The EX5 should be capable of emulating most CS6x Voices VERY closely, though. The CS6x shares much of the EX5's AWM engine and ROM samples.

Send me a CS6x, and I'll be happy to clone some of the Voices for you!

[ November 19, 2003: Message edited by: Ski ]

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Think I even have an old 'real' patch from a DX7 for my 'virtual' FM7 called 'Rythem Wheels'?

Oh yeah - and look at Ski trying to score a FREE CS6X out of you! You got ENOUGH gear Ski!

If you tell us specifically what you're looking for, I'm sure a bunch of members would pop in with suggestions of specific Voices, and Voice set to find them in.

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I'm not much of a programmer, so I doubt I could re-program the EX for every cs6x voice you're looking for. But, the cs6x voice editor would show what some of the programmed parameters are for those voices.

Other than the lack of numerous dedicated knobs and the corresponding scenes, anything the cs6x could do, the EX should be able to handle, if not better.

However, from a performance standpoint, if you were tweaking lots of knobs, using the arpeggiator on/off switch, there are some things the EX won't be able to do like the cs6x.

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Good luck!

Page 260 explains the file types.
Page 261 explains basic steps for disk operation.
Page 263 details the "File Save" routine.
Page 265 details the "File Load" routine.

Regarding the Factory Disks... there are only FOUR factory disks, not fourteen. I'm guessing that you're mixing these up with the "Bonus Disks".

In the owners manual again, take a look at page 25, which explains the usage of the factory disks. Page 27 specifically talks about "Restoring the Factory Set Data" (Voices, Performances, etc.).

All this stuff in the manual comes complete with illustrations of EX5 screen shots, making it pretty easy to follow.

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Performace Mode - you'll have to assign a Drum Kit to (preferably) Slot 1, and STORE. Then you can use PATTERN just like you did in Voice Mode. And of course you can add basses, synths, brass, etc. to Performance slots 2-16 as you wish, and build up an 'orchestra'.

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There are lots of free high quality Voice and Voice/Sample sets available here at EX5Tech, and at AMPFEA. Look for the links to our "EXclusive Downloads Page" and "AMPFEA/Samplelibrary EX" toward the upper left of our forum summary screens.

If you'd like a nice piano or two, try my "Simplicity Vol. II" release (at AMPFEA), and my "Ski BOATS" release (here at EX5Tech). I think you'll like them, and if not, there are others you can download as well. Don't miss the fact that almost all of my Voices have a full complement of controller routings, and I believe almost all my Piano Voices have two or three knobs dedicated to EQ, i.e. the Voices are very "tweakable" with the controls.

Here is a direct link to the download page for my "Simplicity Vol. II":
http://www.ampfea.org/files.php?com=i_view&type=11&t=829

And here's the link to our "EXclusive Downloads Page" where you can find "Ski BOATS":
http://www.ex5tech.com/ex5ubb_cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=download_page


In the future, with a question like this, I'd recommend starting a NEW topic here in the "Voices/Samples" forum, and calling it something like "Pianos on the EX5". I think that will get you many more responses than posting the question as a REPLY in a "CS6x Voices" topic. Make sense?

BTW, I just love the mental image of a drummer being scared by the VL trumpet!

[ November 21, 2003: Message edited by: Ski ]

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I did an outdoor wedding reception during the summer...we played almost the whole gig without knowing I wasn't in the house. The second to last song, Power of Love, 1...2..1..2..3.....I hit the right chords, we heard a slight anny-brass stab, but it wasn't coming throuhg the house. Turns out the band heard my amp/monitor, so we thought all was well. During sound check, my rig had a buzz, so just after sound check I was placed in different channels at the snake...buzz gone...little did he know it was because my entire signal was gone! It turned out the channels I had been plugged into weren't plugged into the mixer, they had been unplugged to make way for some 1/4's used on a previous gig for something else..........

bummer is, I'm the backup keys (main guy is related), and I haven't been called since, even though it wasn't my fault!

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I used ALOT of Piano in my last Road Gig, and I gotta tell ya, Ski's Piano Patches where the Best OUT There PERIOD!!

To give ya a idea, My rig has a Korg Karma, a Triton Studio, a K2600, and outta all that the EX (with Ski's "Skiano" Loaded in) Beat the Piano on all of them. we Actually had a Real Piano on stage also and I STILL had to play the Damn Parts, cause the EX sounded so much Better (of Cause, our Soundman Liked mixing that instead of a Mic'ed Piano Too... The Lazy Slob!!! )

I'm not much of a Sound Programer Myself. Unlike someone like MarcE, I can't seem to Bulid a Patch from Scrath and come up with Something REALLY COOL!