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#421239 - 05/12/16 04:37 PM Re: MZ/X500 Ralph Maten sound Demo [Re: Bachus]
FransN Offline
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The MZ X500 excel in piano's, e-piano's, bass, organ and synth sounds. I really like these sounds especially the hex layer sounds but is this worth 1000 euro? I don't know yet but I am still interested in this casio.


Edited by FransN (05/12/16 04:47 PM)

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#421246 - 05/13/16 03:08 AM Re: MZ/X500 Ralph Maten sound Demo [Re: FransN]
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Originally Posted By: FransN
The MZ X500 excel in piano's, e-piano's, bass, organ and synth sounds. I really like these sounds especially the hex layer sounds but is this worth 1000 euro? I don't know yet but I am still interested in this casio.


Where it comes to piano, the mz-x falls short of the real Casio DP..

I think the guitar sounds are atleast very decent
And the string sounds are actually quite good from this video..

And all the other sounds, and acompanying styles i havent heared demoed...
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#421248 - 05/13/16 06:27 AM Re: MZ/X500 Ralph Maten sound Demo [Re: ]
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Originally Posted By: rosetree
Originally Posted By: AlenK

I know the video you reference and you're right, I don't know what he said there because I don't speak German and no captions nor auto-translation is provided. But it's hard to understand why you would dismiss a keyboard's capability in a particular area (orchestral sounds) simply because of ONE Casio rep's verbal statements about it, especially considering what you perceive as his musical bias. When the MZ-X500 becomes available in a store near you why not audition it first?


I have been open by listening to some demos of the instrument, and if I happen to see it in a store I guess I will try it, too, but Maten expressed it in quite a general way, saying the developers focused on electronic sounds and EDM music, and orchestral sounds are not what the instrument is about.
I have always considered all brands to be potentially interesting, but I'm not a Casio fan to be eagerly interesting in an instrument when a main demonstrator expressly turns me away from it.

Let me float a possibility by you. Sales to young musicians (can I say the EDM crowd, although there are plenty of older people interested in that?) are very important. Many won't even look at arrangers because they associate them with "elevator musak." So Ralph says what he said to try to attract the EDM crowd to the machine. It doesn't necessarily mean it isn't competent in other areas too. That remains to be seen. Frankly, to my ears many of the non-synth sounds I hear in the Ralph Maten video the OP posted are encouragingly good. And Casio has evidently implemented something very much like Yamaha's Megavoices as well as triggerable articulations. A little late to the party, granted, but they are there now. Hopefully future videos will highlight these aspects as well as the styles. Given the newness of the product I choose to remain positive about the potential of the MZ-X500. Casio knows they have to get it right.

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#421251 - 05/13/16 06:52 AM Re: MZ/X500 Ralph Maten sound Demo [Re: Bachus]
FransN Offline
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Registered: 05/16/09
Posts: 1415
Loc: Netherlands
Originally Posted By: Bachus
Originally Posted By: FransN
The MZ X500 excel in piano's, e-piano's, bass, organ and synth sounds. I really like these sounds especially the hex layer sounds but is this worth 1000 euro? I don't know yet but I am still interested in this casio.


Where it comes to piano, the mz-x falls short of the real Casio DP..

I think the guitar sounds are atleast very decent
And the string sounds are actually quite good from this video..

And all the other sounds, and acompanying styles i havent heared demoed...


True but the piano on the mz x500 and the one ctk 7200 aswell sound a lot better then the one on the korg pa 600 I have had. Not better then the one on the havian I have now that piano sound is excellent.


Edited by FransN (05/13/16 07:37 AM)

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#421254 - 05/13/16 07:50 AM Re: MZ/X500 Ralph Maten sound Demo [Re: AlenK]
Bachus Offline
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Registered: 03/02/06
Posts: 7143
Originally Posted By: AlenK
Originally Posted By: rosetree
Originally Posted By: AlenK

I know the video you reference and you're right, I don't know what he said there because I don't speak German and no captions nor auto-translation is provided. But it's hard to understand why you would dismiss a keyboard's capability in a particular area (orchestral sounds) simply because of ONE Casio rep's verbal statements about it, especially considering what you perceive as his musical bias. When the MZ-X500 becomes available in a store near you why not audition it first?


I have been open by listening to some demos of the instrument, and if I happen to see it in a store I guess I will try it, too, but Maten expressed it in quite a general way, saying the developers focused on electronic sounds and EDM music, and orchestral sounds are not what the instrument is about.
I have always considered all brands to be potentially interesting, but I'm not a Casio fan to be eagerly interesting in an instrument when a main demonstrator expressly turns me away from it.

Let me float a possibility by you. Sales to young musicians (can I say the EDM crowd, although there are plenty of older people interested in that?) are very important. Many won't even look at arrangers because they associate them with "elevator musak." So Ralph says what he said to try to attract the EDM crowd to the machine. It doesn't necessarily means it isn't competent in other areas too. That remains to be seen. Frankly, to my ears many of the non-synth sounds I hear in the Ralph Maten video the OP posted are encouragingly good. And Casio has evidently implemented something very much like Yamaha's Megavoices as well as triggerable articulations. A little late to the party, granted, but they are there now. Hopefully future videos will highlight these aspects as well as the styles. Given the newness of the product I choose to remain positive about the potential of the MZ-X500. Casio knows they have to get it right.


This could be true.. But we still havent heared any good demo's to convince us of that...

And while it has something compared to mega voices, there still is no evidence of anything like good sounding sa/dnc level acoustic sounds....

So we need to wayt till one of the current owners/demonstrators finds some time to record us some typicall arranger performances...

So far however everything still looks very prommissing, the only weak part so far seems to be the number of insert effects, only 2 for the 48 tracks..
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