New Casio Groovebox

[hseiken]

Is this just a spaceship beats version of their last workstation keyboards they came out with last year?

[mr.thraz]

Is this just a spaceship beats version of their last workstation keyboards they came out with last year?

from what i'm reading : yes!

do you think thats a good or bad thing? and why?

[hseiken]

Is this just a spaceship beats version of their last workstation keyboards they came out with last year?

from what i'm reading : yes!

do you think thats a good or bad thing? and why?

I don't know. My total time with that model was about 3 minutes and I haven't looked anything up so I have no opinion. :p Based on the specs I read, it seemed pretty good for the price, assuming the build quality stands up to some travel and abuse.

[ellaguru]

@mr.thraz
i think FreshSerfPro use one of this casio workstation, i saw it in his signature, you could ask him

[korakios]

I have a xw g1 synth ,it is great for the "last stock"-giveaway price but if anyone wants realistic sounds or fat synths , I would recommend something else (but much more expensive).
But as a groovebox the synth engine is overkill.

I found some info:

Number of Samples = 36 user samples

User Samples:
LONG SAMPLING (Up to 9 seconds x 4),
SHORT SAMPLING (Up to 3 seconds x 32)

Sampling Frequency
42 kHz, Monaural

a little disappointed, but I think it will fit to market as hybrid synth/groovebox.

More info at:
http://www.casio-intl.com/asia-mea/en/emi/djproducts/xw-pd1/spec/

[mr.thraz]

I have a xw g1 synth ,it is great for the "last stock"-giveaway price but if anyone wants realistic sounds or fat synths , I would recommend something else (but much more expensive).
But as a groovebox the synth engine is overkill.

I found some info:

Number of Samples = 36 user samples

User Samples:
LONG SAMPLING (Up to 9 seconds x 4),
SHORT SAMPLING (Up to 3 seconds x 32)

Sampling Frequency
42 kHz, Monaural

a little disappointed, but I think it will fit to market as hybrid synth/groovebox.

More info at:
http://www.casio-intl.com/asia-mea/en/emi/djproducts/xw-pd1/spec/

i wonder what "User Samples" means?

[mr.thraz]

it has plenty of connectivity. but no place for cards to exspand your sample memory.

[mr.thraz]

their keyboards with the same engine has 64 voices at least.

[ellaguru]

@mr.thraz from your picture i noticed no hardware midi (maybe only trough sub?)...no rca I/O...all this doesn't sounds great neither cool to me...
anyway is the manual out?

edit
it seems still no manual, but form casio sit i see the specs, and there are interestings features like phrase and step seq, audio slice (chops?), velocity pads and others...

[hseiken]

velocity pads

CASIO gets it..roland upgraded the 404 and forgot that shit.

[nique]

akai is coming out with an analog drum machine too.

Yo!

You were right.

http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/tech/namm-2015-akai-unveils-timbre-wolf-polyphonic-analogue-synth-and-tom-cat-drum-machines-614290

[mr.thraz]

fuck it i got geist.

no reason to get stupid.

geist, sp-606, sp-505 and flstudio.
if i can't get it done with that i should hang myself.

[korakios]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=HFfTgD6GfJY&x-yt-ts=1421914688

80% groovebox 20% sampler.

[mr.thraz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=HFfTgD6GfJY&x-yt-ts=1421914688

80% groovebox 20% sampler.

underwelmed!!

[mr.thraz]

after seeing the damn thing in action, i want the thing now.