'd to my Kronos 61. The Casio is a great, lightweight weighted-keybed controller for the piano type sounds. I'm a relatively new Kronos owner so when I noticed the Rhodes sounds sounding oddly different when I played them on the Casio vs when I played them on the Kronos, it made me a little crazy.

Upon further investigation, it turns out that the Casio defaults to transmitting CC #88 along with the note on. According to the MIDI Spec, CC #88 is Hi-res velocity prefix, but the Kronos has CC#88 connected to VJS -Y mod. And in the case of a Rhodes patch, this affects the Hammer Width.

Which explains why the Rhodes as played from the Casio controller sounded so different than when played from the Kronos keybed.

My solution was to disable the hi-resolution output from the Casio (Sys Setting-MIDI-High Reso Out-Off) and now all is well.

I hope this is useful to other Casio/Kronos users out there.

marcdeben · Post by **marcdeben** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:46 pm

Thanks for the tip! I noticed some small differences but just thought it was the velocity curve settings. I will give this a go, thanks for sharing.....

JPROBERTLA · Post by **JPROBERTLA** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:49 pm

does disabling this affect any other midi message parameters that the Kronos would then not het?

pizzafilms · Post by **pizzafilms** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:24 pm

Not that I am aware.